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by judk 12y ago
It's not an experiment, it's a bizarre political propaganda effort in service of some chip Thiel has on his shoulder.
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by judk 12y ago
Problem has been solved, mods please backpage the rageful Israel-vs-Palestine debate.
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by judk 12y ago
There are lots of high quality libraries, but no major effort to replace the Prelude's privileged position in the language. So it it kind of a minefield to find the correct module/function for your needs. Haskell Platform is a gre
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by judk 12y ago
Sucker's game? Because someone else may be less generous? Then join up with your fellow and rise against the greedy wealthy.
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by judk 12y ago
If you think of these govt agencies as employment-welfare themselves, makework jobs with a false veneer of productivity, it begins to make sense. The bureaucracy is the actual welfare program.
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by judk 12y ago
These options are not available on mobile devices.
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by judk 12y ago
Great to here. I tried wodi years ago and it was a disaster. Made hobby-learning ocaml a nonstarter. Opam sounds promising.
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by judk 12y ago
The Haskell Prelude is famously awful, so OCaml stdlib isn't much of a needle-mover.
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by judk 12y ago
Is there a website where I can pop in a URL and get the page rendered with word wrapping and line length less than 1000 pixels? Readability as a service?
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by judk 12y ago
I got to about he sixth repetition of the word "scumbag" before I stopped and thought, "what is this, a michaelochurch rant?" And went up to check the username-- oh.
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by judk 12y ago
Kahneman chose the names "1" and "2" because he asserts that those names are easier to remember than "autopilot" and "deliberate", and so don't require System 2 thinking when you use them. I find
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by judk 12y ago
Because my fave 256 aren't the same as yours, and palette switching is a huge pain. see for example what a pain it is to get Solarized working across both terminal and X and ssh sessions, in vim and emacs.
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by judk 12y ago
And what happens when both electable parties' political machines put up primary candidates on the same side of an issue?
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by judk 12y ago
Snickers uses "diva" in its ads. The meaning there is "woman-like, and therefore unpleasant way for a man to behave." As long as women are disrespected culture-wide, any female-gendered term will seem degrading from a ma
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by judk 12y ago
If women are discouraged from pursuing STEM, then the women who do graduate are expected to be a higher caliber of persistence, and perhaps other measures of ability, than the average male graduate. If the bottom half of women are culled be
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by judk 12y ago
I don't know. NFL went pink and it attracted loads of female customers/fans. At any rate, pink isn't worse than black and red and shiny metal spinning razor blades and ninjas. It's another niche.
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by judk 12y ago
How is the worst case not n^2 on a case you don't use medians of medians?
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by judk 12y ago
Actually, that's MoveOn.org/Upworthy. Gawker is just a generalized family of gossip rags.
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by judk 12y ago
Composition always takes more boilerplate, because inheritance is noting more than composition with a bunch of default choices for a privileged component (single inheritance) or arbitrary sorting of components (multiple inheritance) made so
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by judk 12y ago
Effective Java is the textbook of junior professional programming. All your new hires shoyld read it.
651.
by judk 12y ago
Or being too heavy to carry or too complicated to wield with a high hit rate.
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by judk 12y ago
Redundancy is an important part of communication and error- robustness I both human and computer languages. RAS Syndrome is a sweet spot trading off economy of characters/syllables vs clarity of message. As with most things humans grav
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by judk 12y ago
Pixel Dungeon for android is planned to be open sourced soon
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by judk 12y ago
If a mathematician would throw away his mathematical understandings in order to prove more results, I worry for his soul. A theorem in ZFC-but-not-ZF is much less interesting than a theorem in ZF, except as a topic in model theory.
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by judk 12y ago
Indeed, this is what intuition is. We often fail to notice where our childhood intuitions come from (experience), and so our adult desire to understand interferes with our ability to form new intuitions.
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by judk 12y ago
ColinWright, you know a lot about math, but this article is misleading and confused. Why did you post it? HN has a history of confused discussions of infinity; I would request that experts share illuminating articles, not confusing ones.
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by judk 12y ago
But if you remove the requirement that the algorithm be practical in any plausible Universe, there is no reason to reject it as countetintuitive.
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by judk 12y ago
What's the difference? Uncountable sets does not respect out intuition about countable sets. AC is independent from ZF, meaning it doesn't matter for any application to anything in the Universe, including physics or computing. The
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by judk 12y ago
At some point, you hit a region where access to capital and powerful friends is the difference, not talent. For example, Larry Page and Zuck had wealthy investors and access to enployees who were more talented than themselves but accepted a
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by judk 12y ago
Are teenagers such terrible people? After the 350 diaper, the deep emotional rewards start to have diminishing marginal utility. Work/Life balance is possible.

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