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by freyrs3 13y ago
> ... with the way it manages side effects is that it does so through lazy evaluation Modern Haskell manages effects through it's type system, not through lazy evaluation. > They require programmers to think and program solely wi
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Seems to be a big leap in this argument between the "Chromebook doesn't fulfill my needs" to "it only does what Google thinks people should do". Someone who is frustrated with the Kindle Fire or iPad could make the
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I understand the confusion about the language though I don't think the goal was ever to replace C++. Go still has a managed runtime, so I can't imagine it would ever appeal to people who want to go purely native.
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Interesting how much structure this exhibits.
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You're right, it wasn't a particularly compelling example of Haskell's strengths.
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Haskell's version is type safe. PHP, not so much.
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Functional or imperative language?
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> I often worry about whether my startup clock is running out. I'm closer to 30 than 20 To be fair the largest demographic of startup founders is in the 30-39 age bracket. While successful twenty-somethings with big exits is somethi
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I don't even know what you're trying to illustrate with those links. My point was not that bad science doesn't exist, it certainly does. But Feynman did not have this nihilistic view of knowledge, he believed very firmly in t
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> people who claim to follow science, are actually practicing some sort of modern-day witch doctor magic. Maybe this is just phrased poorly. In that essay Feynman is saying some people (namely advocates of pseudoscience) are invoking &
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Bell Labs was privately held, but hardly privately funded. In fact most of it's funding during the semiconductor boom came from federal agencies.
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> investing in a startup that has a value proposition based on real scientific research is the same as investing in the research in the first place Not necessarily, if invest in science you're investing in the lab producing publisha
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> Public funding for science is frozen or being cut, private R&D labs are shuttering their doors, and companies are increasingly concerned with quarterly results at the expense of long term research. It's ironic that Silicon Va
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Andrew Wiles, Alexander Grothendieck to name a few.
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I don't suspect he'll be that important on the length scale of human progress.
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I think most rational people would come to realize that even if the 1/10 of deaths are caused by computer errors then at least the problem can be fixed over time. With human error, there's not much you can do.
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The private sector has plenty of places to put PhD level people with technical skills, it's just in roles that in which their expertise tends to be directed toward more risk-averse ventures and their skills tend to be underutilized. Th
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Ok, here's a book on doing Natural Language Processing with Haskell: http://nlpwp.org/book/index.xhtml
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by freyrs3 13y ago
Check out jekor's channel here he does walkthroughs of building full Haskell applications and deconstructing existing ones: https://www.youtube.com/user/jekor/videos
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> Someone needs to make a 'Haskell: the good parts' or at least a lint. Someone needs to write a book about the good parts because you haven't learned the language? It's documented right in the Prelude[1] what this de
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If you think you've learned everything about a field, you've just scratched the surface.
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Both Chrome and Firefox run in a single window which you can focus full screen if you want, what's the problem? If there is a complaint about tiling window managers it's that applications like Inkscape or Gimp which have tons of f
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There's a cognitive cost to learning to draw or play an instrument as well, if you want to be good at something it takes a time investment.
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Linux has been hacked on by some of the most brilliant men and women of our generation and powers an enormous amount of the world's network infrastructure. Calling this an "amateur" project just demonstrates a staggering leve
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Comparing it to OS X is a little unfair because it's literally impossible to buy a Mac that doesn't have OS X pre installed, but compared to the average Windows bootstrapping on a clean system Ubuntu is far more user friendly and
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If you don't like Computer Modern it's only a \fontstyle{times} change away. It's humerus that you claim Latex doesn't look good as it's beautiful output is the reason many people put up with it's warts.
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Any time you slap a open source license on some code and make it public you're doing open source. So yes.
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> You can't build a new rocketship if you are on welfare (Elon Musk). Sure you can, just not it in a single step. Even Elon Musk had to use PayPal as a stepping stone to bankroll his real ambitions.
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This is exactly the point, you may think your system is rigorous and disciplined but how do you convey that to other people with them having the same degree of certainty that you feel your system has. The answer to that is the proofs and fo
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> Is it in the top 1% of down-to-earthness books on, say, Java? If not, what does this tell us about PL theory? Yes I have read TAPL, it's sitting on my desk right now. I'm not even sure what you're trying so say, the fact

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