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The most important book of 2017(medium.com)
2 points by old_sound 10y ago|0 comments
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Making history: writing the docs that need to be written(hackernoon.com)
1 points by old_sound 10y ago|0 comments
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Making history: writing the docs that need to be written(medium.com)
1 points by old_sound 10y ago|0 comments
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Preparing for a Software Interview(medium.com)
1 points by old_sound 10y ago|0 comments
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Of Books Read and Wanting to Be Read(medium.com)
3 points by old_sound 10y ago|0 comments
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Fast Fibonacci Algorithms (2015)(nayuki.io)
102 points by old_sound 10y ago|28 comments
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What really happened on Mars?(research.microsoft.com)
2 points by old_sound 10y ago|0 comments
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Java ThreadLocalRandom Explained(videlalvaro.github.io)
2 points by old_sound 10y ago|0 comments
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Inside Java's ThreadLocalRandom Implementation(videlalvaro.github.io)
2 points by old_sound 10y ago|0 comments
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by old_sound 10y ago
For me it's pretty clear he was trying to write the algorithms in Spanish, therefore the semicolons.
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by old_sound 10y ago
Really you can use semi-colons on a sentence and then end the sentence with a period? And I thought I had learned something during all my years studying linguistics and grammar. BTW, newsflash: many languages use semi-colons inside sentence
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by old_sound 10y ago
Is the website title HackerNews not linkbait or misleading? I ask since I usually don't see many "hacker News" around here…
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by old_sound 10y ago
More like satire logic notation, but who am I to tell at this point.
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by old_sound 10y ago
C predates Gutenberg
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by old_sound 10y ago
It's not misleading or linkbait. It's just humor. Don't you have humor guidelines at HN?
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by old_sound 10y ago
There's no such thing as "being good at math". You either put effort and practice to learn it, or you don't. Fixed va Growth Mindset, etc…
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by old_sound 10y ago
Yup. See this convo https://twitter.com/old_sound/status/788349221946662912
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by old_sound 10y ago
Commenter confuses satire with serious article. Assumes author doesn't know about functional languages. Nothing to see here.
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by old_sound 10y ago
I know all that. Long time Erlang dev, former RabbitMQ core dev, so yeah, I've heard already about the Prolog story. Interesting you talk about the Actor Model, since even Robert Virding has said that when they created Erlang they had
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by old_sound 10y ago
Go get your break, while you are at it, get a laugh or two, because that's what this article is supposed to be about. nobody is so silly to pretend Knuth was describing Erlang on his book.
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by old_sound 10y ago
Yup, and still people get confused at Erlang's use of semi-colons and periods. Do you think it is because other programming languages don't uses the semi-colon that way? Or that periods are usually used to access class members, bu
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by old_sound 10y ago
As mentioned already: >For me what's striking about Erlang syntax is the meaning of the semi-colon and the period, as function clause separator. Most of the rest is just vanilla FP lang syntax. It's strikes me that everybody no
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by old_sound 10y ago
For me what's striking about Erlang syntax is the meaning of the semi-colon and the period, as function clause separator. Most of the rest is just vanilla FP lang syntax.
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by old_sound 10y ago
Can we say: "If you understand the first 20 pages of TAOCP, you understand Erlang"?
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by old_sound 10y ago
With haskell it will be less similar since Haskell doesn't use the semi-colon to separate function clauses, and the period for delimit the last one. You could argue that Haskell tuples will use the () syntax instead of {} as in Erlang.
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Donald Knuth used an Erlang-like notation(videlalvaro.github.io)
149 points by old_sound 10y ago|93 comments
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What a Programmer Does (1967) [pdf](archive.computerhistory.org)
115 points by old_sound 10y ago|45 comments
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Distributed Systems(videlalvaro.github.io)
2 points by old_sound 11y ago|0 comments
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A New Kind of Technologist(medium.com)
5 points by old_sound 11y ago|0 comments
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by old_sound 11y ago
Great to hear that. I'm part of the core team BTW and we are open to feedback.

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