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by lihaoyi 15y ago
"What's needed is an intelligent engine for processing email" They already exist; the normal name for such a thing is "secretary" =D
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Typographing.com: an easy way to find fonts(typographing.com)
1 points by lihaoyi 15y ago|0 comments
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by lihaoyi 15y ago
"I understand macros to provide two things (1) forced code in-lining and (2) a kind of non-strict semantics or lazy evaluation of arguments" False. There isn't much else to say, but if this is all he thinks macros are about, he doesn't know
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by lihaoyi 15y ago
That's pretty trivial though: one line of code instead of 2 or 3? Writing a for-loop to iterate over an array is so simple that Python is cutting out "reduce" entirely because for-loops aren't that bad, really. The real gain is when you are
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by lihaoyi 15y ago
There's nothing wrong with a for-loop. Nothing at all. Using closures instead of an explicit loop is only a minor gain. The real use comes when you want to perform more complex control-flow logic with different transformations. When you are
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by lihaoyi 15y ago
In a way, part of the point of the whole exercise was the self-creation. Setting up a personal website from scratch has a lot of pieces, and graphic-design is something I had never touched in my life. I thought it was quite cool to see the
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First Experiments in Web Design(techcreation.sg)
1 points by lihaoyi 15y ago|2 comments
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How fast does a Yoyo spin?(techcreation.sg)
3 points by lihaoyi 15y ago|0 comments
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Data Mining with Linear Algebra(techcreation.sg)
7 points by lihaoyi 15y ago|0 comments