jackmott

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by jackmott 10y ago
You should give one of the OCaml languages a try. OCaml or F#. They have some very pleasant properties. Generally this whole idea would make sense when you are writing a web application and you are using OCaml or F# on the server and want t
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by jackmott 10y ago
The easiest solution politically is help advance the state of the art in solar, wind, and nuclear power, so that these naturally become adopted by the horrible sorts of people that run big corporations and do whatever makes them money no ma
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by jackmott 10y ago
save the world for my kid.
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by jackmott 10y ago
But shifted right. This is good. Praise science.
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by jackmott 10y ago
But it stopped recently, I believe
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by jackmott 10y ago
Well, you can't claim to KNOW. But you can claim to be very suspicious.
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by jackmott 10y ago
I don't have an aisle, so I can't mock the opposite side. But I can mock the republican aisle for having descending into complete buffoonery. If you have conservative leaning ideals I would suggest abandoning ship and starting som
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by jackmott 10y ago
You can lawyer it in your head how you want, but meanwhile someone can still get sued over this and have to fight it.
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by jackmott 10y ago
>posit that big companies are misleading the common rubes through purposely-slanted studies That is a laugh, you are going to just assert that scientists may not posit that things are happening that are actually happening? Why does hacke
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by jackmott 10y ago
Very scientific critique there, guy.
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by jackmott 10y ago
Yeah the idea that there could be a country innately incapable of innovation is absurd. Sometimes people ask me if I am worried about India taking my job (programmer) and I always say no....not yet .
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by jackmott 10y ago
bikes are balanced without a person on them
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by jackmott 10y ago
ok, go on.
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by jackmott 10y ago
Scott Aaronson had some pretty tough times for doing absolutely nothing.
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by jackmott 10y ago
Or thought all of our souls are dark and twisted, such is life. Or is it just me? sorry...
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by jackmott 10y ago
F# isn't much like C#, and in fact it does suffer a bit for it, as some of the back end causes compromises in the F# language. Mutable fields in records have secret baggage, functions with arithmetic operators can't be automatica
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by jackmott 10y ago
A new website for sports timing data for Alphamantis http://alphamantis.com/ Written in F# using the Suave.IO functional web libraries. It will be a site coaches/athletes can use to view/analyze data from their wo
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by jackmott 10y ago
Sometimes that is just inherent in the problem. If a a few thousand lines are actually needed to solve the problem, it will be somewhat hard to deal with whether they are all in one big function or broken up into many functions. One option
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by jackmott 10y ago
Another example to set aside for the next "So you think you are smarter than the compiler" person.
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by jackmott 10y ago
When I put my head into C++ head space, 800 lines seems like no big deal. Isn't it about that to open a window that you can draw on in windows from first principles too? Not that this is an acceptable situation, it just is.
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by jackmott 10y ago
If you like this sort of thing, and enjoy or are curious about F-Sharp, give Suave a look: https://suave.io/ There are two great tutorials for it: https://www.gitbook.com/book/theimowski/suave-musi
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by jackmott 10y ago
But if we are going to accept the computational inefficiency, what do we gain for it? If our only answer, collectively, as developers, is the richness of the ecosystem, then perhaps we should be moving our time and energies to make a rich e
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by jackmott 10y ago
Well for instance, Atom and VSCode have ~50ms (or ~49x) more input latency than editors written in C (source: https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/ ) But maybe we are willing to accept 50x worse performance and
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by jackmott 10y ago
I don't know what imaginary language you are imagining that only runs on 1 os and doesn't have libraries in it's ecosystem.
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by jackmott 10y ago
There has been enough raw data and code out there for an amateur to confirm that global warming is real for decades. I did it myself ~10 years ago. Here is a small subset of data and code that is public domain: http://www.realcl
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by jackmott 10y ago
> Paranoid talks about "well financed groups" have no place in science. It is not paranoid, it isn't even secret. Koch Brothers Exxon Heritage Foundation are just 3 examples. It is absolutely within the purview of science
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by jackmott 10y ago
>any result or conclusion has to be able to verified independently as much as possible Well, collecting the data yourself and writing the code yourself would be even more independent.
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by jackmott 10y ago
I'm not an expert on the history of opinions on amazon oxygen, but >but fail to account for major substances influencing the value (water concentration in atmosphere)? is absolutely false.
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by jackmott 10y ago
The guy you are replying to specifically mentioned that a lot of that 12% are concentrated in the south, and thus in some places black people are very rare. such as Oregon, only ~2% Montana - ~0.6% etc
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by jackmott 10y ago
Very many developers today do not fully understand what low level means, so very many things get called 'fast' or 'low level' or 'C-Like' that really are not.

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