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by jb55 13y ago
My only problem with subtree merging is I have to look up how to do it everytime
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by jb55 14y ago
I instantly uninstalled it after I saw that as well. Shame, I liked feedly the most out of the alternatives.
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by jb55 14y ago
Well we have at least a hint on how to go about it software-wise. Jürgen Schmidhuber has been working on recursively self improving universal problem solvers for decades now: http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/goedelmachine.html
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by jb55 14y ago
You seem to be claiming that quantum mechanical effects are somehow non-physical? It's not too crazy to speculate the brain leveraging quantum mechanicals effects to do something (although I agree, as a prerequisite for consciousness is a
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by jb55 14y ago
I do this, but not with rsync. I put PDFs and books that I want to read into my Dropbox during the day. When I get home I bidirectionally sync to my kindle dx with Unison ( http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ ). I wouldn't trust my b
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by jb55 14y ago
You're second point is pretty much the reason why I ended up joining a startup in Canada. I got job offers from Facebook and Google for twice the pay, but I couldn't get a tn visa. According to the Canadian government I am not qualified to
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by jb55 14y ago
Chained method calls is analogous to function composition from bQueryView to bQueryView. You could write it this way if you don't like the look of it syntactically: bqView = bQuery.view() bqView.set(...) bqView.on(...) MyB
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by jb55 14y ago
When we started using Backbone it was good for awhile until there was so much code duplication all over the place. We decided to build a small declarative API on top of backbone that allows us to easily compose views by mixing in common fun
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by jb55 14y ago
I have a blank Das keyboard and after a lot of typing I find the extra pressure very noticeable and even fatiguing. I eventually switched back to my mac keyboard because of this.
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by jb55 14y ago
I have tried a lot of these new online courses that have been created but I still think they have missed the point, the point that khan academy got right. I don't want to plan my life around weekly assignments. I keep getting emails about a
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by jb55 14y ago
The lack of shadows in some shots give it away as well
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by jb55 15y ago
This is so true. I managed to covertly teach monads to a coworker who had never heard of monads or functional programming before, all without uttering the word monad. Luckily they were familiar with LINQ notation (which is pretty much do no
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by jb55 15y ago
It's kind of sad that most IM clients do not provide OTR out of the box, I would use it all the time but unfortunately most people do not use pidgin or Adium.
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by jb55 15y ago
There was an opengl library at one point, I'm not sure of the state of it now though. I think it still works.
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by jb55 15y ago
It's an expressive systems language with lambdas. So, anything you would be using C for + the power you get from lambdas and generic types. In a way you could think of it as Go with a more advanced type system, and without the garbage colle
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by jb55 15y ago
When watching Notch code I noticed a lot of code smelly habits, relying on inheritance over composition is one example. But my god his level of productivity and ability to get shit done is lightyears ahead of your average programmer, and yo
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by jb55 15y ago
Indeed, it really only simulates the function type constraint aspect of Haskell typeclasses. Fortunately most of the time I have direct access to the implementation, and can throw an interface on a type when I need it. This is effectively t
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by jb55 15y ago
https://gist.github.com/1313735 Here's a full example in some production code. I ended up doing it this way to simplify some crazy legacy code. There were a bunch of different classes that provide order items and extended prices in differ
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by jb55 15y ago
One powerful feature I don't see being used very often is simulating typeclasses via contraints on generic types: public static IEnumerable<CalculatedTax> CalculateTaxes<T>(this T t) where T : IOrderItems, IAddre
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Programming quantum computers, a tutorial from D-Wave(dwavesys.com)
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AGI 2011 - Probabilistic Programs: A New Language for AI [2h lecture](youtube.com)
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by jb55 15y ago
One of the things that I find pleasing when writing Haskell is the idea that I don't have to think about the context in which my code might need to run. For example, a common pattern that I find myself repeating in many languages is downl
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by jb55 15y ago
I was using this for awhile but the sync algorithm is retarded. It spent all of its time syncing gigs of meta data and saturating my upload rate. Also be prepared to make room for the 100mb+ process as it does not seem to care about memory
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by jb55 15y ago
I'm through about 25% of it, but I decided to do all of the exercises in Haskell rather than Scheme. In a way it improves the experience as a whole, thanks to type errors slowly prodding me in the right direction.
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by jb55 15y ago
I used to think this when all I knew was C++ and Java, when I defended them feverishly. Then after using them for 5-10 years I am now in the "why do we torture ourselves with these inexpressive languages" group. These language should be cri
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by jb55 15y ago
We should probably get these long round-trip protocol issues ironed out before we build our galactic internet
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by jb55 15y ago
Most of these arguments (and most other conspiracy theories) can be shot down as just another instance of the Conjunction fallacy/Occam's Razor. The probability of a single event is always greater or equal to the probability of both events:
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by jb55 16y ago
This. I do all of my school assignments in markdown + embedded latex. I convert them directly to PDF using the markdown2pdf helper that comes with Pandoc. It has pretty much replaced .doc files and monolithic word processors for me.
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by jb55 16y ago
I was thinking about making a witty comment regarding YouTube or Disqus, but at the time I was so dumbfounded by his statement I ended up just smiling and walking away. Surely Python is not a new concept to most people? Software engineering
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by jb55 16y ago
Just recently one of my college professors said Python was not a 'production level' language. I just came back from an internship where they wouldn't even install Python on the server and told me to use 'Powershell' instead. The majority of

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