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by dxbydt 13y ago
To get parity with his PHP & Java snippets, you probably want one of several variants below - scala> def test1 = println ("hello world") scala> def test2(f: =>Unit) = println ("hello world") sc
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Zipcodes of wealthy, well educated in the USA using Scala(twitter.com)
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by dxbydt 13y ago
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/food/2005/03/thoroughly_m... "In Akira Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai, a village of beleaguered peasants seeks to protect itself from marauding bandits by
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by dxbydt 13y ago
just fyi, 2.8 million for 4096 core 16TB http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20019153-264.html?part=rss...
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by dxbydt 13y ago
personally, I feel uncomfortable reading stuff like "If the width is 2 units and the height is 2 units, the area is 4 square units since 2 times 2 is 4". 2 plus 2 is 4 as well, yeah ? As also, 2 ^ 2 = 4 The area is 4 regardless o
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by dxbydt 13y ago
gre general test has always been crap. I've had the unfortunate occasion to take it thrice (for each of my 3 graduate degrees) because the scores expire (what a scam!). Now the subject math gre, that's fucking awesome. I once chal
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by dxbydt 13y ago
Send me an empty box ? Why not send me a Google Glass. I'll put on the glass, look at the object I want to sell, and say "Glass, Sell!". It will then take a picture of the object, upload to cloud, run a few ML algos to figure out a competit
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by dxbydt 13y ago
Its sorta obvious this article won't go down well with the HN crowd. This is a site where everybody either believes they can code, or learn to code in a week, or teach somebody else to code via codecademy or what-have-you. fwiw, I strongly
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by dxbydt 13y ago
>so her solution was merely down the drain. Suppose greek yogurt hadn't taken off in the US & remained a niche product for some health-freaks, then Dannon & Chobani would also throw it down the drain & we'd be none the wiser
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by dxbydt 13y ago
We issued $2000 per head debit cards during Katrina ( http://www.wave3.com/Global/story.asp?s=3818003&clientty... ). These villagers have a Katrina every single day of their lives, so it makes sense.
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by dxbydt 14y ago
aside: for ~10 years (1995-2005) there wasn't a printf in java! There were numerous printf libraries for sale( the most popular one was http://sharkysoft.com/software/java/lava3/printf/ ), but jdk itself didn't have a built-in printf until
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by dxbydt 14y ago
Sir, that is fucking awesome! But why the human ? A Nao ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2STTNYNF4lk ) would do. I would bark at Siri for toilet paper, the self driving google car would arrive within minutes with toilet paper, a Nao would
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by dxbydt 14y ago
> "You’ll get free, unlimited same-day delivery for six months. That’s six months of having toilet paper delivered for free" Ok, but delivered by regular human in regular car ? No thanks. I want delivery by unmanned google-cars. For tha
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by dxbydt 14y ago
>The web won. It fought a battle against many foes, and it came out on top. What utter BS. You are essentially celebrating the victory of consumer commerce, not technology X over technology Y. Think about it. There never was any battle
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by dxbydt 14y ago
>if you fail, you have a network What is the factual basis for this statement ? Its not like this network will clothe & feed you & find you your next gig when your startup goes south. There are several yc alumni who, after their
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by dxbydt 14y ago
Distributed systems building is not a precondition to big data ML. Most of those systems have been built and commoditized...to such an extent that the difference between having one and not boils down to a command line flag. I routinely run
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by dxbydt 14y ago
It isn't about writing Lisp parsers so much as about writing a parser for your particular language that solves your particular problem. Instead of writing a python program that plays minesweeper, you write a minesweeper language where minef
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by dxbydt 14y ago
>Python..is immensely more readable than..Lisp fwiw, it is immensely easier to build a parser for (= z (+ y x)) than for z=x+y you might ask, why should that matter ? Ad outside the eyeglass store: why do we have ears ? so we can wear s
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by dxbydt 14y ago
>standardize cartage sizes...have them delivered regularly When I first arrived in the USA in 1995 as a CS student, I was surprised to see these identical Walmarts. They were all the same - same aisles, same items in those aisles, same
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by dxbydt 14y ago
If he's a true programmer, he'd code up an iphone app that controls an arduino that mixes up the precise amounts of amino acids, boron, saccharides, glucose and polyphenols for the perfect Soylent to start his day. Maybe even post his objec
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by dxbydt 14y ago
These sort of thought experiments come from the same place where they say we should tax the unemployed for oxygen inhaled & subsidize oxygen for the employer. i find uchicago-style social-engineering-disguised-as-economics alternately f
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by dxbydt 14y ago
I simply do not understand this anti-college anti-credentialling sentiment. I am featured in the latest Hacker Monthly ( print version of HN). So they asked me for a bio. I wrote something about how I learnt everything in college...am not
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by dxbydt 14y ago
> I give up and use recursion. Well, trees are recursive. Sometimes the cost bugs me, so I implement the tree as a list of lists ( each level in tree is its own list) ... this brings costs down but the code looks nasty and lot more boo
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by dxbydt 14y ago
From the article - >Mollie, GroupTalent's Director of Happiness,... Ok, I get you want to be hip and all, but Mollie will someday apply for like a real job in the real world, and the company will look at her resume and go "Director of H
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by dxbydt 14y ago
Parent is clearly missing the forest for the trees. Lets not talk about cs for a second- say you are a mason and you want your kid in the construction business. He says- so what have you done with masonry? So you say- I built the house in t
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by dxbydt 14y ago
> may be heading to a consumption society. Producing is orders of magnitude more mentally challenging than consuming What is even more alarming is the quality of consumption has rapidly degraded. Lawrence of Arabia was photographed &#38
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by dxbydt 14y ago
Just amazing! Hardware startups are beyond sexy. There is something so compelling about tactile devices... no amount of sophisticated software engg can come close to that feeling. Wipro's chairman was once asked why wipro still made soap &#
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by dxbydt 14y ago
Some motivation for the non-math folks out here - twitter shows an ad on your timeline. Assume the chances of twitter getting a callback on that ad is uniform ( very unlikely, but play along ). That means roughly 50% of folks will ignore th
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by dxbydt 14y ago
>... Scala...definitely not for functional paradigms I am sorry, what ?
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by dxbydt 14y ago
>Their programmers are productive and svelte? http://precog.com/about/team some of them are definitely svelte :) but then, when you incorporate in boulder,co, the fitness capital of usa, svelte is a given. So also switzerland, where t

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