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by pcmonk 9y ago
They absolutely do, with their own terms. Isn't an S-expression just a list? Isn't a method just a "member function", which is really just a function, which is really just a subroutine? Every language comes up with it
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by pcmonk 9y ago
To most of us an "object" is something you can touch. We overload these terms all the time.
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by pcmonk 9y ago
> To me, all you're doing here is describing an object-based language in which functions are first-class. Obviously, Urbit didn't invent this concept. Its predecessors used normal names for these terms. Why does Urbit invent ne
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by pcmonk 9y ago
> Is Urbit still heavily dependent on unreleased root node code? In other words, is this distributed computing just a load of hype covering over a overly complicated star topology? Urbit has always been fully open source as far as I know
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by pcmonk 9y ago
> "A value in Hoon is called a noun" - or you could just call it a value. A "value" sounds like an abstract concept. A noun is one of two things: a natural number or a pair of nouns. Calling it a "value" m
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by pcmonk 9y ago
IIRC, that particular episode happened in, like, 2013, when Arvo (Urbit OS) was barely prototype-grade. Urbit developers decided to work on the OS rather than chase after a bounty of about $1000. There was also no meaningful documentation
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Why Amazon's Margin Is Filecoin's Opportunity(forbes.com)
1 points by pcmonk 9y ago|0 comments
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Build an anti-spam-spam bot in Node.js(magpiedev.com)
2 points by pcmonk 9y ago|0 comments
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AI Hedge Fund Goes Live on Ethereum(medium.com)
195 points by pcmonk 9y ago|70 comments
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by pcmonk 9y ago
If everyone has SSH access to a server somewhere, it's easy to just put a git repo there to let everyone keep working. Obviously, this doesn't trivially scale to many repos/users/etc, which is why Github exists in the fi
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by pcmonk 9y ago
Oh, I agree. I guess I'm saying that if you want to live that life, that's great, go shrink your amygdala. However, if you haven't chosen that, then a smaller amygdala may not help you live a better life.
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by pcmonk 9y ago
Sounds like a bad idea to me. People like Alex have a pretty short life expectancy.
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by pcmonk 9y ago
Also from Arizona: Eenie meenie minie mo / Catch a tiger by his toe / If he hollers, make him pay / Fifty dollars ev'ry day / My mom said to pick the very best one / And you are it
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Crowdsourcing the future(medium.com)
3 points by pcmonk 9y ago|0 comments
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by pcmonk 9y ago
Yeah, but it's vim.tiny. They don't even alias it to `vim` because it's not full vim.
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by pcmonk 9y ago
There's several good examples early in the article. Mostly, they end up in comments, where they're used as templates (e.g. "a social security number is of the form XXX-XX-XXXX").
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by pcmonk 9y ago
Time zones in Arizona get extra exciting twice a year when the rest of the country jumps an hour for DST while we stay the same. Unless, of course, you're on the Navajo reservation, which does observe DST. Make sure you're not a
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by pcmonk 9y ago
I feel like Hitchhiker's is meant to be an exception to the rule.
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by pcmonk 9y ago
I'm basically against overbooking, but playing devil's advocate: is it that hugely different from fractional reserve banking? They claim you can get your money out at any time, but that's not the case if everyone tries at on
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by pcmonk 9y ago
Of course there's no reason to make people buy water on the other side of the checkpoint, but that's because it's generally ludicrous to have people buy water at all. In the USA, every airport I've been to has free wate
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by pcmonk 9y ago
If it helps, I've flown many dozens of times in past few years, mostly in the US, but also on at least a couple of dozen international flights across four continents. I've never lost my checked baggage (I often check one or two b
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by pcmonk 9y ago
Point-free programming is sometimes also called "tacit" programming. I found this practical description of tacit programming in Racket to be useful: http://r-wos.org/blog/tacit-racket
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by pcmonk 10y ago
I think this depends a lot on the particular courses. For example, I nearly always want a textbook in an upper division math class, because they're so heavy on theory, and the concepts are very dense. It's useful to see it all w
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by pcmonk 10y ago
A lot of people tend to harp on the "textbooks are too expensive" issue, and I think this correctly identifies one of the problems: textbook price is not an issue to many professors. Unfortunately, there's no actual solutio
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by pcmonk 10y ago
What I wish they would do is use their fancy AI to put in a link to the original source. Tracking down original sources is extremely tedious, but it generally gives you the clearest idea of what's actually going on.
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by pcmonk 10y ago
My impression was that keybase is distributed? Can it be used without talking to keybase's servers?
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by pcmonk 10y ago
Another language reminiscent of Prolog is Clingo (web repl: https://potassco.org/clingo/run/ ). It's a lot like Prolog, but it's based in answer set programming, which gives you nice guarantees like &quot
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by pcmonk 10y ago
If "forward passes" means inference (as opposed to training), then the post says the first generation targets that. I don't think they say anything about any future generations (other than they're working on them).
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by pcmonk 10y ago
Fascinating. As I recall, things like negative look-ahead (or look-behind) aren't formally regular expressions (i.e. the languages they recognize aren't generally regular languages). Is this "absent" operator like that
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by pcmonk 10y ago
This is correct, but I'm not sure the authorities take that into consideration. In my case, it's the yellow and red that look identical, but that doesn't stop them from making single flashing red lights and single flashing y

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