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kunjaan
16y ago
Does anyone else avoid Facebook because they themselves suck as person? I don't use FB because the activities on it are things I am better off not doing. I felt strange doing anything on it because I felt people were judging me. It was like
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Racket is a Scheme "Racket is still a dialect of Lisp and a descendant of Scheme. The tools developed by PLT will continue to support R5RS, R6RS, the old mzscheme environment, Typed Scheme, and more. At the same time, instead of having to s
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I would like to know what are the other items in the 'clear list of “fire-able offenses” , e.g., sharing private user data)"
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How many were thinking of replying with snarky comments like "You may want me to say crossword puzzle, but i like to talk a walk in the woods while doing the puzzle."?
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Aw you missed the best part "Modern historians suspect the two were dyslexic."
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The compiler may not mind, but isn't that what they are actually used for?
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>Work with Scheme and Haskell enough and you'll find yourself writing some convoluted things to maintain purity. I don't think you can lump all the Scheme languages into one umbrella and more importantly lump Scheme and Haskell in that
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I thought () was used for function applications and [] for those that weren't. For example (let [x 3] ... )
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>Thus, you could have "XSLT macros" that work in the same way Lisp macros do. Yes of course. How could I not see the power of XSLT macros?
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The article starts with a grand puprose namely "In which the truth about lisp is revealed, and some alternatives are enumerated." But it ends up being one big collection of headlines and popular opinions people have about the language. This
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I agree. I never worked overtime in my internship but was extended an offer. My review doesn't say how much I worked but what I accomplished and delivered.
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It still is.
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>And "the Haskell movement" certainly has a different kind of manpower behind it. Can you clarify what you mean by the words "movement" and "different kind of manpower"? How is progress in languages like Racket different from Haskell? W
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If he favors type safety and switching between modules of different type systems, Racket already has that, doesn't it?
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I loved his Macro Talk. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBpfOpk-ZBU
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Racket is decades ahead of other languages in terms of their macro facility. The macro stepper and the syntax-parse framework presented by Ryan Culpepper this year is something that would make any macro writers jaw drop. Reference: http:/
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>car and cdr must have something going for them In most implementations , I can do (cadar (list (list 1 2 3))) -> 2 vs (first (rest (first (list (list 1 2 3))))) -> 2 I find the car and cdrs in Racket very very convenient. R
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When I glanced over the schedule he had at Harvard, I thought it was from PHDComics.
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> D) lack of well written textbooks 1. How do I program? I dont know how to build abstractions. I dont know how to write correct, modular and reliable codes. I'll start with "How to Design Programs" 2. I want to learn more about recursi
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>basics of the tech side This is a very vague target. Do you want basics on web development? networking? computer science? programming language? managing softwares? databases description? survey of computer science?
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I was annoyed by all the previous Kinect games that would make me get up or do things. This on the other hand is a physical activity that I wouldnt mind performing.
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>There's a place for reddit-like posts (reddit) and there's a place for news related to hackers (HN). Those are very vague classification metrics.
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>trying to move away from the community What does this mean? You simply delete your account and not login.
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No.
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That is the weirdest logo I have seen in a while.
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Of course people hire foreign students as interns. As long as you are on your F1 status,you can easily find jobs.
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Why hold these polls if you are going to discredit it yourself and put such snide remarks? But anyway does anyone even read Time here in US?
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Lessons for someone starting work for the first time in United States
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My Zipcode is in there but I live near a University.
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Kudos to the director as well. The video wowed me as much as the machine it self.
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