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by myegorov 9y ago
It's hard to imagine that OCaml's libraries/tooling would be the game changers (drop in the bucket by comparison to the vast JS ecosystem). Would be nice if SMLtoJs compiler got the corporate backing though.
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by myegorov 9y ago
Does anyone know why the React/Reason creators switched from SML to OCaml? Reason's creator also created ReactJS, whose first prototypes were written in SML, a distant cousin of OCaml. We've transcribed ReactML into Re
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by myegorov 9y ago
It is understood that there will be those who buy bottled water where public utilities provide clean drinking water for all. Roughly 10% of the UK population are contributing to private health plans ( https://www.theguardian.com&#
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by myegorov 9y ago
>That's not a healthy private health insurance market; that's an opaque, balkanized system. "Healthy private health insurance market" sounds to me like an oxymoron. I certainly haven't heard of one. There should
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by myegorov 9y ago
Why would anyone unaffiliated with NSA be alarmed that its tools had been breached? What legitimacy does it have at this point? Serious question.
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by myegorov 9y ago
From what I observed (and learned from others), state sanctioned discrimination against Soviet Jews did not exist at the time of the last wave (say, 1989 onwards). Don't have an axe to grind as I came around that time to the US as a Je
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by myegorov 9y ago
Pecunia non olet
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by myegorov 9y ago
yes, it was a card with a chip
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by myegorov 9y ago
An aside... I had a hard time using my (US issued) Mastercard in small town Sweden earlier this year. The cashiers would photocopy my passport before processing the payment.
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by myegorov 9y ago
The title of the review alludes to Joseph Brodsky's memorable essay -- originally, a Dartmouth commencement address that begins: A substantial part of what lies ahead of you is going to be claimed by boredom. The reason I’d like
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by myegorov 9y ago
I've learned not to ignore these signals (lack of motivation) but take them in stride. So I usually wiggle a little to put things in perspective and see if there's room for incremental change. If everything else fails, I don'
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by myegorov 9y ago
Can you name an undergraduate program in an Engineering/computer science related field conducted entirely in English? At TU Darmstadt or any other public school? I very much suspect that this is not an option if your intent is to get a
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by myegorov 9y ago
A former civil (structural) engineer here. I'm not aware of any undergrad engineering programs at public universities in Germany run in English. Assuming you know German, I would definitely opt for a degree in Germany provided that you
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by myegorov 9y ago
In my experience, common clothes moth[1] or its larvae is also capable of eating through a plastic bag enclosing dry foodstuffs or cereal. Not sure if they're actually digesting it or could survive on the polyethylene diet though. [1]
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by myegorov 10y ago
The military and prisons to the rescue. Think Detroit.
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by myegorov 10y ago
Indeed, you can view prescriptive or customary adoption of secondary and tertiary education (for one demographic) and the penal system (for another) as the state of the art social contract a la workfare. To all appearances, the US has been
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by myegorov 10y ago
In my book, tunnels, road construction, mining, oil & gas are quintessential examples of diehard reactionary industries making snail pace progress, with entrenched corruption and basically insurmountable barriers to entry.
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by myegorov 10y ago
I've stopped paying attention ever since he spoke of breaking into the tunnels business.
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by myegorov 10y ago
The essence of logic programming[0] is in enabling a particular kind of exchange. On the one hand, there's a knowlege base -- a specification of what is known in the form of facts/rules/relations. On the other, there's a
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by myegorov 10y ago
I like to think of GraphQL as an ORM that hides the complexity of SQL queries. It is a DSL from the logic family. That it happens to be used in web services is secondary to understanding how it works. Could be used in a different context en
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by myegorov 10y ago
I wish GraphQL was discussed in the context of the declarative/logic programming paradigm (as in Prolog) where it belongs. Instead, it's always spinned as this "shiny new thing" and contrasted with REST, which does not a
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by myegorov 10y ago
Do you know of a single instance where CIA (not subcontractors) was held accountable for any action? Secret detention, targeted killing, lying under oath? I think this is huge from public interest standpoint, couldn't care less about c
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by myegorov 10y ago
Interesting. I was actually joking about HN. I can't think of an example where hangers-on or bots or engagée interest groups have ever been able to sway the popular opinion en masse. Not saying the special interest groups won't ta
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Ask HN: CIA is spying on you. Now what?
1 points by myegorov 10y ago|2 comments
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by myegorov 10y ago
Have you noticed this trend on HN? Because I see essentially the same sentiment in this thread. Little if anything is effected purely by overt or tacit collusion.
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by myegorov 10y ago
Looks like the CIA is screwing the public by mutual consent. The public is demanding more of the same, just as long as it's directed at whoever is out their favor. Here're the two topmost comments on NYT at the moment[0]: karm
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by myegorov 10y ago
To haters: didn't mean to ruffle your feathers. This is a falsifiable statement. Tell me all about it!
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by myegorov 10y ago
I could never understand how anyone can find Nussbaum's writings as remotely interesting. "For those who like that sort of thing, that's the sort of thing they like."
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by myegorov 10y ago
I think @flootch has a point. The question is, are Uber's employees -- and not just the upper management -- complicit in a scheme (of knowingly exploiting their drivers) that blows the internal scandal out of the water? And if yes, wou
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by myegorov 10y ago
A fellow structural engineer here. I think that there's little room for innovation in the "calc" area. The cost of doing calcs is a small fraction of the overall budget of a structural project. Modeling/drawings is where

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