rollo

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by rollo 12y ago
Lol. Of course they are, but German people are not very smart. They're upset their allies spy on them for their own protection, but if their enemies do that it's normal and not even a reason to cool relationships!
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by rollo 12y ago
We need it because Germany has shown it is unable to do the right thing or even act in its own interest without external help.
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by rollo 12y ago
It's precisely the other way arround. This sketch is a humorous but precise assessment of this strategic issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX_d_vMKswE Relying on nuclear deterrent against modern hybrid warfare mea
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by rollo 12y ago
Russia has infiltrated our political class on multiple fronts. The most visible of course has been former chancellor Gerhard Schröder, who works for Gazprom. But there are quite a few people involved in that, both in the SPD but also in the
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by rollo 12y ago
We are back to cold war levels, even further than that. And it's a mistake, the USA guarantees our security right now, since the EU states reduced their military to a point that they are unable to deal with an aggressor. Nor is there t
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by rollo 12y ago
As a German I don't see this as an issue. Some German politicians have deep connections to enemy states, so why wouldn't the NSA spy on them? It's in our best interest even, because those politicans are a danger to Europe and
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by rollo 13y ago
Sounds like it was great last year, so it's absolutely worth it. Such events are definitely needed.
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by rollo 13y ago
Companies have social responsibilities. Supporting human rights is a positive thing.
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by rollo 13y ago
I think you are. And what's the problem with political statements?
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by rollo 13y ago
Ctrl-f metal.. nope. Metallicity. I would've thought at that time when the first stars were forming there weren't enough heavy elements to produce rocky planets yet. Some time after the first few supernovas, which should've t
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by rollo 13y ago
Eventually those who need static typing and parametric polymorphism will switch to Haskell anyway, where both are done in a much better way, both syntactically and implementation wise.
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by rollo 13y ago
I'm just getting confused by the terminology. Those are pure functions too. And you have different functions because they're doing something completely different, operating on computational structures that are different from primi
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by rollo 13y ago
You can't apply normal functions to monads? Since when? Or what is a 'normal' function?
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by rollo 13y ago
I'm a Haskell newbie, and when I test a program and it shows a laziness-related space leak, I just put strictness annotations on the parameters I suspect of generating large unevaluated thunks. This has always made the issue go away so
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by rollo 13y ago
Programming languages are not natural languages. And where imperative programming can benefit from something that looks like a series of instructions resembling natural language, functional, declarative programming works better with the lan
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by rollo 13y ago
Because concepts from the bleeding edge of language research are slowly trickling down from Haskell & Co. to mainstream languages. Ten years after they emerge.
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by rollo 13y ago
fizzBuzz x = if null str then show x else str where str = concat [tag | (n,tag) <- tags, x `rem` n == 0] tags = [(3,"Fizz"), (5,"Buzz")] main = mapM_ (putStrLn . fizzBuzz) [1..100] Extendable