lgessler

31 ms·

301.
by lgessler 8y ago
William Labov, a prominent sociolinguist and dialectologist, doesn't think regional accents in the United States are on their way out: > Contrary to the general expectation that mass culture would diminish regional differences, the
302.
by lgessler 8y ago
Would anybody call it a sausage if there were salt in it? I'm inclined to say no. Obviously there's a lot more that goes into sausage-ness than being a tube of meat.
303.
by lgessler 8y ago
Yes, derived from, but not the same as. I think the best way to think of it is that caching addresses a business requirement, but it is not a business requirement in itself. The business requirement is e.g., n requests per second , and i
304.
by lgessler 8y ago
Hm, I don't quite understand. Caching, for example, seems like it's pretty hard to construe as business logic, at least under my definition above. Suppose you have an HTTP server that caches the past N documents it's seen in
305.
by lgessler 8y ago
I think you might be taking "business requirement" in too narrow a sense. Maybe a better expression would be "external behavioral requirement", i.e. something your program has to "appear to do" from some outsid
306.
by lgessler 8y ago
Regardless of how people actually do turn out to use the word sausage, my point is (1) that you could imagine alternate histories in which any combination of those meanings could be attached to the word "sausage" (2) there is no p
307.
by lgessler 8y ago
If you showed a tube of ground meat to some people and asked if it looked like a sausage, most would agree it does without insisting that you check to see if it has salt. While you're right about the word's etymological history[1]
308.
by lgessler 8y ago
Does a work need to be written to have literary merit?
309.
by lgessler 8y ago
> The Dravidian language referred here is Tamil. The "even older Dravidian [language]" referred to in the article is not exactly Tamil. The oldest written evidence we have for Old Tamil[1] dates to the 3rd century BC[2]. But we
310.
by lgessler 8y ago
Tangential: it's worth noting that this is a historical circumstance rather than something that has to do with French in itself. When a new domain arises that a language didn't previously have words for, like computing, "home
311.
by lgessler 8y ago
It seems like the main purpose of the exception-based validation function `check` is to provide an explanation for failures. Could this have also been achieved by returning an error object with the same information in it? This is what cloju
312.
The Origins of the <blink> Tag(montulli.org)
1 points by lgessler 8y ago|0 comments
313.
by lgessler 8y ago
> Race is often shorthand for ethnicity Huh? In medical contexts I've always understood race as a person's genetic background and ethnicity as a person's cultural background. The two often don't align as many might ex
314.
by lgessler 8y ago
What do you mean by "number calculation"? In at least one sense, any kind of computation at all is a "number calculation".
315.
by lgessler 8y ago
I haven't tried doing this in other Lisps, but it's really easy if you're using Clojure's most popular build tool, Leiningen. For JVM Clojure you can produce a single .jar ("uberjar") that you can run as you&#x
316.
by lgessler 8y ago
> I eat meat because I like it and humans are omnivores. The "humans are omnivores" appeal, I think you'd agree, commits the naturalistic fallacy. There are things humans can do, and you might even argue were "designe
317.
by lgessler 8y ago
I was going to write something more cranky, and then I looked at your username and had a laugh. Irregardless of your perceptive on this, it is good to be self-conscience.
318.
by lgessler 8y ago
Don't you think using errno is a cleaner pattern? Conflating the place where you expect a value and the place where you check for a reason why no value could be produced can be dangerous. (E.g.: if the value is an integer, an error
319.
by lgessler 8y ago
Do you know how they discovered that it was water that was inside the pipes?
320.
by lgessler 8y ago
For me, the only genre that reliably works is "minimal" music, like stuff by Steve Reich[1] or Gas[2]. My definition of this genre would be music with no lyrics that has highly repetitive structures (differentiating it from "
321.
by lgessler 8y ago
Responding to your basic thesis that the ancients (by which I assume you mean the Presocratics through Plato and Aristotle) were right, what do you make of the numerous problems for which they proposed different answers? For instance: - Pla
322.
by lgessler 8y ago
Check out Digital Folklore[1] if you're into this aesthetic, it's a good collection of essays on Geocities, the early web, and related topics. One of the authors' web site[2] is also worth a look (warning: there's sound
323.
by lgessler 8y ago
Only if tiger moming is actually effective: popular perception of it is probably warped by selection bias. For every child that was pushed into an Ivy by a ruthless parent, there are probably many others who were left only with an unhappy c
324.
by lgessler 8y ago
It was satire--the point is that that is a certain style of parenting taken to its conclusion.
325.
Simplified Spelling Board(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by lgessler 8y ago|0 comments
326.
by lgessler 8y ago
Seconded--I got this book on a whim and didn't expect to finish it very quickly, but I was having so much fun with it it displaced all the other books I was working on at the time. This was step two on my journey towards embracing FP (
327.
by lgessler 9y ago
I did say if . Macros often aren't the right choice, but there are times when they're appropriate, and on the premise that the new syntax would be good and responsible, it's great to not have the headache of monitoring compa
328.
by lgessler 9y ago
Looking at this as someone who's been writing a lot of ClojureScript lately, I'm reminded of how nice it is to be writing in a Lisp: if I felt this was the right syntactic construct for a common-enough problem in my codebase, I&#x
329.
by lgessler 9y ago
If you're referring to Socrates, then yes, but it helped that he was a bit like Erdős in his utter lack of interest in physical comfort and financial security.
330.
by lgessler 9y ago
While it might be confusing for a layperson without a solid grip on evolution, I don't think it's uncommon for people who understand selection bias to nevertheless speak like this. It's just so much quicker to say "they

More ›