kaeluka

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by kaeluka 9y ago
My take: "a statically typed language can GUARANTEE the same things a dynamic language can GUARANTEE, but not the other way around. A dynamically typed language can PERMIT the same things a static language can PERMIT, but not the other
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by kaeluka 9y ago
It's a fantastic talk. One of the best talks on programming that I'm aware of.
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by kaeluka 9y ago
I saw it as an option, but an unlikely one.
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by kaeluka 9y ago
No offence, but you sound like you haven't worked in or close to such a field. CS theory very often doesn't require coding at all, and coding would be barely helpful. edit: this is not a value statement.
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by kaeluka 9y ago
Thanks, that convinced me :)
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by kaeluka 9y ago
Unless two actors share state, or use global mutable state.
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by kaeluka 9y ago
I agree with a well funded government. I don't always agree with how government spends the money, but that is kind of the point. Governments should guarantee a minimum standard and equal starting conditions for everyone, capitalism rai
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by kaeluka 9y ago
My mother, a former Austrian primary school teacher has, in her words "dragged this mother out of her car and showed her what could've happened." I think that the school doesn't let parents drop kids off right at the doo
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by kaeluka 9y ago
You should send a mail to that teacher and tell them how this lesson stuck with you, if you haven't :-)
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by kaeluka 9y ago
Is the implementation in Erlang remarkably simple? How does it work?
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by kaeluka 9y ago
To implement killing is not easy. Edit: to implement it in a well-performing way.
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by kaeluka 9y ago
> Don't stir up the fanatics, they really enjoy bashing disbelievers. Weird, that sounds a lot like what you folks are doing, too.
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by kaeluka 9y ago
Great, how many tons of vanilla do we consume every year?
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by kaeluka 9y ago
I think that you understand quite well what I'm saying but you're trying to construct an argument now to protect you from adapting your opinion.
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by kaeluka 9y ago
> They are not a utility. In many ways, they are. They didn't sign up for it, yet here we are..
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by kaeluka 9y ago
There are ways in which current machine learning is better than your brain -- tracking many objects at the same time is one of them. Sure, it's worse in many other ways.
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by kaeluka 9y ago
Even if that really happens: there's plenty of ways you can spin this into an advantage, long term. An event like this closes some doors, but will also open others. In any case: good luck with the exams! You can do a lot of exam prepar
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by kaeluka 9y ago
*Literarily has changed your life. Sorry, I'll show myself out :-)
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by kaeluka 9y ago
Here you go, the way you said this made me smile :)
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by kaeluka 10y ago
Another thing I understood yesterday (somewhat) is how injective and surjective functions are related. This has been bugging me since high school -- they seemed "too different to be opposites", but they should've been opposit
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by kaeluka 10y ago
Disclaimer: I'm currently learning CT (basics), so I'm not really qualified to give an answer yet. My impression so far is that CT teaches you a set of orthogonal abstractions (call them patterns if you like) that will allow you t
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by kaeluka 10y ago
+1 Additionally, even if you could and would factor out everything else, "obvious" would hardly be the right word to use.
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by kaeluka 10y ago
That's not at all obvious. Tibetans have a very different life style and nutrition than, for instance, westerners.
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by kaeluka 10y ago
Tikz indeed! I'd use Inkscape today though ;) Edit: thank you! Glad you like it. Edit 2: sources at https://github.com/kaeluka/cv
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by kaeluka 10y ago
I like Gentium. Thanks for the tip! > Good TeX should simply yield to good typography. Making it look like tech can make it appear like you're one of the in-crowd. Although I personally try to avoid exactly that, I can see it being
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by kaeluka 10y ago
I've never worked with postgres before my current project and I'm so impressed with how easy it is to get stuff done. I used Cassandra for a prototype (bad choice for my workload, not Cassandra's fault) and documentation, eas
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by kaeluka 10y ago
All hail the universal search engine!
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by kaeluka 10y ago
It's a pep talk. Nothing wrong with that, IMO.
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by kaeluka 10y ago
Yes, essential viewing!
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by kaeluka 10y ago
The expression "old thinking" really makes me cringe.

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