nandemo

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by nandemo 14y ago
It's not nearly as simple as that. That might work for a freelancer, but it's not so easy if you're getting a regular job. Even if you could prove you saved/added $X in your last job (how?), most companies will not pay much above what they'
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by nandemo 14y ago
For what is worth, the voiced bilabial fricative is a sound similar to English "b" and "v". Languages that use that sound normally write it with "b", "v" or "w". It's common in Spanish but also creeps up in certain words in Portuguese, Japa
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by nandemo 14y ago
Agreed. Incidentally, Chris Doner has been producing far more exciting things like Fay, so I'm not gonna complain about TryHaskell.
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by nandemo 14y ago
I hear you. When I started learning Haskell I was also somewhat frustrated by some error messages. But it's far from an insurmountable problem, if you're really interested in learning the language. My suggestion is, (i) use ghc and ghci. Tr
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by nandemo 14y ago
Yeah, I saw that it uses mueval , but it's still conceivable that TryHaskell itself could hack support for let on top of it. Apparently Chris planned to do it [1]. Note that in "let t=bar in foo" the scope of t is restricted to foo ,
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by nandemo 14y ago
That works on ghci but, unfortunately, Try Haskell doesn't seem to support let .
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by nandemo 14y ago
> getting to know people's level for what they are offended by, and thereby measuring their rationality and whether or not they're worth talking to seriously. So you're saying you disagree with (IMO) the central assumption in the articl
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by nandemo 14y ago
> Up until recently, it has been considered sacrosanct that deposit holders be protected, no matter the cost. This is simply not true. Usually bank deposits are insured by the central bank or another such agency, but there's a limit (e.
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by nandemo 14y ago
> And changing a boy's middle name to Hussein no doubt increases his changes of reaching the White House by a factor of 1000. On the other hand, it also vastly increases his chances of getting captured and hanged due to actions of the W
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by nandemo 14y ago
You're quite right about trading fees and taxes, but what's that about being non-American? Practically all developed countries have a functioning stock exchange.
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by nandemo 14y ago
> AFAIK English is not a pro-drop language, which means that the construct should be ungrammatical. Not exactly. English is indeed considered not pro-drop, but that doesn't mean that dropping a pronoun is always ungrammatical. http://e
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by nandemo 14y ago
Wow. I had no idea that percentage was that low in the US. Does that mean that this whole discussion is basically irrelevant? Or are there jobs with salaries above the mimimum wage, but indexed to it?
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by nandemo 14y ago
The first version is pretty standard Haskell. Certainly not caricatural. For generic code, writing first:rest is not bad but it does look a bit superfluous, somewhat like writing quotient = numerator / denominator instead of s
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by nandemo 14y ago
> However, the example code uses `c' for connection and `q' for query. Surely, knowing what those are from the variable name would be a good thing? In this case, the example is short enough that there's no chance of confusion (for the
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by nandemo 14y ago
Your example still doesn't add up. AFAIK there's no liquid market for BTC derivatives, but let's assume it comes to exist. > Call options is when Mr. Shark comes up to you and says "Hey, I'll give you a BTC on Wednesday next week if yo
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by nandemo 14y ago
> One day, Mr. Shark sells 100,000 BTC all at once on the Mt. Gox market. He cashes in at BTC's high price, then BTC crashes. If the the daily volume is about 100,000 BTC, how do you expect to sell 100,000 at once at "the high price"?
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by nandemo 14y ago
The phrasing of the question is imprecise, but I'm assuming the idea is that "inserting a permutation into a BST" means the nodes are inserted in order and the tree is never rebalanced. It's an interesting question. And it's certainly much
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by nandemo 14y ago
The bad thing is that people still write blog posts containing uncompiled code.
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by nandemo 14y ago
While it's certainly possible to learn programming without knowing English (millions of programmers have done it!), if your cousins don't speak English or another foreign language then you should probably consider that a priority, instead o
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by nandemo 14y ago
That's really cool. About the demonstration: I think it would be nice if the person were to hold something, maybe a sponge or some other flexible material, so that the gripping is more visible to the spectator. A comment at Techcrunch menti
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by nandemo 14y ago
Clickable links: https://gist.github.com/jminardi/5022297 https://github.com/jminardi/RobotBrain http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/26/y-combinator-hardware-hacka...
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by nandemo 14y ago
Indeed that equivalence is exactly what the researches attempted to do: > the Machiguenga’s 20-soles stake equals about 2.3 days’ pay from the logging or oil companies that occasionally hire local labor. To match this amount, I set the
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Keiretsu: Another Obstacle to Japan’s Comeback(businessinsider.com)
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by nandemo 14y ago
Doing that occasionally between projects, or regularly on your own time (a.k.a. sharpening your saw ) is essential to improving as a programmer But in the context of programming as a job (which is the topic of the post), if one repeatedly
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by nandemo 14y ago
I don't think it's true that "the stock market disagrees that Apple is doing great". Apple is valued at over 400 billion dollars by the stock market. Maybe you mean that the price of Apple stock fell in some period t0 to t1, but that certai
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by nandemo 14y ago
While purchasing power parity is certainly relevant, being poor in the US (by the official US definition) is still better than being poor almost anywhere else. This paper goes so far as to argue that, in many ways, the average poor American
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by nandemo 14y ago
> The article notes that the properties are seen as a safe place to store money. But that isn't true. Real estate isn't that safe in the first place, and they are also throwing money away by not renting it. They'd do better in buying a
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by nandemo 14y ago
Reminds of this paper by Simon Peyton-Jones at al.: Improving the world's most popular functional language: user-defined functions in Excel http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/Papers...
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by nandemo 14y ago
I don't see the irony. I don't agree with the whole premise that people reacted negatively in public because of the monkey dancing thing. Another explanation, IMO much more likely, is that people who disagreed with his claims simply chose n
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by nandemo 14y ago
What part is mind-numbingly awful? It's pretty standard for countries to give out student visas with the proviso that the student cannot accept employment, or can only work up to (say) 15~20 hours a week after getting a special permit. As f

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