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by nbouscal 12y ago
That's an interesting choice of example state given New Hampshire's significant role in primary elections.
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Maybe reread my post - I wasn't saying that those typecasts of the languages were accurate, I was doing exactly the opposite. The characteristics of Python you just mentioned are only specific to it in cases when they are erroneous. Th
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I wasn't going to wade into the object-level CRUD app discussion because it seems beside the point, but I can't possibly disagree more about Python somehow being better suited for the domain because of "flexibility". Pyt
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Your point that there is more than one axis on which to measure the power of a programming language is well-taken. That said, you can normalize to one axis. The point of pg's essay is that only people who have learned the relevant to
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There's definitely a tradeoff between library maturity and language quality. There are also a few specific domains that are best-served by more domain-targeted languages. That doesn't mean we can't say that, aside from those
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It's not a presumption. It's not a prior that we're holding to regardless of evidence. The superiority of Haskell is, for all the Haskellers I know, a conclusion that they came to after extensive research and experimentatio
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> A truly open-minded position would have to continually consider that maybe Haskell and its type system are not the best options at all There are two ways that I can parse this comment. The first is that you mean that there are other, n
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Worm was so damn good , but I feel obligated to put a warning here. It's not just a lengthy novel, it's an extremely lengthy novel. Starting reading Worm can cause significantly decreased productivity for roughly the next month
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Not yet. He's working on the last set of updates, and is hoping to be done by the end of the year.
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Bill Gates also recommends My Years with General Motors [1], calling it "probably the best book to read if you want to read only one book about business." I would second that recommendation. [1]: http://www.amazon.com&#
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http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/marktoberdorf/ba...
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As an established user, I navigate directly to hackage or the wiki. I don't remember the last time I hit the homepage.
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One Space, Two Space, Shut Up, #$% You(stilldrinking.org)
1 points by nbouscal 12y ago|0 comments
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At some point I just sat down and did some deliberate practice. I'm actually still not as good at typing as I would like to be, I have some glitches like only using my right thumb for the spacebar and sometimes using the wrong Shift ke
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I average 140wpm without any "advanced typing techniques", so I don't think they're really necessary. I can't speak to whether or not they would be helpful, though. I do think it's very worthwhile to be able to
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Realistically I don't think programmers type prose all that much more frequently than college students. Programming tends to involve lots of symbols, and most of the typing is in small edits rather than paragraphs. College students wri
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> one 2007 study measured a small group of 21 college students and found their average typing speed was an abysmal 12.2 words per minute That blows my mind. That's less than a tenth the speed I type at. How do they get anything done
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Clayton Christensen Responds to New Yorker Takedown of 'Disruptive Innovation'(businessweek.com)
11 points by nbouscal 12y ago|3 comments
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Trying to discuss the merits of static type systems by using a Java-level type system as your example case is disingenuous and silly. None of the static typing advocates I know (myself included) advocate for type systems that weak. If you w
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[citation needed] There are pros and cons to bodyweight and free weight depending on the desired outcomes. Neither strictly dominates the other.
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That is expected, as explained by the Alchian-Allen effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchian%E2%80%93Allen_effect
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Alex Tabarrok comments on this: "I believe that this announcement will be discussed in business schools for years to come much like Henry Ford’s announcement of the $5 a day wage." http://marginalrevolution.com/mar
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You're starting with a fundamental assumption that there are two classes of languages, which you are calling pragmatic languages and research languages. I disagree. Researchers study languages of all sorts (there are plenty of research
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Merit is not exclusively a characteristic of art. Tools have merits, and awareness of those merits is very important for any practitioner who seeks to use those tools in their work. If I went into my father's woodshop and sought to use
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If there were superb tooling, libraries, and documentation available for Brainfuck or INTERCAL, you would not find that sufficient reason to program in those languages. Of course, you will say, such a situation would never exist, because no
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by nbouscal 12y ago
If you really want to be concise, something like this should work. accent . legato $ foldl1 (</>) (delay <$> [0, 1/4, 3/4] <*> [scat [c..c']^/4])
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The Music Suite(music-suite.github.io)
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Gittip and Flattr have fundamentally different models and focuses. Perhaps ironically, Flattr is more focused on tipping. It's about signaling one-time appreciation for a specific piece of work (an article, a video, etc). Gittip, on th
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by nbouscal 12y ago
More like socioeconomic status. http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/FB-Unintended-Pregnancy-US.ht...
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Something tells me you've never sat in on an algebraic topology class where the teacher draws a donut and a pair of pants on the board, along with a line or two, and calls it a proof. A key characteristic of mathematics is that it can

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