rincewind

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by rincewind 16y ago
Does this port to an imaginary arc-on-clojure framework look more readable to you? (arc/with-page-renderer (fn [content & options] (hiccup/html [:body content])) (arc/defop "/said" [request] (arc/aform :form [ [:
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by rincewind 16y ago
What exactly is your problem with the Arc code? Is it that the code that handles the form comes before the code that writes the submit button? The problem is not that you have to remember the metaprogramming. I do not know what exactly `
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by rincewind 16y ago
dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10815
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by rincewind 16y ago
The right livelihood award is such a prize, though.
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by rincewind 16y ago
That is the point of DRM. If you already paid for it once, you are likely to pay again.
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by rincewind 16y ago
I read "Categories for the working mathematican" by Saunders Mac Lane and "The Typeclassopedia" by Brent Yorgey before I really understood monads. If i just waited for this, it could have spared me all this reading ;-)
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by rincewind 16y ago
The question is meaningless but google answers it in the best possible way
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by rincewind 16y ago
The type checker would have to play nice with java types. Does the racket type checker support inheritance and interfaces/protocols?
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by rincewind 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice%27s_theorem
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by rincewind 16y ago
"Du musst nicht." is "You don't have to" It is a difference in operator precedence. Pseudo-Prolog example following) not(obligation(you, action)) vs. obligation(you, not(action))
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by rincewind 16y ago
ini files are 1. a straw man. The Format is very generic, only sections and key-value-pairs. A fairer comparison would be against httpd.conf, or other languages actually used for web server config. 2. Easy to parse, because there are tony o
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by rincewind 16y ago
if zed is indeed the anti-why, this will be his non-poignant guide
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by rincewind 17y ago
[FMC]( http://fmc-modeling.org/ ) is much closer to the notation and level of abstraction you used in your diagram than UML.
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by rincewind 17y ago
I wonder whether the headteacher who invented this got the idea from "A Clockwork Orange". He must have seen it before.
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by rincewind 17y ago
could you add duckduckgo please?
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by rincewind 17y ago
this already happened http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pnorvig
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by rincewind 17y ago
looks like the function language part of the cola framework: http://piumarta.com/software/cola/coke.html Example with discussion on LtU: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2796
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by rincewind 17y ago
tell riklomas http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=158777
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by rincewind 17y ago
Why some smart people are reluctant to share? [...] Note: This is about smart people who are not sharing enough. So please don’t generalize this about all smart people. Easy! Smart people who do not share are not sharing enough by definit
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by rincewind 17y ago
Dijkstra was replying to this: http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs242/readings/backus.pdf AFAIR Backus says that C and Pascal are too low-level to be good at problem solving, but pure functional programs, point-free style and a more math-lik
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by rincewind 17y ago
> I understand this is fashionable in the CL world, but I've never seen any good justification for this practice outside of saying, "Now everything is in lisp." [...] > I understand that's nice and all, but couldn't you jus
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by rincewind 17y ago
When you can generate javascript from s-exprs, you can use macros with javascript.
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by rincewind 17y ago
Greenlight if-branches and switch statements OO cowboys will want to have a whole polymorphic soup of collaborating objects Of Course! When I implement, say, Bubble Sort, I do not implement the classes BubbleList with the methods sort and
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by rincewind 17y ago
In Clojure: possible but ugly. Use destructuring in production instead. (defn make-xrs [n] (if (= n 0) {"ar" first, "dr" rest} (let [last (make-xrs (dec n))] (into last (for [[name fun] last [name2 fun2] {"d" rest "a" first}]
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by rincewind 17y ago
Is this machine equivalent to an oracle machine for the halting problem of turing machines?
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by rincewind 17y ago
Cygwin, Interix (a.k.a. SFU) on Windows NT
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by rincewind 17y ago
That might show that idioms from C got into your english, not the other way round: "For every cookie in the jar; I ate that cookie" vs. "I ate all the cookies from the cookie jar" vs. "The cookie jar is empty" (the last one assumes that the
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by rincewind 17y ago
- You have to spend lots of $$ to be able to program in F#. [...] - You can run your code only on a Windows machine (reliably.) port install fsharp
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by rincewind 17y ago
Windows was originally built without security as a major focus. This is misleading. Windows NT was built with security in mind. Windows Xp, Vista and 7 are descended from NT.
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by rincewind 17y ago
http://packages.debian.org/lenny/nip2 http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/vips-7.10/doc/nipbeginguide....

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