nandemo

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by nandemo 15y ago
I don't give a damn about tau. On the other hand, the way π　iｓ rendered on Firefox on Windows is so wrong... it looks just like a small version of Π (capital pi), or the Cyrillic small Pe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pe_%28Cyrillic%29
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by nandemo 15y ago
I'd say it's the other way 'round: the problem of the invisible multiplication operator is that it precludes multi-character symbols. (I think Dijkstra wrote about that.)
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by nandemo 15y ago
Thanks for the explanation. I still don't think it's a good example in the context of this thread. My impression is similar to onli's: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3699158
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by nandemo 15y ago
See also StackVM. http://stackvm.com/
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by nandemo 15y ago
I'm a programmer but not a Mac user. I fail to see what is wrong with the bug report above. Care to explain?
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by nandemo 15y ago
This is useless without a link to the actual study. PS: The LA Times article is more informative: http://www.latimes.com/health/la-he-red-meat-20120313,0,5654... and contains a link to the study: http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/
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by nandemo 15y ago
Not sure if this answers your question, but the fundamental problem from which all economic activity is derived is scarcity.
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by nandemo 15y ago
I'm curious: considering you have read all of Manning's books and have been doing NLP for a long time, what do you expect to get out of the class? I took one NLP class at grad school but I don't remember much of it (besides it was in Japane
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by nandemo 15y ago
> Why do programmers think asking if Oct 31 and Dec 25 are the same day is funny? I have no idea. Can I find the largest int in an array? Sure, but why in the world are you asking me this? The first question is silly. It's probably inte
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by nandemo 15y ago
> Beyond OS kernels , drivers and embedded systems is there any real use for this? If you're parsing a binary format you'll probably use bit shifting. Bit shifting is just bitwise arithmetic. Assuming you did CS or a related degree, it'
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by nandemo 15y ago
So someone from country A tries to enter country B for work without having a work visa, is denied entry. Yawn... It's also funny that his surname is mentioned, as if having an Irish-sounding name automatically gave you a right to special tr
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by nandemo 15y ago
Speak for yourself. Other things being equal, I'd much rather get cash than shares in the company I work for. If the company goes bust, then I'm out of a job and my shares are worth nothing. If I want to invest in equity, then I will buy
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by nandemo 15y ago
I don't think we're actually disagreeing, but I don't think you have addressed my point. I'm assuming your software can handle 28 or 30 or 31-day months, after all it has worked for the last few years. So you must already have a library tha
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by nandemo 15y ago
I don't understand. Your software works for months with 28 or 30 or 31 days. Why does it break for months with 29 days? I think unless you're messing with non-Gregorian calendars, this is a solved problem. Am I missing something?
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by nandemo 15y ago
> we occasionally try commercial software. Mostly, we don’t end up buying it Given that, I'm not sure why I should pay too much attention to the rest of the post. I'd rather take advice from people who successfully sell a lot of softwar
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by nandemo 15y ago
I mean that in Japan, working 8.5 hours (if you subtract 1 hour for lunch) isn't considered working "long hours" at all. Though I suppose it's not considered long hours in US too, perhaps the commenter above doesn't have a lot of experience
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by nandemo 15y ago
> I regularly work longs hours (my standard work day is something like 10 - 19:30) I live in Japan and what is this?
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by nandemo 15y ago
IMO the best intro to monads is You Could Have Invented Monads : http://blog.sigfpe.com/2006/08/you-could-have-invented-monad... It starts from concrete examples, lets you write a few exercises, then it shows you the common pattern behin
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by nandemo 15y ago
If you want to learn about STM, I recommend Simon Peyton-Jones' Beautiful Concurrency , which is a chapter of the Beautiful Code book: http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/74063/beautiful.pdf
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by nandemo 15y ago
What about these? f1 list = foldr (&&) True list -- && is logical and f2 list = foldr (||) False list -- || is logical or f3 list = foldl max (head list) (tail list) f4 list = foldl min (head list)
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by nandemo 15y ago
> then I will have to mentally translate everything you write to make full sense of it. But why? A SQL query or a Java/Python/whatever program might get translated to zillions of CMP and JMP instructions, but I see no reason why you sho
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by nandemo 15y ago
Andrew, interesting comment. I wonder why we don't see more Brazilian startups targeting international markets. Is there a Brazilian HN, or otherwise a forum or mailing list?
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by nandemo 15y ago
> I haven't found CS degrees to be very well correlated with being able to program, That's only true if you artificially restrict your population. It's like saying that music degrees aren't well correlated with being able to play an i
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by nandemo 15y ago
Sure, I agree with you. What part of my comment are you disagreeing with? Previous comment says that Tesla changed the image of the electric car, I'm skeptical of that. (except that I don't get your example of Aston Martin as not well-known
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by nandemo 15y ago
> First, before Tesla people thought of electric vehicles as ridiculous DIY golf carts driven by treehuggers. They were utterly uncool and stupid. Post-Tesla, electric cars are among the very coolest cars in the world. Really? I never h
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by nandemo 15y ago
Ah, you hadn't said it was the same post office... In any case, I'm not saying being Japanese is the only factor. But it's very likely a factor.
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by nandemo 15y ago
Bemmu, is your wife Japanese? I'm willing to bet that if you did an A/B test, with A=Bemmu and B=Bemmu's wife, you'd get more yes answers with B. (I'm aware that this might sound cynical to some, but it's pretty much common sense if you h
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by nandemo 15y ago
Huh? I didn't see any mention of "conman". I hope you haven'tjust jumped from "walk with confidence" to "confidence man" to "conman".
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by nandemo 15y ago
(Check your link to the WolframMathWorld article) > Evidently, not every reader of Hacker News is convinced that infinity is not a number, despite several websites by mathematically learned people who say exactly that Like impendia sa
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by nandemo 15y ago
> Ok, an irrational number of dollars is pushing it a bit, but you don't need to go that far to see that infinity doesn't work when trying to count things consistently. Well, if your definition doesn't work for irrational numbers, the

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