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by nrinaudo 12y ago
I disagree with your last point, to some extent. While not strictly necessary, learning a bit of category theory makes FP abstractions such as functors and monoids a bit more accessible. I can't disagree with the fact that learning cat
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by nrinaudo 12y ago
I think it's "explained" when you go from slide 6 to 7. Slide 6: objects are points in space. Slide 7: arrows are ways of transforming objects into other objects. I'm no expert, but from my understanding, there is nothin
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by nrinaudo 12y ago
If you want convincing examples, do a search on #gamergate. Don't spend too much time on it though, it's fairly infuriating / depressing to see what people allow themselves to do when they feel they'll get away with it.
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by nrinaudo 12y ago
Fair enough, he might also be a troll or a teenager - or, god forbid, both. I accept your rebuke, I was being unfair.
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by nrinaudo 12y ago
dstoyanov, a few comments down, is not a bad example of them.
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by nrinaudo 12y ago
Right, do nothing to be ashamed of and nothing can be made public to hurt you. Given your stance on this, you obviously would have no issue with your full internet browsing history being made public and associated with your real name, the o
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by nrinaudo 12y ago
I believe he means that very often, type annotations are not necessary to know unambiguously the type of a variable or the return type of a function. For example, in the following Java code: public String myMethod() { return "hello
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by nrinaudo 12y ago
It's not stated anywhere, but it's Haskell. Usually a safe bet when presented with a functional programming language that is not lisp-like normuses a c-like syntax.
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by nrinaudo 12y ago
I've tried that, and it does not really work. Turns out I'm just as averse to paperwork in English as I am in French. It can also have a significant downside: I've tried maintaining a todo list in a language that I'm not
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by nrinaudo 12y ago
If it's indeed the same issue, I think you're out of luck, at least for the free part. Here's the Apple ticket about it: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4088 This explicitly states that your warrantee for
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by nrinaudo 12y ago
A little bit of both: my warrantee had long expired, but there was an extension for this very specific issue, since I believe it affects 100% of macbook pros from that series. I've looked into this a bit more and it looks like my comme
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by nrinaudo 12y ago
I had this problem, went to the genius bar and was quickly offered to replace the defective component for free in under a week, if I remember correctly. It's still much too long to go without a computer, but it's worth it when you
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by nrinaudo 12y ago
In case the "lack of response" was directed at me, for the very specific Hitman thing: yes, the game penalises you for killing the dancers (hookers?). I'm pretty sure the penalty is lifted if you hide the bodies, though. So,
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by nrinaudo 12y ago
Right, I see where we misunderstood each other. You're talking about conclusions she reached that are debatable - and, indeed, debated rather a lot. I also disagree with some of them, but don't feel that qualifies her as a liar, j
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by nrinaudo 12y ago
I'm sorry, I've been following this story for a while and every single one of the instances where she has been accused of lying that I know of has been debunked. I'm not calling you a liar, merely asking for you to point me t
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by nrinaudo 12y ago
I can't help but wonder whether you're that circumspect with everyone or if I come off as crazy-kill-you-you-phillistine and need to work on my communication skills? Aside from the fact that I've never felt scarier, I agree e
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by nrinaudo 12y ago
I don't think so, actually: in all the heated discussions I've had with people on the subject of static / dynamic typing, everybody agreed that static typing had significant benefits. What people don't agree on is whethe
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by nrinaudo 12y ago
As I said, they're not necessary and I don't think I've written useful code that explicitely used monads, for example - well, aside from for-comprehensions, but you could argue that it's not explicit. But they are fun in
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by nrinaudo 12y ago
I feel that most of (not all) the criticisms are fair, but superficial. True, the IDEs are poor, for a certain definition of poor. Had I not used IntelliJ for Java, for example, I'd find IntelliJ for Scala amazing. Knowing how much bet
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by nrinaudo 12y ago
I do not feel the last part of your statement is at all true. France is absolutely proud and protective of its language, but is trying very hard to teach English to its population. France has mandatory English lessons. 7 years when I was
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by nrinaudo 12y ago
I must admit I'm surprised at some of these results. Being French with Japanese in-laws, I've had ample opportunity to compare both populations' level of english and while French people are by no mean excellent, I found that
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by nrinaudo 12y ago
I don't understand the correlation you seem to be making. Let's take the fact that manufacturers are making e-cigarettes addictive as a given. I'm not entirely sure how that works and suspect you're talking about the jui
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by nrinaudo 12y ago
I don't believe there are known health reasons not to use an e-cigarette. It's a relatively new phenomenon though and hasn't been around long enough for us to study all possible long term effects. There are, however, plenty
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by nrinaudo 12y ago
Good job on quitting, but a word of warning: you've not hit the hard patch yet. From what all of my friends who quit smoking experienced, 1 month is the real test. I've seen many people quit smoking cold turkey and do great for 1
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by nrinaudo 12y ago
I think twitter generates answers based on the client's Accept-Encoding header. Well, I assumed that. Come to think of it though, it does seem unlikely and you make a good point. I did not downvote, or if I did I did not mean to, op&
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by nrinaudo 12y ago
I apologise, I was not aware you could not pluralise these words. My only excuse is that english is not my first language. I'd go back and edit my comment, but that'd just make yours seem weird...
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by nrinaudo 12y ago
Japanese is often encoded in Shift_JIS, which is much better than UTF-8 (for japanese text). Most browsers default to that encoding on japanese OSes, so there probably isn't a real bandwidth issue, depending on the ratio of browser to
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by nrinaudo 12y ago
While I agree that this is appalling, I think the article misses the point entirely: she got sued, and lost, not because of her criticisms, but because she told people not to go to that restaurant. The former is fine and a proud part of Fra
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by nrinaudo 14y ago
Well, I thought it wasn't possible to parse JSON in a streaming fashion, but given the number of annoyed answers I got, that was obviously incorrect. Let me amend that to the more qualified "the libraries I've used so far don't allow you
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by nrinaudo 14y ago
I disagree. XML has a huge advantage over JSON: it can be streamed. When working with JSON, you must load the whole JSON document before you can start processing it. If the JSON gets big enough, you start having performance / memory issues.

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