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by mietek 13y ago
Awesome, and just in time to help my team. Thanks!
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The app is available in the UK store, but Apple's search indices may not have been updated. Try buying it using the direct iTunes link on Quip's website, instead of searching the UK store.
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Most Haskell programmers should be familiar with right-to-left point-free style, and should be able to infer that symbols stand in for names. Of course, understanding the individual symbols is a different matter, but hardly requiring a conc
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Thank you. Please consider writing a blog so that this knowledge doesn't disappear. Were those destroyed tutorials published books?
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Bret Victor's talk wasn't about any particular technology. It was about being able to change your mind. It's not important that "binary programmers" programmed in machine code. It's important that they refused
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> Think about how "direct manipulation" programming fits into a source control / branching workflow, for example. Think about how "automobiles" fit into a horse breeding / grooming workflow, for example.
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> I'm pretty excited about the array of parallel processors in the presentation though. If we had that, with package-on-package memory for each one, message passing would be the obvious way to do everything. Chuck Moore, the invento
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> But for any practical purpose it's to Haskell what Haskell is to Java. Can you elaborate on this? As I understand, the core strengths of APL are succinct notation, built-in verbs which operate on vectors/matrices, and a requ
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by mietek 13y ago
So, have you seen Media for Thinking the Unthinkable? http://vimeo.com/67076984 The working code for the Nile viewer presented is on GitHub: https://github.com/damelang/nile/tree/master&#x2F
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I have no idea why you're calling Chuck Moore a "binary programmer", by the definition given in today's talk. Forth is anything but machine code. Forth and Lisp both share the rare ability to describe both the lowest and
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Do you consider Planner and the actor model not to be historically important?
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Perhaps you've heard that the UK prime minister has declared the state policy of multiculturalism as failed. Looks like nurseres teaching English values might've been a better idea.
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Have you considered trying Indian or Sichuan? At least in the UK, it's easy to find a vindaloo curry or some kung pao chicken, which are rather spicy.
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Yes. More to the point, Woz has approved of the way people were portrayed in "Pirates of Silicon Valley", including himself. "It's funny, but even with all the things that aren't said outright, a great number of pe
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Fantastic response. This is the preceding request: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/20101221110342233.pdf
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The `StateT` example in the article is unfortunate, as it reinforces the misguided notion that handling state in Haskell requires complicated machinery, such as monad transformers. This is simply false. You can use a mutable reference, li
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by mietek 13y ago
I, too, share this sentiment. "The tendency for entropy to increase in isolated systems is expressed in the second law of thermodynamics — perhaps the most pessimistic and amoral formulation in all human thought." — Gregory Hil
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There's the communist revolution, which gave power to people who were not fit to wield it. There's the dekulakization, which liquidated millions of people who knew what they were doing. Then there's the forced collectivisat
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Check out Quipper: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1304.5485v1.pdf
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The entire discussion about MagSafe Lightning is pointless. A truly innovative iPhone 6 would use wireless charging.
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> So what? A fine example of a thought-terminating cliché. You should add it to the list! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_cliché
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> People in the business can be jerks and unreasonable for sure but it would be more likely for someone to "ask" for 100k or simply say "domain is not for sale" than to say "7 figures" (2 letter, possible, 3
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FYI: Wozniak.
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`brew install haskell-platform` should help.
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I'm glad you enjoyed. It is written by a LessWrongian, I believe. Also, it doesn't feel quite right to call either of these stories fan-fiction, as the word is usually correlated with mediocrity. I thought Friendship is Optimal ,
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For a thoroughly thought-through take on a similar subject, check out Friendship is Optimal. http://www.fimfiction.net/story/62074/Friendship-is-Optimal "Hanna, the CEO of Hofvarpnir Studios, just won the c
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The real news is that optical scaling will soon be available on OS X, with a simple system call. This is pretty neat for anyone writing graphic design apps.
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Contrast with the aftermath of Yalta and Roosevelt's confidence in Stalin keeping his promises. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yalta_conference#Poland_and_th...
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The leaders of these countries may have agreed, though some apparently have later reversed their position. The citizens certainly have not.
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Similarly, "deadly explosions of massive stars"?

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