jeorgun

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by jeorgun 12y ago
I have to admit, the more I look into Haskell the less enamored I am of its syntax. Sure, it's wonderful in the common case, but when it comes to things like vectors or (apparently) unsafe pointer manipulation, it's practically un
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by jeorgun 12y ago
So the proportion of black Texan executionees being three times higher than the proportion of Black Texans isn't in any way noteworthy?
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by jeorgun 12y ago
Hence vimtutor. The "going from there", in git, does consist in part of "git rebase --help" or "man git-rebase", which are roughly equivalent to :help.
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by jeorgun 12y ago
The fact that they're being rewarded for their actions doesn't mean that those actions aren't laudable (especially when that reward consists of their being lauded).
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by jeorgun 12y ago
So that's what it is! I was just getting increasingly frustrated, wondering why "?" wasn't working. I guess staying intuitive is a difficult game to play, when your premise (the default / most useful searching ord
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by jeorgun 12y ago
I feel like you're placing way too much emphasis on syntax here. From a non-superficial standpoint, you haven't brought up a single thing wrong with Ruby— or Go, aside from explicit typing. The thing about syntax is that, to some
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by jeorgun 12y ago
As they mention in the link at the end of the post[1], they hid the scammer's name out of fear of UK libel laws. Presumably they're not really concerned about Mike suing them. [1] http://blog.readmatter.com/post&#x
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by jeorgun 12y ago
I'd be fully in support of that if it weren't for the fact that initializer_lists end up causing their own sets of issues. For instance, type-inference is completely borked: auto foo{tmp}; results in std::initializer
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by jeorgun 12y ago
Well, yeah, an actual example of realistic code is going to be more elegant than something that's literally self-parody. int main() { for (int i = 99; i--;) { std::cout << i << " bottles of beer on the
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by jeorgun 12y ago
Would sorting by popularity, or critical acclaim, or something along those lines be a possibility?
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by jeorgun 12y ago
That's definitely one solution, but it still wouldn't quite capture it. As an extreme example, if rapper A produced 100 songs, each with exactly the same lyrics, they should surely be penalized compared with rapper B producing 100
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by jeorgun 12y ago
As it turns out, you're completely right. Oops. In case anyone else happens to have the same issue, I solved it by sticking export GTK_IM_MODULE=xim in /etc/environment .
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by jeorgun 12y ago
I'd mostly agree, but vim's digraphs are kind of essential when using gvim, since GTK+ seems to have an inexplicable vendetta against custom .XCompose files.
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by jeorgun 13y ago
I'm not really sure why references are being used here, if you're just making a copy straight-away. vector<int> square(vector<int> vcopy) { for (int &i : vcopy) i *= i; return
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by jeorgun 13y ago
Now I'm kind of curious. The GHC is listed there as being 113 megabytes. When I try to install it on Arch Linux, the size is listed as 736MB! What in God's name is Arch doing to nearly septuple the size of this package— and more t
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by jeorgun 13y ago
I think the situation being described is more like: ___ ↱↑____ | | TB| | | | | | (where T is the truck, and B the bike, natch).
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by jeorgun 13y ago
It's even a poor example of C++. Using valarray, you end up with basically the same thing as your above examples: #include <valarray> #include <iostream> double standard_dev(const std::valarray<double&
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by jeorgun 13y ago
Wow. This one was insanely stressful compared to every other variant I've seen so far— which is weird, because (unlike the original 2048) I was actually able to win this one. Either way, really cool.
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by jeorgun 13y ago
You can develop Qt apps without any dependency on KDE.
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by jeorgun 13y ago
High-DPI support is coming with Aura (or, more accurately, being built on Aura; it looks like the high-DPI stuff will come slightly later): https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=143619
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by jeorgun 13y ago
https://lobste.rs/ , I'm assuming.
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by jeorgun 13y ago
Monoid is NOT a detached term it says I have a type with an identity element, and an associative binary operator, and that that (id `op` elem) always is elem. Try to tell me that i complicated in the slightest. Just for the record, I&#x27
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by jeorgun 13y ago
Average life expectancy is calculated without accounting for infant mortality; when accounted for, it's considerably higher, or so I'm told.
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by jeorgun 13y ago
Given how much "front-end technologies" seems to translate to "javascript / html / css" nowadays, I'd be incredibly shocked if it didn't.
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by jeorgun 13y ago
This is absolutely true, and undoubtedly a barrier to communication. It's also a complete non-starter as an argument in favor of a Portuguese SO site, so I really have no idea what it's doing in the article.
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by jeorgun 13y ago
Yukihiro Matsumoto. Do I win anything? In any case, I'm not really sure what the aim of the challenge was. Most anybody could probably name at least one non-native-English-speaking developer— Bjarne Stroustrup and Guido van Rossum both
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by jeorgun 13y ago
That calculators are used on the AP calc test isn't exactly one teacher's decision, though. (I actually did the same thing on mine, but fortunately extra calculators were provided, possibly because of their past experiences with s
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by jeorgun 13y ago
I wonder if there's any particularly good way to gamify learning grammar, though— you can't really quantify it in the same way as you can vocabulary. My favorite suggestion for online language learning, whose source I've long
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by jeorgun 13y ago
My parents never restricted / supervised me and my brother's internet access much, if at all. I think this gave us an advantage, more than anything else, in terms of learning responsible internet usage from a relatively young age,
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by jeorgun 13y ago
How? Has the non-OSX VLC UI changed recently without my noticing, or is it a change in max volume or something?

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