davidgrenier

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by davidgrenier 8y ago
I'm baffled by videos that autoplay on websites.
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by davidgrenier 8y ago
Likewise I would say not enough people put their monitors in portrait. It's amazing for coding.
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by davidgrenier 8y ago
I agree that line should be read as "they were doing something novel" as opposed to "they were ignorant".
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by davidgrenier 8y ago
In other words, we learn absolutely nothing about the question the story is titled by?
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by davidgrenier 8y ago
That's interesting, in statistics they show the challenger case as an example of poor statistical judgment if you omit data points. In particular they showed the data points of failed launches, you could hardly derive a correlation bet
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by davidgrenier 8y ago
If I may, I'd like to invite you or someone on your team to read a couple of chapters of John Reppy's Concurrent Programming in ML and try Vesa's excellent delivery in https://github.com/Hopac/Hopac . I&#
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by davidgrenier 8y ago
This is a specialisation of algebraic datatypes, it has to go at least as far back as SML.
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by davidgrenier 8y ago
Thank you, I was wondering if they had patented a half-assed version of monads.
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by davidgrenier 8y ago
Read Lying from Sam Harris. It's a short read, you'll then know what to do. The digital honor code in the pdf invites me to share it with others as long as I've bought it (which I've done twice). Send me a pm if you want
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by davidgrenier 8y ago
In that vein, Nessons has a Stream Fusion library: https://github.com/nessos/Streams For lightweight threads I recommend https://github.com/Hopac which is an implementation of SML's John Reppy&#x2
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by davidgrenier 8y ago
I think your argument missed the point that said assholes were behaving like that toward her and not the other male peers, over what seems to be a multi-year career.
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by davidgrenier 8y ago
This makes unrealistic every science fiction movie ever. Cables and tubes everywhere, have you gone through a tunnel of bags yet?
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by davidgrenier 8y ago
I think it's worth pointing out why the author's of SICP themselves acknowledge why it was phased out. Praphrasing, it essentially boils down to the kind of applications developpers of today are writing. People are now mostly slin
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by davidgrenier 8y ago
I will agree with you that any programming language that has the editor locked-in (thinking Mathematica) is simply not worth it's salt.
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by davidgrenier 8y ago
Or too much for anyone. Now if the author is bummed by the "mathematics" of SICP he sure will have himself handled pretty roughly by TAoCP :) disclaimer: I haven't read SICP but as others have pointed out I doubt there's
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by davidgrenier 8y ago
I think you should read this as being an otherwise 150kloc project in Java. Seriously, at this point IBM should fork a couple hundred thousand dollars just to know how anyone on their staff can recreate this in idiomatic java (or whatever O
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by davidgrenier 8y ago
You seem to be looking for a project bigger than what I had in mind, but try implementing Bagwell's Hash-Array mapped trie. It's a fantastic immutable data structure every programming language should have access to. Pick a languag
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by davidgrenier 8y ago
I'm a self learner and I find that having a strong sense about my solution is usually good enough. If I feel my answer is brittle then I should simply review the problem statement or anterior definitions and theorem. I usually look at
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by davidgrenier 8y ago
Now that is something mathematician quickly learn to not be bothered about: the proof is easy and left as an exercise The main takeaway I got from Polya's How to Solve it is that properly conceptualizing the problem in your head befo
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by davidgrenier 8y ago
Jeff, I'd be curious to know. Going through TAOCP is on my lifetime-to-do and feel I am getting close to tackling it again however I have no time right now. There's also so many other things I want to go over (some higher order lo
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by davidgrenier 8y ago
My GPA was 2.37 and I would've had to take so many classes to increase my GPA up to the cut off point of 2.7 (B-). With 90 credits worth of classes, you'd need 90 credits at 3.0 (B average) to make up for the difference, or less i
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by davidgrenier 8y ago
I graduated with a Comp.Sci bachelor with a similar GPA. Spent around 10 years as a programmer in the industry and came back to get into the masters program. I was almost laughed off (a good thing) stating I would have to do another bachelo
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by davidgrenier 8y ago
Yes but Microsoft has always been pushing C# and for fear of alienating their C# consumerbase could never concede that F# was strictly superior.
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by davidgrenier 8y ago
I haven't, I'm curious to know whether it has transparent, type-checked, client-server RPC calls like WebSharper? Hands down must-have from my perspective. As for declarative UI development I had worked with Formlets -> Piglets
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by davidgrenier 8y ago
I attended a few conference/training (POPL/OPLSS) that made me want to pursue more chalenging things in computer science. Among other things my terrible grades in Comp.Sci in the early 2000s required me to do another bachelor&#x27
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by davidgrenier 8y ago
I hope nobody is counting javascript as a functional programming language. You can however write pretty decent functional code in C#. I ported a 10kloc F# codebase to a very alien-looking functional-style C#. The project was processing seve
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by davidgrenier 8y ago
Programming professionally with WebSharper has been the best web development experience I ever had. Several years later I ended up doing some web development with Angular and it was a horrific experience. The one thing I'm most certain
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by davidgrenier 8y ago
Trust is earned and spent. If you regularly make commitments to be somewhere at some specific time and fail to meet that commitment you loose people's trust. You can't do much over the behavior of people's whose trust you&#x2
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by davidgrenier 8y ago
Could you clarify on what the "trouble" is? Unless you are referring to not spending the money. The article is fairly dramatic, however the silver lining I see is that, it would seem the wealth inequality will kill the economy bef
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by davidgrenier 8y ago
Another approach would be: https://www.manning.com/books/type-driven-development-with-i... If you are a programmer who hasn't touched any functional programming, this would probably blow your mind all over the pla

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