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by jewbacca 14y ago
A tyrannical dichotomy. Functional programming is declarative. Especially when it's lazy and the program's instantaneous state is abstracted out. One of the motivating goals in functional programming is to be able to define a computation
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by jewbacca 14y ago
From the top comment (to save the scroll-conservative 30 seconds of doubt and confusion): ---- Michael Laccetti says: Just a quick note that the ‘Experiments’ tab under the developer console will not show up unless you specifically enable i
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by jewbacca 14y ago
I upvoted it because it's very interesting to see what joering2 said, which I've only ever seen dismissed with a chuckle by people who don't already agree with it, debated in this context, on HN. I'm a firm believer that genuinely and serio
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by jewbacca 14y ago
What language are you referring to? I'm not quite sure I understand your examples. -------- Related: In Haskell, any 2-argument function can be used (or defined) infix by surrounding it with backticks, eg: add 2 3 is equivalent to
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by jewbacca 14y ago
Piggybacking off a piggyback comment to take the discussion back on topic: There is further parody content in the URLs of the 'reply' links Didn't realize until stalking through to the author's commentary on his personal blog: htt
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by jewbacca 14y ago
> Defense Secretary Robert McNamara’s famously statistics-driven Pentagon was itching to replace the M14, an Army-designed gun that, despite its successful use in World War II. With information from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M14_rif
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by jewbacca 14y ago
If you had to keep all the failures you'd rejected on the anti-books... actually, I thought this was an asinine comment but there might actually be a lesson here. I ain't no fancy big city investin' type, but wouldn't one of the fundamenta
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by jewbacca 14y ago
You've submitted a self-post with no text. I assume you meant to link to this: 'Convert Fireworks Layered PNG into iOS Objective-C Xcode Project' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2Czo-EPNdY
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by jewbacca 14y ago
The demo in the link is an HTML5 canvas element animated with Javascript.
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Behind closed doors at the ITU's attempted “takeover of the Internet”(arstechnica.com)
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by jewbacca 14y ago
Reddit (r/gaming) thread by the creator: http://reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/14wr0a/to_build_a_video_...
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by jewbacca 14y ago
Tvs option?
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by jewbacca 14y ago
That thread is one of them, yes. As I mentioned, it does still exist, it wasn't deleted. It can be linked from comments in other stories. But it was removed from the global front page, and from the r/wtf and r/technology listings, and fr
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by jewbacca 14y ago
> I don't foresee any backpedaling since few people want to stand up for porn and the principle of filtering search results has been established for years. Absolutely, good point. I suppose why I'm so riled up about this is that I can'
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by jewbacca 14y ago
Google Images (currently) behaves as before (able to completely disable safe search) on other google domains (personally tested https://www.google.ca/imghp? , https://www.google.co.uk/imghp? ). ---- Across the handful of official Google r
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by jewbacca 14y ago
It had me for a while, and is still entertaining enough to keep reading, but just to be clear: this is fictional. Oblique disclaimer: http://www.arpanetdialogues.net/disclaimer/ Interview with one author: http://www.newscientist.com/blog
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by jewbacca 14y ago
Thanks, it was a typo. Edit window's over though.
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by jewbacca 14y ago
Makes sense from a practical standpoint, but I think what I'm looking for is something that, while widely advocated[0], either: -Doesn't seem to be common practice -I'm misunderstanding -Bootstrap's LESS just doesn't support, or at least le
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by jewbacca 14y ago
While we're on the (off-)topic: How the hell do you use Bootstrap, directly `@import`ed into LESS? I'm learning HTML/CSS for the first time (this century, anyway), and I keep reading about the virtues of semantic markup and the evils of pre
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by jewbacca 14y ago
Continuing off-topic: It's vandalism. I just did an hour of procrastinatory cyberstalking, it's the work of a high schooler in Ohio. Probably vandalizing articles they read for class. Speculation: if not just out of frustration, perhaps s
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by jewbacca 14y ago
I use it to write Haskell. The syntax highlighting screws up the first line of multiline record declarations. Out of the box, it can't run a Hoogle search or launch GHCI like TextMate did. It's definitely not a fully-featured Haskell IDE
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by jewbacca 14y ago
RMS on SaaS: http://bostonreview.net/BR35.2/stallman.php
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by jewbacca 14y ago
On the off chance you ever check this again, byorgey discusses this here: http://byorgey.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/foldr-is-made-of-mon...
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by jewbacca 14y ago
Giving nir the benefit of the doubt, I read his comment as a pretty clear reference: > "Kremlinology is the study and analysis of Soviet (and today, Russian) politics and policies based on efforts to understand the inner workings of an
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by jewbacca 14y ago
> If __add__ is taken to be any associative operation of a monoid, then Python's sum is merely equivalent to Haskell's mconcat, which is not nearly as general as reduce/foldl I don't have the math to back this up, so please correct me i
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by jewbacca 14y ago
I was writing a really long response to your post, explaining how reduce/inject/fold is abstracting out an absurdly common iteration pattern, and using it can expose structural similarities between many superficially different computations,
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by jewbacca 14y ago
NOTE: Ooops, it seems the 'edit' window expired on my comment. Expanding, unfortunately, in a separate comment: ---- I don't know if this is a problem if you're going hardcore with your FP. When we're talking about "lines" in Python, one
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by jewbacca 14y ago
I don't know if this is a problem if you're going hardcore with your FP -- one line is one expression, and multiple expressions are probably going to be stateful, which should probably be factored out into something with a name. In Haskell,
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by jewbacca 14y ago
Ah! Cool. Found a PDF here: ftp://kawais.org.ua/incoming/Bird%20-%20Pearls%20of%20Functional%20Algorithm%20Design%20(Computer%20Science)%20-%202010.pdf This is actually a pattern that I've been looking for a name for, for years! And you'
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by jewbacca 14y ago
> You do have patterns like 'fold', 'map', or 'nexus' 'nexus'? The only relevant hit on the first page of the google results for those 3 words together is actually a link back to your post https://www.google.com/search?q=map+fold+nexus

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