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What is Hindley-Milner and why is it cool? (2008)(codecommit.com)
185 points by jwdunne 9y ago|46 comments
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by jwdunne 9y ago
This is interesting: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift Pronunciation in 1600s sounds like a mismash of northern and Scottish accents. The 1600s "mate" is literally how someone from Lancashire
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Generating a Useful Theory of Software Engineering [pdf](users.ece.utexas.edu)
100 points by jwdunne 9y ago|33 comments
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by jwdunne 9y ago
You make a good point. Maybe their ways aren't superior - I didn't consider this. In that case, perhaps the issue isn't because we need to be more like other engineering disciplines but less like. I'm feeling for answer
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by jwdunne 9y ago
That's true. I don't think that there are major things in those disciplines that are directly applicable in a timeless fashion. My main goal is to find out how these disciplines came about. How exactly did they settle upon their b
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by jwdunne 9y ago
One thing I've been looking at lately is the various strands of engineering (civil, electrical, mechanical). I've been looking for common threads and general principles that apply to software engineering that otherwise haven'
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by jwdunne 9y ago
This intuitively makes a lot of sense. The short variable names with the legend at the top makes it a little harder to understand but you can see what's going on from a macroscopic view. Perhaps translating this to another language wit
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by jwdunne 9y ago
I've been working through this book. It's difficult to get through, I'll admit, at my stage. Is there anything you'd recommend as a supplement?
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by jwdunne 9y ago
That first link was awesome. The notation can be intimidating but this article has defogged it. Thank you! I'm gonna check out the next article and return to the first. Deserves a second reading.
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by jwdunne 9y ago
Is this intended to replace C? I don't see anything that suggests that's what this project is about. All I see is "C with different syntax". That could easily be a challenging side project whilst learning compilers &#x2F
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by jwdunne 9y ago
The difference is time. What you are in effect saying is that Muslims, Christians and Jews, whose scriptures all support some incredibly discriminatory things, are just as bad as neo-Nazis. Let's be realistic here. Muslims today are no
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by jwdunne 9y ago
In the 5th or 6th century. Christians were doing the same in the middle ages. Is that true of the Islam and Christianity people follow today? No. Completely different when it's a modern ideology with people signing up today who want to
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by jwdunne 9y ago
Of course we should. We should always be asking why in the way you describe. It doesn't make sense not to. We can do that without attributing blame. Your post makes it clear: no matter what belief system, there are bad actors that use
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by jwdunne 9y ago
Are you being serious? The Nazi party is based on doing horrible shit to minorities. That's the ideology, that's what the leadership believed and that's the reason why people joined them.
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by jwdunne 9y ago
It's still something I struggle with. I remember medication now but still forget about once a week. Too many close calls. Meditation is worse because it requires a good handful of time. Knocking back some tabs takes no time at all.
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by jwdunne 9y ago
I think you're mistaken. That's like saying we should attribute blame for Islamist terrorism to Islam itself. They're Muslims right? Wrong. Just because someone does horrible shit in the name of a cause does not mean the caus
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by jwdunne 9y ago
After grokking the tokenisation, parsing and eval of lisp like languages, what's the next step up? I usually have a bit of fun mocking out a language I'd like but end up getting into details like type systems. I never really get t
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by jwdunne 9y ago
That sounds a lot like how many sitcoms use a laugh track. I remember when I was young and naive, I thought "that can't possibly be funny. He only answered the bloody door", thinking it was real people. I now know that laught
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by jwdunne 9y ago
Communism as an ideology doesn't have racism as a cornerstone. It's just that it's very easy for people who want to do that to sieze power. Karl Marx never wrote in his manifesto that whole ethnic groups should be eliminated
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by jwdunne 9y ago
It's a shame this article focuses on received pronunciation. If the British accent is the accent of the 1%, then yeah. The real British accent has so much variation, there isn't one. There's a stark difference between my acce
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When did Americans lose their British accent? (2012)(mentalfloss.com)
5 points by jwdunne 9y ago|4 comments
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by jwdunne 9y ago
What's the definition of placebo? Was always sure it's used as a control when testing medical treatments in which the patient doesn't know if they are receiving the treatment or not, leading to a genuine change in state from
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by jwdunne 9y ago
I don't think emotional and psychological healing can be dismissed as placebo in physiological healing. People think there's a great divide between mind and body but if you look at common psychological problems, they very much hav
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by jwdunne 9y ago
I think ADD is now just ADHD. ADHD without hyperactivity is called ADHD predominantly inattentive. As for meditation, there's a lot of value in practicing sitting still without fidgeting, by focusing on one thing and, most importantly,
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Ask HN: Advice for mentoring?
1 points by jwdunne 9y ago|0 comments
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by jwdunne 9y ago
I wasn't saying your treatment was placebo at all, in fact. I couldn't possibly make that call. I'm saying that the brain is powerful enough to heal itself and the body through the placebo effect. If it's that complex, t
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by jwdunne 9y ago
Actually, I'm not saying it's a placebo effect at all. I'm saying that the brain is powerful enough to produce one as an example. My point is that if the brain has that kind of healing power, it makes sense that other treatme
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by jwdunne 9y ago
The brain is a complex and powerful organ. I'm not saying in all of these cases that's what it is but the brain has the power of placebo effect. If physical ailments get better because you merely believe you're being treated,
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by jwdunne 9y ago
Given an object with a length property with the type a method expects, is there ever a scenario where the method is incorrect? I'm trying to wrap my head around it: if a method needs only the length property, which is an unsigned int,
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Is sugar toxic? (2011)(mobile.nytimes.com)
8 points by jwdunne 9y ago|0 comments

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