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by nikofeyn 8y ago
what is a bar raiser? and when has amazon ever been an engineering force? i have always felt the website and service experience is a relic of the 2000s. more often than not, i get the answer “our system can’t do that” from customer service.
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
why do you think haskell is the ultimate static language? surely it has tough competitors in f#, sml, and idris, all of which have big features haskell doesn’t have.
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
> Why should I write (+ p 2) when most people think (p+2)? just an observation. most people don’t think this naturally. most people learned (p+2). maybe there’s an argument for whatever is more natural, but the point is that people for
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
interesting about the math integration with tensors and differential forms. gonna have to read the linked paper.
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
norvig is the only one anyone ever quotes for python vs lisp. he is beyond my knowledge, but i just cannot see what he says in this quote. python doesn’t feel like lisp at all when programming in it. the mindset is completely different. edi
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
you can program f# fully as an oop language, where i think it is still more approachable than python for that. add in async, first class events, tasks, observables, etc., and you have a very approachable but high ceiling with f#. and the sy
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
have you ever tried f#? if you think python is what lisp could be (a little confused by that...see racket...but...), then i am curious what you think about something like f#. it’s like python in a way, in that it has oop and uses indentatio
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
how is python like lisp?
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
couldn't you say the same thing about musk?
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
why do people not like it so much? i mean, nearly everything you have said is simply incorrect, so it’s hard to know where to start.
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
f# definitely allows this with single case discriminated unions. and in f#, you can add members to any type, which includes discriminated unions, records, classes, etc. in fact, you can add member functions somewhere else after the definiti
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
i didn’t say haskell. f# has explicit support for scripting in the form of its fsx file format. how is f# as a scripting language laughable? f# even has access to the powershell api through .net.
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
> The F# version doesn't even include the actual arguments, and the capitalised and underscored versions are repeated twice. i don’t know what you mean. actual argumennts? do you mean like “—working directory” or the values passed b
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
this is interesting, because if i didn't read your commentary, these examples seem to favor f#. :) what are your objections? what is the dense symbology? discriminated unions (what the CLIArguments is) are very simple to define and und
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
you are right that python is an opinionated choice, but that particularly chosen philosophy is what people disagree with. the philosophy is somewhat stubborn as well. and i think you are leaving out functional languages which share python&#
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
when i was doing graduate mathematics, i felt that there were just as many formulas that would be hurt by a change to tau as there were those helped by it. proponents of tau seem to cherry pick and don’t showcase everywhere that you’ll pick
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
> Even to just crack open that package we require massive machines like the LHC. as a small correction, this is not true. what you probably really mean is massive amounts of energy, but large machines are not the requirement because RF-b
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
the argument for tau is so silly, and it seems to be mainly supported by non-mathematicians. i don’t know of any real mathematician that cares. and it’s because it’s a toss-up really. so people just keep going. there’s more importnat things
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
this has been my experience when shipping musical equipment that i have sold on eBay and such at multiple UPS stores in two different states. although, i have not done it through the online system. it’s going to be pretty frustrating if it’
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
as a consumer, i can’t stand the insurance policies of shipping companies. you pay them to ship something, and then you have to pay them more to make sure they actually ship it properly. it’s insane to me. and UPS has gotten exceedingly pic
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
their video starts off with a critique of sketch-like apps, even showing what may be sketch itself. really poor naming given they obviously know what sketch is.
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
it isn't vaguely related. it may be poorly written, but it was meant to be an example of the surrealness of bad customer service in stores like home depot. anecdotes are certainly part of this site. just look this thread. they are plas
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
yes.
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
hacker news is so serious. downvoted for just telling a story in fun. it isn’t “bottled up”. i think it’s funny. so yea, i’ll go complain to management next time. thanks.
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
i really wish a person many software engineers idolize or at least obviously respect and pay attention to, myself being excluded from these camps, didn’t communicate like a child. it’s an embarrassment for the field.
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
i had a boss battle with a home depot employee once. i was looking to have a small piece of wood cut, really nothing fancy, and it’s a service they offer or at least i thought they offered. i found the wood i needed and was over in the lumb
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
what is a non-microsoft developer? these are open platforms that happen to be made by microsoft. if you use google’s open source projects are you now a google developer? and visual studio code is probably used more for web development than
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
relax. i don’t care about a billion dollar corporation. what i care about is hive mentality, particularly in the tech world, which is what i was obviously getting at. facebook is one of the most evil corporations around, yet people are more
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
none of that makes any sense. c#, f#, and vb.net all target .NET (and thus the CLR) and are interoperable. they are also cross-platform with .NET core. and saying “most open source modern OO languages ... target the JVM” is not accurate. if
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
> Total energy the star projects on a sphere is same at any radius. can you clarify? do you mean the total energy the sun projects onto a sphere centered at the center of the sun is the same for any radius greater than the radius of th

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