magnusjonsson

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by magnusjonsson 7y ago
The PRC didn't exactly cooperate when the UK wanted to introduce democratic measures in HK well before the handover. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_development_in_Hong...
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by magnusjonsson 7y ago
China has a lot of vague laws and a history of making up accusations to fit the occasion, with no way for HK judges to examine evidence, and trial with presumption of guilt. This excellent comment on reddit by IosueYu answers the question b
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by magnusjonsson 7y ago
But people elect the parliament and the parliament electthe PM, so it's OK, there's a chain of accountability to the populace. In HK, the parliament has only 70 seats of the 1200-member committee, and only 35 of those are geograph
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by magnusjonsson 7y ago
No, Hong Kong should lead the way.
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by magnusjonsson 7y ago
When I started learning Mandarin (my fourth language) I became totally unable to speak French (my third language) as the Mandarin words would pop up first in my mind. I think by now they've been sufficiently separated in my mind but I
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by magnusjonsson 9y ago
Swedish has "nja" (blend of Swedish ja and nej).
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by magnusjonsson 9y ago
That is not what he said.
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by magnusjonsson 9y ago
That's an awesome article! Thanks for sharing.
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by magnusjonsson 9y ago
Actually those are very bad examples. In practice, compilers will produce warnings in all of those examples. Better examples (of actually useful things) would be things like designated initializers, struct literals, declaring array lengths
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by magnusjonsson 10y ago
FWIW, the Unsafe class is generally much faster than DirectByteBuffer
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by magnusjonsson 11y ago
This does not do away the distinction between attributes and content -- that attributes are flat strings while content can be nested.
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by magnusjonsson 12y ago
You can call it a style if that makes a difference. I think there are reasons behind that style, and I think the too minimal standard library is the main reason. The lack of a good package manager until recently may be another contributing
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by magnusjonsson 12y ago
It's a problem. Until people have standardized on which 'better standard library' to use, programs will keep building from these too low level building blocks.
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by magnusjonsson 12y ago
The ocaml standard library is minimal to a fault. It's just enough to implement the compiler itself. For higher level operations like starts_with, you use libraries. The Batteries library for example provides what you want: Strin
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by magnusjonsson 12y ago
No syntactic sugar needed. In most lisp pattern matching libraries there are higher level matchers such as "list" etc. Just as the first element of a list is a function or special operator in normal context, in a pattern matching
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by magnusjonsson 12y ago
Just keep your supply of rolls in the bathroom?
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by magnusjonsson 12y ago
What's the software analogy of a factory? Making copies is simple in software so you must have something else in mind?
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by magnusjonsson 13y ago
Horizontal space isn't.
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by magnusjonsson 13y ago
(47 choose 39) * 0.5 ^ 39 * 0.5^8 = 0.0000022, so that'd be about 1 in 500000 of all who traded for this long.
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by magnusjonsson 13y ago
Side remark: Please don't use equality and inequality like that. How can a noun and an adjective possibly be equal? They aren't even the same word class. Just use english "is" and "is not" to connect your nouns
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by magnusjonsson 13y ago
The constant factor is huge compared to a straight pointer.
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by magnusjonsson 13y ago
Forth has it right: One data stack and one return stack. Though you could argue that using unsafe languages is the real problem I suppose.
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by magnusjonsson 13y ago
You are both correct. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_distribution
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by magnusjonsson 13y ago
Suffer can mean "tolerate" sometimes.
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by magnusjonsson 13y ago
Hmm, the C code and C++ code aren't even solving the same problem, and they aren't using the same data structures. C++ uses inheritance while C uses a union, for no good reason. What in C++ is struct A : B { } is in C struct A { s
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by magnusjonsson 13y ago
Thanks for waking up the whole family with that blip :(
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by magnusjonsson 13y ago
The corner of a room is probably the worst place you can put a speaker if you care about sound quality. The room resonances will be nasty.
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How the Ocaml type checker works | LTU(lambda-the-ultimate.org)
1 points by magnusjonsson 14y ago|0 comments
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by magnusjonsson 14y ago
Paywall. But ironically, if you search via Google you can read the article.
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by magnusjonsson 14y ago
I have found simplicity in design and thinking about performance to have a symbiotic relationship. Performance concerns prompt simplifications in the design, and simplicity in design uncovers new ways to improve performance.

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