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by gclaramunt 11y ago
it might be pop sci, but the explanation I heard long time ago is: creativity is boosted by beta brain waves, (associated with daydreaming) Physical activities that don't fully engage your brain (walking, exercising, taking a shower,
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by gclaramunt 11y ago
I guess my point is if you learned to program 30 years ago using functional programming with dependent types and category theory, it must have been an awesome place to work/study, and I envy you. Which university it was?
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by gclaramunt 11y ago
for me a new-ish thing dependent types (I have a small experience with Coq) But yeah, since Turing and Church the fundamentals of computation hasn't changed. Nil novum sub sole
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by gclaramunt 11y ago
While Haskell itself doesn't bring too much new things, is has been a good vehicle to explore new concepts. Mind you, all ideas need to mature before having widespread use, so is not hard to think on most of the ideas "being aroun
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by gclaramunt 11y ago
> Do you think classical liberals don't read "Syntactic Structures"? Never doubted that
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by gclaramunt 11y ago
Meh, I'm pretty sure we won't hear from the same guys if the speaker were somebody else, but I can't prove it so I leave it here :)
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by gclaramunt 11y ago
In the same vein I would love to see the people defending the talk arguing in favor of a Noam Chomsky presentation
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by gclaramunt 11y ago
Dunno, I know plenty of major corporate users that are adopting Scala, I bet I can name two adopters for each one you know that backed away from it... And not "we use it in this dark corner where nobody cares", more like "is
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by gclaramunt 11y ago
> You don't have to keep up with everything, perhaps just general trends. Just watch out for that gentle slide into irrelevancy. ;) I would argue that wasting time learning the JS "framework of the day" is not the best app
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by gclaramunt 11y ago
To be fair, it comes from the same people who call node.js "close to the metal"
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by gclaramunt 11y ago
> The trick is to destroy the taxi industry before that happens. Because if self-driving taxis appeared on the market tomorrow, the existing taxi companies could make a comeback. That's evil enough to make sense and be close to the
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by gclaramunt 11y ago
Pretty sure the ppl of Nasa/JPL who actually put a man on the moon, worked reasonable hours and almost never missed dinner with family. So, I don't think they're mutually exclusive EDIT: So, everybody was screwed then? I must
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by gclaramunt 11y ago
Unless the employee has the same reward ($$$) you can't expect the same level of commitment. Witnessing the beginning of a life altering project is not even comparable to help somebody else build a car. What would you think of a founde
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by gclaramunt 11y ago
I don't recall HN being about starting a technology business...
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by gclaramunt 12y ago
Our brains don't "explode" at movie cuts because there's years of evolution about the techniques that makes a cut appear fluid, essentially keeping a continuity of the movement and position of the main subject of the act
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by gclaramunt 12y ago
I would be careful also with those who perceive themselves to be lower down in a social hierarchy as they lack the force to confront you. (I mean: maybe you cause the same effect always, but only get push back from ppl. higher up)
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by gclaramunt 12y ago
I've worked remotely in an apartment with my two kids (5yo and 3yo), and is not easy: sometimes I ended up working during late hours because then I had quiet time. On the other hand, I find it priceless I can take a quick break and pla
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by gclaramunt 12y ago
because of risk, is in everybody interest of playing as safe as possible with the government assets (unless you channel them to your Swiss account using your cousin's fake company as a front
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by gclaramunt 12y ago
The NY article is misleading: http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-04-09/new-york-di...
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by gclaramunt 12y ago
Although terrible for the affected, in the US the unemployment right now is 5%, hardly a catastrophe. 10% average in Europe is not horrible. If you take Spain (24%) or Greece (26%) yes, is bad, but is not sustainable and most probably thing
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by gclaramunt 12y ago
it will be very difficult to maintain the economically active population over total population ratio constant, you need a corresponding increase of productivity to offset the increased burden over the few working...
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by gclaramunt 12y ago
I agree that raw population grow is not a sustainable solution, but at least you need to grow at the replace rate or you're in trouble. Care for the elderly is still an intensive task. Maybe yes, in 30 years it will be done by (Japanes
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by gclaramunt 12y ago
Well, some countries have a pretty open immigration policy because of low population grow.
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by gclaramunt 12y ago
Yeah, I was there... I really liked it.
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by gclaramunt 12y ago
An aging population is never good for any government. Unless you are a really overpopulated country, having a positive birthrate is a good thing (translates to economic growth). The case for encouraging the population to have children is pr
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by gclaramunt 12y ago
Is remote outside US possible?
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by gclaramunt 12y ago
Excel makes a great UI for sophisticated users, I don't see how it counts as a negative
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by gclaramunt 12y ago
Reflex looks awesome, and it's real FRP
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by gclaramunt 12y ago
Well, Twitter didn't backed away from Scala, but it doesn't qualify as purely functional. Turing completeness ensures there's no "true way", but some languages offer better abstractions than others. In my experience
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by gclaramunt 12y ago
You see C++ used in graphics/game because it strength is low level memory/cpu control needed for cutting edge work. PHP is optimized for "time-to-market" not cutting edge, so chances are the "real problems" you

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