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Towards a Geometry of Syntax (2019) [pdf](its.caltech.edu)
2 points by lgessler 6y ago|0 comments
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by lgessler 6y ago
I don't know Japanese, but aren't there also cases where you would want the original spelling? Glancing at a list of English loanwords in Japanese, I'm guessing that for words like batā 'butter' or chāji 'charg
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by lgessler 6y ago
Yeah, something I've seen become common in the Clojure ecosystem is for files to have a `(comment ...)` form at the bottom where forms which are commonly needed at the REPL when working with the file (e.g. to initialize some data or a
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by lgessler 6y ago
I don't disagree. I greatly appreciate Emacs now that I know (5% or less of) it, but I don't think I could have gotten here if Spacemacs hadn't provided sane defaults for packages and keybindings.
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by lgessler 6y ago
I just suspect that people here on HN are coming from the upper portions of the software developer spectrum in terms of experience, aptitude, enthusiasm, and training--there are plenty of other people in the world who do software developmen
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by lgessler 6y ago
I'd venture that it's not among rank-and-file software developers, though.
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by lgessler 6y ago
> If someone wrote an open source clone of Emacs that adopted some sane defaults, modern UI conventions, and dropped all the political BS it could be so much better. Worthy of mention, of course, is Spacemacs[1], which made Emacs approac
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by lgessler 6y ago
> which comes with fake “typing…” indicator. Being forced to use a chatbot sounds annoying, I agree, but for people who aren't like us on HN who are in the know, the typing indicator fulfills an important function: instant replies c
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by lgessler 6y ago
Sure, it's a fact of Sanskrit that of all the well-attested classical IE languages it's done the best job of preserving PIE's case system. But what's this have to do with the question of whether Sanskrit has some especia
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by lgessler 6y ago
I admit I haven't read the paper, but as someone who works in NLP and is in a linguistics department I have to say that this claim seems absurd. Leaving aside what "viable in NLP" means, all natural languages are rich in ambi
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by lgessler 6y ago
Come on, the engineers at Keybase are serious crypto nuts. Give them some more credit
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by lgessler 6y ago
Do you remember the time when every time you wanted to copy or paste something in a word processor you would dutifully hike your mouse up to the Edit button so you could select "Copy" or "Paste", and how when you learned
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by lgessler 6y ago
In defense of the author re: 2, since the application domain seems to be manipulating indices for a binary tree represented in an array, the integer will always be non-negative.
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by lgessler 6y ago
GP meant "harder" in the "it's possible to get things "perfect"" sense, not in the "leads to a more challenging professional life" sense.
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by lgessler 6y ago
Question from a perf noob: it seems like this in principle only shows that there's no difference for a Pixel 3 because other Android machines could have processors that have/lack an optimization for shift or divide. Couldn't
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by lgessler 7y ago
There are none, at least in the familiar OOP sense: > Chaos language is not object-oriented. So everything is done by functions and data types.
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by lgessler 7y ago
A good demonstration of the linguistic fact that far from being meaningless, prepositions (adpositions, more generally) are actually highly consequential for meaning and are highly ambiguous between different meanings. Here's a paper t
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by lgessler 7y ago
It was close to happening, too[1]: > Eich originally joined intending to put Scheme "in the browser",[10] but his Netscape superiors insisted that the language’s syntax resemble that of Java. The result was a language that had
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by lgessler 7y ago
When I saw this I thought "I wonder why someone would make a JS-hosted Lisp when ClojureScript exists and is used widely." I then found that the author has had significant involvement in the Clojure community, which piqued my curi
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by lgessler 7y ago
I think this position is a little too extreme. Many ads fit your description, but some don't. In many parts of the United States, for instance, you simply need a car to live life, and car ads have the power to shape car buyers' ch
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Dueling Rhetoric of Clojure and Haskell (2017)(tech.freckle.com)
6 points by lgessler 7y ago|1 comments
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by lgessler 7y ago
I think GP means the government should provide these.
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by lgessler 7y ago
For one thing, profs often teach some classes repeatedly, which means they dont have to put substantial effort into planning for subsequent offerings. If the planned content is somehow unsuitable for a different medium of delivery, this wou
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by lgessler 7y ago
I'm unsure of your point here--isn't memorizing the text itself much harder than knowing this kind of high level structure, which I venture many people had/have no conscious awareness of anyway?
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by lgessler 7y ago
In the abstract you're right that equality is subtle and complicated, but it seems to me that in practice, most practicing software engineers just want value-equality on garden-variety data structures most of the time (remember == for
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by lgessler 7y ago
My personal take: CL is a multi-paradigm rummage bin that demonstrated to the world the greatness of many features (e.g. macros, CLOS), but is also beset by many design flaws--some due to genuine infelicity of conception, and some due to un
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by lgessler 7y ago
> Every time when an engineer starts communicating with Joe, a new full-size copy of the database is provisioned. It looks like users get their own disposable copy. Nothing's run on the prod copy.
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A Million Random Digits with 100k Normal Deviates(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by lgessler 7y ago|0 comments
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by lgessler 7y ago
Can you explain? As a cheap and pretty much failure-free means of visually broadcasting the identity of a vehicle, they seem pretty irreplaceable. Anything requiring electronics is much more prone to failure. Even airplanes have their call
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by lgessler 7y ago
Agreed, my personal gripe has always been that notebooks encourage people to write code with _no_ functions or abstraction, often leading to 400 lines of gobbledygook with bad variable names that somehow gives you F1 scores and graphs at th

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