chrismonsanto

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by chrismonsanto 10y ago
The "prestige," as you call it, is necessary to get a job in academia. Where you publish your research is considered a trustworthy approximation to the quality of your research, and requires a lot less time & expertise to vet.
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by chrismonsanto 11y ago
Can you downvote replies in threads that are locked? Can collaborators delete these reactions like we would with comments? > Have feedback on this post? Let know on Twitter. Not everyone uses Twitter. It would be awesome to give feedback
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“Screw it, I'll make my own” – The story of a new programming language(breuleux.net)
139 points by chrismonsanto 11y ago|68 comments
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by chrismonsanto 11y ago
Like others who have posted in this thread, medium.com in the URL is a signal to me that the author is more likely to not be credible. Self-hosted blogging still has a place in this ecosystem!
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by chrismonsanto 11y ago
> It's core developers who are to blame. You mean the same core developers of io.js, who clearly are shipping now that Joyent is out of the loop?
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by chrismonsanto 12y ago
> “We’re weeding out the stoners,” ... “We want to show the world that normal, professional, successful people consume cannabis.” In other words, pot for elitists. It's not enough to just open a different kind of store, the marketin
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by chrismonsanto 12y ago
They are almost certainly aware of Mizar. Mizar's foundation is ZFC+Tarski's axiom. If you are developing a foundation based on homotopy theory/type theory you probably don't care about results formalized in Mizar. Also
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by chrismonsanto 12y ago
where did you get that idea? last commit was 7 days ago, no mention of abandonment
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by chrismonsanto 12y ago
> BTRFS will be able to do the same thing... one day. It already can. btrfs sub snap does snapshots (and they work the same way), btrfs send/receive do the diffs, supports lzo/zlib compression and deduplication
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by chrismonsanto 12y ago
> What? How have you not heard of CPAN? There is not a single language in the world that can touch Perl's libraries. That's a really outdated meme. CPAN is small, pretty much every language you hear about regularly has a larger
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by chrismonsanto 12y ago
> and there is nothing that comes close to fugitive. I have never used fugitive, but I can't imagine being unhappy with Magit? What makes fugitive so much better?
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by chrismonsanto 12y ago
Full text: More police departments are outfitting policemen with wearable cameras that tape what officers see as they do their job, providing a record in the aftermath of incidents like the one in Ferguson, Mo., where a policeman shot and k
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by chrismonsanto 12y ago
> Not really: you don't condemn an entire system by pointing out individual bad examples of it. To prove that software patents are bad, it is necessary, but perhaps not sufficient to point out bad examples. Then again I never said t
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by chrismonsanto 12y ago
This is a great idea. If you want to demonstrate just how much software patents suck, you need to be able to point out examples. Yet I've seen many people who try to do so get shutdown with remarks like "you're not a lawyer&q
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by chrismonsanto 12y ago
Not a fan of the Y-meter on first glance. Maybe I would like it more after getting used to it. - One thing that I think would improve it is putting the starting point in the bottom left corner. It's weird to have that half segment on t
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by chrismonsanto 12y ago
> Why does Rust use "let"? let is the standard keyword for introducing a new, shadowing variable binding. It is a very old tradition and is immediately recognizable to functional programmers. > If you want easy adoptation fr
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by chrismonsanto 12y ago
I was poor, and now I'm moderately well off. You are really underselling how much it sucks to be poor. > All the money in the world won't prevent you or a loved one from passing due to an untreatable illness. Death of a family
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by chrismonsanto 12y ago
a-b) The objects of type IO are values, just as any other monad. It is true that polymorphic functions can be instantiated with type IO, just as they can be of any other type. How you think this supports the assertion that side-effects are
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by chrismonsanto 12y ago
For me, on Firefox 30, I can see the basic structure of the page immediately, then my browser freezes for ~1.5 seconds, and I see the rest. I checked out the front page in FF's devtools, and could only see two uncached network requests
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by chrismonsanto 12y ago
The Polymer website uses Polymer and it is slooooow. That's a huge red flag to me. I have nothing but good things to say about React. Try that instead.
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by chrismonsanto 12y ago
> PyPy is not fast enough and further splits the user base. There is no split? > Gevent is vastly simpler than this. I prefer asyncio's explicitness to gevent's monkey-patch-and-pray-it-doesn't-block semantics. Also, th
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by chrismonsanto 12y ago
> Packages and modules should never be reliant under an assumption about the underlying file system, as it tend to lock languages to certain platforms. And it gives you an escape hatch from Java-style module nonsense: of COURSE I want to
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by chrismonsanto 12y ago
I have been checking the py3k branch on Hg every other day waiting for this moment, what a pleasant surprise. Very, very exciting. Thanks all. I donated a while back, will make another donation soon. I would like to start using this immedia
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by chrismonsanto 12y ago
Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:VrGJCG7...
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by chrismonsanto 12y ago
This is a great tool. I've longed for an equivalent for YAML.
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by chrismonsanto 12y ago
> How would you do that in [...] Emacs? Use Magit, which is probably the best Git client anyway.
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by chrismonsanto 12y ago
Thanks so much.
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by chrismonsanto 12y ago
>First of all, "no garbage collection" Technically, referencing counting is garbage collection, it's automatic memory management by definition. Thanks for making this post, I have been meaning to say something similar for
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by chrismonsanto 12y ago
It does have an implementation of "can't collapse comment threads", though.
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by chrismonsanto 12y ago
> 2) institutional library access to get at the papers you need (Google Scholar helps here, but it's far from perfect) Really? At least in my fields (programming languages, networking) everyone has their articles on their homepage.

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