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by colomon 15y ago
Thanks!
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by colomon 15y ago
It would be interesting to see someone who understood both this and Perl 6's grammars to do a comparison. Based on Colm's quick description and my rough understanding of Perl 6 grammars, they sound like they are roughly equally powerful.
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by colomon 15y ago
Thing is, it's not about the tools being sacred. My problem with this is that he's not just solving problems I don't have -- he's solving them in a way that would make my problems worse! For instance, I very rarely want more informations a
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by colomon 15y ago
Really depends on what you want to do with it, doesn't it? He mentions character limits in URLs as a motivation, and at reasonable lengths for that I imagine Maze62 in Python will be plenty fast....
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by colomon 15y ago
I probably video chat once or twice a week on average. Primary uses are to keep in touch with far-flung relatives and take long-distance music lessons. I'd definitely use it more if my immediate family had another computer with a webcam.
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by colomon 15y ago
Heh. I actually recognized it from "A Night at the Hip Hopera", but never knew where they had sampled it from. :)
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by colomon 15y ago
Especially because once we've sorted out what he is trying to demonstrate (I think) it seems dead trivial to duplicate? I mean, the only thing stopping me from doing that same demo with blazing speed in the deadly slow Rakudo Perl 6 compil
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by colomon 15y ago
Not to mention no units on the timings, and no explanation as to why the heck you'd want to calculate 2^100000. (Or is that just a convenient way to construct a very long list?) Glad I wasn't the only one puzzled by it. Edited to add: Ah,
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by colomon 16y ago
Wow. You think it's "absolutely fucking batshit insane to use anything less" than a $8000 computer for full time programming work? (Not counting monitors.) Either you're rolling in money or you're not paying the bills. I mean, absolutely
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by colomon 16y ago
Okay, first hit: "Dad always said that you can always tell an idiot... but you can't tell him much." Works for my point just as well as "bigot", I suppose. Hint: "You can always tell a XXXXX, but you can't tell him much" is a stock constru
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by colomon 16y ago
I would say that in particular, I'm fairly certain I can usually tell the difference between $5 wine and $15 wine, and the $15 wine is usually markedly better. On the other hand, my experience is that it's usually a lot harder to tell the
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by colomon 16y ago
I'm sure baudehlo knows, but some other readers may not: map, grep, and closures are all native in Perl 5, and reduce is easily available. (All are native in Perl 6.)
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by colomon 16y ago
Thanks for the reminder.
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by colomon 16y ago
One point which I haven't seen come up in any discussion of this: Michigan now prohibits texting while driving. So at least in theory, checking your cell phone could determine whether or not you were violating this. I wouldn't be surprise
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by colomon 16y ago
If you'd said "Symphony #9", I might have granted you the point. But "Fur Elise" isn't particularly more complicated than a well-written rock or pop song, and yes, I'd suggest we are indeed awash with those. (Even if they only represent 0
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by colomon 16y ago
You might want to try a Google search on the phrase "You can always tell a bigot"...
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by colomon 16y ago
Yes, the author defines exponentiation in terms of recursion. My point is that is not the natural definition of exponentiation, and my evidence is the Wikipedia page, which (as of the time of my original posting of the link, anyway), giv
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by colomon 16y ago
Exactly. Good catch.
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by colomon 16y ago
On the one hand, I'm in total agreement that we shouldn't tell students recursion is hard. It's a very natural analog to proof by induction, after all. It's an important basic component of programming. On the other hand, "IMHO, recursion
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by colomon 16y ago
Speaking as someone who was self-taught, spent four years getting a formal CS education, and then has 16 years post-college professional experience, I don't think you probably missed much. I think the only really practical thing I learned
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by colomon 16y ago
"Recorded music has run its course." Am I completely dense? I utterly fail to understand the quotes on recorded music in the article. I could easily buy "the record industry has run its course," but that's a completely different idea. Wi
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by colomon 16y ago
I think the "Jobs Factory" metaphor is a sign of how messed up the thinking involved is. There isn't a jobs factory, there's a marketplace; and the marketplace right now is very clearly saying that scientists just aren't that valuable, in
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by colomon 16y ago
I logged into MySpace the other day for the first time in quite a while. And wow, it's butt-ugly, hard to navigate around, and within ten minutes of logging in I had eight MySpace-based spam e-mails sitting in my account. In short, it's wi
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by colomon 16y ago
Can you back this up with any sort of citation?
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by colomon 16y ago
I'm not quite sure what to make of this article. On the one hand, I completely agree that bottom-up programming is a great approach. On the other hand, I completely disagree that top-down programming is strongly tied to OO programming. At
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by colomon 16y ago
Personally, I've found Dell's next day onsite service very impressive. BUT the laptop in question needed such service so often that I would never buy another Dell without evidence of a major change in their operations. (Not to mention that
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by colomon 16y ago
Wouldn't that be much better expressed as something like "It's easier to do elegant optimizations in a high-level language", then? Finding the best algorithm to use is almost always the single best optimization you can do to a piece of cod
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by colomon 16y ago
I just tried twidroyd, and my feed for the last three hours only contains these two tweets: Support: UberTwitter, twidroyd, and UberCurrent have been suspended due to policy violations. Read more here: http://t.co/HHGa9k1 Support: Want to
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by colomon 16y ago
Unless you define "elegant" as "conceptually optimized" or something like that, this is just nonsense. There are many cases where a superior algorithm will run circles around an elegant but not so efficient algorithm -- and no number of "c
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by colomon 16y ago
What sort of books are you looking for?! I've got my share of complaints about Borders, and they certainly didn't always have the particular book I was looking for, but I don't think I've ever gone to one where that had absolutely no books

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