prakashk

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by prakashk 12y ago
> If you are going to hold someone to a standard, then hold EVERYONE to that standard. True. However, the question is, does it need to be stated explicitly every time someone gets criticized, or asked to be held accountable for something
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by prakashk 12y ago
> I think this website was going to be some ironic trash-talking about grep. Andy Lester, the primary author of ack, is one of the nicest guys I know of. You wouldn't see any trash-talking on that site. He even changed the name of
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by prakashk 12y ago
The "What is this?" link below Cloud Save buttons doesn't respond (Firefox 30.0a2 on Ubuntu 12.04). Right-click and Open Link in a New Tab results in a "403 Forbidden".
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by prakashk 13y ago
http://www.ubuntuask.com/q/answers-haskell-platform-on-13-04...
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by prakashk 13y ago
I recently learned about the `interact` function in Haskell, which makes it easy to write programs reading from standard input and write to standard output, just like many of the Unix tools. For example, if you want to print the id and name
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by prakashk 13y ago
Your last example could be aligned a little bit differently to make it easier to visually parse: var firstVar = "one"; var secondVar = "two"; var
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by prakashk 13y ago
> it's a bit misleading to suggest she's created a washing machine that "runs without electricity" I don't think it's misleading at all. If electricity and electric cars were available and commonplace in F
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by prakashk 13y ago
> I think he is confused. You don't mean that the GP (taliesinb) is confused, do you?. He works for Wolfram Research, developing Mathematica.
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by prakashk 13y ago
> this beautiful PDF version: https://github.com/sarabander/sicp-pdf/blob/master/sicp.pdf This is the direct link to the pdf file: https://github.com/sarabander/sicp-pdf/r
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Nuclear stand down: Google, Samsung, and the sale of Motorola Mobility(arstechnica.com)
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by prakashk 13y ago
> Aren't they all kind of inspired by the original Perl implementation? The original Perl implementation is Data::Faker ( https://metacpan.org/pod/Data::Faker ). The earliest version available on CPAN appears t
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Bashing Perl5(perladvent.org)
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by prakashk 13y ago
> Of course if this was Perl it would be even worse. Sigh . Sadly, it has become fashionable to bring up Perl only to ridicule it even when there is absolutely no context or need. Take a look at this implementation [1] of doubly linke
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by prakashk 13y ago
I am not as fluent in Scala as I am in Perl, but I do like both. Perhaps, I am an exception.
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by prakashk 13y ago
> "What is mathematics?" Are you referring to the book authored by Richard Courant ( http://www.amazon.com/dp/0195105192 )?
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Mashup of the Complete Works of HP Lovecraft and the King James Bible(antipope.org)
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by prakashk 13y ago
Here's the story of Saroo Munshi Khan finding his home/family 26 years after he lost them with the help of Google Earth: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/10/a-long-way-home-with-... He wrote a book ab
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by prakashk 13y ago
> It's those 50-60 odd corrupt assholes on the top ... Are you saying that corruption exists only among this limited group of individuals?
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by prakashk 13y ago
> ... every half point bring him closer to winning a match, and players are therefore incentivized to play for a draw. This tendency could be discouraged by making wins more weighted realtively than draws: win = 2 points (or, may be 1.5
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by prakashk 13y ago
You'd have if you learned programming in India :)
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by prakashk 13y ago
I am being pedantic, but that would be a function and not an alias . This one is simple enough to be defined as an alias: alias gitdiff='git diff --patience --ignore-space-at-eol -b -w --ignore-blank-lines' This[1] dis
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by prakashk 13y ago
Perl5 v12 and up: use v5.12; # enables strictures open my $in, "<", $ARGV[0]; open my $out, ">", $ARGV[1]; print $out sort <$in>; Perl6: sub MAIN( $in, $out ) { spurt( $
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CljPerl is a lisp on Perl(github.com)
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by prakashk 13y ago
Color output is not on by default in 'ls'. Your 'ls' must be an alias for the real ls with some options. For example, mine is: $ type ls ls is aliased to `ls --color=auto' A quick way to run the origina
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How The Rainbow Color Map Misleads(eagereyes.org)
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by prakashk 13y ago
Your comments seem entirely premised on the patch being "complete rubbish". If that is not true (and, there's nothing in the GP's comment to indicate otherwise), and actually "there's a lot of good there",
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by prakashk 13y ago
> My take on that "perk" is that the meaning that was intended is something like: "we have a gender diverse work place and have hired 4 awesome woman engineers! [...]" Based on the comments made ([1] and [2]), that
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by prakashk 13y ago
> Perl 5, perhaps surprisingly, is not simpler: Here's one. perl -0777 -nE '$w{$_}++ for split; say for (sort {$w{$b} <=> $w{$a}} keys %w)[0..9]' It is slightly different compared to your version in that e
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by prakashk 13y ago
Perl 6: .say for (bag($text.words) ==> sort {-*.value})[^10]
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by prakashk 13y ago
> They have to make a browser that beats every other browser in it's standards compliance, stability and performance. They have to create the greatest browser that has ever been and ever will be. I will add one more thing. They ha

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