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by mkehrt 11y ago
Oh, this is true, and I think I came off too harshly. The relational model is general enough to support (almost?) any data model, it certainly has a lot of advantages in terms of efficient implementation, and the math is elegant. I just do
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by mkehrt 11y ago
As someone who spent several years studying programming languages, the thing that drives me crazy about traditional relational databases is the assumption that all data is tuple-structured. Much data is structured as unions of alternates o
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by mkehrt 11y ago
No, that's normal for Google. It's totally bizarre.
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by mkehrt 11y ago
Possibly this should be ICFP Programming Contest Problem Specification? I'm sure the International Conference on Functional Programming has different problems.
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by mkehrt 11y ago
Me too. I'm glad I'm not the only one.
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by mkehrt 11y ago
Wow. Do you have any more info on this?
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by mkehrt 11y ago
Quine's commentary, relevant to computer science: http://hyperdiscordia.crywalt.com/universal_library.html
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by mkehrt 11y ago
Not the smallest--Quine on Borges: http://hyperdiscordia.crywalt.com/universal_library.html
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by mkehrt 11y ago
With human-style chemical rockets, sure. But what about nuclear pulse propulsion? Or some sort of exotic equatorial railgun?
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by mkehrt 11y ago
Looks like this may have been changed, since the GP quotes the same line about Bucharest, but it says Budapest.
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by mkehrt 11y ago
This...seems like nonsensical pseudoscience.
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by mkehrt 11y ago
Yes, that's how relativity works.
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by mkehrt 11y ago
Google spreadsheets has a QUERY function which takes an SQL query
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by mkehrt 11y ago
I don't think the grandparent wants all of these features at once necessarily in a single tutorial, but an introduction to them in a language that they already know. Also, the things you say that function pointers don't have are e
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by mkehrt 11y ago
Original (PDF): https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomp...
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by mkehrt 11y ago
It appears they changed it to red since you took this image.
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by mkehrt 11y ago
These people probably don't need to learn to better manage their money. The poor are generally much, much better at that than the not-poor.
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by mkehrt 11y ago
Oh, god. I don't remember the details, but it involved crossing off the bottom third of candidates every round until there was only one left. But somehow, this didn't always get rid of everyone, and you could get stuck in a stat
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by mkehrt 11y ago
In college I was part of a club that had an elaborate election procedure for officers. I'm pretty sure it violates Arrow's Theorem, but it was also nonterminating!
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by mkehrt 11y ago
I thought it was clear and concise, but I am familiar with both concepts.
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by mkehrt 11y ago
I like http://learnvimscriptthehardway.stevelosh.com/ , which covers a different set of features.
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by mkehrt 11y ago
That's a quote from the guy. He also transported two sharks foe the same job; he probably got mixed up.
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by mkehrt 11y ago
Sure, and this is a good example. I think most people would agree that we should ethically prefer to have more housing than more vacation rentals, but these are demands on the same good.
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by mkehrt 11y ago
For example, I think pacemakers can set the range of acceptable heart rates by radio. So now, you have to have logic checking that it doesn't get set to 0. But what happens if there's a buffer overflow in that checking? Edit:
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by mkehrt 11y ago
Things like pacemakers often have radio interfaces, because the alternative is to cut someone open.
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by mkehrt 11y ago
My claim isn't that this distinction isn't useful, it's that the terminology is a disaster, and we should find better terminology to make this distinction. There's no consistency in using these particular terms to refer
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by mkehrt 11y ago
Oh, look, another group of people making another arbitrary distinction between these two words, which is shared by no one else. In grad school, we used concurrency to mean interleaved, single processor threading, while parallelism meant mul
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by mkehrt 11y ago
"s'" is acceptable as a possessive form of a noun ending in "s".
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by mkehrt 11y ago
The ineffectiveness of drugs against depression is highly overstated--the average effectiveness is low, but the variance is high, and they tend to be more effective the more severe the depression. The meme of "drugs aren't actua
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by mkehrt 12y ago
I can't tell how much of this is a joke, but, yes, it turns out you can't write such a programming language for exactly the reason you allude to: you can't tell whether a given number is computable in finite time, as you don&

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