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   by gnuvince 15y ago

   So many interesting languages, so little time :(
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   by gnuvince 15y ago

   Dragon book is something a compiler writer should read, but after he's gone through a compiler construction book first (I like Wirth's book; short and to the point). Definitely not an intro to compilation, it would scare me away.
3. 573.▲
   by gnuvince 15y ago

   Yaron Minsky said in one of his talks that hiring OCaml programmers was the easiest thing in the world: he posted an ad on the mailing list, got 20 applications, 15 of which were worthy of a phone interview. Of those 15, 5 were asked to co
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   by gnuvince 15y ago

   Though I find these contests very interesting, I can only wish that as much resources was spent to develop a viable alternative to C++ that would make many of those vulnerabilities impossible. Languages like Rust, ATS and BitC come to mind
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   by gnuvince 15y ago

   I'd add that Unicode support is also a problem. latin-1 isn't even good for French. My brother's name is Jérôme and the first thing I try with any language to check strings is this: # print_endline (String.uppercase "Jérôme");;
6. 576.▲
   by gnuvince 15y ago

   https://gitorious.org/evil/pages/Home
7. 577.▲
   by gnuvince 15y ago

   I've started using magit and I really like it; I like that I can just say "revert" on a file and magit knows what the right command is. Makes me think a whole lot less about Git and a whole lot more about my project.
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   by gnuvince 15y ago

   I guess the Rust compiler is the most non-trivial Rust program at the moment. You can start there. I've been reading the lexer and parser code (cause I've got to write those for a class) and it's very easy to follow.
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   by gnuvince 15y ago

   Rust is also natively unicode-aware. OCaml is not.
10. 580.▲
    by gnuvince 15y ago

    This hasn't been updated in nearly 2 years.
11. 581.▲
    by gnuvince 15y ago

    That's my favorite feature of Thinkpads: that means I cannot damage my pinkie any further :)
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    by gnuvince 15y ago

    Your code fails for French text.
13. 583.▲
    by gnuvince 15y ago

    True. I've just gotten into the habit of doing it manually in case I use a command that doesn't do it.
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    by gnuvince 15y ago

    `C-u SPC` which pops the mark. This allows you to go back to different places in your buffer quickly. For example, if you are editing a program and need to add an import statement, you could do it like this: `C-SPC M-< [add your impor
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    by gnuvince 15y ago

    The code is already tail recursive, which is why it's doubly puzzling. Also, like you said, using an Integer instead fixes the problem. But I find that fixing these issues distracts me away from the main problem and that doesn't happen in
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    by gnuvince 15y ago

    OK, so we were learning about greedy algorithms at school and I implemented a very naive implementation of a change making algorithm for Canadian coins. Here's the Haskell code: makeChange :: Int -> [Int] makeChange amount =
17. 587.▲
    by gnuvince 15y ago

    I'm at school all day, but I'll post something tonight.
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    by gnuvince 15y ago

    I found that one of the largest difference between Haskell and OCaml is the amount of time I spent figuring out how to make code go fast. Because OCaml is eagerly evaluated and that its compiler is extremely simple, I find that the "tools"
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    by gnuvince 15y ago

    I was doing a homework for an algorithms class today. I wrote a quick implementation in Python with some quickcheck tests to make sure it worked correctly. Running 10,000 tests with CPython 2.7 took 136s on my laptop. For fun, I tried wi
20. 590.▲
    by gnuvince 15y ago

    The empty () are required in Scala. Don't know about C#.
21. 591.▲
    by gnuvince 15y ago

    Anxious to see how it compares to Opa (www.opalang.org)
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    by gnuvince 15y ago

    As I understand it -- and I might be wrong here -- the inbound traffic is not the real problem; it's the distribution to all the followers. If you have 7000 tweets coming in and you need to send it to the 120 followers of all these posters
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    by gnuvince 15y ago

    I cannot recall him ever saying the word "OCaml".
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    by gnuvince 15y ago

    That's programming. I'm hoping these CS videos are more about data structures, algorithms, theory of computation, introduction to machine learning, language compilation, etc.
25. 595.▲
    by gnuvince 15y ago

    > Don’t try to read a lot of different books at once This really resonates with me as I have often 2-3 books on a particular subject that I will quickly skim through to find the one that I want to spend more time studying.
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    What is the best way to absorb the material from a book?

    3 points by gnuvince 15y ago|12 comments
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    by gnuvince 15y ago

    Cooler SNES emulators.
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    by gnuvince 15y ago

    Terminus is awesome, it's a shame so many "top programming fonts" forget it.
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    by gnuvince 16y ago

    Maybe Clay ( http://tachyon.in/clay/ ) would interest you then? It does not explicitly says that it can be used for kernel development, but from the feature set it seems like it could.
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    by gnuvince 16y ago

    > Also, searching the history in the address bar works a lot better in Firefox -- probably has something to do with the way Chrome encourages you to use Google. And speaking of History -- Chrome still doesn't let you search and delete i