jriddycuz

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by jriddycuz 17y ago
I don't know if the author meant to draw attention to "Japanese" in the sense that these people were especially surprised because they were Japanese and not of some other nationality. But I do wonder if the Hacker-Wunderkind archetype is le
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
I agree that "Clojure" is kinda a silly name, but what else are you gonna call it? I assume Henly wanted a name that conveyed its functional and/or Lisp roots, and the fact that it's on the JVM. Let's try some names using the usual JVM lang
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
Yes but in the recurrence relation, it said "for all n >= 1". I guess the additional term was the tipping point that let mathematica infer that the meat of the sequence was for n >= 1.
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
Agreed, don't start with zero for that. There's no real number n such that 2^n = 0, so the the closed-form expression you were seeking won't be found that way.
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
I guess it really just depends on what motivates you. Grades never motivated me, and I never felt like my academic peers and I were "like-minded", so school ended up feeling more like an impediment to my education than an enlightening exper
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
One man's obfuscation is another man's expressiveness.
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
Yes, but these warnings can generate false positives if you actually want to do assignment in a test condition. And before everyone tells me that's bad coding style, it is at least a common idiom in certain kinds situations like this very c
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
Aw, c'mon man, it was a joke. I know it wouldn't run...I was trying to express the ambiguity of the recursive irony, or something. I would never put side effects in a real predicate if I were really writing this. But I would still name the
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
(defun should-upvote? (post) (if (produces-irony? (should-upvote? post)) (progn (upvote post) t) nil)))
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
If I could upvote this article 1,000 points I would. I have dreamed about being a nomad for years. Even if this guy isn't really giving an "objective" view, just the fact that someone has actually transitioned to living in an RV fills me
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
It's more convenient to think about if your mind is in functional programming mode. Thought convenience is real convenience.
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
Thanks for the link. I was a business major in school ( gasp ) so I missed out on a lot of math. I find things like this really helpful even if they are not super high level. Just out of curiosity, why is it that "Open University" videos ar
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
If you have developers that know Java and nothing else, which is not all that uncommon, it's really your only option. And since any developer who can't or won't learn additional languages is probably not very good, using a language like Jav
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
It's hard to say. I'd probably ask your general practice physician for a referral to a therapist that specializes in adult ADHD. And I say therapist rather than psychiatrist intentionally: A therapist is usually someone with a PhD in psycho
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
Thanks for this post. I'm new to doing bash scripting and this is very helpful.
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
Yeah, definitely don't just take Adderall. I'm diagnosed with ADHD and I take Adderall every day and I still have a lot of trouble focusing. Especially when the problem gets boring. Especially when I want to solve a much more generic prob
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
I still find the most confusing aspect of Haskell to be that it makes me feel like I have to think like a mathematician rather than a programmer.
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
I just realized I'm distracting myself by reading a blog post on how to focus.
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
"People and Information want to be Free!" Hmmm. The fact that he attributes volitional desire to information makes me wonder if he could use a freedom of religion-based defense, rather than just a political ideology one. Courts are rarely
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
I think Adobe is still relying on the fact that presenting videos in Flash players still prevents the casual user from simply downloading the video. This is something media corporations still care about, and conceivably will keep caring abo
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
I don't see what's different about this and, say, the Minnesota Vikings asking Brett Favre not to wear a Packers hat.
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
Did anyone else catch that guy's name? Ah Skeet!
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
I'm a programmer, so I have a tendency to sit on my ass and snack. Why would I want a shirt that draws attention to my waistline?
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
Good point. I don't have a good idea either what the Next Big Enterprise Language should be, but I'll bet that it will not be what it should be. I think an "Enterprise Language" is bound to be disappointing because it's a solution to an u
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
Okay, that analogy makes sense. As a technical and taxonomic language, yeah something really stable like Latin or Greek (also used a lot in medicine) is probably best. And yes, I was referring to the Church. Fortunately, Sun doesn't have th
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
I think that's true in some instances. But if you want to keep the Latin analogy going, you have to acknowledge that Latin stuck around because an entrenched organization continued to use it long after it had lost vulgar relevance. And La
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
I don't think I made my point clear enough that it is in fact the little things that often influence whether or not we commit resources to a particular activity. You're right to suggest that just reposting the same comments about it being
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
It's been hard for me to pin down RMS's exact thoughts on these kinds of things. I think the whole "copyleft" made him and the FSF as a whole seem more communist or anarcho-syndicalist or something, when I doubt that's the actual intent. Bu
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
The guy who introduced me to Python originally had that kinda dickish attitude, and for some dumb reason I assumed the whole Python developer community was like that. It really biased me against using the language for quite some time, which
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
You're right. Facebook is not Twitter. Twitter is what happens when you eliminate everything but subject lines. It's a platform for transmitting social MIME headers.

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