cassowary

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by cassowary 10y ago
I don't think this is a fair criticism of the text. However good Unix might have been in the 1970s, why am I still running it on my mobile phone? How good is it today? It seems that the major argument in its favor is legacy. (Honestly,
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by cassowary 10y ago
I've set my capslock to be escape and my alt to be control. I don't know where my alt is, but I've never really used it. (I think the only usecase for alt is Alt-Tab to switch windows, but that always feels epically unpredict
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by cassowary 10y ago
Hi leshow, can you be more concrete? If I have a record `data Foo = Foo {fooA :: Text, fooB :: Text}` then I must write a method `show :: Foo -> Text` for it. It is immaterial if I write `instance Show Foo where` ` show fo
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by cassowary 10y ago
"It's clear men are more accustomed to being rejected." No it's not. Do you have any evidence for your claim? or just anecdote and stereotype?
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by cassowary 10y ago
I just discovered Turtle yesterday, a library for Haskell. Obviously I haven't used it much in that time, but superficially it looks amazing. See http://hackage.haskell.org/package/turtle-1.0.0/docs/Turtl
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by cassowary 10y ago
"The argument isn't about aesthetics, it's about functionality, a reduction in ease of use." this. the problem is the functionality is the visual appearance of the system, so they hire visual artists who think in terms o
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by cassowary 10y ago
Karl Popper or Carl Sagan? I actually don't know the latter's views very well, but I very much get the impression that he popularised a Popperian view of science in a way that Saganites simply can't get past. A lot of people
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by cassowary 10y ago
I disagree. You've described a very good way of actually conducting science, which would probably be more reliable than the way we've been doing it. You italicised "disprove" in your earlier post because you know that wh
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by cassowary 10y ago
But can you have free markets if corporations are permitted to influence the government? It seems impossible; humans will be influenced by those with whom they have contact. So the alternative is to prohibit corporations from lobbying gover
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by cassowary 10y ago
People aren't useful. Hammers are useful. It seems hard to go from useful -> intelligence, and hard to go from intelligent -> conscious.
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by cassowary 11y ago
i think the interesting thing about the oceanographers is that they say that if you are in the water, that means you're not in a bubble, it's only the air and some other gases that might be in a bubble. the question is how much ha