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by seertaak 18y ago
In this case it wasn't; the discussion was about legal activism and judicial review. I've read several books on the subject, some essays, and several transcripts of supreme court cases, just because I find the subject interesting. On a more
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Ask HN: How do you handle debates with non-scientists?
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by seertaak 18y ago
[Please, if you're easily offended, don't read further.] Cool. I've got a date tonight, so I'm going to take my chica out onto my balcony and enjoy a few romantic minutes. Then I'll bonk her. Who says being a geek isn't useful sometimes? --
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by seertaak 18y ago
Tom Paxton (country music star) on the last auto bailout: I am changing my name to Chrysler; I am going down to Washington D.C.; I will tell some power broker; What they did for Iacocca; Will be perfectly acceptable to me
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by seertaak 18y ago
For his sparky wit, his flawless prose, and his unabashed geekiness, I think Stephen Fry should be given the title of honorary hacker.
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by seertaak 18y ago
Agreed; in fact I've that's the only ML I've tried! What I don't like about it is the standard library; compared to Haskell's it feels so obtuse. Actually I think Haskell's standard library is pretty friggin' awesome. Everything is where it
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by seertaak 18y ago
[Nitpick: it's "its", not "it's", because you're not abbreviating "it is".] Well, I beg to differ. Right tool for the job is the way I think of these things. Java is the right tool for many jobs. Not for everything, but for many things. For
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by seertaak 18y ago
I totally agree. We learned Miranda, which is similar to Haskell. Had we learned Haskell and the lecturer had pointed us to its FFI (which is a real joy to use, similar in ease-of-use to the lisp FFIs -- much easier than the java JNI [alt
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by seertaak 18y ago
In case you haven't noticed, for the last several years there has been a totally irrational and even juvenile trashing of java in favour of fine languages such as haskell, erlang, ruby, python, etc. I think it's a good thing: it reminds us
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by seertaak 18y ago
Except that this isn't really quicksort, because it's not in-place. Let's see you write the real one; I bet you it will be uglier than the equivalent java code.
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Plus it's based on ML, which, while possessing a few wrinkles and warts, is a very pragmatic language.
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The problem is that if the record companies actually go after the worst perpetrators they get pilloried by the press for being nasty, when all they're actually doing is protecting their property and means to livelihood. I can just picture t
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by seertaak 18y ago
Great. Which pretty much guarantees that what little musicianship is left in today's music will be flushed down the toilet and what we'll get instead is some Hello! news story about how Rock Start X got spotted wearing Gucci at Nobu in Lond