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by peter-fogg 13y ago
Many forms of discrimination are much more subtle than "this candidate is a woman, so I'll offer her $10,000 less than a man". That's why the authors chose Denmark as an area of study; since the country is (apparently) a
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by peter-fogg 13y ago
What's more, it seems that a small wage increase (say, for the next hire after a CEO's child is born) could have an outsize effect on average pay at the company.
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by peter-fogg 13y ago
Knowing some information theory should tell us that the answer is precisely one bit. Is there a law like Betteridge's for articles where the headline answers its own question?
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by peter-fogg 13y ago
This reminds me quite a bit of this article: http://blog.moertel.com/posts/2006-10-18-a-type-based-soluti... , although Haskell's type system is likely much better for expressing this sort of constraint.
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by peter-fogg 13y ago
I think the title is a bit misleading. Perhaps "a quick explanation of one common feature of functional languages in five minutes" would be more appropriate?
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by peter-fogg 13y ago
Any chance of source code, or at least a detailed post explaining the algorithms behind this?
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by peter-fogg 14y ago
I'm sure "the Muslims" all get together, all 1.5 billion of them, to discuss their next bombing target. Please distinguish between a small group of violent extremists and a major world religion.
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by peter-fogg 14y ago
Anyone have any idea what sort of algorithm would be used to convert the photos? It's a really great look; I'd love to play around with that a bit.
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by peter-fogg 14y ago
It actually can have some benefits -- a language without any unbounded loops or recursion isn't Turing-complete, but you do get a static guarantee of termination. NASA, for example, writes much of their C code only with bounded recursion. S
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by peter-fogg 14y ago
I'd say that the next step would be a CAPTCHA for Go -- creating an efficient Go player is still an open problem, and we could crowdsource the AI research to spammers!
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by peter-fogg 14y ago
You'll find that they are integers, though: >>> isinstance(True, int) True >>> bool.__mro__ (<type 'bool'>, <type 'int'>, <type 'object'>) Although they aren't literally the same object, 1 ==
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by peter-fogg 14y ago
OP here -- this is my first real open-source library, and I'm newish to Clojure. Any criticism is very much welcomed. This is somewhat inspired by https://github.com/amoffat/sh/ , although Clojure macros make this quite a bit easier.
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Show HN: turtle: a simple Clojure library for shell commands(github.com)
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