calopetreep

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On the Death of Satire(noauthorityhere.wordpress.com)
1 points by calopetreep 14y ago|0 comments
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by calopetreep 14y ago
The captcha seems very easy (I am not a chess player)- I tried three times and always got a board to solve in one move, so I doubt anyone that knows the rules of chess is going to be excluded. That's probably not a problem for this forum :)
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by calopetreep 14y ago
Do you mean you have trouble with seeing what's going on inside a long function composition? I wrote a cool function to examine it with almost no code changes: module TraceCompose where import Debug.Trace -- | Trace a value, resul
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by calopetreep 14y ago
> If the end result is symbolic differentiation (...) Ah, I see the problem- automatic differentiation is not the same as symbolic differentiation- see wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_differentiation This certainly i
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by calopetreep 14y ago
Ah I see- sorry to've misinterpreted that! I definitely agree- brainfuck being the best example in favour of that argument :)
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by calopetreep 14y ago
This isn't really relevant to the thread of discussion.
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by calopetreep 14y ago
> Java can produce any result that Haskell can produce. End of story, full stop. Yes, I'm not disputing this- I'm fully in agreement that all turing-complete languages can compute all turing-computable computations. I've never been tryi
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by calopetreep 14y ago
> So you're saying Alan Turing was wrong? Nope! The Turing-completeness of Haskell and Java means they can both compute the same functions. However, there are certain things which are just not possible to express directly in some lang
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by calopetreep 14y ago
> you spend less time reinventing the wheel I've found this to be totally the opposite: my time in Java is much less productive. There are many libraries in Haskell which aren't even possible to write in Java (automatic differentiation,
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by calopetreep 14y ago
Actually I think the parent poster is male- I certainly read it the same way you did at first!
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by calopetreep 14y ago
Actually, I've found that Haskell libraries are absolutely fantastic- For me, its ecosystem is superior to other languages I've used, and I find libraries tend to be better designed and easier to pick up and use. > And how many are will
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by calopetreep 14y ago
> Haskell is a bad choice for business simply because you limit yourself to a very small talent pool. Actually, there are many more Haskell programmers than jobs available, so it's possible to pick and choose when hiring.
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by calopetreep 14y ago
If the article did indeed say "this experience applies to women (...)", it now appears to've been edited for clarity.
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by calopetreep 14y ago
A more cynical person might suggest the tone of this article was related to recent events elsewhere in the NYT. The real meat of the article is buried halfway down: "(Update: The Tesla spokeswoman Shanna Hendriks later said the company had
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by calopetreep 14y ago
I find tiling window managers to alleviate the pain of GUI windows. I use XMonad, and I love it!