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by innguest 12y ago
Remind me again why it's so hard to come up with a better alternative to the current HTML+CSS+JS mess? Is the only problem the fact that we need a language that can be easily sandboxed? Isn't Lua like that? Supposing we solve the
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by innguest 12y ago
That's why I've been waiting forever for a certain one-handed chorded keyboard called Twiddler. :) (I'm not affiliated with them).
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by innguest 12y ago
I think to start at the fundamentals end needs a lot of patience but it probably suits those intolerant of magic. Very well said; I'm one of those people and that's what drove me from Ruby to Haskell - Ruby and its framewo
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by innguest 12y ago
As humans we built the Antikythera some 2500 years ago, and I'm supposed to believe dividing something in 100 parts in 1725 was hard?
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by innguest 12y ago
> 2. We don't know any way to define 'best outcome' besides ask everyone what they think I disagree. Here's a better way: empiricism (through federalism). Let different US states have different laws (that the Federal
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by innguest 12y ago
Then you're lucky that your interest is represented amongst the few candidates from which we can pick from. Don't forget all the people that voted for the opposition that lost. What do you tell them? "Too bad you didn't
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by innguest 12y ago
> If you don't like the options, it's worth asking what you, as a citizen, have done to improve them. I can revert that and ask you, what have you done, as a citizen, that you've made the choices so awful for everyone els
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by innguest 12y ago
> All of them affect me And none of them really care about you, which can be evidenced by the amount of corruption that goes on everywhere. Also, "voting" is inherently dumb because it's just "majority wins". Sho
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by innguest 12y ago
I'm not the OP but what do those issues have to do with voting as voting currently works? And why do you think it's warranted to be deciding how other people live their lives? What is "to get married" and why is it that
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by innguest 12y ago
It's symbolic because you can only choose who to vote on out of the options presented to you. It's pointless because (at least in the US) the government has too much power and it sells that power to lobbyists.
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by innguest 12y ago
Wow, thanks for the interest :) I will definitely publish it this weekend on Youtube (I'm not home right now so I don't have access to the files). If you'd like to be notified about it, ping me on my email; I would love to ha
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by innguest 12y ago
Unfortunately there isn't a single publication that does justice to what I've pieced together. By that I mean, because I had such a poor understanding of math, every little bit of knowledge and intuition that most people learn imp
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by innguest 12y ago
Haskell just clicked for me not long ago after 4 years of revisiting it periodically, writing one-liners and small programs, and reading tons of material on it. All the tutorials in the world weren't helping it click for me. But then s
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by innguest 12y ago
I just read some of the tutorial and I must say this is some incredible work. Very powerful tool, and what a great choice of license (BSD). This benefits everyone; I'm very curious to read the source.
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by innguest 12y ago
Prelude's support libraries plus at least the curl package: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/curl
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by innguest 12y ago
Another vote for Haskell.
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by innguest 12y ago
For adding infix to s-exps, "sweet expressions" are a much cleaner approach: http://www.dwheeler.com/readable/
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by innguest 12y ago
I wonder why so much discussion about arbitrary rules of assignment when the solution to the problem can be written (and is more readable) without ever mentioning this complicated "assignment" feature.
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by innguest 12y ago
I think your parent is alluding to the fact things could be automated in biological research but aren't because of the disincentives; and that at the same time things in tech are more amenable to automation and often parts of it are in
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by innguest 12y ago
Agreed. Why do you think that doesn't happen?
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by innguest 12y ago
Yes, I meant OCaml looks better, in light of all the javascript traps.
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by innguest 12y ago
After reading up on this addictive topic, it makes a lot of sense that you have a very high IQ. I bet you also have rs4680(G;G): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catechol-O-methyl_transferase
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by innguest 12y ago
> Not sure why you are correlating the terms "stupid" and "dumber" with exercise. I think it means that it's not an exercise for the mind; not mentally stimulating.
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by innguest 12y ago
Your post has been an eye-opener for me. I never thought someone could be missing the sense of achievement. That describes me very well. I'm at the 99.9+ percentile (I haven't found a psychometrician to take tests with higher ceil
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by innguest 12y ago
It would not be begging the question, it would raise the question "does it make sense to quote the author of a book on logic to support an argument about logical fallacies" and the answer for that seems to be 'yes' (as
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by innguest 12y ago
Introduction to Logic by Irving Copi used to be like that (back when I read it many years ago). I taught myself using that book as my main read.
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by innguest 12y ago
Yes, and how has copyright law been faring on the face of torrents? What I'm saying is that it's silly to try and regulate things that are mathematically designed to withstand any regulation. I do not believe unenforceable laws ar
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This is absolutely ridiculous. That some part of "The Government" thinks they can regulate something that is not theirs is laughable. They've done (and continue to do) enough harm regulating their fiat currency. Who gives t
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by innguest 12y ago
> As I get better at any given language or system, I inevitably move away from frameworks into individual libraries more and more. Many programmers suffer from blank canvas fright, which is why they find comfort in frameworks. Frameworks
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We've seen what W3C has put out so far (XML, XSLT, XHTML...) and they do seem out of touch with the needs of developers. All I'm hearing from you is "the gods will help us" when it would be better if W3C were smart enoug

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