chandler

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by chandler 18y ago
>> It's a recursive problem you'd basically be talking to nobody... Presuming this was done where each person had fine control over the date, you may be right. However, suppose each person only had a single binary control, essentia
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by chandler 18y ago
>> Damn, why didn't I realize this was happening? We're not really encouraged to be introspective--we're pushed from one experience to the next, without stopping to think how the experience affects us. Moreover, unless you put in th
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by chandler 18y ago
Where I work, I've noticed several trends: - Duplicate work; as long as the wiki doesn't replace existing processes, placing things there is simply additional work. Moreover, because it's additional, there's no guarantee that any desired p
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by chandler 18y ago
>> Then maybe I'm misunderstanding the point of your reply. I was pointing out that your examples don't make sense, as it's trivial to translate the Haskell code into another general purpose language (such as Scheme, C, Perl, Fortra
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by chandler 18y ago
Agreed; neither of the translations use monads, because monads are a semantic hand-job proscribing order within a declarative language. However, Scheme is not a declarative language, therefore order is implied in the structure, therefore m
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by chandler 18y ago
The first example, naively translated to scheme, results in: (define (skip-many a) (or (and (a) (skip-many a)) (void))) This is not infinite recursion. The Parser monad used in the Haskell version is simply a strea
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by chandler 18y ago
I do like the idea; however, the site has aesthetic flaws that need to be addressed. Notice a site like adagio.com (which sells loose teas): earthy colors combined with attractive closeups of leaves & herbs. As a tea drinker, the design
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by chandler 18y ago
If bottle failures are contained within the sacks this shouldn't be necessary. If bottle failures aren't contained within the sacks...well, good luck.
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by chandler 18y ago
The logical solution would be to have a depth marker of some kind, and to simply add new sacks of bottles whenever it drops below some value (regardless of the cause of the drop).
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by chandler 18y ago
> If it's a "lines of code" contest, then sure, learn to type fast, but if it's about producing good concise code I don't think typing speed makes much difference. In my experience, good, concise code is rarely written on the first pass
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by chandler 18y ago
Whether it's fair or not, I can only knowledgeably critique what I know. However, I've heard (and propogated) this basic comment describing the robust solid development experience that is Visual Studio for more years than VS.NET (or, obvio
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by chandler 18y ago
It's specifically at two points of the build--firstly, when VS6 is starting the compile (and trying to find modified files, I suppose), and during the link step. I think the IDE is doing something with the toolchain to give it an incredibly
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by chandler 18y ago
People who use IDEs that add code for them.
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by chandler 18y ago
Reading these posts about the "excellent, bug free" VS development environment: in my experience, this isn't quite the truth. I've used VS6 since the late 90's, mostly on small projects (less than ~10 000 lines, four or five source files) u
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by chandler 18y ago
>> High rates of heart disease in indian vegetarians... Have you ever been to an Indian restaurant and ordered a vegetarian meal? While incredibly flavorful, I wouldn't classify it as even moderately healthy--
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by chandler 18y ago
I doubt I'd recommend replacing fat with carbohydrates, but you're correct in that sugars (starches/carbohydrates break down into...) cause the body to store fat (more specifically, the elevated insulin levels that accompany this). Regardin
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by chandler 18y ago
>> (or perhaps only hidden until after you vote but I don't see why they need to be there period) That's an interesting point--why does every site need to quantify for the user the particular score of a comment? Why not indicate po
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by chandler 18y ago
Personally, it seems that increasing the number of displayed words allows me to process the text much faster. For instance, I can comfortably read and (mostly) comprehend at ~400 wpm when 30 words are displayed on screen at a time, while w
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by chandler 18y ago
>> This is a more radical version of the panspermia theory of Crick and Ponampurama ... I think in a hundred years if people do biology they will think it quite silly that people once thought that spores could not be blown from one
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by chandler 18y ago
Exactly; for me, there are periods where my work is challenging and interesting and I have no desire to code outside the office. Conversely there are lulls where I'm flooded with ideas for personal projects, and suddenly have energy and mo
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by chandler 18y ago
> T: <some description involving unverifiable supernatural beings> Just to argue the point, how do you define supernatural? Where do you draw the line between natural-yet-incomprehensible-phenomena and that-which-is-only-imagin
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by chandler 18y ago
>> (which executed Lisp directly) Uh, the machine's architectures were probably designed to be more amenable to Lisp-esque features (e.g., garbage collection, tagged types at runtime, native pair operations, etc); I suspect the mach
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by chandler 18y ago
You're right, that is interesting--yet another reason to get Xen up and running...
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by chandler 18y ago
I agree with much of your position, however: > Some people say Ubuntu is finally a usable desktop OS for average Joe. Even if that's true, it took how many decades for free operating systems to reach that mark? They're at least 20 years
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by chandler 18y ago
I didn't like the shell either, until I realized that it's still an editable buffer. For example, you can take the output of a command, transform the text directly using standard editing commands, fix the weird one-off cases manually, and t
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by chandler 18y ago
Regular disclaimer: I use both vim and emacs equally, and there definitely some things I prefer in vim. However... > 1) Several options... One of the nice things about the help in emacs is that, when installed with source, function/var
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by chandler 18y ago
I suspect it also develops flexibility of the tendons/ligaments.
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by chandler 18y ago
Excepting the terrible execution, http://expertvillage.com seems to have a variety of how-tos.
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by chandler 19y ago
So I'm curious--the screenshot you've taken has ~20k less results than mine, and the result-set is wildly different--
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by chandler 19y ago
> Interesting angle, but I really don't believe nastiness has much to do with it. My experience is that this is a limitation of communication without subtext, inflection, etc. I don't have a whole lot of time right now for details, but

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