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by ekiru 17y ago
Tail call optimization primarily optimizes memory, not time. It will reduce time costs, too(assuming calls are more expensive than jumps, which would probably be true in any architecture), but the memory used is the main issue.
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by ekiru 17y ago
I think it's somewhat dishonest about the uniqueness of visitor's fingerprints. I've tried it three times and been told I was unique each time. However, the last two times consisted of me visiting the site and, without doing anything else a
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by ekiru 17y ago
However, making contrived examples, even if illustrative, does make students think math is pointless and detestable. Many high school students, in my experience, really do develop a belief that they dislike math because they are led to beli
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by ekiru 17y ago
Assuming that internet connections are usually available ensures that your device will be utterly useless in many rural areas. In some places around my city, there is no broadband internet available at all, perhaps even when considering off
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by ekiru 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-tree
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by ekiru 17y ago
Given that Comscore argues that the raw web server data is flawed because of the same person using multiple machines, different browsers, deleting cookies, etc., that would be a pointless comparison. It isn't an independent analysis to take
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by ekiru 17y ago
I'm a little disappointed that the article suggests that the IO monad makes Haskell impure. While it is certainly true that unsafePerformIO violates purity(and type safety, as well), without it, IO is perfectly pure. It's just that if an IO
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Spaces considered harmful(movementarian.org)
1 points by ekiru 17y ago|0 comments
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The Final Prejudice(youthrights.org)
1 points by ekiru 17y ago|0 comments
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by ekiru 17y ago
Efene appears to be purely(or almost so) an alternative syntax for Erlang, and includes an Efene-to-readable-Erlang translator. Some people have internalized the syntax of Erlang, and there are certainly aspects of its syntax that I prefer
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by ekiru 17y ago
Regarding your chess example, I disagree. Having a "piece moveTo: aPosition" method is much less clean than having a "piece moves" message and a "board moveFrom: somePosition to: anotherPosition" message. Pawn captures would be handled simi
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by ekiru 17y ago
The Wright Brothers made the first powered heavier-than-air aircraft capable of sustained controlled flight. The subject of the article is a person who wrote a chess program. Not the first chess program. Not the first successful chess progr
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by ekiru 17y ago
I wonder how many mothers of multiple children with Netflix subscriptions and IMDB accounts from Franklin County, Ohio, will be traveling to the location of the court in which the suit is being made on the date of the trial and have also vi
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by ekiru 17y ago
That option may be superior in every way, as you say. Well, unless you want to close a tab other than the current one. Since that is something I sometimes want to do, I don't like it.
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by ekiru 17y ago
The viewing of source was every step other than the last one. I have never coded in javascript at all, but their "web developer" trial was trivial even for me.
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GvR: Adding Optional Static Typing to Python(2004)(artima.com)
1 points by ekiru 17y ago|0 comments
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by ekiru 17y ago
"People are treating Google like their most trusted friend. Should they be?" "I think judgment matters. If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place. If you really need that ki
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by ekiru 17y ago
It's very nice for Bruce Schneier to express opposition to invasion of privacy. I agree with him. But unless I totally misunderstand Schmidt's comments, Schmidt is not suggesting people should not make love to their wives, for example, but
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by ekiru 17y ago
While I disagree to some extent with your parent's point(that legality of drug use isn't strongly correlated with the danger of said drug use), one data point(not illegal, mostly non-harmful) is hardly enough to refute it. To refute it, it
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by ekiru 17y ago
Command+Shift+B, actually.
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by ekiru 17y ago
On a related note, if you plan to murder someone, you should not post an HN comment suggesting what not to google for when planning a murder.
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by ekiru 17y ago
I would expect that, as with generic functions, the dispatching favors the most specific method. Therefore, methods with filters would indeed take precedence over unfiltered methods.
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by ekiru 17y ago
In some instances of cyclic references, specifically those in which only one of the objects need be stack-allocated and in which none of the objects will be passed into a higher scope. For example, one may find it useful in a tree class to
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Ask HN: Is RAII sufficient for memory management?
2 points by ekiru 17y ago|2 comments
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by ekiru 17y ago
> There is value in static checking for some things, but it is also limiting. Other than type-safe heterogenous lists(which is only true if you hold static type systems to a much higher standard of type-safety than dynamic type systems)
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by ekiru 17y ago
I also feel that Lisp is a wrong direction. Its main problem is the lack of static typing. It is understandable that a language which has existed for so long with relatively little change would lack a static type system, but with as much pr
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by ekiru 17y ago
Do you want your email server to use a language that even the developers admit isn't yet ready for production?
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by ekiru 17y ago
I actually want one.
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by ekiru 17y ago
My so-far limited formal education(I'm a senior in high school) itself has taught me some things about biology and chemistry and medicine that I might not have learned purely of my own motivation, but in the case of chemistry, I learned mos
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by ekiru 17y ago
I did check the link, but I thought that you were only referencing the benefits. I'm sorry for the misunderstanding.

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