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by jarcane 12y ago
What I mean is, JS in general is not a Lisp, nor is it a functional language. But it does have a number of key basics in place. It has anonymous, first-class functions and objects. It has a very handy function composition syntax (chaining d
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by jarcane 12y ago
I was literally complaining today about the fact that no-one seems to have yet implemented that part of the ES6 standard yet[1], and yet now here it is. As someone chiefly interested in .js for it's 'functional curious' side,
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by jarcane 12y ago
The difference is that US agencies don't actually use this information, likely because of privacy regulations and stop forth. The right hand rarely knows what the left is doing, unless law enforcement or homeland security get involved.
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by jarcane 12y ago
Thing is, this is a new phenomenon, being accessible free for so very many people. Federal "free e-File" cut off is a lot lower than what TurboTax is offering this year; I only ever even qualified for federal most years, state sti
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by jarcane 12y ago
If you're only dealing with pure maths, Haskell really isn't that hard to pick up, it's only once you start wanting to do I/O and deal with monads that it can be a bit of a burden. For something like this, where you&#x27
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by jarcane 12y ago
Yes, you just wish to valiantly defend the right to berate someone in a public place, to the extent of dithering over which forms of base harassment you consider perfectly within rights apparently.[1] This is the "freeze peach" ar
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by jarcane 12y ago
I am totally onboard with better self-moderation tools; I'm a proud user of BlockTogether and theBlockBot, they've made Twitter almost 100% more pleasant to use than it was before. I've even had some ideas myself on apps that
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by jarcane 12y ago
The "relentless" part is critical for whether insults (or even just continued asking of questions or repeating points) are harassment. Especially if the insult isn't profane - e.g. "idiot". To what extent is it OK
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by jarcane 12y ago
The train conductor reserves the right to eject passengers who are being disruptive or abusive of other passengers in that scenario. There is indeed a good shot the insulting party might find themselves moved to another car or asked to leav
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by jarcane 12y ago
If you insult someone on the street, or in their home, what do you think the reaction would be? Insulting someone is harassment. If you made it your mission to relentlessly insult one of your co-workers, how long do you think you'd k
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by jarcane 12y ago
Why is verbal abuse always the first battlefield of the internet 'free speech' advocate?
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Computational Linguistics Reveal How Wikipedia Articles Are Biased Against Women(technologyreview.com)
2 points by jarcane 12y ago|0 comments
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by jarcane 12y ago
I'd be a lot more willing to get on board with the former part of that sentence if you hadn't blundered into the latter bit. Paul Graham was right again. http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
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by jarcane 12y ago
You know, his comments in the Newsweek piece came across to me a bit creepy, but I had no idea he had this much history. It makes the tone a lot more easy to place in context now.
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by jarcane 12y ago
Going forward, 2-3 years, I would really like get more involved in machine learning, data analytics, scientific computing. I would recommend the C# experience in so much as it will build familiarity with .NET, and thus allow you to gradua
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by jarcane 12y ago
I was quite delighted to hear that this new model will apparently improve their ability to provide up-to-date package builds and ports. The main reason I switched over from Linux to BSD was being tired of dealing with deciding between a ble
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by jarcane 12y ago
With the Onion, it's always the headlines than nail it, better than the body. In a way, they've been doing parody tweets since 1988.
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by jarcane 12y ago
That's a good point. With a run like that, the advance may be all you ever see.
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by jarcane 12y ago
Eh, I think the more important take from it is that any species is prone to developing an unbalanced advantage that ultimately does them in. We humans just happen to be the ones on top right now doing the unbalanced expansion thing.
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by jarcane 12y ago
This is a thing that I have learned as well. I have done projects that seemed small, and then by the end they were enormous, but I knew them intimately. But when I start a project with the idea of it being that big in my head from the start
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by jarcane 12y ago
They'll also abandon perfectly good dams just to move up stream and build another. They're some of the most environmentally destructive critters on earth; like most creatures if allowed to thrive they'll just keep devouring e
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by jarcane 12y ago
Was really sad to hear this: "You don’t really make any money by writing a book, but O’Reilly did send me a nice hat" How poorly does O'Reilly pay their authors? A book the size of most of their tomes, and at the prices the
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Daddy-Daughter Racketeering(meta.fja.io)
2 points by jarcane 12y ago|0 comments
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by jarcane 12y ago
Haskell possesses similar syntax, save that one must prefix an anonymous function with \, like so: \x -> x * 42 It's possible as well to use it bare like that, but only in very particular places, so it's generally much
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by jarcane 12y ago
I did something like this once. I can't say as it made any difference, to be honest, and I can't really recommend it. This is what I wrote after the turn was done: Finally, some of you may remember that late last year I pledged t
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by jarcane 12y ago
This kind of thing is, frankly, yet another reason why I employ an adblocker.
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by jarcane 12y ago
I wonder how much it costs to do one of these jobs. I grew up with the Tandy Color Computer 3, which was a fantastic machine, but it is to this day still hampered somewhat in development by the fact that the "GIME" chip that serve
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by jarcane 12y ago
This is why Racket has both.
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by jarcane 12y ago
I did notice it seemed to use the Java fallbacks a lot, yeah, but I don't use Clojure much so didn't realize it was that out of date on the CLJ side.
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by jarcane 12y ago
There's a great guide like this for Lisp dialects that I often refer to here: http://hyperpolyglot.org/lisp They also have a number of similar comparative guides on their main page now: http://hyperpolyglot.

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