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by jarcane 12y ago
Ninite is quite good; I've been using it for years. At one of my old jobs (a local PC repair shop), we were even in the process of switching our custom install script to a Ninite package. Chocolatey used to mostly be OSS stuff, but it
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by jarcane 12y ago
On the other hand, Haskell strings are "like Haskell" (ie. they're lists like almost everything else), and it's actually because of that they're such a joy to use. "Strings as lists of chars" in a language
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by jarcane 12y ago
My last two phones I've bought deliberately bigger and bulkier in part because they had bigger battery capacities as a result (EVO 4G and Lumia 1320). I'd rather have a phone that can survive if I miss a night of charge.
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by jarcane 12y ago
Yes. The Ukrainian spam I get is almost entirely unique referrers each time, so individual results rarely show up enough times to even rank. Semalt.com and something called speedfox are the only ones that really show up consistently enough
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by jarcane 12y ago
I've been noticing this for several years. A significant enough bulk of my logged traffic to my publishing label is this kind of spam that Ukraine shows up as my second largest source of traffic. My 9th most frequent referrer is, indee
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by jarcane 12y ago
The properties of Cthulhu and his Star-Spawn are a standard test case for the Heresy object system. https://github.com/jarcane/heresy/blob/master/tests/things.r...
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by jarcane 12y ago
How do I respond to these price objectors who demand a whopping 86% in discount, yet interestingly enough they are the MOST demanding when it comes to support and feature requests. Don't. You have a product. You've set the price
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Chilling Effects removes itself from search engines(torrentfreak.com)
189 points by jarcane 12y ago|27 comments
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Evidence of sexism in science isn't enough to convince men there's a problem(theverge.com)
2 points by jarcane 12y ago|0 comments
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by jarcane 12y ago
Indeed. It took me over a year to get off Credo's mailing list. They even followed me to other addresses. I only stopped getting their ads in the mail after I moved overseas. No sense selling cut-rate "libwashed" cellphones t
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Show HN: Fnlet – macroizing the Y-combinator(github.com)
1 points by jarcane 12y ago|0 comments
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by jarcane 12y ago
Almost never. I was an enthusiastic embracer of OO when I started with Python because it was pretty much the sanest way to manage state in that language. But truth be told, once I moved to Lisps and FP languages I scarcely bothered to touch
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by jarcane 12y ago
The responses to this thread remind me of nothing so much as this comic: http://amultiverse.com/comic/2015/01/05/its-about-ethics/
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by jarcane 12y ago
One of the nicest men I've ever met was my father's estate lawyer. He could certainly be hard and firm when he needed to be, but perhaps because he was so nice when he didn't, he really didn't have to leverage much mor
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Making Games in Chicken Scheme with Hypergiant(alex-charlton.com)
75 points by jarcane 12y ago|4 comments
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by jarcane 12y ago
I think the most amusing detail of this story is that the stock plot shows a 12-point drop in Google's share price on the date of this story. There's even a noticeable valley in the day chart right around the time this story came
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by jarcane 12y ago
That's pretty nice. I ultimately only included Y in Heresy as an academic exercise (I see the main purpose of it, if any, as being a playground for learning FP and Lisp concepts); on Racket at least, even with it's very good tail-
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by jarcane 12y ago
I wouldn't worry about cleaning up old code, so much as I'd worry about making sure that new projects showed progress and improvement on those fronts to old ones. I actually quite literally use Github as my resume, but while I&#x2
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by jarcane 12y ago
I like this explanation, because it focuses in it's latter portion on the one thing that actually made Y click for me: expanding it. I think it's why it's so short: the Y-combinator makes perfect sense if you explain it in th
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by jarcane 12y ago
That's sad to hear, but I suppose it's understandable. Hopefully someone can at least get some use out of it, and kudos for encouraging him to release it nonetheless (And to Roger Corman of course for agreeing).
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by jarcane 12y ago
Awesome. Here's hoping someone can clean this up and get it building with VS2013. It would be amazing to have a Windows-native free/OSS CL. Neither Allegro or LW are truly free; their "free" tools have pretty limiting re
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by jarcane 12y ago
You're right that the password-vault part is the weakest part of the post, I think, though I'd argue many people probably don't even use (relatively) secure options like LastPass, and probably default to "password manage
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by jarcane 12y ago
I think you're right: People are not afraid of computers anymore, and when they are, it's in all the wrong ways. When I was younger the internet terrified people. I learned all kinds of simple "don'ts" in the 90s
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by jarcane 12y ago
There are two languages that more than anything changed how I thought about programming. The first is Lisp. The second is Haskell. Lisp taught me, essentially, that most of what I'd been doing in other languages was unnecessary tedium,
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by jarcane 12y ago
I can understand the thinking, to some extent; it was the motivation behind my unusual resume. I want to be a programmer, so I've been programming my resume: https://github.com/jarcane/resume.hsy
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by jarcane 12y ago
99.9808%, given those figures. Some numbers I can find online pin it at 99.97%, which in either case is comparable but greater to that of Communist China (99.93%).
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by jarcane 12y ago
Not to mention the 90+% conviction rate in Japan ...
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by jarcane 12y ago
There is core.match[1], and between the restructuring bind, multimethods, and the ability to create polymorphic functions like hello in this example[2], you can replicate a lot of common FP idioms reasonably well. It's not pretty, b
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by jarcane 12y ago
Thanks! I hadn't head of either book yet. Looks like there's at least some content from RWFP on MSDN here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/hh314518(v=v...
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by jarcane 12y ago
I actually wasn't sure as to F#'s independence; that's good to hear. Being free and open means it'll keep going even if MS gets bored with it, though it's mainly its 'first class' status with the MS tools

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