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by jpr 16y ago
What is this I don't even?! Haskell is Haskell, math is math, category theory is category theory. They are not the same, even if they have some things in common. Deal with it.
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by jpr 16y ago
I have hard time understanding why browers' parsing algorithms should be standardized or why it's a good idea to do so. Shouldn't a language be defined declaratively using a grammar?
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by jpr 16y ago
Ditto for my Finnish keyboard.
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by jpr 16y ago
Or there's -25 Celsius and 60 centimeters of snow outside.
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by jpr 16y ago
Maybe I have missed something, but what did Zuckerberg do to deserve the title this year?
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by jpr 16y ago
> Expressions separated by the comma operator are always evaluated left to right. That's correct (for C), but I feel the need to add that in function calls the parameters are separated by commas, and they can be evaluated in any order.
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by jpr 16y ago
Your dream, my nightmare.
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by jpr 16y ago
"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence" When I first learned to program (err, actually just to press buttons in an IDE, anyway), I had a "great" idea how you could make a site like Facebook, just simpler
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by jpr 16y ago
Do you know if there is a way to quickly jump to a specific window in Opera, with a strings search, like in Vimperator? This would be really nice.
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by jpr 16y ago
My bank password is 4 digits. But they ask another, one shot 4 digit password from a table they've sent to you when you actually move money. I thought all banks did this?
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by jpr 16y ago
Last time I tried SBCL on FreeBSD, the binary package didn't have threads enabled, and when I compiled it from ports, the configuration dialog had me enable the threading manually and said it was "experimental".
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by jpr 16y ago
No it can't. Browser is pretty much the only platform where you have to use a certain language.
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by jpr 16y ago
I wonder about the legality of such licenses.
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by jpr 16y ago
Whan was this published? "09/05/03" doesn't say anything to me.
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by jpr 16y ago
What is that a reference to? I suppose this is what I get for not owning a tv.
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by jpr 16y ago
Extensibility of the type without breaking existing code. When you add or remove a case from an algebraic data type, you pretty much need to modify all functions that operate on it since they contain patterns that mention the data-construct
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by jpr 16y ago
There is no need for (implementation) inheritance just to use dynamic dispatch. Many languages provide mechanisms for dynamic dispatch without needing to use inheritance. Also, you can certainly have encapsulation even in pure C with proper
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by jpr 16y ago
I use emacs and dired as a condom that shields me from the stupidity that is remembering this kind of trivia.
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by jpr 16y ago
Sufficiently Smart Compiler(tm) should be able to optimize `case` that switches only on a known set of symbols pretty well. Certainly not necessary to do hash-lookup.
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by jpr 16y ago
AFAICT, free Github repositories are always public.
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by jpr 16y ago
This seems like good advice for getting rid of bad habits: "just because I did something yesterday is not a good enough reason to do it today" Gotta keep that in mind.
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by jpr 16y ago
KISS
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by jpr 16y ago
I was with the author until this: > A dangerous myth To wrongly suggest people need to eat animal protein for nutrients will encourage them to add foods that are known to contribute to the incidence of heart disease, diabetes, obesity,
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by jpr 16y ago
For some values of "actual". I think these kinds of retarded units are one reason for not doing the arithmetic.
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by jpr 16y ago
Or Niklaus Wirth: http://www.sporcle.com/games/supreddit/prog_lang_wirth
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by jpr 16y ago
Try entering (eval. '(lambda (x) x) nil) to the REPL with the following definitions: http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/paulgraham/jmc.lisp
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by jpr 16y ago
Overly clever or confusing to you, idiomatic to others (and vice versa).
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by jpr 16y ago
Why is everyone, including NYT and HN doing exactly what that scumbag wants? This disgusts me.
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by jpr 16y ago
Common Lisp does this and it's not restricted to being interpreted, you just have to include compiler, linker etc. as part of the language runtime.
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by jpr 16y ago
Uh oh, I wouldn't want anyone to copy anything that has to with typesystem from Go before they tell how they are going to have typesafe containers without generics. Haskell typeclasses would be a better source of inspiration IMNSHO.

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