psionski

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by psionski 14y ago
I just want to add something - using Haskell's naming conventions in C# or JS is a crime against humanity. If your function is longer than 5-6 lines and wider than 10-15 characters `xs` or `<|>` are not good names. I think you cou
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by psionski 14y ago
The naming conventions are fine, but they're very different from C#, F# or JS - it's basically the difference between reading English text and reading formulas (i.e. compositions of weird letters and symbols).
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by psionski 14y ago
For people that like math, sure, why not. When implementing mathematical concepts, if you squint at Haskell code you can see the original formulas, which should make it easier for people used to this way of thinking. EDIT: I'm not implying
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by psionski 14y ago
Funny you should say that, I'm from a former communist country (so nothing Western here) and we always thought WE were filled with free-loaders, while the Western world was hard-working and disciplined... Guess the grass is always greener
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by psionski 14y ago
Paranoia? Anti-authoritarian behavior? Technical expertise? I have found my new hero ;)
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by psionski 14y ago
If twitter isn't suited for "nuanced arguments", well then you shouldn't be using twitter in the first place! Write a blog post and only share the link (and title). It's that simple. It doesn't matter how good something sounds in your head
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by psionski 14y ago
OT: My solution to the "creepy" part - fly the freak flag high! By utilizing a direct brain-to-mouth connection, people know exactly what I am, what I'm thinking, what excites me and why (e.g. implications on humanity for some technology).
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by psionski 14y ago
Actually, I agree that killing someone is not the same thing as asking someone to leave, I was just alluding to "freedom of speech" and the constitution. If we're at your house, sure, of course morally I'd have to leave if you ask me to. Bu
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by psionski 14y ago
If you're at my private property , am I free to kill you? It's the same thing, it just falls under another paragraph of the constitution (in most countries; America has exceptions where you are indeed free to do this, but this is another t
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by psionski 14y ago
Of course it is! Either you're free to say anything or you're not free at all. There's no relativism here.
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by psionski 14y ago
"Imagine you're in a room filled with thousands of hot girls and they suddenly start talking about their big boobs and hot legs"... Hey, there are many female rapists!
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by psionski 14y ago
Penis jokes are creepy? o.O
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by psionski 14y ago
It's funny if you like that particular type of humor. I find penises funny, and I can assure you many other people do too. Maybe exactly because of the inappropriateness, I don't know. They're just now doing research of jokes and humor. O
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by psionski 14y ago
I wonder how many women are DDoS'ing you... You are destroying their image as normal, fun and smart colleagues. Now everyone is gonna "watch out" when they meet a woman, "keep their mouth shut" and many other things that alienate said woman
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by psionski 14y ago
If anyone wonders how bad things are, they might want to think that talking about sex is inappropriate in public, even though it's the most essential driver behind human behavior and, if you believe books, only one person on Earth was ever
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by psionski 14y ago
Anyone in the world can tell you that Americans behave like animals. A friend of mine went to the U.S.A. and came back after he witnessed how they let a poor man die in front of the hospital because he didn't have health insurance, with ful
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by psionski 14y ago
"Boring" would be the last thing I'd call it, but you have to admit - it's a pretty short list. It depends mostly on what I'm reading, if I'm reading a math textbook I usually do more "reflecting" than actual reading, I create small program
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by psionski 14y ago
Eight hours for work, eight hours for reading and learning, eight hours for sleep and commute. I relax on the weekends - sleep a bit more, play some games, go out with friends, etc. I guess I'm just a boring person...
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by psionski 14y ago
Am I the only one that thinks 90 minutes a day is horribly inadequate? Personally, I aim for something like 8 hours... Is this just because the book was written a hundred years ago and there wasn't that much to learn back then?
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by psionski 14y ago
You mean like this - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5374528 ? :) This was my other comment on this post, although I described mostly the practical, not emotional side of the issue.
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by psionski 14y ago
If "Real World Functional Programming" is http://www.manning.com/petricek/ , it's a great book! I can only recommend it, it teaches both F# and modern C# :)
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by psionski 14y ago
https://startpage.com/ is also really nice :)
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by psionski 14y ago
How's that for extreme: even if I originally wanted to buy something, if I EVER see it advertised, for me this means I'll be paying extra for that advertisement, so I look for a similar, alternative product. Especially if it's TV advertis
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by psionski 14y ago
I'm doing the same (no TV, no radio and AdBlock), but found out this actually makes me more vulnerable in the situations where I can't escape the ads - IRL promotions, running TVs in bars, etc. I just sit there, staring at a washing machine
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by psionski 14y ago
Chrome on Windows 7 with U.S. English regional settings... As boring a setup as it gets!
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by psionski 14y ago
It's displayed with boxes here, not the actual zalgo text (although I can paste it somewhere and looks correctly there), although my encoding is set to UTF and I can't select single boxes. The whole page kept blinking, but this was another
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by psionski 14y ago
When you say "don't try", some people take it as a personal challenge :) Why does this happen? How can it mess up my selection like this?
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by psionski 14y ago
I couldn't find a good article in English, the one I pasted was very poor on details. Here is a Google translation (sorry) of a Bulgarian website - http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&... . The plane was on their s
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by psionski 14y ago
How the Serbs shot down a stealth fighter - http://partners.nytimes.com/library/world/europe/041199kosov... . Apparently their radars were too low-tech to NOT detect it :)
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by psionski 14y ago
That's what I do, although not for the reasons in the article; I just get bored quickly (gen Y lol) and learning radically different languages and paradigms is just so much fun :) It also seems to help in my main language (C#), after learni

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