ky3

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by ky3 6y ago
The way you say it, I can't tell whether you do sales or stick-ups.
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by ky3 6y ago
> My writing skills come from a career in writing government policy documents and stakeholder communications. Not formal education channels. Impressive. Did someone in your previous job look out for you? Did you have a mentor? > False
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by ky3 6y ago
> Rather, I should have hired a customer success person Also called a Field Application Engineer in some circles. > Then let the customer success rep also write (technical) blog post, customer stories / case studies, and document
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by ky3 6y ago
> Salespeople overthink the strategy and lose sight of what really makes money: making that motherfucker say yes. What if he's not a motherfucker but actually a motherlover? How does that change your sales technique?
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by ky3 6y ago
For someone who confesses "mediocre GCSE levels," boy can he write. And notwithstanding how I hate false modesty as much as the next person, I'd love to have him on my team.
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by ky3 7y ago
But this doesn't completely explain why the error's thrown? After all, Math.round was called on a perfectly innocuous 11.1 and not some crazy NaN.
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by ky3 7y ago
I understand Dijkstra's anti-BASIC quote as a reference to his observation that the values underlying such a procedural/imperative language predispose a programmer to think exclusively operationally. https://www.cs.ut
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by ky3 7y ago
> how do you account for non-binary strength of connections between nodes The adjacency matrix of a graph normally has entries only 0 or 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjacency_matrix Generalize the adjacency mat
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by ky3 7y ago
"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration." -- Edsger W. Dijkstra
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by ky3 7y ago
Doesn't the (necessarily loose) coupling of executables with source files create its own challenges? Or does it track the object file too, in which case we have 3 files, not 1, to manage simultaneously? The benefit of scripts is that e
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by ky3 7y ago
True, but the difference between C and Haskell hash-bangs is that GHC Haskell provides an interpreter. GCC hash-bang is still an edit-compile-link-debug cycle. Just like with Python and Ruby, Haskell hash-bang accelerates the cycle by jetti
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by ky3 7y ago
Haskell has shell hash-bang scripting capabilities just like Python and Ruby do. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8676331/how-to-run-a-has...
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by ky3 9y ago
Leslie Lamport's 1978 "State the Problem Before Describing the Solution" [0]. On his web page the author adds that "The title says it all. This one-page note is as relevant today as when I wrote it. Replace "describ
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by ky3 9y ago
> For better or worse, we must agree that English has won the world’s common tongue competition. I too labor under the yoke of a foreign tongue not sung to me at my cradle. But something to keep in mind about English is that she gives ev
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by ky3 9y ago
> On the other hand, this means that typed systems are in some sense strictly less expressive than their untyped counterparts. It would therefore be interesting if somebody found an expression which was both (i) meaningful and (ii) only
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by ky3 9y ago
foo :: a -> (b -> c) Not saying it's wrong, but "foo is a second-order function" is a distinctly minority opinion. To a useful first approximation, Haskell works as a cartesian-closed category, which basically
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by ky3 9y ago
> OK, thanks. No worries. > Your answer has allowed me to follow the paper a little further, though I think your answer may be inconsistent with the other two answers I got. I was trying to be helpful. That said, in lieu of the irredu
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by ky3 9y ago
> Oh, right, subfield of the complex numbers Right-o! > Now sigma is supposed to be an automorphism on that subfield. Which means sigma does take scalar values as arguments, contrary to what stablemap said... There's that ol&#x27
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by ky3 9y ago
You're doing fine. Do cheer up. No field of rational functions here, that's waaaay off given what Stillwell intends to do. Also, subfields of reals are a bit restrictive, don't you think?
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by ky3 9y ago
The HN audience isn't the intended audience for this paper by Stillwell, who wrote for other math profs like himself. To members of HN audience who want to learn GT, I recommend the freely available book by Postnikov. p.s. Fwiw, the pa
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by ky3 9y ago
Great observation. The American Math Monthly is a journal by college professors for college professors. The readership is expected to be familiar with the topic. Groundbreaking results are published elsewhere. Whew. Unfortunately, neither i
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by ky3 9y ago
So many devils, so little time. "Operant conditioning"? For whom and for what purposes are our kids to be satiated, scheduled, individualized, and zoned?
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by ky3 9y ago
A case of only so many words in the English language. Easy to fix if we distinguish hardware fast path from the software variant. Software fast paths are worth looking into since context switches are costly to the tune of thousands of C
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by ky3 10y ago
Why lobby when such pieces designed to prick the public's moral indignation work so much better? The cognoscenti recognize that lobbying is but one of multiple levers they could pull.
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by ky3 10y ago
The hidden agenda is promoting more laws and regulations. It's like the lawyer who insists to you that "The more court cases we file, the more justice there is in the world." Lots of unsexy but well-paying jobs exist in regul
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by ky3 10y ago
> Someone should write 'an introduction to introductions to category theory' More like the "Prereqs for an Intro to Category Theory." The author intended his remark that the work is "for readers with relatively l
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by ky3 10y ago
> Python's list comprehensions were modeled on Haskell's list comprehensions, which were in turn modeled on the much more general concepts of monads. It's true that Python borrowed the concept from Haskell. But Haskell in
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by ky3 10y ago
Previous comments on threaded vs event-loop concurrency abstractions are relevant: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=why%20events%20are%20a%20bad%2... https://hn.algolia.com/?query=why%20threads%20are%20a%20bad%
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Comparing Haskell and Node concurrency performance(fpcomplete.com)
129 points by ky3 10y ago|107 comments
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by ky3 11y ago
The repo looks to be here: https://github.com/combinatorylogic/clike Because you have a functional and also imperative language (pfront?) that your compiler is written in, you avoid memory churn by ensuring "visit

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