hchasestevens

6 ms·

31.
by hchasestevens 9y ago
Absolutely agree - the difference between the error messages in Haskell and its derivative Elm is night and day (see http://elm-lang.org/blog/compiler-errors-for-humans , http://elm-lang.org/blog/c
32.
by hchasestevens 9y ago
Could you expand a bit on the niche you see them filling? I think some of the negative perception of chatbots recently owes a lot to exactly what the OP said - gross overapplication in areas with very marginal benefit, if any, to user exper
33.
by hchasestevens 9y ago
Having worked previously at a company that sounds very similar (maybe even the same one?), our approach was primarily using individually written scrapers and API integrations (when available) in Python, utilizing an underlying scraping fram
34.
by hchasestevens 9y ago
http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/hchasestevens/posts/blob/...
35.
by hchasestevens 9y ago
Imagine this paired with a system like the one Bret Victor demos in "Inventing on Principle" [0] or in "Stop Drawing Dead Fish" [1], in which the user hand-animates what they want the game movement/overall gameplay
36.
by hchasestevens 9y ago
This is, in fact, the exact reason for the _source attribute which is being discussed in this article - you can use namedtuple to easily create a structure, get its source, and then edit it to suit your individual project needs. E.g.: &
37.
by hchasestevens 9y ago
There are actually lots of very exciting GP applications! One of my favorites is "Fixing 55 out of 105 bugs for $8 each", in which GP is used to automatically repair code: https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~weimer/p
38.
by hchasestevens 9y ago
Skyscanner
39.
Show HN: Writing XPath expressions using native Python syntax(github.com)
1 points by hchasestevens 9y ago|0 comments
40.
Show HN: Linting by example(github.com)
1 points by hchasestevens 9y ago|0 comments
41.
Solving logic puzzles with monkeys(github.com)
1 points by hchasestevens 9y ago|0 comments
42.
by hchasestevens 9y ago
In terms of morphological complexity, at least, it falls closer to creoles than any other major European language: http://www.lingref.com/cpp/wccfl/26/paper1657.pdf (see page 74).
43.
by hchasestevens 9y ago
Is there any chance that you'd ever open-source the original Aurora demo? Seems like it would be a great foundation for further exploration in this space.
44.
by hchasestevens 10y ago
Do consider that, in many places in the U.S., anti-drug programs deliver the same ruinous message about all drugs, regardless of their actual dangerousness or potential to harm. When the children exposed to this rhetoric discover that drugs
45.
by hchasestevens 10y ago
Definitely. Jupyter makes it very easy to display SVG, which graphviz (naturally) targets out of the box - as an example, I've used this before in a project to display Python ASTs ( https://github.com/hchasestevens&#x2F
46.
Metaprogramming Beyond Decency (2015)(hackflow.com)
2 points by hchasestevens 10y ago|0 comments
47.
Show HN: A search utility for Python ASTs(github.com)
2 points by hchasestevens 10y ago|0 comments
48.
showast: An IPython notebook plugin for visualizing ASTs(github.com)
1 points by hchasestevens 10y ago|0 comments
49.
by hchasestevens 10y ago
A small counterpoint to this -- in the airline industry, it's relatively commonplace for seat reservations to be made for a user _before_ payment has occurred. In this case, if you're mirroring normal browser activity, you can (te