brettnak

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by brettnak 17y ago
As a non lisp programmer, it is hard for me to automatically see what is going on in a lisp program because of mismatched " ' " and a lot of parenthesis. I believe this is one of his points. When I was learning python, or ruby, for that m
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by brettnak 17y ago
I actually came to OSX from Ubuntu and felt like I was in the dark ages without a package manager. The first time I tried to compile PHP ( 5.3.2 ) on an upgraded ( Leopard -> Snow Leopard ) machine, I had a million problems with the sy
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by brettnak 17y ago
> 3. '3 ^ 4 ^ 5' parses to '3 ^ (4 ^ 5)'. I actually think that a trained mathematician would have no idea what to do with 3 ^ 4 ^ 5. It's a completely ambiguous statement and has no proper mathematical parsing.
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by brettnak 17y ago
It's more math than English, but yes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bifurcation_theory In case you've never studied bifurcation theory.
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by brettnak 17y ago
He's saying that when you order coffee you order you can order: "black coffee" -> This is coffee without any thing added ( that's what the 'black' part means ) but "black coffee, no cream, no sugar" -> is confusing because it is r
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by brettnak 17y ago
The gmail web interface? It might require a complete mental context switch, but it does not require closing of one program and opening another, then back again.
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by brettnak 17y ago
Are people interested enough in this for a blog post? I studied numerical analysis and would be happy to post some of the basics if people are interested.
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by brettnak 17y ago
We have those all over the place. I suspect that you are right that we could be doing a better job of things though. It just seems to be another layer of abstraction which doesn't abstract enough for it to be worth it. Personal preferenc
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by brettnak 17y ago
My company uses this and I write a lot of the front end web stuff. Personally, I can tell you that this is not that much better than plain css. It's great to have variables and what not, but the I think the biggest change is that you'll n
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by brettnak 17y ago
Am I the only one who get's frustrated by 'considered harmful' titles? Sorry for being off topic. EDIT: I'll give you that it's not as bad as the whole (win|fail|this) thing that's becoming popular.
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by brettnak 17y ago
More likely than not, the electronics inside were meant to detect the motion of the water. I'd be willing to bet there was something floating in the water that detected the motion of the water. Perhaps more of a vibration / proximity dete
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by brettnak 17y ago
He just had to bring up climate change at the end. Great way to get everyone to miss the point of your post.
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by brettnak 17y ago
I had some Skype credit expire on me. I don't intend to join in on this madness though. Skype sent me about 7 emails about this. Something like two months before expiration, one month before expiration, then two weeks, one week, then 5 da
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by brettnak 17y ago
For $2,000 I'll build you one that goes to 12.
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by brettnak 17y ago
As did, I. I am a professional programmer now and didn't go through the CS school ( To all sophomores out there: We do exist. ) Do they really not teach this sort of thing in a formal CS school?
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by brettnak 17y ago
I know the same story. I'm not sure what it is, but people do have a real fear of math. I graduated from the UW's ACMS ( Applied Computational Mathematical Sciences ) department which mainly focuses on scientific computing, as is obvious
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by brettnak 17y ago
Actually, since a PHP array is more like a combination of a python list and a python dictionary or a ruby hash and a ruby array, this is the best comparison: http://www.google.com/insights/search/#cat=31&q=python%2...