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by nikofeyn 7y ago
> create an environment where working on true “moonshot” tech was not so risky. this obsession with moonshot ideas is just as damaging as these big companies turning customers into statistics and sucking up talent and feigning innovation
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
books like this always seem so superficial. the internet did not create people’s want to play with language. it maybe acted as a catalyst, but the fundamental nature of humans being playful with language has always been around. i learned th
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
i wonder what it must feel like at mit with two of its titans gone (minksy and winston). are there others stepping in their place? abelson and sussman are still there. in a world where machine learning has taken over "ai", it does
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
can someone re-edit the title to change "Csail" back to "CSAIL", the way i had it in the first place? a moderator must have incorrectly edited the title, because "Csail" is incorrect.
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Patrick Winston of MIT CSAIL has died(news.mit.edu)
400 points by nikofeyn 7y ago|81 comments
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
> I think MIT people had their reasons for "rethinking" and trying out Java, and then Python. One of the factors I recall was a perceived changing nature of CS practice (moving to assembling from components, rather than underst
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
good luck talking "seasoned programmers" into or out of anything. that's the real problem.
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the interesting thing is that racket has evolved far beyond lisp and scheme.
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
the course is very, very good. it is based upon the book how to design programs . as a small correction though, it really doesn't teach racket in terms of #lang racket. it uses a succession of teaching languages that are implemented a
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
my understanding is that that will change. it's just that pyret's current primary use case (education) demanded that it run in the browser first.
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
when i went through the coursera course "programming languages", i did part a in standard ml (what the course uses) but also in f# and in typed racket (using racket's pattern matching). the code was practically identical acro
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
duplicates happen, and the one removed had more upvotes and was on the front or second page. either way, a message on why it was removed would be well received.
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
rather curiously, the submission has been unflagged now mere seconds after i submitted this. it's possible it happened right before this submission, but it had been flagged for many minutes before i submitted this, including just a min
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Ask HN: Why was the VICE video report on China's Uighur situation flagged?
8 points by nikofeyn 7y ago|6 comments
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as chief design officer you’d think he’d be responsible.
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
given the expected reaction to apple park by employees and high level VPs (one who reportedly refused to work there), i am sure ive will continue to find “success” in his quest in taking the rectangle and circle to the extreme.
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
while i understand the general sentiment, this type of outcry and little quip is kind of silly, because it's too late. everyone knew what they were signing up for, and people still know what they're signing up for with kindle, itu
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
that interview is really great. i have watched it a few times. i think it makes it clear why simons has been so successful. he doesn't seem to really second guess, just does things, delegates well, and despite being obviously brilliant
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
> I didn't like some of its design choices, e.g. how iteration and conditional statements are done is overly complex. There are natural ways of doing these in dataflow which LabVIEW doesn't use. would you mind elaborating? i wo
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
> it has a confusing "syntax" that most often than not results in unmaintanable software that is more that most people who program it don't put in the time or effort to program it in a professional way. personally, i do an
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
> Python and Ruby are probably the only popular ones that ship by default with unlimited precision integers. racket has exact numbers of unlimited size. https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/numbers.html
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
everybody always seems to ignore the most advanced and general purpose visual programming language/environment, that being labview. i suppose it is probably because it sits behind an expensive license.
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
all i can go off of is my own experience. i can’t think of any other consumer electronics that have just outright failed like my apple products have. it is significant. and no one else is claiming those other products are built better than
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
> People are paying significant markup on Cars for BMW, Ferrari, Maserati, Lamborghini, Aston Martin, Bently. You could buy a Car from Toyota or Kia with Same Horsepower. The thing is they are NOT the same. They never was. this is kind o
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
anybody that likes even moderately good headphones requires a headphone jack. my lg phone is thinner than the new iphones and still has an audio jack plus an audio dac and still has the same ip rating. apple’s marketing that they are moving
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
you're exactly right. although i think the oversight was coupled with greed. corporations in the u.s. began a race to the bottom in terms of manufacturing cost, and now we're paying for both incompetent oversight and greed. consum
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i am saying that they will continue to do both low end and high end copies. but at the high end, they will eventually (and have in some markets), catch up to external innovation. at that point, they no longer need to copy and can go off inn
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
i am not for sure why you are downvoted. i hadn't heard of china devaluing their yuan, but the way you have explained it makes sense. china does indeed seem to be buying a ton of western assets, including real estate and major holdings
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
i am not for sure i understand. i was saying that it seems to me that the u.s. can't always rely on the argument and stance that "oh, it's just china making cheap copies". it seems that china has directly stolen and cont
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
but my guess is that the period of china stealing ip (which is an obvious fact that has happened over decades) is only temporary in the grand scheme of things in that it won't last forever. this is because china has stolen ideas, conce

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