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by mrbrowning 12y ago
I'm not even a JavaScript hater, but: its relation to C is merely syntactic, and is to its detriment, frankly. And, simple? Assuming a hypothetical comprehensive encoding of programming language semantics, I can't imagine that JS
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by mrbrowning 12y ago
I'm a git user, but the one killer feature that Mercurial has that I'd love to see appear in Git some day is revsets [1]. It's a DSL for selecting commits from the repo's history that match a predicate, and you can easil
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by mrbrowning 12y ago
It's added a lot of small features, like dynamic comment updating and edit windows, but most of the new development has gone into new sub-sites. They're pretty conservative about changing the core commenting dynamic, especially gi
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by mrbrowning 12y ago
> I’m quite fond of languages with minimal syntax. Maybe this is the Lisp enthusiast in me, but as someone who does the bulk of their workaday programming in Python I still feel compelled to say that it's a perverse worldview that
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by mrbrowning 12y ago
Of course, but I'm not talking about mere interpersonal politeness so much as having friendliness be a central component of your branding. Chick-Fil-A, for all its vaunted good cheer, still has all the trappings of a commercial transac
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by mrbrowning 12y ago
What I wonder about Lyft is the extent to which friendliness scales. That it has scaled so far is obviously due to the fact that they can simply project that sense of friendliness and then rely on individual drivers to actually do the work
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by mrbrowning 12y ago
Yes, that's a basic fact that I'm well aware of. To hopefully express what I'm saying more clearly: Assume your open strings on a guitar are tuned perfectly in the standard way: the A string is 110 Hz, the low E string is 110
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by mrbrowning 12y ago
It's worth noting that the perfect fourth, when it involves the bass, is considered a dissonance in Common Practice music,* and even in the freer harmonic contexts of twentieth century music it's a bit of a cipher: it acts as a di
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by mrbrowning 12y ago
Right, I'm aware. Maybe I misread the last line of the grandparent, but I assumed that was exactly the problem being referred to -- the vagaries of details like string width and action height mean that even an instrument nominally desi
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by mrbrowning 12y ago
Having a guitar be in tune across every key is not strictly impossible [1], but it sure isn't easy. [1] http://www.truetemperament.com/site/index.php?go=2&sgo=3
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by mrbrowning 12y ago
Padgett's cognitive transformation is real, even if the mathematically-illiterate reporting on it obscures the nature of that transformation. Berit Brogaard, who's a professor of philosophy and neuroscience at the University of Mi
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by mrbrowning 12y ago
They might be people who ordered boards with the Zynq 7020 SoC, which is shipping either first or more quickly for some reason.
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by mrbrowning 13y ago
Apple's goto-related SSL vulnerability this week is a blatant, high-profile reminder of how harmful unbraced conditionals are. The same bug could have happened with two return statements in a row.
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by mrbrowning 13y ago
Does OCaml do any sort of structural sharing behind the scenes? This is always the thing that bothers me about the functional JavaScript movement, since mutable state everywhere makes such sharing infeasible, meaning that I have to worry a
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by mrbrowning 13y ago
> shouldn't two of most widely used languages be included in an argument about static vs dynamic typing? No, because the affordances and limitations of static typing are not the same as the affordances and limitations of static typi
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by mrbrowning 13y ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but empirical data on human behavior is notoriously more difficult to both collect and control for than data on more basic processes. I think it's glib to suggest that the effect here should be easi
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by mrbrowning 13y ago
> Part of the problem here is what is meant by "math"... it is a shame that someone could get as far as second year university math in the US and still see it as a field where you simplify things to the point where you can app
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by mrbrowning 13y ago
I think it depends on your level of experience. For someone who's a beginner to Clojure and functional programming but wants to use Clojure as their home environment for working through the concepts presented in the book, I suspect the
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by mrbrowning 13y ago
He's making a good point in the abstract, but I think Horowitz is too close to the matter to understand that a lot of the negativity he cites is a natural reaction to the totally overblown rhetoric of the start-up scene. He inadvertent
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by mrbrowning 13y ago
While I think the grandparent is focussed on a non-issue (the two phrases offered are obviously metonymic, not literal), I have to note that this is a much stronger claim than you might gather from a glib programming analogy made by an armc
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by mrbrowning 13y ago
Human reproduction doesn't occur asexually, but you wouldn't know that from reading your comment. Why does the responsibility for this decision rest entirely upon the mother in your conception?
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by mrbrowning 13y ago
> Single mothers are, in many cases, that way because of making bad life choices. I'd be very interested to see a citation for this. You seem to be very knowledgeable on the topic, could you provide one?
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by mrbrowning 13y ago
I've never worked with Node and probably never will, but it's pretty dishonest to conflate the sense of "blocking" as in "postponed execution" with "blocking" as in "executing an intensive CPU-bo
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by mrbrowning 13y ago
I don't know, I'm kind of skeptical that your language reflects statistical realities at all times. Have you never described something with the adverb "probably" that actually had a less than fifty percent chance of occu
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by mrbrowning 13y ago
What's stranger about it than using the male pronoun?
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by mrbrowning 13y ago
Thanks, this is wonderful. The foreword mentions a set of exercises that are only loosely coupled with the lectures themselves -- are these freely available anywhere?
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by mrbrowning 13y ago
They (specifically neural networks trained on the cross-entropy error, with the logistic function as your activation function) work very well in classification tasks where you want to interpret the output as a probability, which is useful w
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by mrbrowning 13y ago
I believe when articles like this one talk about "listening to Mozart," they are indeed referring to active listening, which taxes recall (with regards to things like ongoing restatements of a prominent motive) and working memory
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by mrbrowning 13y ago
Out of curiosity, why the switch? I went with gevent pretty early on because it seemed like eventlet had some weird quirks, but I have to admit never really giving it a close look.

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