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by loqi 12y ago
Might want to take "somewhat faster" with a grain of salt. I just tried it on a smallish program (CPU-bound, mostly string operations) and got a 20x slowdown.
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by loqi 12y ago
When is quicksort not quicksort? When it's not in-place: http://augustss.blogspot.com/2007/08/quicksort-in-haskell-qu... I love me some Haskell, but this particular example is kind of a bait-and-switch.
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by loqi 12y ago
Defining an instance of "concatenable" (eg, Monoid) for some type in Haskell is pretty much isomorphic to overloading some free function (or operator) on some type in C++. It's the same "amount of polymorphism" eith
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by loqi 12y ago
RFC 4180 is close enough for me.
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by loqi 12y ago
It's been sorta mentioned elsewhere on the thread, but there is another (IMO simpler) mathematical intuition behind 0:1 :: false:true that doesn't involve any lambda fundamentalism. It's the algebraic analogy disjunction:conj
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by loqi 12y ago
> My feeling is that this statement translates fairly directly into "all user data is available to any corporate entity or state security agency for any purpose" Speaking as a semi-informed bystander who's been following U
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by loqi 12y ago
Would you use software from some anti-gay-marriage person? Do these types of policies sound at all pathological to you upon further reflection?
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by loqi 12y ago
And yet we keep voting for candidates who support the drug war. This kid's blood is on our hands.
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by loqi 12y ago
I don't, except to note that bad presentation is way more annoying when paired with high-quality content. If it was just about anyone else, I'd have closed the tab. If enough people complain this time, maybe I won't have to w
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by loqi 12y ago
let nan = 0.0/0.0 in nan == nan
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by loqi 12y ago
It's a shame there's no accompanying rationale for any of these (cf. Google's C++ style guide [1]). Seems like a real challenge to maintaining relevant guidelines when change invalidates their underlying assumptions. [1]: ht
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by loqi 13y ago
In the generator case you can define a poor man's let like this: def let(x): yield x And use it by "iterating": ... for x in range(1, 101) for divisible_by_5 in let(x % 5 == 0) Still not as n
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by loqi 13y ago
I'd love to see it used for partial application - f@a instead of functools.partial(f, a). If wishes were better functional programming support in Python...
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by loqi 13y ago
Yup. No Ukraine on my globe as a kid in the 80s, just "U.S.S.R.".
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by loqi 13y ago
Assuming one agrees that filesystems map really well to that kind of GUI in the first place. It's not obvious to me that they do.
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by loqi 13y ago
I've been told that credit card companies simply forbid this sort of thing as part of their contractual agreements with merchants. Comcast appears to have similar leverage, so I imagine they would do likewise.
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by loqi 13y ago
...for certain values of "us".
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by loqi 13y ago
This is good advice, but it is sometimes difficult to tell whether or not expert opinion actually exists.
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by loqi 13y ago
While we're dreaming of database ponies, I'd love to see this taken even further - a database that lets you register queries (read-only sprocs) in a language that allows specifying worst-case asymptotic run-time. (Eg, "this s
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by loqi 13y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
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by loqi 13y ago
Indeed. I don't see how we can even get a reasonable bound on the exponent of P(alien life). That kind of uncertainty behaves counter-intuitively - multiplying it by the size of the universe leaves it essentially unchanged.
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by loqi 13y ago
Since I too lack the lofty requisite background for it, I'll just let Mr. Crockford do the job the for me: > The reason to use semicolons is because coding rigor tends to produce significantly better software.
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by loqi 13y ago
My understanding is that drugs are expensive mostly because of the risks involved in drug trafficking. I doubt you'll see the same kind of risk premiums in a bitcoin market.
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by loqi 13y ago
Upvoted for the concise answer, and for having the perfect handle under which to post it.
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by loqi 13y ago
Perhaps nothing perfect has yet been posted?
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by loqi 13y ago
100mg of caffeine (half a nodoz) taken 30 minutes before I need to get up. I set alarms for both events, but rarely need the second one.
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by loqi 13y ago
> Writing a language feature is different than writing an application True enough. But libraries can easily tend toward either of those extremes. And any obstacles to library development will eventually become obstacles to application
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by loqi 13y ago
> It's not going to be the least bit inspiring to send people to Mars and plant a flag, or ride around in a rover. Uhh... it would definitely be at least a bit inspiring.
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Robotic exoskeleton turns everyday houseplants into sun-seeking cyborgs(qz.com)
3 points by loqi 13y ago|0 comments
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by loqi 13y ago
Yup, and parens also allow comments.

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