lgessler

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by lgessler 6y ago
GP means going-to-other-indoors-places outside, not outside outside
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by lgessler 6y ago
I'm kind of surprised they'd change a core language semantic, even in a major update... won't this make upgrading to PHP8 for a large codebase hard to do with confidence?
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by lgessler 6y ago
I find the attitude that only STEM is worth studying (which is not coincidentally believed most fervently by STEM grads) really pernicious. Let me restate the common argument--there's this feeling that it's useful to measure peopl
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by lgessler 6y ago
GP meant "by university" by writing "by school"
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by lgessler 6y ago
What is a fake subject?
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by lgessler 6y ago
Could you give a few examples of when you see this app shining? Usually if I want to maintain a list of links with people I (1) also want to write text around those links, and (2) use a Google doc, which might lack in link-specific features
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by lgessler 6y ago
Indeed, for we computer geeks are known for our lack of ego...
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by lgessler 6y ago
> if your code compiles, it probably works I'm always a little frustrated whenever I see this aphorism perpetuated since I think it gives the impression that a static type system is doing more than it is actually doing. In type syst
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by lgessler 6y ago
I think GP's talking not just about server-client connections but also server-server connections? In the latter case HTTP(S) wasn't as popular as it is today until the late aughts.
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by lgessler 6y ago
I think the best case to be made for learning how to use a "power editor" is that editing text "manually" can sometimes be seriously disruptive to your flow. If I can do a regex replace-all with vim, I get to go back to
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by lgessler 6y ago
Hi, I'm a grad student who works on language documentation. At least one prominent field linguist has agreed with your position[0], but most in the field disagree with him. Let me make some point-by-point responses: > People create
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by lgessler 6y ago
Can you expand on why having a writing system matters?
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by lgessler 6y ago
> What's wrong with relying on the JVM? It's that the user needs to learn not just Scala but also Java whenever they want to do anything "real". You might say this is a minor hangup, but for learners having to context
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by lgessler 6y ago
I can understand $.(:name "Keli" :age 50) but not $.name("Keli" :age 50), why should the age bit go inside the parens? This introduces an asymmetry where the first key appears outside parents and subsequent keys appear i
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by lgessler 6y ago
It would be much easier to adopt daylight/standard time permanently than to battle all the inertial forces which maintain our cultural structures around times of the day (5pm is when work ends, 12 is when you eat lunch, ...)
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by lgessler 6y ago
Can I ask what brought you to where you live today? Or is it where you're from?
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by lgessler 6y ago
Adding a comment to explain what's inside: the author, who is on the CS faculty of Sweden's top technical university, spends a semester teaching at Williams College and uses most of this report to reflect on differences between KT
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Report from My Williams College Teaching Sabbatical Semester (2016) [pdf](csc.kth.se)
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by lgessler 6y ago
There are some kinds of careers and questions that can only be pursued in academia, so advising that grad students abandon ship really isn't a satisfactory answer in general. Academia needs to be reformed.
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by lgessler 6y ago
Agreed. For libs that are "afternoon-y" in their scope (so, not an HTTP server or crypto), if you need to get off the fence you can use some cheap heuristics to assess the quality of a library without auditing its code. For instan
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by lgessler 6y ago
I think it's hard to bring this study to bear on the critical period hypothesis in toto since its scope is narrow in both time and grammatical breadth (just sound production, and no other parts of comprehension or production), so we sh
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by lgessler 6y ago
That doesn't change the fact that during the critical period people are muuuuch better at acquiring language than after. Moreover, while people are fairly equal in their ability to acquire a language during the critical period, there i
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by lgessler 6y ago
Part of the thesis of Datomic (and also Crux, as I understand it) is that cycles and storage have gotten so cheap that some of the design assumptions made by traditional databases no longer necessarily make sense for large segments of the a
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by lgessler 6y ago
From their docs[0]: > The REST API also provides an experimental endpoint for SPARQL 1.1 Protocol queries under /sparql/, rewriting the query into the Crux Datalog dialect. Only a small subset of SPARQL is supported and no othe
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by lgessler 6y ago
Using Crux's Datalog query language from Clojure is great. Normally if your query building library is giving you a data-like interface, then you're relying on some abstraction that will inevitably leak in places (and let's no
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by lgessler 6y ago
Essentially, yes, but in a way that sounds more careful than what you saw in that Fortran program. If it absolutely has to be stateful, like with a db connection for example, then there's no getting around that, but what you can do i
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by lgessler 6y ago
This doesn't speak to what I consider some of the most dangerous parts of OOP, which include the assumptions that tightly binding data and code is helpful, and that statefulness is fine to freely sprinkle throughout your program.
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by lgessler 6y ago
It seems hard to say conclusively what is or isn't possible about differences in development time without knowing more about the problem domain. Since he mentions GIL in one of his tweets, it seems like his code must have involved conc
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by lgessler 6y ago
Yeah, came here to say this too. There are much more convincing ways of making this point.
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by lgessler 6y ago
That depends on what you mean by electricity--heat pumps can achieve >100% efficiency since they move around heat instead of creating it.

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