jberryman

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by jberryman 6y ago
It's front page on the Washington Post right now. I haven't been on HN regularly in years; is promotion by the HN and silicon valley dabblers-and-blowhards crowd the reason the drug (one of dozens being tried) become so talked abo
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by jberryman 11y ago
Sorry, what is your actual proposal and what does it do to prevent something like what's happening in Flint from happening, and/or how does it prevent large polluters from ruining sources of drinking water?
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by jberryman 11y ago
We had water anarchy; it looked like huge polluters dumping into rivers and waterways, and the rest of us suffering (and still suffering, like the communities of Appalachia whose land will remain poisoned from past pollution for generations
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by jberryman 11y ago
I think it's quite in the spirit of this whole debacle of underfunded and broken public institutions.
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by jberryman 11y ago
> X axis is time That's not correct from what I'm reading.
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by jberryman 11y ago
"created by observation of cyclical systems". Can you elaborate on that? I'm not sure what you mean, but it sounds interesting. It seems to me we believe time "exists" because of causality; things that happen at &qu
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by jberryman 11y ago
Where "function" means "like in math", right? Not "arbitrary callable block of code". I think it makes sense to think of "functional" as more or less synonymous with "approaching Haskell", e
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by jberryman 11y ago
I think the meta-discussion about how accurate or relevant media portrayal of police brutality is, and how it influences peoples' perceptions is an important one. However I think your comment betrays a lot of privilege (or I should say
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by jberryman 11y ago
I agree that naming things well is a great way to document them. However I think that in most of the codebases I've worked on it is quite common for a function/method to do many things some of which are incidental and some necessa
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by jberryman 11y ago
OT, but that's one reason comments are important. Also in the alternative hypothetical where reading a byte at a time was required: if that's not documented someone might come along and thing that was merely incidental or even b
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by jberryman 11y ago
"Avoid success at all costs" is haskell's unofficial motto (coined by SPJ), so this is a little joke.
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by jberryman 11y ago
Are you really talking about ghc extensions? I think it's quite possible you'd feel that if the haskell library state of the art just had advanced in a strictly haskell-98 world.
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by jberryman 11y ago
When you say "security critical" are you thinking specifically of stuff like crypto timing attacks? I think aside from those sorts of concerns haskell is an excellent choice for security-critical code.
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by jberryman 11y ago
> that does not change the fact that this article's headline is misinforming. You haven't made any arguments in support of this claim. > Further, the data is misleading as well. Suicides, homicides, and accidental deaths are
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by jberryman 11y ago
That's literally the third sentence in the article, which also mentions the rise in suicide and fall in gun homicide rates two sentences below that. The title is dry and accurate. > yet there is zero reason to conflate that with hom
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by jberryman 11y ago
How would that work? For creationism/evolution would it be one column with facts and another with a lot of bunk? What's the point?
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by jberryman 11y ago
I understood his point to be implying that Islam inherently and uniquely among religions gives rise to the sort of radicalism we see with Isis. If I'm not misunderstanding, I hope he expands on what he thinks the implications of this w
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by jberryman 11y ago
> that ISIS are following the actions of Mohammed himself Maybe, or maybe not. Anyway religions have no inherent meaning external from the way in which they're practiced and understood by their practitioners. What I'd like you
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by jberryman 11y ago
> It's both (all) states at the same time. So what does that entail? Isn't this philosophy of science?
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by jberryman 11y ago
Ha I love that story! Very postmodern
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by jberryman 11y ago
icebergs turn over quite often, as the seawater eats away at the bottom until they become top-heavy. When they do you get that really strange brilliant blue color which comes from dense glacial ice which has had all the air bubbles forced o
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by jberryman 11y ago
The vast majority of people working in software in the US are men. The statistics, various studies, a mountain of anecdotes by women working in tech, etc. all point to systemic problems of sexism in the industry and society more broadly. Th
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by jberryman 11y ago
Is he a millenial? If so he looks awful. Anyway don't smear my(our?) generation, son.
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by jberryman 11y ago
Have you used jQuery? The way that selectors and method chaining works has a monadic flavor which is very convenient. In the alternate reality where haskell is running in your browser, if you were creating jQuery from scratch you would reco
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by jberryman 11y ago
> I'd probably be a whole lot less rational... I think you imagine that you are being very rational, because you've studied some climate science and believe you're intelligent enough to form your own judgement, but you&#x2
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by jberryman 11y ago
But that has nothing to do with syntax beyond "infix operators are a thing".
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by jberryman 11y ago
Haskell per se doesn't really have monads, except in the sense that there's an opaque `IO` type which is only useful for "doing IO" because it is an instance of `Monad` (and `Functor`), and in the sense that there&#x27
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by jberryman 11y ago
> But the problem with comments is that they'll inevitably get out of sync with the code. Eek, then by all means take comments seriously and change them when your code changes. I think it's particularly important to comment fun
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by jberryman 11y ago
Right, but it wasn't clear to me that that was mayaross's point exactly, or if it was her whole point. I'm interested in what women think about the dynamics of dating and courtship, as it's something I think a lot about
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by jberryman 11y ago
> Women don't need sites to help them cheat; all they have to do is go out and they will be hunted down. As a woman I find this a clear sign of the remaining, quite sinister, gender inequality. Can you expand on what you mean by tha

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