jganetsk

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   by jganetsk 17y ago

   The key change you need to make to the RTS is, when you evaluate a thunk, rather than overwriting it with the final value, instead append the evaluated value to the thunk. This already happens in GHC. Any thunk that is to get updated has
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   by jganetsk 17y ago

   I've managed to set up git-svn with svn branches. Well, we use svn tags, but you can probably just s/tags/branches/ [svn-remote "svn"] url = ... fetch = trunk/java:refs/remotes/svn/trunk tags = tags/*:refs/remotes/svn/
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   by jganetsk 17y ago

   This is the way things work now. Electrons move very slowly, but the electric field (photons) travels at the speed of light... and that's what carries the information through a conductor.
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   by jganetsk 17y ago

   Erlang's had this for 20 years. It's called the "iolist". Most library calls in the language support it.
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   by jganetsk 17y ago

   At first sight of the title, I thought this paper would be about chromosomes.
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   by jganetsk 17y ago

   >I really wish the (domain) included subdomain. Put in a feature request with pg.
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   by jganetsk 17y ago

   Ulcerative colitis is a terrible disease. I could totally understand him being a very irritable guy.
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   by jganetsk 17y ago

   Code can still be copyrighted under an OSI license.
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   by jganetsk 17y ago

   Does the local folding process all inputs, or only those inputs whose keys would end up being local to the node?
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    by jganetsk 17y ago

    I'm very excited to see work like this. There's no reason to accept MapReduce as the best type signature for structuring distributed, parallelizable algorithms. Most of the justification is that it "feels right", and "just works".
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    by jganetsk 17y ago

    The Haskell world, as well.
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    by jganetsk 17y ago

    Psychologists know nothing about code, so they'd be of limited use when interviewing coders. But, I'd be curious as to what they actually can ascertain about coders.
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    by jganetsk 17y ago

    If it works, and is not object-oriented, then we should reevaluate the relative worth of OOP. I do agree that mainstream programming languages are valuable because of number of developers working with it, and "enterprise" support. So, maybe
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    Enterprise Java is not Object-Oriented

    13 points by jganetsk 17y ago|11 comments
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    by jganetsk 17y ago

    > I've wondered what the real difference is between a parametric module system that allows you to substitute along common interfaces, versus an object system that allows "duck" typing, mixins, or interface inheritance. In practice, the
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    by jganetsk 17y ago

    I'm disappointed that I have yet to see a decent discussion on HN on comparing the ML-style module system with OOP. It's really worth talking about. Also, OCaml is sometimes called a "higher-order imperative programming language" instead of
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    by jganetsk 17y ago

    "Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad." -Rob Pike, circa 1991
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    by jganetsk 17y ago

    How is learning an ancient form of South Indian martial arts at all relevant to the discussion?
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    by jganetsk 17y ago

    If we all die tomorrow, the Singularity does not occur.
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    by jganetsk 17y ago

    Those of us who don't know history are bound to reinvent it.
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    by jganetsk 17y ago

    Same for me, except change step 2 to "git pull" and 5) sound the alarm
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    by jganetsk 17y ago

    The kids nowadays don't even know about MPI as a framework for parallel processing. Thank you, MapReduce.
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    by jganetsk 17y ago

    Is the Great Firewall of China not effective enough?
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    by jganetsk 17y ago

    Is it the next big thing after BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China)? Because those countries still have yet to fully develop.
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    by jganetsk 17y ago

    Apply and maybe you'll be part of the couple that get funded. They didn't say that they wouldn't interview you.
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    by jganetsk 17y ago

    It's amazing how chemistry turns out to just be a domain-specific language in Haskell.
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    by jganetsk 17y ago

    By the definition of capitalism, we are all pawns of the invisible hand of the market, as much as we are the benefactors.
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    by jganetsk 17y ago

    Google really needs to market its lesser-known products better.
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    by jganetsk 17y ago

    If this article is true, than what kind of people would choose to read this article?
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    by jganetsk 17y ago

    Now, the average TC article is about Twitter.