kamechan

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by kamechan 16y ago
why pay for it when i can get it for free? LyX FTW! TBH, i've never used framemaker and their site makes me want to give it a try. TODO: give it a try.
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Japan live newsfeed from the beeb(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by kamechan 16y ago|0 comments
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by kamechan 16y ago
why is it still used? WYSIWYW >> WYSIWYG modern alternatives? nothing i can think of.
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by kamechan 16y ago
actually, can be done more simply as: mapM_ print [1..1000] but yeah, ...haskell +1 for that :D
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Second Fukushima reactor explosion. "Rods Exposed"(youtube.com)
4 points by kamechan 16y ago|0 comments
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by kamechan 16y ago
haskell's niche: PL theory research. as a professor of mine said, "it's an incubator for PL theory". that said, are there merits to non-PL researchers learning it? i think so. for one, the functional paradigm is increasingly being integrate
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by kamechan 16y ago
prolific too...
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by kamechan 16y ago
the entire site is a computational goldmine, it seems. http://okmij.org/ftp/README.html
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by kamechan 16y ago
yes, sorry. that's what i meant. long day. wait, it's still not over.
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by kamechan 16y ago
hmm, yeah those iterators are nice and simple. it's been a few years since i've worked with skiplists and i remember some kind of complexity/hangup with them, but darned if i can find what that could have been looking at those clean pytho
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by kamechan 16y ago
i've always preferred treaps to skiplists as far as probabilistic data structures are concerned. that could be partially due to the fact that i felt aragon and seidel's paper on treaps to be fundamentally better that pugh's paper on skiplis
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by kamechan 16y ago
i'm a south paw myself, but not for long. ditching my macbook pro, buying a thinkpad x220, and going back to ubuntu. http://imgur.com/FnSyK
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Polymorphic stanamically balanced binary trees (did you say stanamically?)(okmij.org)
40 points by kamechan 16y ago|5 comments
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Try haskell in your browser(tryhaskell.org)
1 points by kamechan 16y ago|0 comments
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by kamechan 16y ago
just finishing up a grad PL theory course, and RWH was definitely among the reading material. but i did find it anemic in many areas. i'll come back to that in a moment. the pros of the book is that it offers a good introduction to the lang
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by kamechan 16y ago
i'm confused as to why the title of the piece on his website is "what to do after making a ZILLION dollars" whereas it was posted here on ycombinator news (apparently by the author) under "what to do after making a billion dollars". to me,
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by kamechan 16y ago
my wife is from tokyo and hasn't been in the US for long. she still doesn't consider this her home, and we live in tokyo for 3 months of the year. anyway, i mention this because i think she's a fairly good representative of the upper-middle
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by kamechan 16y ago
FWIW, i saw it a week ago when you posted it.
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by kamechan 16y ago
scheme is a good language. i've had a nice time with it. that said, i think haskell is also worthy of one's attention. i could elaborate on the reasons why if you wish. a nicely-written guide on the topic is here: http://learnyouahaskell.c
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by kamechan 16y ago
FYI been posted already: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1060176
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The "best" collection traversal interface(okmij.org)
2 points by kamechan 16y ago|0 comments
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by kamechan 16y ago
ahh, that's annoying. thanks for the heads up. maybe i should repost. unrendered source here http://okmij.org/ftp/Haskell/fold-stream.lhs
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Tackling the awkward squad: monadic input/output [and more] in haskell(research.microsoft.com)
1 points by kamechan 16y ago|0 comments
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by kamechan 16y ago
i read this and immediately tested 3 to go off, one each minute after i read it. worked fine... latest iOS build.
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Monad tutorial by graham hutton(cs.nott.ac.uk)
6 points by kamechan 16y ago|1 comments
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Scooping the Loop Snooper, a [poetic] proof the halting problem is undecidable.(lel.ed.ac.uk)
3 points by kamechan 16y ago|0 comments
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by kamechan 16y ago
nice.
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Some fun mathematical puzzles(research.microsoft.com)
84 points by kamechan 16y ago|51 comments
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The awesomeness manifesto(blogs.hbr.org)
2 points by kamechan 16y ago|0 comments
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China grabs top spot in supercomputing ranking(top500.org)
2 points by kamechan 16y ago|0 comments

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