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by bonobo3000 11y ago
If you're totally new to this, Peter Norvigs guide to a scheme interpreter in Python[1][2] is the best! Its short and sweet and gave me enough of an idea of the basic parts to start piecing stuff together. [1] http://norvig.
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by bonobo3000 11y ago
It can't be implemented by a language alone, since we have to integrate with a particular VCS (e.g git). I prefer to just make commits for really tiny changes so I don't have to a lot of remembering. I think this might not be that
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by bonobo3000 11y ago
Heres what finally got me to understand monads, including some of the context around them: 1. Why is it important that a List is a monad? A. Its not particularly important. Its really just pointing out that monad is a very general abstracti
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by bonobo3000 11y ago
Yeah, 15 years ago it was easy to get a green card. The situation is nothing like that today. India & China have it especially bad because of a lot of applicants and hence long, long waitlists.
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by bonobo3000 11y ago
if you don't mind me asking, how do you really learn about the different models of concurrency/parallelism well enough to be able to compare them based not only on API/programming model but also performance and low-level di
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by bonobo3000 11y ago
As long as you're taking suggestions - i would like to see bigger fonts, syntax highlighted code and maybe more color contrast between sidebar/top/comments and the main content.
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by bonobo3000 11y ago
In the ideal world, i would program purely at the level of a sugared lambda calculus, free of trivial things like runtime,memory use,network latencies,serialization,platform incompatibilities,dependency management,string encoding/decod
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by bonobo3000 11y ago
Also, homomorphic encryption isn't about making it more efficient, its about being able to compute any function over the encrypted dataset, and get the same result as if it was over the unencrypted version - this is pretty cool if it w
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by bonobo3000 11y ago
>For example, in order to be legally employed on an H1B in the "San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA" MSA (Metropolitan Statistical Area), you must be getting paid at least $98,342 per year or $47.28 per hour. Wow, i had no idea
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by bonobo3000 11y ago
I don't see a problem here. When asked to implement the interface, you don't have to know and implement every single method off the top of your head.. Sounds more like an opportunity to discuss what operations are important for th
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by bonobo3000 11y ago
heres one i like: "git stash branch <branchname>" like "git stash" it stashes away all the untracked modifications you have, but it puts them onto another branch. i often end up making partial progress on things th
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by bonobo3000 11y ago
Hahaha yes, absolutely :) This is another thing that makes stereotypes tricky - it takes a little bit of statistical insight to see how they can be both right in some sense but completely wrong in the other, but statistics is very unintuiti
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by bonobo3000 11y ago
Agreed. In super-liberal circles, i see people sounding alarms at the mere mention of race, even in a completely non-offensive way. You can't tackle a problem you aren't even willing to talk straight about. The current system is
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by bonobo3000 11y ago
The bias started out with a good intention - "all people should have the same rights and opportunities". But the official, carefully constructed non-offensive party line reasoning behind it in the US seems to be something like &qu
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by bonobo3000 11y ago
Glad to see this! Women often tell me i "finish screwing way too fast". I now understand they are simply jealous of my potential as a furniture assembly man.
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by bonobo3000 11y ago
Fair point, but that would take away half the fun of debugging for me :(
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by bonobo3000 11y ago
Would you mind explaining a little about how bare metal is different from this? Isn't a dedicated host a real physical machine?
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by bonobo3000 11y ago
What exactly does containerizing everything give you anyways? I really don't get it. Before - use chef/puppet to manage dependencies, distribute config files. run processes. maybe use something like upstart to restart on failure.
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by bonobo3000 11y ago
I think the example is right. Cat is a subtype of Animal, and Animal is a subtype of Thing Cat < Animal < Thing So if the function takes any animal, of course it can take a cat (so its covariant in argument). And because all animals a
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by bonobo3000 11y ago
You could ask the same question of any student, immigrant or not.
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by bonobo3000 11y ago
I think streaming works on chromecast if you use the apps. Trying to broadcast netflix/videos through the browser still doesn't work though, the audio/video go out of sync. So you can only watch videos through apps. It would
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by bonobo3000 11y ago
The rant is mostly about the Scala collections API. I think the "expert" opinion is that yes, Scala collections are broken and incredibly complex, and theres a proposal for new implementations here: https://github.com&#
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by bonobo3000 11y ago
So awesome! I had no idea there was an API to analyze songs, this is really cool. Is the source for this available anywhere?
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by bonobo3000 11y ago
Thats what I was using until today! So glad to see flux is possible on iOS.
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by bonobo3000 11y ago
>My latest example of this was learning Scala 5 years ago. Bet on something new, and then you get calls from all over the country to work on it, as most people are trying it, but few know what they are actually doing. As a young dev, I r
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by bonobo3000 11y ago
Great post. I would just like to say that as an immigrant to the US, i see this tendency to turn every debate into "with us or against us" is much more prominent in the media here. I believe that most people across the world are r
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by bonobo3000 11y ago
touche :p
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by bonobo3000 11y ago
With sufficient advances in NLP & ML, i dream that one day you will be replaced by a bot able to generate snarky comments about slow/mobile-unfriendly/ad-riddled webpages automatically.
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by bonobo3000 11y ago
Thats a good point, thanks.
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by bonobo3000 11y ago
Finance is the "parasitic" industry that powers every big VC and every tech IPO - the reason that founders can pay programmers as much as they do these days.

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