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by kd0amg 14y ago
it's a functional programming concept That doesn't keep it from being a declarative thing.
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by kd0amg 14y ago
Assuming, of course, that you can actually get 40 hours...
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by kd0amg 14y ago
Maybe there should be conflict of interest rules in universities. Where I studied (undergrad, at least), there were conflict of interest rules -- professors were not allowed to collect royalties on books they use in their classes.
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by kd0amg 14y ago
Once the block gets low enough, there might be things visible even while facing sideways or up: X X XO X XO OOX XO OOX XO oo OX XO oo OX XO OX XO OX XXXXXXXXXX
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by kd0amg 14y ago
With C, you don't just get to manage memory yourself -- you have to, which can become a distraction from the actual program logic.
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by kd0amg 14y ago
They are, but leaving the description at "parts of the game logic" could be taken to mean the servers are being used to offload compute-intensive tasks. Centralization for the sake of performance is understandable, but not allowing offline
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by kd0amg 14y ago
The USPS also has the additional challenge of matching what you think is your address with what is actually your address. Very, very few people know their address. What parts of their addresses do people typically get wrong? Where can one
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by kd0amg 14y ago
FWIW, braces (and brackets and parentheses) aren't all that pleasant to type on a US keyboard either.
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by kd0amg 14y ago
I bet some people here would attach a Bluetooth headset to their ears.
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by kd0amg 14y ago
They produce stuff on Excel. If they're really producing stuff, there's a good chance it involves a bit of programming (and wasn't HN discussing this a few days ago?).
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by kd0amg 14y ago
The movie ticket represents a claim on some very limited resources (i.e. space inside the theater).
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by kd0amg 14y ago
Also reminds me of http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~sabry/papers/rational.pdf
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by kd0amg 14y ago
Obviously, this story is highly anecdotal. I'm sure other departments have other ways of handling the problem of compraring people from different educational systems. It feels like the main difference here is that the admissions committee
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by kd0amg 14y ago
Confined? Most people don't have this choice. Fear? This a dream of a large % of phd graduates. I don't think GP meant it as "stuck as an assistant professor at UT Austin" -- more like "choosing between becoming an adjunct professor at Un
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by kd0amg 14y ago
I suspect this is more prevalent in student neighborhoods.
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by kd0amg 14y ago
It forced me to contact my friends face to face. This has HUGE advantages. I'd much prefer to see my friends face-to-face, but I can't afford to fly very often.
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by kd0amg 14y ago
as there's only really one implementation of this concept common use Function composition really isn't that uncommon.
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by kd0amg 14y ago
I think in a lot of cases, effort can be better spent by accepting a combination of tools (e.g. for dealing with screws in my glasses and screws in my kitchen table, having multiple screwdriver heads is probably a lot simpler than designing
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by kd0amg 14y ago
I'm not really sure if that answers your question though I think GP was confused about the difference between the concept of piping and the concept of function composition. As noted by GGGP above, the concept of piping/composition is not
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by kd0amg 14y ago
4 years of structured training, followed by the presentation of a research plan that is signed off by examiners before any research is begun so there are no surprises in the final examination. And ideally, this plan has been discussed at
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by kd0amg 14y ago
Have you got a good example where Lisp macros would work but standard Haskell would "fail"? http://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/m...
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by kd0amg 14y ago
Well, there's certainly a popular conception among program analysis and formal methods researchers that side effects make analysis much more difficult.
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by kd0amg 14y ago
It's been a while since I was making bread regularly, but I don't think I've ever seen a bread recipe that didn't include sugar. I was under the impression that yeast must eat _something_ in order to make the dough rise. edit: It looks like
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by kd0amg 14y ago
It can't have more state. The initial conditions have just as much state as any later generation. The initial state is {off, off, off, off, off, off, ... }. That's just as many bits as any later stage. That encoding is only viable if you
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by kd0amg 14y ago
I guess this is a more suitable medium than cstross/AutoPope's "pontifications by email"
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by kd0amg 14y ago
(Also, I don't think all math majors use that second style). Indeed. I don't, and I can think of several others who don't. Then again, most of the math majors I know were/are also studying CS.
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by kd0amg 14y ago
"C x A" is a combination of C and A. C, x, and A are defined once somewhere at the beginning of the paper/book. Should I take this (which doesn't actually hold in the general case) to mean that every document uses its own language? That i
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by kd0amg 14y ago
I always felt that if math theorems were presented in a programming language, they would be way more understandable …. Find out empirically! Look at theorems in some formal methods/programming languages papers and their corresponding mech
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by kd0amg 14y ago
Yes. In reading other people's code, I've had coding style make the difference between taking about a day and taking about half an hour (two programs to do the same thing in essentially the same way).
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by kd0amg 14y ago
If a non-programmer asks you "Why do you guys say int x = 10; float y = 0.2 Why not x is an whole number who value is 10 y is a fraction whose value is one fifth. Knowing what language we're working in is enough to know that's exactly wha

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