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by hawkice 12y ago
I think if you sit down with the code clojure uses to implement transducers and compare it directly against the haskell code and _don't_ come to the conclusion that the clojure code is simpler, there might be some motivated cognition a
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by hawkice 12y ago
I enjoyed the discussion of the types. I dig haskell (and clojure), and I think this is perhaps the perfect lens with which to view how to make choices between them. You can have an insanely complex typesafe haskell transducer, a still very
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by hawkice 12y ago
That strikes at the heart of it, perhaps. The techniques were adopted to reduce variance, but we honestly do not know how they effect the work. Maybe we have fewer failures and fewer out-of-the-park accomplishments, but I would be surprised
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by hawkice 12y ago
Say what you will about the other elements, but surely we are not saying there is a technological reason for the TSA grabbing your ass?
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by hawkice 12y ago
Actually, there's reason to believe the shift started much earlier -- in The Organization Man, William Whyte describes how in the '50s we shifted away from fundamental research and into applied research, away from individual grant
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by hawkice 12y ago
And here we are talking about it, so mission accomplished, I guess.
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by hawkice 12y ago
I did not know this! :) Thanks for sharing. Another thing I heard, but have not been able to prove (and is not in the Wiki article), is that if you record whether you take the Left or Right segments in the algorithm, you can construct a con
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by hawkice 12y ago
Fun fact: to find the fraction closest to a number with a denominator that doesn't exceed a certain amount can be generated using the following algorithm: (1) Find the N/1 rationals corresponding to the closest integers on either
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by hawkice 12y ago
He's trying to make sure it is known he is professional, which is worthwhile particularly when there isn't any bad blood. He noted elsewhere he is under NDA, and would be strongly implicated due to his leaving before he was done v
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by hawkice 12y ago
Equivalent in the sense he's talking about means "I can take any declaration a = b and replace a with b in the scope of that definition". This is substantially weaker than "if the two programs produce the same output&quo
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by hawkice 12y ago
I would be extremely skeptical if someone asked me to do 3 weeks of work in one week with no guidance during my vacation. Add to that, I cannot imagine they'd pay my weekly rate, because that would of course raise the question of why I
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by hawkice 12y ago
This. It does not deliver on the promise in the headline, and the headline exists only to make you simultaneously infuriated, confused or curious. If someone posted a comment with those properties they would be banned from HN.
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by hawkice 12y ago
I think the math here is: 4000 square feet for 10 people -> 400 square feet per person. $20/sq ft. -> $8000 -> $20k hires 2.5 people worth of office space. He describes it as a lavish expense, and obviously 400 square feet per
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by hawkice 12y ago
Every time I see stories like this on HN I am very tempted to scream about how my burn rate is $700/mo living a very good life without too many distractions from my work. I cannot imagine why people would lace up with lead boots on the
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by hawkice 12y ago
I had similar expectations, and I am glad the flags / downvotes still had weight. I was able to chime in on a code quality discussion, but this has been, for the most part, a very bizarre discussion that I (and most of HN, I assume) is
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by hawkice 12y ago
Seconded. I have been at startups where it's a total mess that will never be cleaned, and I've been at startups where the code is always tip-top because everyone knows you get big B2B points for implementing their dream feature ri
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by hawkice 12y ago
Having a beautiful house right next to the highway is a lot noisier than my personal dream residence -- and less quaint when your entire neighborhood abandons you. Money isn't everything, but I can't help but feel she got the fuzz
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by hawkice 12y ago
Definitely seems to be -- they claim it's been used by a lot of different people (including, notably, the now-famous indie game Papers, Please) and is somewhere deep into version 3.something -- it's been around for quite some time
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by hawkice 12y ago
Haxe seems to be portable in a similar way, and probably more popular than Shen at the moment.
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by hawkice 12y ago
I think there are quite a few people, very much in love with the game, who are perhaps more surprised than they need to be about "World class management consultant manages X, things improve". No matter what you may think about tho
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by hawkice 12y ago
If the purpose is to alert people to perhaps subtle bugs in their code, then clearly it's relevant to the engineers here. But if your point is that we should publicly highlight mistakes (or things we don't like) in packages becaus
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by hawkice 12y ago
I am concerned the primary purpose of this being on the frontpage is shaming someone. I'm a big fan of semver, but I also test whenever I do a rm Gemfile.lock; bundle install (I've only managed a fairly small nodejs app in product
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by hawkice 12y ago
I have always used the variant where, if I do not make up my mind before the coin lands, I do what the coin says.
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by hawkice 12y ago
From the page: "Who are these smart creatives? They’re the product-minded people who combine technical knowledge, business expertise, and creativity." That doesn't seem like revising history as much as trying to sell a book.
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by hawkice 12y ago
I am surprised they didn't address the perverse incentives this may create. Surely, if trying to help people out of poverty, you shouldn't make their help _contingent on them continuing to use thatched roofs_. Worth noting, becaus
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by hawkice 12y ago
Agreed. There is a sense in which almost all meaningful and social tasks are "sales". Scare quotes are used there, not because the same skill sets don't apply, but because you typically aren't actually transacting over t
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by hawkice 12y ago
Not to mention the numerous broken images I got.
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by hawkice 12y ago
This is by far the most interesting part. I was always taught that to get the interference you had to have identical particles -- and I was surprised when I heard this is how we know to treat e.g. two different photons the same, because two
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by hawkice 12y ago
I'm not sure why it makes you sad. On a germane-to-the-parent-comment sense, that's pretty much exactly what tptacek said. But on a wider scale, if you are trying to help someone, wouldn't you want to give them advice that tr
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by hawkice 12y ago
Based on the Glasgow Coma Scale, people with Locked-In Syndrome _are also in comas, technically_. Figuring it out seems remarkably hard, and is almost certainly wildly under-detected. I'd be interested to see if we are able to use tool

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