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by pavpanchekha 15y ago
You know, maybe the average HNer will not get 1ct of benefit from reading 1paper on category theory; but maybe they can get .1ct from reading .1paper. The functor pattern is pretty cool. It's easy to use in most languages (Java and C++ in
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by pavpanchekha 15y ago
An interesting post, though the Redditor inside me barks "repost" at the pattern matching. Yes, pattern matching is nice, and it certainly shines when you do things like red-black trees; on the other hand, I'd more rather see a description
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by pavpanchekha 15y ago
Plan your Japanese women? Buy Japanese women stuff? C'mon Google, your NL processing can do better than that...
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by pavpanchekha 15y ago
"Schedule a date with Emacs" --- algorithms say the darndest things. But more seriously, the execution isn't that great. They could at least filter the products that don't produce useful results. At the moment, product search is only adve
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by pavpanchekha 15y ago
Why not? (Let's not give flippant answers to flippant comments, that doesn't bode well for the rest of the conversation.)
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by pavpanchekha 15y ago
I'd like to put in a word for CL-PPCRE, the Common Lisp regex library. It does the same except using the CL optimizing compiler, so also achieves amazing speed. Libraries don't appear in the Comp.Lang.Benchmark Shootout, so CL doesn't do s
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by pavpanchekha 15y ago
Is there any way to normalize by number of users? (Or am I missing something?)
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by pavpanchekha 15y ago
I wonder what the process for getting a new one approved would look like. For example, would Google be able to say, hey, we've got a large online presence, can we have the "google" gTLD? If not, we have problems like it being possible to c
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by pavpanchekha 15y ago
https://www.dropbox.com/votebox
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by pavpanchekha 15y ago
I'm sorry you've been downvoted, but I actually upvoted you (for seeming to have a grasp of what you were talking about and adding to the conversation).
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by pavpanchekha 15y ago
What are NSLs? Luckily, I don't do the legal at Dropbox :)
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by pavpanchekha 15y ago
Wouldn't EKE require the other computer you're syncing to to be online? I'm not a security guy, but seems like the best encryption you could do with just a password is a password-based encryption scheme, which isn't that great security-wis
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by pavpanchekha 15y ago
Agreed. I AES-encrypt information that's actually private on my Dropbox. But Dropbox is providing a service grounded in simplicity. Sorry, that's the product angle. And exchanging this key without Dropbox intermediating would be much mo
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by pavpanchekha 15y ago
Linkbait and false. The new tool lets anyone look at the contents of the dropbox metainformation ON THE LOCAL COMPUTER. In other words, they can programmatically access information about files already on the computer. As for cooperating w
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by pavpanchekha 15y ago
You know, I think part of the problem is that a lot of the leaders of the Linux desktop experience are building these large, complex structures and applications where they are not needed. The best Linux desktop wouldn't be the one that sol
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by pavpanchekha 15y ago
Because it's not just going to compare URLs; he might well index by that column and compare hashes or something. And doesn't want to store two copies of each URL - decrapified and normal.
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by pavpanchekha 15y ago
The author was saying something philosophical. It wasn't a question of correctness (philosophy isn't real enough to be judged so) but a question of well-spokenness. I found it a well-written peace which offered interesting insight. None
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by pavpanchekha 15y ago
The nines and tens are the path, not the destination. It's foolish to argue that any one language represents perfection, or even close.
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by pavpanchekha 15y ago
We're not quoting him because he's a cult leader. We're quoting him because it was a reasonably insightful blog post that is relevant to the topic. I, in fact, have no clue who Steve is, and found the posted link a valuable addition to th
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by pavpanchekha 15y ago
Trying to look at this from the perspective of someone who doesn't know Haskell, most of these aren't impressive, but in fact advertisements against Haskell. First, consider that 6 of them are essentially applying a builtin function. Tha
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by pavpanchekha 15y ago
wxPython didn't look native enough is the reason I've been given by the Dropbox folks.
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by pavpanchekha 15y ago
The design was tested on users and changed to fit their needs?
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by pavpanchekha 15y ago
Furthermore it's undoable in general. Equivalence of lambda terms being undecideable and so on. Point being, at some point functions become sufficiently different that it's hard to tell. What if you write one md5 function in Erlang, anoth
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by pavpanchekha 15y ago
You know, one of the reason that notations differ is because that's useful. The symbol \times might mean cross product or direct product of groups, or cartesian product. Why? Because these operations are conceptually similar --- they all
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by pavpanchekha 16y ago
Actually, checking that two pieces of code are equivalent is undecideable: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_calculus#Undecidability_... So mechanically checking that Dropbox-supplied code is the decryption routine claimed is impossible
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by pavpanchekha 16y ago
I find that comparing answers make a lot of sense when you all know each other and your level of skill. I often check answers with my roommate on math problem sets, and I know we're about at the same level, so neither of us freeloads.
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by pavpanchekha 16y ago
As one of Sussman's students, I can confirm that he would indeed (politely but pointedly) "go all zed shaw on their ass"
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by pavpanchekha 16y ago
Google checkout? See also: http://blog.reddit.com/2010/08/reddit-gold-now-takes-google-...
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by pavpanchekha 16y ago
I wrote a library to do this a while back: http://panchekha.no-ip.com:8082/programming/minioperators.ht... Hope someone finds it useful, though to be honest, I don't think this sort of thing is very commonly useful.