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by rauljara 15y ago
Thanks everyone!
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To someone who has only just looked at Haskell (and not gotten very far) the syntax looks very similar. Can anyone speak to the differences between the two languages?
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You are perhaps not understanding what I mean by replicability. By replicability, I mean that if you run some statistics on a large dataset several times, you will get the same answer each time. Rounding errors in floating point arithmeti
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"The obstacle we shall have to overcome, if we are to successfully program manycore systems, is our cherished assumption that we write programs that always get the exactly right answers." Most of the time, this is not a trade off worth maki
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> Coding is best learned "the hard way". Funny. There is a series of books by Zed shaw called "Learn 'x' the Hard Way". The books tells you to type things first; the explanation comes later. In my experience, the most important part o
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Reading Refactoring - Part I(raulcjara.wordpress.com)
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"He then proposes a wholesale change to function semantics in the language." He isn't proposing a change to how functions works at all. He is proposing the addition of blocks, which would not break any current functionality. And he isn't
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I share your skepticism of bit coin. But if you haven't read the article, don't comment.
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I think you are making a lot of assumptions about what they are going to be using the info for, particularly the video section. They pretty explicitly state they want to hear your communication skills (those matter) / passion (most people
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I was flabbergasted that someone was asked implement a linked list in Ruby. My initial reaction was 'That is an incredibly stupid thing to do.' My slightly more in depth reaction was "Isn't that what mutable arrays are for?" And my final
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If you were banned, I don't think we could respond to this. That is in contrast with jeremyckahn, whose comment was dead the moment he made it. I know I am defeating the purpose of stealth banning someone by pointing out jeremy's banning,
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You mean on behalf of all of Australia's not quite 22 million people? I think it would have been hard to illustrate the growth with liquid, given how few Australians there are.
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Taking ideas seriously is the only way to test them. If scientists hadn't once upon a time took the idea of perpetual motion machines and ESP, etc. very seriously, we could not be so certain today that they are not true. Instead of mocking
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"Bayley wrote, in a blog entry for the Geek Feminist website, which she founded..." "This kind of harassment and bullying is endemic in many circles, including towards women in technical communities, particularly if they _complain about com
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Your assertion that the rich would leave the country is not backed up by historical data. Between 1944 and 1960, the tax rate on the top income bracket was over 90% (it maxed out at 94% in '44). Yet the nation did not lose all it's rich p
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Not exactly surprising results, but pretty entertaining. Eliza had fewer non-sequiter's, generally kept up the conversation better. Eliza pretty clearly wins the discussion. But Siri demonstrated beyond a doubt that she is a woman of acti
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Considering joining just because it is a much smaller community, and I will have a disproportionately larger impact than I do at hacker news. I am more likely to be able to influence it to be more like the site I want it to be than I am abl
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I'm not sure you've taken any time to think through the implications of what you've just suggested. You are advocating multiple competing authorities (both police and courts). Who gets to decide which set of authorities gets used, the defe
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[Even though this app apparently doesn't open itself automatically] it's occurred to me before that there's a lot of potential for apps/web apps that do run automatically (after asking for permission, of course) when you get onto to a busin
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Wouldn't disagree with you at all.
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There are a whole bunch of things I find troubling about your comment. - Minimum wage in Canada != minimum wage in the U.S. - Economy in Canada != economy in U.S. - Canada has free health care, blunting the impact of a low wage job without
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I do think that looking at all workers is a valid metric of how we're doing as a nation, but it is important to remember that all workers does include those working part time. It is a valid metric because there are many people out there wh
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But you can do the same map square, then sum in ruby 1.9: puts (1..10).map{|x| x*x}.inject(:+) And if you don't like writing inject(:+) all the time, it's pretty easy to monkey patch in a sum method to either array or enumerable.
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At the very beginning of the article, the author claims robots (as opposed to bodiless ai voices). She mentions Rosie as an exception, but I can think of a whole bunch more. The terminator from T3, the sexy robots from Svedka's vodka camp
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I generally agree with you, except in this case one of the specs they touted in the iPhone announcement event was capture speed. It captures much faster than the iPhone 4, and would be a good explanation as to why the 4s appears less shaky
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As this anecdote demonstrates, it is very powerful to be able to organize information in a way that reveals gaps and holes. Another famous example: the periodic table. What Ljung did was make a periodic table of social media. And I have
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"sucks" "suckier" sucks that hard " "makes me laugh so hard up to the point of bursting into tears" In these sorts of posts, I tend to find that flavor comments like the above: a) add nothing of value to the post b) are likely to provoke ho
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Did you read the article? "Imagine you've got a shiny computer that is identical to a Macbook Air, except that it has the energy efficiency of a machine from 20 years ago." It would take an awful lot of 1990's machines to equal the computi
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Any language is unreadable if you are unfamiliar with it, or languages that share syntax with it. As someone with more of a ruby/python background, I find CoffeeScript incredibly readable. I imagine someone who has only ever learned lisp
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I don't think English as a duck typed system works either. You can make a logical leap in an argument and nothing crashes. Many people have made very successful careers based on logical leaps, in fact. But you can't make leaps with comput

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