herdrick

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541.
by herdrick 17y ago
Wow, Incanter looks great. I've got to look into this more. How do you know I don't do my research by making provocative statements on public fora?
542.
by herdrick 17y ago
I mean, "something as good".
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by herdrick 17y ago
‘Cause if it’s ever been done, anywhere, by anyone, someone’s done it in Java. Twice. If only. If I could get something like Python's Numpy on the JVM, I'd be using Clojure on my current project(s).
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Design and the Google brain(blog.fawny.org)
23 points by herdrick 17y ago|7 comments
545.
by herdrick 17y ago
Python's lists are just as good for recursion as Scheme's cons cells - the data structure doesn't really matter. That was my nitpicky point. I agree that Python's emphasis on beginner-friendliness was the smart choice and led, ironically,
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by herdrick 18y ago
Good points. But favoring Python lists over recursion is like favoring chocolate over logging. However, I'm probably just playing gotcha here. My apologies to HN and Guido. My more important point is that recursion is good for real world
547.
by herdrick 18y ago
What I think stood out most as mistaken about Guido's post was his conflating recursion and recursive data structures in his third point. "For practical purposes, Python-style lists (which are flexible arrays, not linked lists), and sequenc
548.
by herdrick 18y ago
Why did this have to show up right when I'm getting excited about trying Python?
549.
by herdrick 18y ago
It's always pretty cool to see people overcome brutal rejection. Except... this structured flowchart thing really did deserve that brutal rejection letter and if the chart gained respect and prominence then the wrong side won! I'll conced
550.
by herdrick 18y ago
OK, but I was talking about maintenance/repair costs. You know, "A boat is a hole in the water you pour money into".
551.
by herdrick 18y ago
Are you kidding? What kind of futuristic non-money-sucking boat do you have?
552.
by herdrick 18y ago
Are there any good tips for thinking better here? I'd like to request a summary of anyone who read it.
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Refactoring Methods with Recursive Combinators(github.com)
5 points by herdrick 18y ago|1 comments
554.
by herdrick 18y ago
Ah, so naked recursion is recursion. EDIT: I was going to criticize your idea that there is anything lacking in "naked recursion". It's a really powerful technique and in fact I just wrote a recursive function for production code an hour
555.
by herdrick 18y ago
What is naked recursion?
556.
by herdrick 18y ago
Graphs. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=549194
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by herdrick 18y ago
Graphs are the new hashtable - this is a great feature. Much of the interesting things being done now are done with giant graph structures. BTW, it's so lame that PLT Scheme is going in the opposite direction. They had the same excellent
558.
by herdrick 18y ago
"Your problem is finding ways to help your best people stay happy and achieve levels you haven't invented yet. That problem is the one that defeated me, but I'd rather have that one than any other." Wow - I couldn't disagree more. That's t
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by herdrick 18y ago
Can any designers here comment on this?
560.
by herdrick 18y ago
Who is 'we'?
561.
by herdrick 18y ago
No, they aren't very good. I think the problem is cultural. Programming Java gets you comfortable with extreme verbosity and tons of structure so its libraries end up like this: http://ws.apache.org/xmlrpc/apidocs/org/apache/xmlrpc/serve
562.
by herdrick 18y ago
Minerals wouldn't be hard. The existing artifacts lying around are better than the richest old ore deposits. The most urgent work would be to make books or scrolls to write down the knowledge of the survivors before they get senile.
563.
by herdrick 18y ago
That it was a crappy gift is at least as irritating.
564.
by herdrick 18y ago
It'd been a lot better if the joke didn't involve the entire front page.
565.
by herdrick 18y ago
Finally, finally, the HN community has done a group joke. I'm glad.
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by herdrick 18y ago
And Spanish unlike Italian has the exact word PG was looking for to say 'a success', and it's is perfect for startup founders: 'exito'. Of course it's derived from the same Latin word as English's 'exit'.
567.
by herdrick 18y ago
How limited was the input? Did someone type in whatever queries you guys asked?
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Be Relentlessly Resourceful(paulgraham.com)
241 points by herdrick 18y ago|161 comments
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by herdrick 18y ago
Anything you can do to improve the productivity of one of the best people will overwhelm by an order of magnitude even the most heroic improvement of the doofus. If you are in charge and are allowed to make such decisions, axe him. Gettin
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by herdrick 18y ago
If even then. You can get a good enough version of real time with Python and other GC languages.

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