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by kenko 14y ago
His claim is still an effective denial of the claim he was denying, namely, that the only people using Go are on the Go team.
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by kenko 14y ago
My last (ok, only) published paper cited 47 other papers or books. I felt absolutely no compulsion to reduce (or, for that matter, increase) that number, nor does the number of citations have any connection to the amount of time I could dis
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by kenko 14y ago
The focus on Haskell as an alternative is unfortunate. What about, say, Racket? There's a language that emerged out of PL research, by researchers that clearly care about getting programming concepts across to people ( The Little Schemer ,
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by kenko 14y ago
Peyton-Jones said that Haskell was useless before they got a handle on how to do IO. Haskell is clearly not useless at present.
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by kenko 14y ago
Slides eight and nine, to me at least, suggest by the implicit contrast between research and helping programmers that the Go designers just weren't interested in the state of PL research.
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by kenko 14y ago
Pandoc is fantastic, the parsing code is clear, and its extensions to markdown are well thought out. It's not just a markdown->everything converter, though. My install understands these: Input formats: native, json, markdown, markdown+
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by kenko 14y ago
You could write the clojure version in the exact same way (well, you wouldn't say null?, but, basically the same) as the lisp one. But it wouldn't be as efficient given the various ways sequences might be implemented in Clojure. That make
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by kenko 14y ago
Academic papers are certainly not stingy with references.
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by kenko 14y ago
I have heard—though I frustratingly can't find a reference anymore—that even earlier (like 19th or 18th century earlier) mail was delivered frequently enough in a given day that you could receive a letter in the morning,
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by kenko 14y ago
However, he only graduated from undergrad this past year—so while he is a Stanford Ph.D. student, he's only been one for about a few weeks.
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by kenko 14y ago
"Yet another nail in the coffin of his credibility." So because he's upset that his pendant was mocked (in what sounds like a pretty assy way), he isn't credible ? What were the other nails?
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by kenko 14y ago
"The origin of the NIMBY ("not in my back yard") is honorable. People would buy a home, planning to live and raise children in reasonable safety, when some agency of government decides to locate a halfway house or nuclear power plant nearby
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by kenko 14y ago
"Who knows why someone would divulge their password. I bet there are reasons other than being completely devoid of common sense." You need a job and are given to believe that you won't get the one you're interviewing for if you don't hand o
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by kenko 14y ago
"If there's two supermarkets in town and one is unionized, the other one will probably be better for the customer in some way, usually because they'll have lower prices." This does not at all correspond to my experience.
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by kenko 14y ago
God knows the first thing I do when deciding whether to shop at a supermarket is find out whether it's unionized, and avoid it if it is.
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by kenko 14y ago
Let's stipulate to the first sentence of your comment (and ignore everything that comes after it). If you're adding value to an organization, you shouldn't need a contract. Wonderful! There you are, being a positive influence on your organi
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by kenko 14y ago
??? Customers won't give you, hapless employee, job security if your employers can easily replace you with someone cheaper because you have a flimsy (or no!) contract, nor will customers help you with disputes with management, or wrongful t
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by kenko 14y ago
You can solve the problem with the parent's memoization by writing the original fib using open recursion and closing it with a fixed-point operator. Doesn't help for library functions or things like that, though.
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by kenko 14y ago
"The characters or substrings that make up a string stand on their own. In fact, it's pretty hard to differentiate a string from an array of characters." It's difficult to differentiate a number from an ordered n-tuple of bits, but that doe
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by kenko 14y ago
Really? There's only two bits of punctuation there, and they don't take much to explain: #(...) is an anonymous function; % is the argument to that function. (I'm not counting > because ... it's just the greater-than sign.) The Haskell
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by kenko 14y ago
And yet Zed seems to think he can teach the basis by which Ruby's for ... in works without laying nearly the same amount of groundwork. That's the real question---why do you need to go over so much in so much detail in the one case, but som
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by kenko 14y ago
So in order to each `for ... in`, should you have to teach Enumerable, etc?
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by kenko 14y ago
Why would you need to teach inheritance, mixins, message passing, enumerable, etc. to teach .each as a first looping construct? (And why don't you have to teach whatever powers Ruby's for ... in loop to teach it ?) That seems to be like
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by kenko 14y ago
If you want to be clear in your writing you avoid idiomatic speech that will be unfamiliar to your audience. Using the idioms of your audience doesn't impede clarity. The woman in _Airplane_ who "speaks jive" employs idioms to increase clar
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by kenko 14y ago
"For example, founders who don’t think of their team’s welfare first in a soft landing probably won’t get funding from their prior investors." So in this context, a founder's "team" is the investors, yes? Not the employees?
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by kenko 14y ago
Change test-client.py to end: print client.fetch(1000) print client.fetch(1) And when you run it, you get the same thing twice (whatever file was specified as the first argument to test-server.py on the commandline). On the other h
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by kenko 14y ago
This seems right to me. ipython also has some features that go way beyond enhancements to the REPL.
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by kenko 14y ago
I've ridden public transport all over the world as well, including in San Francisco and Oakland, and the only place I've ever felt even moderately uncomfortable was in Chicago. Muni does suck, but I've only got anecdotal reports that it's
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by kenko 14y ago
He says he still does a significant amount of coding, actually! This is some Posner-like polymathism out of a judge.
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by kenko 14y ago
The describe_string_calculator function (the stuff on the left-hand side of the slides) seems like a pretty bizarre way to describe the spec: all it does is define functions, some of which also define functions, but none of which is ever ca

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