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by ohyes 16y ago
You might try common lisp then, as it has an object system (CLOS), and does not enforce functional purity. The one downside is that a lot of people like to complain about it, for reasons that don't really make sense to me. The first advanta
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by ohyes 16y ago
I agree completely, as I know you are talking about electricians, plumbers and similar professions. However, some of that stuff may have gone to china too, sort of. What do you do if your dishwasher breaks? Throw it out, buy a new one. (Unl
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by ohyes 16y ago
I disagree with absolutely everything that you wrote. I use flet/labels/map/reduce all the time. I find that in certain places avoiding statefulness can be a readability advantage. Nothing wrong with using an array as it is simple and easy
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by ohyes 16y ago
Is 'learning programming' in quotes because it is sarcastic? You don't program anything until the final exam, and the final exam is two relatively trivial tasks. Just start with the final exam, and then build it out until you have something
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by ohyes 16y ago
I have a friend who works for Bose. Their product line is mostly acoustics, but they also do a lot of really interesting and varied research/innovation in a number of electrical and mechanical engineering fields.
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by ohyes 16y ago
I have a comment about your site: (full disclosure: I don't have any expertise about marketing, or entrepreneurship or anything at all really) This may be my stupid showing through but on the front page, it looks like a piece of software th
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by ohyes 16y ago
It seems criminal to me that Universities are allowed to have teaching assistants teach classes. Aren't they supposed to be the assistants, not the teachers? It seems OK to have them help with grading or tutoring, but teaching the entire cl
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by ohyes 16y ago
If you continue with this line of reasoning you'll come off sounding an awful lot like Monty Python's "What have the Romans done for us?" Skit.
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by ohyes 16y ago
You know, I really like this idea. What if in general there were an option for higher education that was more spread out? I'm imagining a system that is more based on apprenticeship; where you work and you learn at the same time, and after
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by ohyes 16y ago
That might be true. It is indeed complex if you look at the BNF in the hyper-spec. ( http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/m_loop... ) If you ignore the hyperspec, however, and get a feel for it by looking at examples and wr
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by ohyes 16y ago
It is an abomination until you learn how to use it, then it is completely awesome.
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by ohyes 16y ago
You are supposed to hate your code. If you don't hate it, you aren't trying hard enough. I would not equate hating the code with the code being something to be ashamed of. I hate every goddamn piece of code I write.
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by ohyes 16y ago
coffee?
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Is reality a simulation?(nasca.org.uk)
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by ohyes 16y ago
The squint test only passes for one and fails for the other because of your familiarity with the Algol-style language. I immediately recognized a defun or defmacro in the second, and didn't know wtf was going on in the first. It is a (def-
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by ohyes 16y ago
It is orders of magnitude better than what we had previously. The only thing that worries me is that it seems that you are running it mostly by yourself? Is this true? That must be a lot of work. I hope you can devise a way to have multiple
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by ohyes 16y ago
http://www.quicklisp.org/
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by ohyes 16y ago
They entangled a q-bit with a packet of light, and then sent it from one place to another (presumably using fiber optic or something), without breaking entanglement. This is important because it gets you the ability to route quantum informa
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by ohyes 16y ago
In that paper he is not arguing that L2s suck. It is a much better analysis than that. "The bulk of arguments that focus on clean semantics and notational simplicity tend to favor uniting the function and value namespaces." These are the fi
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by ohyes 16y ago
That would imply that common lisp is not a lisp, and scheme definitely is a lisp.
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by ohyes 16y ago
"Asking a CL advocate whether Scheme is a Lisp is like asking a plantation owner whether his slaves are human beings." That is a horribly inept analogy. My guess is that most CL guys would say 'yes, it is.' "It is my reasoned opinion that o
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by ohyes 16y ago
"I 100% understand the aspiration; I just don't think it works as well as this in commercial software development, where there are competing concerns, not just idealized software construction. Leaving some of the less-commonly used (domain)
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by ohyes 16y ago
It is also a tautology.
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by ohyes 16y ago
Average and standard deviation would do the trick, then you know where your salary is placed within a normal distribution.
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by ohyes 16y ago
It might be easier to teach them about functions that can call themselves first; and then explain the concept of recursion in the context of that (or just that it is called 'recursion'). A recursive function call is conceptually no differen
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by ohyes 16y ago
"People find it easier to grasp an instance of a pattern or abstraction they already know, than to grasp a new abstraction altogether." But the idea is to build the program up until you are working in a set of target abstractions that fit w
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by ohyes 16y ago
This isn't about easy of acquisition; TFA has little to do with Apple in particular. This is about the market having 'failed' with regard to proper pricing of certain goods. Piracy is therefore an indicator of a failure in the market, not a
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by ohyes 16y ago
I would recommend getting rid of up-voting and positive karma. People make pithy comments in order to get positive karma. Same reason for meme threads. The real reason for a karma mechanic on HN is to filter out incredibly stupid comments.
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by ohyes 16y ago
A tautology is when I say something that asserts its own truth. I don't believe that to be a tautology. I don't think I said anything about calling back to the interpreter. I merely meant to imply that the efficiency might not be as good as
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by ohyes 16y ago
Obj when constructed contains a reference to the Dog class. Assignment updates the reference to be the Cat class. None of this has relevance to the ability to compile to machine code. It does however, have implications for the efficiency of

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