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by kenko 11y ago
syntax-rules macros can break hygiene: http://okmij.org/ftp/Scheme/macros.html#dirty-macros
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by kenko 11y ago
How does that article not mention Gass's The Tunnel? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tunnel_(novel)
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by kenko 11y ago
Similar issue at Stanford, right down to there being a Keeper of the LaTeX Style. I certainly couldn't have used any old off-the-shelf style that I happened to like.
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by kenko 11y ago
"As a result, a business can't pay to train it's own work force." I believe in Germany consortiums of businesses in the same industry subsidize training. Seems reasonable. In any case, your observation would seem to be r
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by kenko 11y ago
The idea that working 9-5 is ipso facto "coasting" is absurd. If you actually need people to work long hours, then ... you aren't doing it right.
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by kenko 11y ago
"It’s terribly difficult to manage unmotivated people. Make your job easier and don’t. Different people need different kinds of management. Be adaptable to figure out what drives each person’s best performance." This juxtaposition
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by kenko 11y ago
Pedant, correct thyself: the first citation for "burglarize" in the OED is 1871, and the first citation for "burgle" is ... 1872. (The first definition for "burglarize" in the OED is "To rob burglariously&
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by kenko 11y ago
That really isn't the same thing, though. That's language-agnostic conceptual sneakiness that happened to be implemented in C.
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by kenko 11y ago
That's absurd. If you can't do it right (meaning responsibly, ethically, legally, not in a better-is-better sense), I would suggest not doing it. Maybe some things are beyond a 2 person startup, without cheating. That's an ok
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by kenko 11y ago
Too bad this is falling off the front page; it's a delightful article.
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by kenko 11y ago
"Zippers are complicated animals to work with, take quite a lot of setting up and require that the document fits in memory." "xml/parse parses the file into a tree structure like this" So aren't we fitting the
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by kenko 11y ago
Maciej is a dude, actually.
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by kenko 11y ago
The blog post explicitly says that the C++ is a translation of Haskell code, and links to the (efficient) Haskell original.
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by kenko 11y ago
He even says explicitly "(never mind how we deal with uniqueness)" in the solution section and has already acknowledged that there are only around 2 million combinations to check. ETA since he mentions the implementation is a tran
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This Article Should Not Be Rejected by Mind(drtomcrick.com)
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by kenko 11y ago
The "monads" library they ding for not-great documentation is https://github.com/bwo/monads/ (the documentation is admittedly not great).
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by kenko 11y ago
It's always weird to me when people talk about using exceptions for control flow. Exceptions are, pretty much explicitly, a control flow mechanism. That's what they do, they transfer control from one place to another. It's li
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by kenko 12y ago
Does vim really have an order of magnitude more users than emacs? Is emacs really lacking in mindshare? I have no real reason to doubt those claims but I find them kind of mind-boggling. I'd have guessed they were close to parity (for
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by kenko 12y ago
It's impossible for your comment not to be an implicit comparison of the two. No amount of disclaiming the intention to compare can prevent that.
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by kenko 12y ago
I had heard similar things and wasn't really considering Google either, but a friend there recommended that I apply so I did. The recruiter I interacted with was moderately (but, I suppose, understandably) condescending, and the phone
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by kenko 12y ago
"MPI, the Message Passing Interface, began as a needed standardization above a dizzying array of..." The capitalization and apposition makes it pretty explicit.
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by kenko 12y ago
As usual, Maciej was killing it: https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/582619098921603072 "Anyone claiming there is structure, management, hierarchy, concentration of power or obstacles to freedom at Zappos wil
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by kenko 12y ago
> By about half way down they gave up all pretence and started arguing that Pao's case was valid/accurate even if the jury disagreed. So what? The reporter isn't obligated to think the jury was correct.
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by kenko 12y ago
This blog post is really weirdly written, with press-release-style blurbs from other people. I can't tell what genre it's supposed to be: a report of a technical decision by language maintainers? A press release? An advertorial?
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by kenko 12y ago
But ... so what? For one thing, the metaphor doesn't have to go that way. For another, "leader/follower" captures that too.
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by kenko 12y ago
"man" is at least short for "manual". There's nothing essential about master/slave so why not just switch to primary/replica?
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by kenko 12y ago
Yeah, it's obviously a joke, but it's a good one!
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by kenko 12y ago
Consumers are given applications not documents.
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by kenko 12y ago
How did you arrive at any of those conclusions? That doesn't strike me as a very straightforward interpretation of the offhand reference to the syntax's being natural, made without any further comment. Nor do I see why "def&q
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by kenko 12y ago
I ... well, yes, obviously? Since all I was concerned to address was the claim that the syntax is "natural", I didn't feel any need to include anything else. That's why used ellipses, which mean "the sentence contin

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