jedi_stannis

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Wikileaks leaks classified intelligence report about itself(arstechnica.com)
2 points by jedi_stannis 17y ago|0 comments
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by jedi_stannis 17y ago
It is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_fallacy
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by jedi_stannis 17y ago
Yeah, naming has never been free software's strong point. I had a hard time understanding what it was until I read the pdf in the linked blog post. Hopefully by the time the idea is fleshed out and presented to a more mainstream audience
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"Task Pooper" could revolutionize GNOME desktop(feeds.arstechnica.com)
28 points by jedi_stannis 17y ago|11 comments
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by jedi_stannis 17y ago
Yes it is really pulling a syntactic trick and not comparing against bools. From the docs: Comparisons can be chained arbitrarily, e.g., x < y <= z is equivalent to x < y and y <= z, except that y is evaluated only once. h
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by jedi_stannis 17y ago
Thanks! This is exactly what I've been looking for. A dynamic language with Haskell-like syntax.
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by jedi_stannis 17y ago
Where does the Haskell type system fit into his description?
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π: A Pattern Language(pi-programming.org)
35 points by jedi_stannis 17y ago|10 comments
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by jedi_stannis 17y ago
My solution is a little bit more hackish, but more usable imo. Not thoroughly tested though, might have some implications I haven't thought of. http://pastebin.com/m7cc84252
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by jedi_stannis 17y ago
I think his point was that current third party mediators will not be happy to be cut out of the equation. Even though the system will be more efficient without them, they will try to do whatever they can to still get their share of the tra
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by jedi_stannis 17y ago
I haven't picked it up yet, but I remember reading about "The Princeton Companion to Mathematics" on here a while ago. It looks like a pretty complete guide to all of modern mathematics and sounded like it was easy enough for a beginner to
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by jedi_stannis 17y ago
No need to learn a new editor. There is a great plugin to use Vim with Clojure. I've always been a Vim user and think its great, although I've never used SLIME so I can't directly compare. http://kotka.de/projects/clojure/vimclojure.html
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by jedi_stannis 17y ago
The reason seems to just be that LISP books generally don't sell well. And it seems to still be in their submission guidelines. http://oreilly.com/oreilly/author/writeforus_1101.html "Books on topics that have dismal sales despite qualit
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Exploring Siftables: the blocks that play back(arstechnica.com)
2 points by jedi_stannis 18y ago|1 comments
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by jedi_stannis 18y ago
Although a lot of functional programming tutorials are very mathematical like the author says, not all of them are. Real World Haskell ( http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/ ) is a great book on Haskell that shows how to actually solve r
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by jedi_stannis 18y ago
I'm reading The 33 Strategies of War by Robert Greene now and am enjoying it, I have also previously read the 48 Laws of Power by him which is written in a similar fashion. Very extensive and uses a lot of historical examples from both mi