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by rauljara 14y ago
>Does the course cover Functors, Applicatives, Monoids, and Monads? What about other higher-level functional constructs (Arrows, Zippers...)? Nope. It's very intro level, though the students basically begged Odersky for a part II, and
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by rauljara 14y ago
If anyone wants an introduction to functional programming using Scala, I really recommend Martin Odersky's coursera course ( https://class.coursera.org/progfun-2012-001/class ). He restricts you to functional Scala; there isn't a mutated va
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by rauljara 14y ago
Somewhere in the icy depths of the pit I have for a soul, a cruel and callous feeling of detached amusement was conjured forth by the not at all hyperbolic writing I just read. I enjoyed the image of the zombie hordes of engineers spreadin
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by rauljara 14y ago
I suspected this might be the case. I'm in the same course, too, and I had never even heard of SML before it. I thought to myself, what are the odds of this showing up on Hacker News right now? Many thanks, regardless! I upvoted your thre
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by rauljara 14y ago
Yes I did. No, it doesn't seem dishonest, because the whole sentence reads, "Medication use decreased by 62% after the 14-month controlled trial, but adjusting for this did not change the results." Also, I would like to point out that stud
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by rauljara 14y ago
Here is link to the study showing no long term benefits to adhd meds: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19318991
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by rauljara 14y ago
Nothing? Really? >But in 2009, findings were published from a well-controlled study that had been going on for more than a decade, and the results were very clear. The study randomly assigned almost 600 children with attention problems
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by rauljara 14y ago
This is an editorial decision on the part of the New York Times (and most major news outlets). None of its scientific op eds include proper citations. It isn't the author trying to pull a fast one over on you. You can google "adhd bibliog
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by rauljara 14y ago
From you, >A lot of people not afflicted with A.D.D. like to give their armchair opinion on the effects, classification and understanding without having spent one day with A.D.D. From the piece >As a psychologist who has been studyi
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by rauljara 14y ago
While there are a couple of things in there that annoy me about Ruby, the list basically feels like a stereotypical American pointing at a stereotypical Frenchman and saying, "Look at that French guy. He looks funny." Yes, different langua
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by rauljara 14y ago
> Not everyone is from the US, y'know. Incredibly valid point. The angry rant above was hastily written (typos and all) in response to a thread about a change to US public policy. That's my excuse as to why I got it wrong, not an atte
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by rauljara 14y ago
Apologies in advance. <cranky rant> I am so sick of these democracy doesn't work, the powers that be own us, utterly worthless statements. Worthless is the sense that all they do is justify your own inaction. So many people take
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by rauljara 14y ago
Just wanted to add that this advice will necessarily change with the times. Something sounds trite and cliche if you've heard it (or something like it) too much. Most of the things that sound trite and cliche now sounded great the first t
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by rauljara 14y ago
Same error for me, too. Not at all surprising that a first time Rails app wouldn't be able to handle the craziness that is showing up on the hacker news front page. My sympathies to the author. This stuff is hard. Don't get dispirited by
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by rauljara 14y ago
It gets complicated sometimes. What if the mafia have repeatedly extorted money from a shop owner, and the government can prove it but the shop owner doesn't want to press charges because he's worried of what the mafia will do to him? Tha
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by rauljara 14y ago
"Red October - which is named after a Russian submarine featured in the Tom Clancy novel The Hunt For Red October" Is the BBC sure that the Russians named the attack after an American novel named after a very important month in Russian hist
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by rauljara 14y ago
I can tell already this won't be a popular sentiment around here. Also, I want to preface this by saying I wasn't around in bbs era, and maybe my reaction would be different if I had been. But this kind of irks me: "...ever take a look beh
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by rauljara 14y ago
Very interesting. This is kind of the opposite of the standard advice of "don't repeat yourself" and "don't reinvent the wheel". Both those pieces of advice make an awful lot of sense to me. But this is more advice in the style of an STD
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by rauljara 14y ago
Google expects to be making money off of this somehow. They are willing to go pretty indirect routes to make their money sometimes, like offering android for free in the hopes of driving web search. But the added revenue from search in a
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by rauljara 14y ago
"It has consistently been found that people produce more ideas when working alone as compared to when working in a group. Yet, people generally believe that group brainstorming is more effective than individual brainstorming. Further, group
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by rauljara 14y ago
While it's well meaning, that really doesn't sound like a solution. On the purely practical front: you will never get enough woman wear them. The most you could hope for is enough woman wearing them so that they have a deterrent effect on
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by rauljara 14y ago
And actually, I want to amend that on second read through it was considerably easier to follow than the first. It's just an article for Haskellers at least a little more advanced than me. I probably should have read it twice before labelin
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by rauljara 14y ago
I wish I didn't agree with you. I'm still a Haskell novice, and I've enjoyed the time I've spent learning it, but this post was just terrifying. All I could think was how simple all that would be in R (or any statistical package), or even
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by rauljara 14y ago
Whether or not Tycho understands your terminology or not, I don't, and I bet a whole bunch of people don't. You use a lot of jargon (not in the negative sense of the word, but in the sense meaning highly specialized vocabulary). Could you
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by rauljara 14y ago
Ninja, however, most definitely did not wear flags on their backs, as the fellow on the cover is doing. The purpose of those flags is to signal who and where you are. Neither of those goals aligns very well with what ninja do. http://en.w
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by rauljara 14y ago
Natural Language Processing (Dan Jurafsky, Chris Manning) was the one that took up the most time. I felt like to get a perfect score (which I got nowhere near close to) would have easily been 10+ hours per assignment (not to mention actual
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by rauljara 14y ago
I don't want to take anything away from the quality of the teaching (which was quite high), but having completed a few courses at Coursera, I think a big reason the completion rate was so high was that it was simply nowhere near as much wor
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by rauljara 14y ago
This looks like the same basic concept as Apple's Quartz Composer, which was/is really quite awesome (and comes with Apple's developer tools). Except Moonbase is javascript based, and I don't see any reason why it couldn't be made embeddab
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by rauljara 14y ago
I find this thread really fascinating. I have a hard time imagining a more better apology from Instagram. They accept responsibility, there isn't a trace of hostility towards any of the people who 'misinterpreted' their terms, they are up
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