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by gatlin 14y ago
I'm compelled to check this out.
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by gatlin 14y ago
Links on the website need to be updated.
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by gatlin 14y ago
To me programming is both engineering and something akin to literary composition. You want your design to be engineered well - perhaps "over" engineered for redundancy and reliability - but you end up actually building it with a formal la
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by gatlin 14y ago
When I squint at Go's syntax, underneath the C-like facade I see: * higher order, first class functions * lists (squint at the slice a bit; also chans) * maps * flexible structs (curiously, you attach "methods" to them much as you attach fu
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by gatlin 14y ago
A favorite koan of mine: objects are a poor man's closures, but closures are a poor man's objects.
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by gatlin 14y ago
This is such a tired comment. Just once I'd love to see someone provide an explanation or proof of this assertion.
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by gatlin 14y ago
I actually like the explicit "I'm reading from a special list" syntax because that's what it's doing. A lot of Perl's "ugliness" comes from the language being pretty honest about what it's doing.
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by gatlin 14y ago
I'll be honest - XMPP fits this description pretty well, at least as far as I read it right now. Most clients don't seem to understand this but that seems tractable.
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by gatlin 14y ago
This is so tired. Plenty of others responded with arguments and data and yet somehow I doubt you'll change your ignorant mind. Upset that I made an unfounded conjecture about you based on insufficient data? Exactly.
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by gatlin 14y ago
Objective-C, despite not being popular outside Apple, isn't proprietary at all. Many of Apple's frameworks are but the language itself is open. GNUStep is a resource for that.
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by gatlin 14y ago
I concede. Thanks for the interesting tangent of reading that brought on, too!
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by gatlin 14y ago
Computer Science has always seemed to me to be the study of algorithms and information, correctness, methodologies, and their applications. Math is used in order to advance this knowledge. It is readily apparent to me that everything in CS
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by gatlin 14y ago
And if those functional languages are Turing complete, then they are equivalent to all other Turing complete languages, and thus the C-H isomorphism would hold for all Turing complete languages.
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by gatlin 14y ago
People come to me a lot with ambitious ideas and ask me if I can help out. Very often I'll find that "help out" means "build the entire product" because while they have ideas, they can't build them. If I press about payment, they'll offer m
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by gatlin 14y ago
I think a lot of people don't realize that Canonical is working on another important part of free software: appealing to the majority of users. With limited resources and time it's good to have different players focusing on different things
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by gatlin 15y ago
Just yesterday I was discussing with a friend what would be involved in making a bike exactly like this, except the fans would be powered by induction motors. Our idea involved a three-phase power supply but we lack any real world experie
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by gatlin 15y ago
IANAL and I have not read the complete unabridged text of the bill but so far as I can tell the only piece that is likely unconstitutional is the individual mandate, correct? The commerce clause can be very powerful provided commerce is alr
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by gatlin 15y ago
If this statement is a fact it will have evidence, and if it is an opinion it will have a justification. A productive discussion will necessarily have one or the other.
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by gatlin 15y ago
This makes no sense at all. Ideas should be copied, redistributed, and refined by multiple parties. The execution best matched with its audience and context will do well. This post suggests that it is somehow not right for a person to draw
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by gatlin 15y ago
Much better than my terrible attempt at something similar: http://flyerme.info .
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by gatlin 15y ago
https://metacpan.org/module/Function::Parameters There are other modules out there like this, including one that bakes it into Moose methods. This also highlights a cool Perl feature: hack able syntax.
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by gatlin 15y ago
I'm interested in this material. After talking with a UT professor I get the impression that a big challenge for students is forming a good model in their heads of just what computation is. I plan on teaching a local Skillshare class in thi
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Ask HN: Let's spend SXSW Interactive developing for Music
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by gatlin 15y ago
I have this little service that I haven't figured out how to monetize, FlyerMe.info. Without sounding like an ad, it lets you print the heading of your flyer and a QR code and scanning the code takes you to a mobile-friendly version of the
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by gatlin 15y ago
Agreed. It's true that math and programming intersect insofar as one is trying to prove the consistency of imperative commands (either by proving isomorphism with the lambda calculus or Hoare triples or something) but even writing something
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by gatlin 15y ago
Regarding the MySQL-related picture, "You are the MY in MySQL," > It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My. -- Wikipedia I hope she's flattered
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by gatlin 15y ago
Thank you for the links and reading.
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by gatlin 15y ago
Oh, yeah, I understand that. If it's something you consider yourself to be educated in already then you should be able to skip around some of these issues and make a note to send the publisher. I go off half-cocked in these education discus
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by gatlin 15y ago
Open-ended questions and problems are awesome. However, typically book work is intended to be rote practice of an algorithm. Already it is not a simulation of the real world - typically the real world open ended problems are cross-disciplin
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by gatlin 15y ago
Everything I know about Haskell leads me to believe its purpose is to be a research bed for functional programming concepts. Correctness is first; speed is a nice thing that happened later. And readability is even less important. This is li

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