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by noblethrasher 7y ago
True, but what made the Mono REPL particularly remarkable was that it launched with much of the functionality of a notebook, with things like inline graphics.
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by noblethrasher 7y ago
Citing Kathy Sierra’s book, Badass (pp 91–92) > Evidence has been mounting for decades that for most non-sport domains and for most people,“natural talent” is not an absolute requirement for reaching high levels of expertise. &gt
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The Simple Essence of Automatic Differentiation – Conal Elliott(youtube.com)
2 points by noblethrasher 7y ago|0 comments
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by noblethrasher 7y ago
He also gave nice presentation on AD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne99laPUxN4 (surprised that you didn't already mention it, considering the venue ;-))
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by noblethrasher 7y ago
I get what you mean, but it’s worth remembering that TLA+ is a language that is designed foremost for thinking about CS stuff, and at the end of the day, it’s “just” an improved notation for mathematics (particularly the kind of math that
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by noblethrasher 7y ago
Actually, C# had a REPL even before Roslyn: The Mono project shipped one about 4 years prior.
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by noblethrasher 7y ago
I've complained about this before [1], but I once bought a $70 (USD) Microsoft Arc Mouse that required you to both register an MS account and download an app just to be able to turn off the obnoxious synthetic clicking sound that was e
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by noblethrasher 7y ago
Jaron Lanier often recommends the story in his talks on the dangers of social media.
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An Exhausting List of Differences Between Vb.net and C#(anthonydgreen.net)
2 points by noblethrasher 7y ago|0 comments
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by noblethrasher 7y ago
.NET Value types do inherit from System.Object. See: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.valuetype...
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by noblethrasher 7y ago
E.g. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/event/lampsonfest/
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by noblethrasher 7y ago
Not at all hard to believe that he was sincere. He seemed to be pretty starstruck when he was interviewing Alan Kay on stage just three years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhOHn9TClXY .
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by noblethrasher 7y ago
C# prefers `@class`
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by noblethrasher 7y ago
I'd argue that it's not a syntax error simply because the whole point of Scratch is to make programming accessible an audience (small children) for whom the kinesthetic and iconic mentalities are dominant. Syntax belongs to the sy
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by noblethrasher 8y ago
Rent lets you live in a house; taxes let you live in a civilization.
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by noblethrasher 8y ago
> or possibly Google, but they wouldn't ratify MS's platforms by investing resources in maintaining a fork. While they're not maintaining a fork, it's worth noting that the head of the ECMA C# standards committee is
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by noblethrasher 8y ago
Information Design: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_design .
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by noblethrasher 8y ago
In a healthy economic structure, most of the power would be in the middle class (i.e. the distribution of economic power is a bell curve). If we had that instead of the current power law distribution, then tax incentives would work simply b
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by noblethrasher 8y ago
I did a Smalltalk-style OO FizzBuzz in C# a while back: https://gist.github.com/noblethrasher/539f71d60b4768ca514aeb...
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by noblethrasher 8y ago
Yes, I knew that you were referring to the lambda calculus y-c. I've edited my original comment to make the pun more apparent.
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by noblethrasher 8y ago
> I hated that in order to do a loop in a lambda, you had to implement a y-combinator, but they fixed that. Heh, I see what you did there.
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by noblethrasher 8y ago
Conversely, if you didn't build the Internet, you don't get to break it.
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by noblethrasher 8y ago
I'm pretty sure 'theaeolist meant that, since von Neumann died young (53 actually), that he never had the chance to even reach an "advanced age" where you might expect the fear of death to have lessened.
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by noblethrasher 8y ago
> It is well documented that, after Von Neumann learned of his terminal pancreatic cancer... Bone cancer, actually.
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by noblethrasher 8y ago
C# offers a way to mitigate that, somewhat. I often have something like this among the top level `using` statements. using FooMemo = System.Collections.Immutable.ImmutableSortedDictionary<string, Foo>;
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by noblethrasher 8y ago
Well, to be clear, I was being tongue-in-cheek when calling it "envy". I just mean that C# looks messy from the point-of-view of an ML-wannabe, but pretty elegant as an aspiring Lisp. And I say this as someone that is fluent in F#
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by noblethrasher 8y ago
For some time, I've thought that the direction of C#'s evolution makes a lot of sense if you look at as the designers' effort to cope with Haskell envy (pattern matching, type inference (which is really just class inference),
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by noblethrasher 8y ago
Gosling created PostScript? That's… news to me. (NeWS was an implementation/extension of PostScript, but PS was invented by an entirely different group of people).
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by noblethrasher 8y ago
More context: https://zedshaw.com/2018/03/25/the-billionaires-vs-brandonm/
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by noblethrasher 8y ago
> and there is also a limit to the number of shareholders before you are required to go public. You're never forced to go public, but you will be required to disclose financial data to the public if you have more than 1,999 individu

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