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by kenko 13y ago
"Parens are overloaded in traditional Lisps for both invocation and grouping." And boy do I wish they were overloaded the same way in Clojure. I hate the fact that I have to say (cond (some-long-predicate involving multipler
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by kenko 13y ago
No, as the linked post points out. Many businesses do not have the goal of simply turning money into more money. For a long time, the goal of GM was to make cars. It would be insane to open, say, a used bookstore if making money were your
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by kenko 13y ago
I think this is exactly right. Tactile visual substitution systems provide a sensory modality that we may as well call sight, just not via the eyeballs, and it takes time for the blind to become capable with them. Why wouldn't it take time
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by kenko 13y ago
" The answer to Molyneux's problem should be "yes" --- the newly sighted can correctly associate the shapes." In actual fact, the newly sighted can't correctly associate the shapes right away. They need time to learn how to negotiate sight.
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by kenko 13y ago
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/molyneux-problem/
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by kenko 13y ago
The observation that Spotify is in business solely to increase its own capitalization and not directly for music-related reasons ties in nicely to this post: https://itself.wordpress.com/2013/03/27/like-a-business/ Spotify appears to be a
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by kenko 13y ago
Saying this to Damon Krukowski is a bit like attempting to teach one's grandmother to suck eggs, no? He presumably knows something about this topic.
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by kenko 13y ago
> All the other girls would talk about fashion labels and gossip and she would be bored out of her mind, wondering why nobody else watched Doctor Who. None of them understood the joke on her Darth Vader t-shirt. One of them listened to
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by kenko 13y ago
Is it published on a technology or startup-focused site that isn't Ars Technica? It's a press release.
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by kenko 13y ago
Hard to press flowers or do rubbings with tablets, too.
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by kenko 14y ago
That's from nearly five years ago and consists of three comments.
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by kenko 14y ago
These papers (or those of them that I've read, anyway, mostly the earlier ones) are really fantastic.
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by kenko 14y ago
Frequently four lines are more readable than one.
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by kenko 14y ago
I guess this is too heavyweight, after all: Prelude GOA> (return [1..]) >>= return . map (^ 2) >>= return . takeWhile (< 64) [1,4,9,16,25,36,49]
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by kenko 14y ago
I used ¢ as flip ($).
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by kenko 14y ago
Alas, it is all too feasible to compose inane comments using sesquipedalian vocabulary and an overly-reticulated sentence structure in which dependent clauses which add nothing to the comment save for syntactic complexity, and sometimes onl
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by kenko 14y ago
This snippet reads to me as if it says: (1) move the player unconditionally (2) do something involve fire, or perhaps involving firing, unconditionally (3) maybe the player waves? maybe there are waves? (4) ??? (5) ??? (6) update the score
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by kenko 14y ago
"- What if Heroku were giving to kennethreitz or other Heroku employees? They're not (I checked under the hood), but what if?" That would definitely be shady. What if you paid a substantial portion of an employee's salary under the table li
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by kenko 14y ago
"With companies coming on board, we may have to rethink this a bit. " Why?
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by kenko 14y ago
For that matter, is someone who went to trade school or got an apprenticeship or went into a manufacturing job a nonconformist? Equally laughable is the idea that "going to college signals conformity to organizations that want you to be a c
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by kenko 14y ago
I also wondered about triplets, quintuplets, etc. Also what if I want a dotted quarter note, how is that notated? Extra pitch information for microtones?
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by kenko 14y ago
Cartoonish is right. Not only are they horribly exploitative towards the academics and librarians who by and large both write and purchase what Elsevier publishes, they also ... sponsor arms fairs! whee!
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A new monads library for Clojure(github.com)
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by kenko 14y ago
Right, I was (stupidly, it was early!) just using "f" as a shorthand for a function type like x -> x.
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by kenko 14y ago
"some measure of support" like a way of interacting with the outside world. The pure SKI calculus is Turing complete, but no amount of library code (also written in the pure SKI calculus) or syntactic sugar for expressing your favorite para
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by kenko 14y ago
Losh doesn't use Church numerals, though, he represents numbers as lists. The fact that lists are also represented as functions is a diversion; his number three doesn't represent a function f -> x -> x that returns the threefold com
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by kenko 14y ago
Go or Scala attempt to improve on Erlang? Elixir attempts to improve on Erlang---that I can see.
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by kenko 14y ago
"The law, almost by definition, cannot be written to foresee all innovation. So it is a given that by definition many, if not most, innovations will fall outside laws." That very much fails to be the case. Suppose for instance we had a law
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by kenko 14y ago
Generally governments are more apt to seek and promote innovation within the law. There is, in fact, more to innovation than violating municipal etc. codes.
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by kenko 14y ago
I still don't know what you mean by "purity". Saying "i.e., purity" doesn't help, since I already knew that you think purity has something to do with generics being definable by people other than the language designers. "If the language d

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