dfranke

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by dfranke 19y ago
Come to think of it, instead of trying to beat the filters, what if they specifically cooperated with them so that they'd filter out nothing at all? Think of what a great boast it would make: "I'll take you straight to the point, and these
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by dfranke 19y ago
and some fraction, like me, won't have any version installed.
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by dfranke 19y ago
I don't think they'd do that. The purpose of the fluff is not (usually) to deliberately conceal their beliefs. It's there because it's what some people want to read. They want a candidate who "cares". I don't think the people who write
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by dfranke 19y ago
I think you'd find that usefulness dimishes pretty rapidly as the problem domain expands. The reason spam filters work as well as they do is that most spam pretty much looks alike. Likewise, there are only so many ways you can phrase soot
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Hack idea: text classification for political propaganda
15 points by dfranke 19y ago|18 comments
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by dfranke 19y ago
Is there any place in Seattle that doesn't have a Starbucks in line of sight?
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by dfranke 19y ago
I've never liked OCaml. The typesystem is too wimpy and constraining. Lack of generic arithmetic operators is particularly painful. Haskell is a much better language.
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by dfranke 19y ago
So do I -- when I'm working in Lisp. Lisp gives you a Swiss army knife and lets you build specialized tools when you want them. Haskell gives you specialized tools and lets you build a Swiss army knife if you want it.
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by dfranke 19y ago
See my response to ken.
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by dfranke 19y ago
It doesn't count if you have a professor holding your hand every step of the way and giving you a framework suited to exactly the project you're working on and no other. Nonetheless, which half do you mean? In my OS class we just worked wi
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by dfranke 19y ago
Depending on how loosely you define well-performing, that probably entails my definition of a compiler.
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by dfranke 19y ago
Can you do any of the following? * Write a compiler of any kind (native code, bytecode, HLL-to-HLL, whatever). * Write an ACID storage engine. * Write a trivial OS, including the bootloader. * Write any non-trivial component of a real OS ke
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by dfranke 19y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=111603
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by dfranke 19y ago
Interestingly, heterogenous lists are the only example I ever hear cited for how ML-family type systems can cramp your style. It leads me to wonder if the situation is not unlike Fibbonacci sequences and naive recursion. Anyway, I find tha
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by dfranke 19y ago
I actually like the climate. I think it runs in the family: my aunt is moving to Donner Pass (yes, that Donner), voluntarily.
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by dfranke 19y ago
Somerville, MA fits the bill pretty well, for sufficiently small values of "decent climate".
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by dfranke 19y ago
The Reddit comments aren't so bad. At least they're civil. I feared far worse before I followed the link.
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by dfranke 19y ago
What year? You were in my department.
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by dfranke 19y ago
It's not true that static typing always makes languages weaker. It makes map more powerful, for example: the desired type of output sequence can be inferred rather than having to supply a first argument of the same type like in Arc. I used
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by dfranke 19y ago
Ping me once you've implemented these and I'll take another look. But anyway, like I said, I'm as curmudgeonly as they come about this sort of thing. If you succeed in not annoying me and still get clickthroughs from other people, then yo
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by dfranke 19y ago
Yes, there are several things that set me off here: 1. Whatever network you're serving the image ads from is already in my blacklist, so I just get the loading indicator. The indicator animation is irritating. 2. Get rid of the fade-out an
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by dfranke 19y ago
I don't have Flash, so I can't use your demo, but I think I get the gist of it anyway. I'm wary of the placement options other than "fixed". I have no tolerance for ads that do anything to cause my eyes to jump away from text -- this gene
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by dfranke 19y ago
This seems overcomplicated. Here's a simpler interface: all the numbers in your PIN are between 1 and 8. You view the screen by looking into a binocular scope. On each side of scope is a row of four buttons where you can place your finge
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by dfranke 19y ago
I saw this when it was first published. I remember thinking it had to be a troll because nobody could possibly be that stupid.
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by dfranke 19y ago
From the FAQ: Why did you keep car and cdr? Because we couldn't think of any better alternatives. It would have been misleading to use first and rest or head and tail, because conses are fundamentally pairs; lists are one thing you can bui
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by dfranke 19y ago
Of course, there would also be things like this: 2 = 3 Which would now pass blithely though the parser only to raise a NoMethodError at run time because numbers do not implement an update method (At least, not in Ruby. Legend has it that t
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by dfranke 19y ago
That too. I didn't want to use that example because someone would have retorted that Wolfram wasn't really a false positive.
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by dfranke 19y ago
There's one item on that list that I've always had a gripe with: > 10 points for offering prize money to anyone who proves and/or finds any flaws in your theory. This is legitimate, sometimes. See for example the prize offered for cryp
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by dfranke 19y ago
You originally left that as an open question: What I meant was that in any language anyone would design, they would be identical, but that if someone wanted to design a language explicitly to disprove this hyphothesis, they could probably
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by dfranke 19y ago
Can we have a highest-modded comments scoreboard?

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