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by jgg 16y ago
I do. There are so many of these as of late that it's become unbearable. I've been trying to ignore it, but I can't stand it anymore.
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by jgg 16y ago
I've kept my mouth shut for a while now, but I have to be honest - I can't stand this fucking bullshit anymore. Do you realize how pathetic you look by posting this back-and-forth tech company drivel? I don't have or use an Android, an iPho
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by jgg 16y ago
>but i was lucky enough to have a high school computer and robotics teacher that let me explore things i found interesting for credit. You were lucky - the only thing that saved me from giving up entirely in high school were a few good
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by jgg 16y ago
I guess the only problem there is that it makes it harder for one community focused on a certain topic to "branch" to another when things get rough, whereas now you can just start "/r/ruby_two" or whatever if /r/ruby makes you mad. It's def
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by jgg 16y ago
I'm resisting the urge to link to an Erik Naggum rant...
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by jgg 16y ago
Wrong, God wrote in Lisp: http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/eternal-flame.html
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ACM-style programming competition, but with support for Lisp, Haskell and others(spoj.pl)
6 points by jgg 16y ago|1 comments
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by jgg 16y ago
Even just a simple tagging system would suffice. One to two tags attached to the submitted link would be great. One could use Reddit for this, but I prefer the average comment/article on Hacker News to the average comment/article on Reddit.
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Design Patterns in Haskell(blog.ezyang.com)
4 points by jgg 16y ago|0 comments
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by jgg 16y ago
Someone should do something like this for hackers interested in math...or does such a site already exist?
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by jgg 16y ago
It's awesome that you're in high school and you're already checking out Scheme. I did the same thing (I'm a freshman in college now). (: On that note (since I'm derailing the topic of conversation anyway), does anyone have experience with t
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by jgg 16y ago
The way I read The Little Schemer featured a lot of skimming, punctuated with occasional moments of re-reading. I enjoyed that series, but I think if I had read it line by line I would have gone insane (at least in the first book). The key
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by jgg 16y ago
I think that's why Lisp is pleasing in a mathematical sort of way. You start with your basic axioms, which are simple to understand. The real test, however, comes from your ability to build up from those axioms an elegant, abstract framewor
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by jgg 16y ago
I've been meaning to try the Kinesis Advantage, how is it?
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by jgg 16y ago
I agree. The special skill you need to really do mathematics - creative problem solving - is a very hard skill to develop in anyone. It seems like schools are taking the easy way out by not requiring you to use it that much.
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by jgg 16y ago
>To me it seems absurd that much of the medical establishment would regard the unhappiness a recently bereaved person as a chemical imbalance or a symptom of illness It doesn't seem so absurd when you realize that they make a lot of mon
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by jgg 16y ago
Yes, my example of a serial killer was a really bad one in retrospect, exactly because most if not all are sociopaths and there probably isn't a way to help them.
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by jgg 16y ago
What about the part where we hypothetically solved their problems? Once we kill a few people, have we crossed a line that keeps us from being ethical, higher-level beings? I find it interesting and instructive in situations like this to thi
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by jgg 16y ago
Agreed. What's more valuable - letting a serial killer sit on death row for a few years, sucking up tax payer money for no good reason, and then killing him OR trying to understand why he did the things he did, and seeing if there is any wa
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by jgg 16y ago
(Aside: the possible exception to this is Calculus and other advanced math classes, unless you are one of those people who absorb that with a minimum of effort; you either understand Calculus (et. al.), or you don’t, you can’t really just p
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by jgg 16y ago
If you really look at it, this is true for just about any field. For example, most of my mathematics education has come from the Internet or sources that were pointed out/purchased using the Internet. Other than giving you access to smart p
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by jgg 16y ago
On a related note, here's a mathematician comparing his experiences with DMT and LSD: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYDgmpiE-U0
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by jgg 16y ago
>No functional language exp. Common Lisp, at least, isn't really a purely functional language. It supports multiple paradigms. Scheme and Clojure are a little more "functional" than CL, but they too are not pure. I wouldn't worry about
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by jgg 16y ago
I'd use PLT Scheme: http://www.plt-scheme.org/
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by jgg 16y ago
That's a good question, actually. The answer is: Yes and no. Scheme, Emacs Lisp, Common Lisp and Clojure are all different, certainly. For example, when you look at programming texts, you realize that there really is a "Scheme" way of doing
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Steel Bank Common Lisp Version 1.0.38 released(sourceforge.net)
47 points by jgg 16y ago|20 comments
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by jgg 16y ago
Amusingly enough, I found a page on RAND's site ( http://www.rand.org/publications/randreview/issues/RRR.fall9... ), where the definition of Cyberwar isn't anything unique enough to warrant a new label. I think it's just another (surprise
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by jgg 16y ago
The Cambridge link appears to be down. Try arXiv instead: http://arxiv.org/pdf/0810.4315v3
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by jgg 16y ago
This whole thing implicitly assumes there's some acceptable "balance" you're making when you compare abstraction power and performance. Ignoring the fact that "choosing speed" or "choosing abstraction" is a bit of a false dichotomy, that's
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A Formal System for Euclid's Elements(journals.cambridge.org)
1 points by jgg 16y ago|1 comments

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