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by jefffoster 15y ago
The code is available at https://github.com/path64
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An analytic approach to the Collatz 3n + 1 Problem(preprint.math.uni-hamburg.de)
10 points by jefffoster 15y ago|3 comments
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by jefffoster 15y ago
Sounds interesting. The article from Martin Fowler ( http://martinfowler.com/articles/languageWorkbench.html ) talks about language workbench's like this in 2005 and this seems to be the first available mainstream implementation of one. In
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by jefffoster 15y ago
A very simple change would be to only display comment scores once you have voted on a comment yourself. I'd hope this would encourage more voting and dissuade group-think.
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by jefffoster 15y ago
Here's a few of my favourites. agrep - approximate grep based on edit distance). GNU Global - source tagging system that integrates with the shell (less -tfunc displays the function given in the shell). xmllint - xml validator, pretty print
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by jefffoster 15y ago
xmllint is another hugely useful xml tool.
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by jefffoster 15y ago
There's an interesting write up about the idea of "everything is a function" in Haskell at http://conal.net/blog/posts/everything-is-a-function-in-hask... . What's your rationale vbehind everything being a function?
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by jefffoster 15y ago
Will Thimbleby ( http://will.thimbleby.net/misc-an-experimental-language/ ) also explored similar ideas.
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Lisp with maps instead of lists(will.thimbleby.net)
65 points by jefffoster 15y ago|18 comments
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by jefffoster 15y ago
See also the SIMILE Widgets ( http://simile-widgets.org/ ) project which is spun out from research at MIT. I've been using the Timeline control and found it very easy to use.
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Open-Source Data Visualization Web Widgets(simile-widgets.org)
3 points by jefffoster 15y ago|0 comments
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by jefffoster 15y ago
For another example, Redis uses much less memory per key when compiled for 32-bits.
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by jefffoster 15y ago
It's still a great text editor, you don't have to install all the other bits and pieces.
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Patterns in Functional Programming(patternsinfp.wordpress.com)
4 points by jefffoster 15y ago|0 comments
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by jefffoster 15y ago
Previous discussion here ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1545178 )
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by jefffoster 15y ago
You could apply the same techniques to comments. Voting up comments I enjoy reading would promote comments I like (and hopefully drown out the ones I don't). Whether this would look at the contents of the comments or just increase the weig
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by jefffoster 15y ago
That's true and I guess that's the biggest challenge of implementing such an idea. Given that I like X,Y,Z would I also be interested A,B and C?
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by jefffoster 15y ago
Over time the readership and topics covered of HN has grown and maybe the quality has gone down. Perhaps one way of solving this problem is to find a way to present a smaller subset of data to different groups so that they can focus on the
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by jefffoster 15y ago
+1 for Mozart/Oz. It's a great language for exploring the various paradigms of programming. Working through "Concepts, Techniques and and Models of Computer Programming" ( http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/book.html ) with Mozart/Oz gives a
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by jefffoster 15y ago
There are some attempts to formalize OOP. See Cardelli's "A Theory of Objects" ( http://lucacardelli.name/TheoryOfObjects.html ) for one example.
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Privacy Integrated Queries(research.microsoft.com)
2 points by jefffoster 16y ago|0 comments
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by jefffoster 16y ago
Just because I'm sure at least one other person won't know the acronym, but I think SHDH is Supper Happy Dev House.
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by jefffoster 16y ago
There was also an older project known as Spec# at http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/specsharp/
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by jefffoster 16y ago
My first stab at being an entrepreneur was buying normal 3.5" disks, stamping holes in them and selling them as pristine 3.5" HD disks. Let's just say it was less successful than I'd hoped.
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by jefffoster 16y ago
> I am confident that later versions of JDK would catch up With the current situation with Oracle, Apache and Google I'm not entirely confident that the Java language will evolve in any significant way.
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by jefffoster 16y ago
Acovea ( http://www.coyotegulch.com/products/acovea/ ) is a genetic algorithm for analysing the performance of code with various optimization flags. There's a practical example of this being used on a Haskell program at http://donsbot.word
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by jefffoster 16y ago
Years ago, I worked on a project that involve capturing images filmed with an ophthalmoscope and mosaicing them into a complete image of the back of the eye. Part of that involved finding out how bright a light we could get away with beam
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by jefffoster 16y ago
They are both algorithm books and the initials are the last names of the authors. AHU is "The Design and Analysis of Computer Algorithms" by Aho, Hopcroft and Ullman. CLR is "Introduction to Algorithms" by Cormen, Leiserson and Rivest
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by jefffoster 16y ago
When you're a development manager and someone offers you some extra developers what'd you say? If you say no to more developers, then it's very easy for your decision to be blamed for the project failings. At some point, the decision is
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by jefffoster 16y ago
There's an chapter in "Surely you're joking Mr. Feynmann" about something similar. Students in Brazil achieved fantastic marks in exams, but were unable to translate memorized formulas to practical use. The chapter is online here http://r

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