sammoorhouse

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by sammoorhouse 4y ago
I think what you're looking for is called bitemporality ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitemporal_modeling ). It allows you to query a system (some databases support this) in a temporal context. This is useful in f
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by sammoorhouse 8y ago
> specialisation is for insects And, like, literally everyone since Adam Smith and his pins. Assessing how good people are at skill A by trying to determine how good they are at ever-so-slightly-related skill B is what led google and the
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by sammoorhouse 9y ago
> the programmers using it Completely disagree, and I think the people spending the 2010's clearing up screeds of idiomatic perl 5 would side with me :)
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by sammoorhouse 9y ago
Thanks for taking the time, it's interesting to see another perspective.
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by sammoorhouse 9y ago
> I use k3 at work every day. It's perfectly readable to me. Right, but the one follows from the other. I'm passingly familiar with K, Q, and a+. I've worked with Borror and I kind of own an a+ compiler. I think if you def
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by sammoorhouse 9y ago
> The maximum semantic size of a function that's still easy to read is much larger. This seems like a really weird thing to optimise for - would you mind saying more? I've never found myself thinking "man, I wish my functi
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by sammoorhouse 9y ago
It’s certainly a status game (“of course, I don’t have a Facebook account”...), just a weird one.
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by sammoorhouse 9y ago
At work we once found ourselves in the happy position of having far, far too many applicants for a position. We set a simple test as a high-pass filter. One of the questions was about whether garbage collection removes the risk of a memory
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by sammoorhouse 9y ago
So? The internet isn’t going to work for you any more. Get past it.
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by sammoorhouse 9y ago
> The Chinese government runs protesters over with tanks, imprisons people without cause, attacks their neighbors without cause, etc. Oh come on, you're making it too easy!
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by sammoorhouse 9y ago
http://www.aplusdev.org/ Which includes maybe the (greatest;worst;most horrifying) header file: https://github.com/PlanetAPL/a-plus/blob/master/src/a/arthur...
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by sammoorhouse 9y ago
You see similar cases being made with languages like q, the programming and query language for the kdb database. Arthur Whitney, the q-father, built an apl dialect called a+ at Morgan Stanley, which is still in use. RTL evaluation semantics
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by sammoorhouse 9y ago
What happened? Did you get promoted? Start a family? Lose a bad bet with the mafia?
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by sammoorhouse 9y ago
“Hardly” is a bit strong; other people might have opinions which are different from yours. For example: I’d hate to be stuck in a train carriage for two hours, packed in with people I don’t know, maybe Underground with no internet, all beca
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by sammoorhouse 9y ago
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel Off you pop!
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by sammoorhouse 9y ago
Are you really telling us, here of all places, that you’re NOT ON FACEBOOK?!
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by sammoorhouse 9y ago
I find that some HN people read articles with the express intention of picking nits. Like the dwarf with learning difficulties, it’s not big and it’s not clever.
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by sammoorhouse 9y ago
Holy mother of god, man. Get a grip.
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by sammoorhouse 9y ago
> she is instructed NOT to [...] Wait, she’s what now?
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by sammoorhouse 9y ago
I’ve made a bunch of assumptions about what you mean; I guess you asked a broad question so you’d get a wide range of answers :) I’m a software engineer by trade but now I teach others how to write code. When I’m not doing that I work with
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by sammoorhouse 9y ago
> Apple feels like a hot mess right now Because you spilled water on your keyboard?
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by sammoorhouse 9y ago
The “oldest tree ever” is always alive!
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by sammoorhouse 9y ago
> (Not linking directly because I am not sure if that page is legal, Taylor & Francis Online charges for access). Obviously you don’t owe anyone an explanation, but do you mind discussing your objective here? Is it to make it harder
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by sammoorhouse 9y ago
Hey - I lived in HK for four years until 2015 - at least go backpacking, it’s easy! You’re a 2.5 hour flight from Da Nang.
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by sammoorhouse 9y ago
> the society you seem content to watch crumble Steady on, pal!
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by sammoorhouse 9y ago
> If you have trouble understanding this point, look at another country besides the US when thinking about it. More than a little patronising, and also: really??
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by sammoorhouse 9y ago
Sure man, cool.