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by necubi 16y ago
While I think Haskell is a superior language is most respects and I would definitely prefer it for my personal use, I think SML is probably a better language for teaching, particularly for a language-theory course. Two are two particular is
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by necubi 16y ago
I guess it really depends on what college. At my school, which tends towards the theoretical, Scheme, SML and Prolog are part of the core curriculum.
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by necubi 16y ago
That's the idea in theory. In practice, it's clear that upvotes/downvotes are often used to guide the discussion in the direction that the voter wants it to go, which is often towards his/her innate biases.
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by necubi 16y ago
No, what some for-profit colleges are doing is despicable and amounts to defrauding the federal government. These behaviors include heavy-handed marketing to potential students who are unlikely to see a benefit from the education and who ar
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by necubi 16y ago
In that vein, I was way too excited to see Mark Zuckerberg hacking in Emacs in The Social Network . It's so rare that movies get this stuff right that when they do I can't help but smile.
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by necubi 16y ago
I've been trying to find summer housing on craigslist, and it's been mostly a failure. The biggest issue is the lack of semantic information in the listings. For example, every listing has a price, but it's mostly useless for filtering beca
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by necubi 16y ago
You could let users enter their a city and fetch the data locally via javascript. That way, the usage counts against their IP's API limit, not yours. Edit: To be more clear, this would only work for showing the data to the user that request
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by necubi 16y ago
Google hired many of those involved in the DARPA Urban challenge, and they are leading the effort. In particular, Sebastian Thrun, who appears to be in charge of Google's program, was the head of the winning Stanford team. Additionally, Goo
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by necubi 16y ago
That's what latch was saying: Java and C# are similar in syntax, but C# and VB.Net are similar in more important ways.
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by necubi 16y ago
This statement is a clear and obvious logical fallacy, and should have appeared as such to contemporary audiences. He is saying that Animals have (limbs => they move) => (the Earth does not have limbs => it does not move). But t
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by necubi 16y ago
The difference is, Apple's 30% is a requirement to do business on their platform. Apple can charge whatever they want because there is no competition--you're not allowed to use other providers. Your only option is to leave iOS, which isn't
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by necubi 16y ago
Actually, you've got it almost backwards. If people are worrying that there's a bubble, there probably isn't. Bubbles form when everybody thinks things are worth more than they are. This produces a positive feedback loop whereby investors b
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by necubi 16y ago
One issue is that from the question screen there seems to be no way to get back to the categories. You can get a new category list, but not the one you came from.
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by necubi 16y ago
This isn't true. According to Wikipedia, the NY Times has 876,638 daily/1,352,358 Sunday subscribers [0] while the NY Post has 525,000/343,361 [1] [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NY_Times [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NY_Post
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by necubi 16y ago
I love it. There is nothing else that makes it so easy to replicate between various systems. And with its HTTP API, it's possible to write javascript apps that talk directly to the db, without a need for any server-side code.
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Sprint announces first dual-screen Android phone, the Kyocera Echo(engadget.com)
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by necubi 16y ago
This seems pretty crazy, as the comparable iPad (16GB WiFi+3G) retails for $630. It will also be difficult to build up a large install base without a cheaper, wifi-only model. And while at the moment the Xoom has some features the iPad does
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by necubi 16y ago
The article's link is to an informationless blog post. The conference site is http://codeconf.com/ .
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by necubi 16y ago
I have a professor who uses Sakai (the university as a whole used Blackboard, but switched to Moodle, another open source option, this year). Sakai may be better than Blackboard, but that's not saying much. The ui is still terrible and it's
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by necubi 16y ago
The use of the passive voice ("is considered") implies that the position has more support than just the author and is a general belief. "I consider" would be seen as expressing the author's personal opinion.
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by necubi 16y ago
The cool thing about redis is that it supports a bunch of different data structures: (ordered) sets, arrays, hashes, queues and more. There are a lot of db operations that are very natural with such support that are harder to force into the
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by necubi 16y ago
I don't think the main problem is companies not valuing women, because it starts much earlier. University CS departments are tilted very heavily towards men (~10:1 at my school) so there are far, far fewer women graduating with CS degrees a
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by necubi 16y ago
I don't think your criticism is entirely fair; for one, you can only compare OS X users to Windows users, which isn't at issue. Perhaps if you had a native version of your application the conversion rate would be 4x that of Windows. Further
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by necubi 16y ago
Assuming that Apple can source such a display, driving it will be very resource intensive. A dual-core CPU will help, but it will also need a powerful (read power hungry) GPU. I have no doubt that Apple is looking at very high resolution di
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by necubi 16y ago
I signed up to help write, and I hope others do as well. It's a shame that the poor documentation is such a barrier preventing Sproutcore's adoption. I was hoping that with the formation of Strobe that things would get better, but they real
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Intel and nvidia sign $1.5B cross-licensing agreement(arstechnica.com)
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Why I hate New Vegas (Wil Shipley)(blog.wilshipley.com)
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by necubi 16y ago
This sounds great. The weakest part of sproutcore right now is the documentation, which has actually gotten worse since I first learned 14 months ago due to bit rot. Fixing that will go a long way towards increasing adoption.
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by necubi 16y ago
I've recently finished reading Learn You A Haskell For Great Good!, and I think the author's approach to monads works well. I'd read various metaphorical explanations that only served to further cloud the issue, but thanks to LYAH I finally
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by necubi 16y ago
Me too. This so perfectly describes how I feel in social situations, and it's nice to hear somebody say "It's Ok! It's society that's screwed up, not you."

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