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by chalst 8y ago
Wrt the "My Homepage" idea: one of the ideas driving IPFS is just this [1]. A barrier to IPFS is that they (necessarily) reject HTTP in favour of something in some ways like Bittorent. Les Orchard wonders if some sort of profit s
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by chalst 8y ago
Conditions, yes. If you have multiple dispatch, then building/supporting a numeric tower is natural. In your other reply you pointed out macros. They are a mixed blessing, easily misused. Other languages have them but use them more sp
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by chalst 8y ago
https://github.com/xi-editor/xi-editor/issues/93
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by chalst 8y ago
This article has led me to Shapiro & Preguiça (2007) https://arxiv.org/pdf/0710.1784.pdf The whole idea that commutativity gives you a better-behaved transition to consistency reminds me of how the theory of patche
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by chalst 8y ago
Perl too. The CPAN guys are obsessed with testing.
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by chalst 8y ago
Well put. I'd add that this is a case where the decoupling of OS and language design is bad: capabilities are much more valuable if the OS can provide a sufficiently expressive basis for them. I'm watching Zircon with great inter
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by chalst 8y ago
Haskell has some problems that mean it is not suited to a lot of tasks, esp. the difficulty of predicting space/time performance and integration with OS-level facilities. But it is a serious contender in many cases where correctness i
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by chalst 8y ago
Agreed. Point-free code is a better hallmark of good FP than recursion.
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by chalst 8y ago
I wouldn't bet on the ML hardware startups either, but don't you think that what we regard as general hardware is always going to be too heavyweight to be suitable for massive parallelisation?
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by chalst 8y ago
If I had to point to something, I would single out CL's powerful support for multiple dispatch. I'd hesitate to recommend CL to undisciplined programmers, because it is too easy to write code that works but you don't underst
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by chalst 8y ago
I have a very high opinion of Julia's dynamic type system. Some static type systems are not very expressive, e.g., Elm, which encourages hacky workarounds. Julia's type system encourages specificity, which exposes problems early.
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by chalst 8y ago
Why do you think javadoc is better than docstrings? There are docstring-based languages that encourage good practice and can produce what I regard as excellent integrated docs. E.g., Julia's Documenter: https://juliadocs.g
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by chalst 8y ago
Well, I've linked to your story from Twitter now: https://twitter.com/txtpf/status/1102324815757799424
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by chalst 8y ago
I see that there is a smart contract in the Solidity docs: https://solidity.readthedocs.io/en/develop/solidity-by-examp... Doesn't mean it is bullet-proof, but certainly good enough for trying out.
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by chalst 8y ago
Brain Fox: "I recommend that people read the Orchid source code." Oho. Link?
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by chalst 8y ago
I see that under the algorithms tab, Knuth's TAoCP is ranked 13th equal, together with 4 others.
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by chalst 8y ago
> freelancer can work on it in confidence Mm, that is different for copy-editing, which is what I do: I need to share what I am doing as I go along. OK, escrow looks a better fit. > Escrow.com looks ok - except that it's in the
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Simple Secrets – Emacs-based password manager(emacswiki.org)
4 points by chalst 8y ago|0 comments
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by chalst 8y ago
Asking for (part) payment in advance [1] is really common, so, say, you could ask for 1/3 before work starts, 1/3 halfway and 1/3 on completion. If these are not paid in time, you are in a good position to pester your client
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Experimenting with GitHub Actions(blog.steve.fi)
1 points by chalst 8y ago|0 comments
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by chalst 8y ago
How does compile time compare for GNU Emacs vs remacs?
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by chalst 8y ago
Generally good advice. I think self-publishing is an increasingly viable route, and is covered by Kawasaki & Welch in http://apethebook.com/ The advice about getting a lawyer rather than an agent is very interesting. I
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From Deep Learning experimentation to production-ready Model Building(towardsdatascience.com)
2 points by chalst 8y ago|0 comments
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by chalst 8y ago
Appeared before, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18998098 - only one substantive comment, complaining about superficiality.
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by chalst 8y ago
Can we punctuate this title so that it might not mean that Swisher is interviewing a transcript? Putting the last word in parentheses would achieve that.
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by chalst 8y ago
Economies of scale taper off: truly large concentrations of wealth are not needed for this, and oligopolies can free large companies from the kind of competition that drives the search for efficiency. I am not sure about how large concentra
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Dead Batteries Included (2013)(radar.oreilly.com)
2 points by chalst 8y ago|0 comments
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by chalst 8y ago
Financial analysts should really look at the make-up of accounts.
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by chalst 8y ago
The title should be changed to indicate that this is "for OpenFaaS services"; otherwise it seems kind of trivial...
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by chalst 8y ago
George Orwell made much the same point in 1945: http://www.orwell.ru/library/articles/ABomb/english/e_abomb

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