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Why learning Haskell/Python makes you a worse programmer (2006)(lukeplant.me.uk)
2 points by caustic 16y ago|0 comments
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What if P = NP?(cacm.acm.org)
124 points by caustic 16y ago|74 comments
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by caustic 16y ago
Exactly the same thing I thought immediately after reading the article. Yeah, Drew Houston is a brilliant guy, but we would never know how brilliant were all other founders of failed startups.
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by caustic 16y ago
> Give someone a second monitor, let them use it for while, and then try to take it away. It just isn't going to happen. They'll never go back to a mono display. I once had a two-monitor setup, and I dind't like it. Way too much clutter
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Michio Kaku releases his new book "Physics of the Future"(bigthink.com)
4 points by caustic 16y ago|0 comments
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A Haskell program that prints out a Perl program that prints out...(blog.sigfpe.com)
54 points by caustic 16y ago|2 comments
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Escher for Real(cs.technion.ac.il)
1 points by caustic 16y ago|0 comments
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Ant colony simulator(not-equal.eu)
88 points by caustic 16y ago|23 comments
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Gource - software version control visualization(code.google.com)
6 points by caustic 16y ago|0 comments
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by caustic 16y ago
Apache UIMA is one of the building blocks of Watson -- https://cwiki.apache.org/UIMA/powered-by-apache-uima.html And UIMA is written in Java and C++.
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Virtual(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by caustic 16y ago|0 comments
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Patterns for Concurrent, Parallel, and Distributed Systems(cs.wustl.edu)
4 points by caustic 16y ago|0 comments
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The polynomial algorithm for 3-SAT problem (or P=NP)(romvf.wordpress.com)
269 points by caustic 16y ago|142 comments
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Hofstadter's law(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by caustic 16y ago|0 comments
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by caustic 16y ago
I frankly speaking didn't know about this. But reading Wikipedia article about Tim Ferriss I got the impression that it might be his book (4HWW) that earned him money that he began to invest in these companies. The timeframes match perfectl
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by caustic 16y ago
Because if you dig into biographies of these self-promotional gurus, you'll see that they only succeeded in writing books about success. They are just frauds.
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Why Your Employees Are Losing Motivation(hbswk.hbs.edu)
84 points by caustic 16y ago|15 comments
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The Next Mainstream Programming Language: A Game Developer's Perspective (2006)(lambda-the-ultimate.org)
47 points by caustic 16y ago|18 comments
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by caustic 16y ago
"Testing is waste of time" -- yes, we already know this. Unit testing through skeptic's eye -- "It's OK Not to Write Unit Tests" , as discussed here previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1376417
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by caustic 16y ago
Ironically, just few days ago I submitted the link to Links programming language here on HN -- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2003828
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The Joy of Egg-Dropping(archive.ite.journal.informs.org)
3 points by caustic 16y ago|0 comments
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The Semicolon Wars(americanscientist.org)
94 points by caustic 16y ago|35 comments
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by caustic 16y ago
It reminds me the masterpiece "I am a Modern Man" by George Carlin -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkCR-w3AYOE
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by caustic 16y ago
Do you work there, at mlstate? This seems to be very cool project too. I will not compare technical merits of all the mentioned projects, because I am not experienced with any of them. Do you have any big application developed in OPA? How w
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by caustic 16y ago
It seems like they are embedding some state in these URLs. By I am by no means an expert in this language, so I am only guessing here.
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by caustic 16y ago
This is arguably one of the coolest things I have seen. It's web programming without tiers, as they call it. Just take a look at examples -- there is no distinction between client and server. Everything is defined in a single source. Beauti
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Links Programming Language(groups.inf.ed.ac.uk)
44 points by caustic 16y ago|13 comments
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by caustic 16y ago
Is this article by the guy who couldn't write Sudoku solver in his favorite TDD way?
119.
by caustic 16y ago
It seems like they were right about Singularity!
120.
by caustic 16y ago
I don't know, may be it is just me, but I noticed people here at HN don't have respect about agile. Is this the case?

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