jganetsk

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by jganetsk 17y ago
I'm so glad to see this! I hope "strings and other types" talks about blocks and how they are tagged. He better go over closures too.
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by jganetsk 17y ago
EVERYONE should study Computer Science. The questions are, how much and what parts?
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by jganetsk 17y ago
July has been a prolific month for pg.
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by jganetsk 17y ago
I interpreted this to mean alcoholics that are still functioning in society.
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Next Big Language (Javascript 2?)(steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
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by jganetsk 17y ago
When are we going to see Paul Graham on the Charlie Rose show?
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by jganetsk 17y ago
Both of our implementations have broken this . Damn you, Javascript this . In principle, these two lines of code should always produce the same result: foo.bar(1,2) and foo.bar(1)(2) And they won't necessarily in our case, i
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by jganetsk 17y ago
Learn how to implement integers, booleans, pairs, tuples, lists, and trees in lambda calculus (and, more specifically, System F)... and you will be able to think functionally.
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by jganetsk 17y ago
Here's an implementation that I think is shorter, simpler to understand, easier to use, and doesn't require modifying existing functions for currification function curry(fn) { var wrappedFnMaker = function(accArgs) { return
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by jganetsk 17y ago
It's not a question of whether he approves or disapproves. It's a question of whether economics deserves a Nobel... do psychology, philosophy, and history have Nobels?
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by jganetsk 17y ago
Really? Crap. My high school yearbook quote was "The computer will never need more than 640kb. -Bill Gates". Oops. All that being made fun of for nothing.
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by jganetsk 17y ago
Null is a billion dollar mistake. Scala, Java, and Javascript all have a difference between undefined and null. The author doesn't go into this detail. He also doesn't differentiate between a runtime error and a compile-time error. If you d
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by jganetsk 17y ago
Why pay the Microsoft licenses when you could have Java or Scala serve the site?
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by jganetsk 17y ago
Growing more marijuana will help with global warming too!
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by jganetsk 17y ago
How did you come up with this figure of 95% if you have a sample size of 1?
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by jganetsk 17y ago
Not unless you had time for both. I definitely didn't have to spend as much time as my peers on Comp Sci homework, and had plenty of time left over for my own pursuits. The great programmers I respect easily got CS degrees without working t
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by jganetsk 17y ago
I would suppose that these ex-founders (especially the ones with some fame like Josh Schacter) belong to an uber-class minority within Google, where they are given more freedom and respect then the average Googler.
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by jganetsk 17y ago
The experiment is still going on! This guy wants to see what the clickthrough rate is given the elaborate description of the exeperiment above the link. How Hofstadterian!
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by jganetsk 17y ago
Can't stack-based bytecode languages get compiled to code that doesn't have lots of load & store instructions, by using registers to represent the top several words of the stack?
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by jganetsk 17y ago
In Mythryl unit becomes Void. The value syntax is unchanged: () No! This is a regression into darkness! Unit should stay unit! According to type theorists: Unit is the data type inhabited with exactly one value (the zero-tuple). That's wh
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by jganetsk 17y ago
It's either yay or ney, there's no someday. There's no reason why we can't use it now. The implementations are there. You just have to use a pure language, like Haskell.
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by jganetsk 17y ago
Why doesn't Fred Wilson log into his bit.ly account and look up the click stats?
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by jganetsk 17y ago
or use twidge
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by jganetsk 17y ago
I suppose anything "premature" is evil. By its very nature, the word "premature" has a negative connotation. I won't argue for or against "flexibilization". But I do think separation of concerns is never premature (any isolated piece of cod
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by jganetsk 17y ago
Either there is a polynomial-time algorithm for SAT or there isn't - no middle-ground here. Statement of the continuum hypothesis: There is no set whose cardinality is strictly between that of the integers and that of the real numbers.
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by jganetsk 17y ago
I once heard Manuel Blum say that it could be shown that the result can be neither proven nor disproven given our framework of mathematics, similar to the Continuum Hypothesis. In this case, I would call P=NP an ill-posed problem. I think t
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by jganetsk 17y ago
What happens to preferred stock?
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by jganetsk 17y ago
Don't many stocks trade below a dollar? So-called penny stocks?
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by jganetsk 17y ago
It may not be a good idea to shift such unpredictable costs to the compiler/runtime. Your program could potentially become much harder to profile.
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by jganetsk 17y ago
Combined with finalizers, yes.

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