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by freyrs3 14y ago
It's a false dichotomy and a broad generalization to assume that non-free software is somehow more polished or of higher quality. Quality software and free software are two very broad categories which are generally not correlated. There is
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by freyrs3 14y ago
Code is here: https://github.com/mitsuhiko/badideas
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by freyrs3 14y ago
Yes, but if you're doing HPC idiomatic Python comes second to raw performance.
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by freyrs3 14y ago
All of these "coders must learn design" articles ignore the fact that most programmers are not web developers and that sizable chinks of the industry simply never touch frontend code at all. For a lot of developers there is little career in
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by freyrs3 14y ago
Depends on what you're doing. Shoving a numpy array with 10^7 elements over the wire isn't going to scale nicely at all. There are still a lot of computing scenarios having shared memory is the best approach.
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by freyrs3 14y ago
The author seems mistaken about the purposes of Monads in Haskell. The essence of monads is control flow, not encapsulating code or providing interfaces.
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by freyrs3 14y ago
Python and Ruby are very different from Lisp. Other than the fact that they share certain ideas that originated in the Lisp community ( GC for example ) the languages couldn't be farther apart. Programming in say, Ruby, is a vastly differ
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by freyrs3 14y ago
The same way there can there be a "last Tuesday".
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by freyrs3 15y ago
Is this satire?
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by freyrs3 15y ago
The same reason a lot of file/language standards become popular. They suck less than everything else when they were created and then large amounts of material became tied up in their continued existence ( i.e. academic papers ).
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by freyrs3 15y ago
To be more fair Webkit started as a fork of some of KDE's libraries.
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by freyrs3 15y ago
X220 is a great line, I think you'd be hard pressed to find a Linux notebook with better hardware support. It can also get extremely competitive battery life with a little bit of kernel tweaking.
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by freyrs3 15y ago
From past experience at lectures, he tends to avoid questions about NKS. His magnum opus turned laughing stock is kind of a touchy subject.
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by freyrs3 15y ago
Industries converge around good ideas. This isn't "stealing", its progress.
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by freyrs3 15y ago
> Even the number 3 is really just a function Haskell doesn't define integers as functions, they are machine integers just like most other languages. You may be thinking of the Peano numbers, which do have a particularly nice representa
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by freyrs3 15y ago
One might as well say "Learn from Lisp" or "Learn from ML" as there really isn't anything Haskell specific about these kind of higher order functions. If we want to learn from Haskell, the big ideas are functional purity and its type system
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by freyrs3 15y ago
His advice was to follow your instinct rather than the herd. I don't see how that's related to learn startup methodology.
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by freyrs3 15y ago
Since Linux has no such construct by default. Does that make it the most user-friendly?
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by freyrs3 15y ago
Design is a buzzword these days. And as a result I have no idea what this guy is railing against.
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by freyrs3 15y ago
While I can see the advantages of document databases in some use cases and I can't help but feel that a lot of adoption of MongoDB and its ilk are more related to the rough edges of interfaces/ORMS to relational databases and not fundamenta
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by freyrs3 15y ago
Yeah it appears that the use of higher-order functions seems to be equated with functional programming these days.
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by freyrs3 15y ago
Yeah you can do the full lambda calculus in Python: https://raw.github.com/sdiehl/church-numbers/master/church.p...
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by freyrs3 15y ago
Having programmed a lot in Common Lisp in the past these comparisons between Ruby and Lisp kind of puzzle me. The things that make Lisp Lispy (i.e. homoiconicity, hygienic macros, quoting ) aren't part of Ruby. From my standpoint Ruby looks
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by freyrs3 15y ago
Same in Chromium. Reversing the scroll direction is a pretty serious UI flaw.
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by freyrs3 15y ago
System packages install globally, pip can install globally or inside a virtualenv.
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by freyrs3 15y ago
The actual translation of the formula to Python is about 4 lines. Starting on L30 - L34 of [1]. The rest is just IO plumbing. [1] https://gist.github.com/731413/7ad1b4c04bc2d6b5033c5811efcb4... .
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by freyrs3 15y ago
The first paper describes a multitouch capacitive touch tablet in 1985. It is absolutely identical to the core technology of an iPad. Apple may have improved things but the core ideas are layed out right here two decades before the iPad. &#
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by freyrs3 15y ago
Here are two papers which thoroughly describe capacitive multitouch interfaces years before Apple released products based on the technology: A Multi-touch Three Dimensional Touch-Sensitive Tablet: http://www.billbuxton.com/leebuxtonsmith.p
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by freyrs3 15y ago
> Renaissance Technologies is a hedge fund management company Even more depressing.
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by freyrs3 15y ago
Edison you could make case for. Turing, not by a long shot. In 200 years we'll still be talking about Turing machines and decidability. I don't think you can say the same for any of Edisons or Job's ventures.

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