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by jewbacca 16y ago
Great toy, love it cleanly in HTML5 -- casually playing with L-systems the other day, the best apparent tool was this bugged Java applet[0] that didn't render any of the labels for its fields[1]. Suggestions: - List the syntax it accepts on
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by jewbacca 16y ago
The title of this submission overstates his involvement somewhat. It looks like he posted to the Haskell mailing list a handful of times in early 2001, and his first apparent post does not prime any assumption he was a devoted enthusiast:
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Julian Assange: Haskeller(haskell.org)
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http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html
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by jewbacca 16y ago
The only feature I care about and what I've been hurting for for years is some means of segregating the Groups bacn. Some of most personally significant correspondences I've ever had are in my Messages Inbox. In the early days, it had a s
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by jewbacca 16y ago
Hmm... more specialized fora will have the more concentrated focus of intentionally-informed people who've gathered explicitly to discuss a topic. Too much off-topic noise will get you shunned, because people come there for the signal (Red
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by jewbacca 16y ago
How so? Yes, I understand it is geeky to protest a semantic inaccuracy for spite of which the intended meaning of the original point comes through. But you'll see the same thing on any forum (I've seen people who fail to capitalize the be
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by jewbacca 16y ago
We're having two discussions in parallel: on the objective value of Reddit given its circumstances, and on our own personal taste for using it. You're probably much better off in many ways for not visiting. I would like to know how informe
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by jewbacca 16y ago
4chan is Chaotic Neutral. Reddit is Neutral Good.
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by jewbacca 16y ago
Perhaps compared to HN. But I would characterize Reddit (as characterized by what's voted up into default visibility) as fairly open-minded, even compulsively contrarian. While a large proportion of the up/down-voting is from petty agreem
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by jewbacca 16y ago
Also from the parent's comment. "... Programming commentary. Protagonist proudly advocates against something he feels he's moved far beyond in favour of a solution which is exactly that thing in more obtuse terms." Um, that is almost all a
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by jewbacca 16y ago
Sometime earlier this fall, Google Maps became suddenly and totally unusable for me (Firefox, OS X). Whole-system stuttering. Strange thing is, only in the main Google interface to Maps (ie, searching from maps.google.com) -- embedded map
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by jewbacca 16y ago
I've had an investigation on the backburner for a while on whether there's a zipper-like structure for representing 2D grids (eg, a game board). I feel like this may be a blind alley, because a grid would have cycles and no inherent orderi
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by jewbacca 16y ago
Perhaps this would be (or would be posed as) a security problem, too. I am not familiar with any specific methods of causing a large explosion that access to a 120V AC socket would allow, which not having access to one would not, with what
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by jewbacca 16y ago
Don't know any jQuery, but that looks like a monad. Glad it's found it's way into practice.
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by jewbacca 16y ago
Oh my god, Haskell is so pretty. This is the first time I've used it to solve math problems. Is it kosher to share solutions?
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by jewbacca 16y ago
Dear god, there was a solar system simulation on the macs in my middle-school library (c. 1998) that I sunk absolutely inordinate, ridiculous amounts of time into. I think it had a 10-body limit and may have been much older (was definitely
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by jewbacca 16y ago
That's programming. Recursively specifying problems until they're defined unambiguously in terms of solved problems. When you've reached the level of the features of your language and tools... that's your program.
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by jewbacca 16y ago
I agree that it would be degrading to market a college based on this, but I'd also imagine that in an environment with a severe gender imbalance there would be people of the over-represented gender (of either gender) who would welcome the i
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by jewbacca 16y ago
> people seriously looking to have sex in college seem to be in the minority This is, reciprocally, a mind-blowingly alien worldview, completely contrary to an assumption I've only now realized was even an assumption, and had pr
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by jewbacca 16y ago
Sorry Chomsky, you're ascribing way too grand and malicious an intent than is necessary. Freelancers are not an organized political group. Nobody has figured out yet how to make freelancer issues sexy enough to yell over on the news. This
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by jewbacca 16y ago
> Actually, quite a few Haskell folks work for Microsoft Research What is up with that, anyway? Three of the most important people in Haskell -- the originators of the language and primary developers of GHC, and the foremost re
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by jewbacca 16y ago
Bro, every response to you has been a point of discussion you could have responded to, to convince us you're older than 14 and persuade us of your viewpoint. When your face stops burning, think about what you've said, and answer this quest
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by jewbacca 16y ago
Dude, where the fuck do you live? Where I am, the average Islamic-world immigrant is, like the average Chinese immigrant or the average Romanian immigrant, about an order of magnitude more productive and conscientious a citizen than an ave
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by jewbacca 16y ago
IANAPothead, though I do pick up once or twice a year for concerts and to be a good host. By far the mode price I've encountered for 1/8 oz (3.5g) is $25; $30 if something very special (though this is in Southern Ontario and British Columbi
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by jewbacca 16y ago
From what I understand, this blogger is a purely and explicitly comedic blogger who is making a living off of what she does. I'll leave it as an open exercise to enumerate exactly what it is she does that is valuable [0], but to criticize
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by jewbacca 16y ago
Well, finding the best word for a given tile rack played on a given position can be expressed staggeringly simply in Haskell. I'm just wondering if there's some clever way to store and search a whole board without getting into something me
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by jewbacca 16y ago
Semi offtopic: Can anybody tell me about an appropriate data structure for computing Scrabble (or any crossword) short of full-out walking a 2d grid? I've read a bit about Tries and Directed Acyclic Word Graphs, but those seem to just be f
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by jewbacca 16y ago
Holy hell... snooping for classified data aside, searching for documents on any historically significant topic on site:mil may now be my new hobby.
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by jewbacca 16y ago
It is a virtue to keep the signal-to-noise ratio of top-level submissions high. It is a virtue to keep the signal-to-noise ratio of comments in threads discussing interesting content high. Behaviour here is undefined. There is another we

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