shrughes

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by shrughes 17y ago
They work by having input/output happen outside the IO monad. That breaks the abstraction -- which is impossible. You can't implement interact or getContents out of simpler functions, unless you use unsafeSomethingOrOtherIO.
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by shrughes 17y ago
I really despise tutorials that extol the benefits of laziness by demonstrating interact and getContents, the most evil functions in the Haskell library.
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by shrughes 17y ago
Yeah, basically.
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by shrughes 17y ago
Huh? What DE?
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by shrughes 17y ago
It's still confusing and redundant. Just write $0.30 / GB and that's it. Edit: Okay, $0.30 / GB / month
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by shrughes 17y ago
E=MC^2 could be just an aspect of reality that happens to coincide with the way observable physical world works. All aspects of reality coincide with the way the physical world works. Or, what does that sentence mean? Maybe a different
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by shrughes 17y ago
How is math not intuitive? Where is it needlessly complex? How is math not already "naturally recursive"? (What does that mean?) How is the universe naturally recursive? What does it mean to "build math off itself"? Are we not doing t
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by shrughes 17y ago
I downvote the following kinds of comments: - comments that have a high excitement to information ratio, such as brief comments that include profanity or attitude, and of course garbage one-liner humor comments. But not good one-line comme
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by shrughes 17y ago
I thought it was excellent. I have this kind of anxiety problem all the time, especially when writing new code, because the code I write might be wrong, so I end up just sitting there, not solving the problem, not thinking about the proble
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by shrughes 17y ago
(cond) exists in pure R5RS, and probably all the others.
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by shrughes 17y ago
Ask them.
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by shrughes 17y ago
He doesn't actually argue that the type system isn't useful. He assumes it derisively. You can take the entire review and replace Scala with C#. What does that tell you? Scala encourages immutability. See case classes, for example. Or
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by shrughes 17y ago
This is an entirely superficial comparison. There is none of "this is how the language affects how you design your software" and there is plenty of "oh, here's a quicksort, big and scary. And looking at the table at the top: "object orien
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by shrughes 17y ago
What would you expect a "modern" language to be like? Your opinion about C# is flat-out asinine. The original C# had less type safety. And it lacked anonymous delegates. And it required you to write out all your types. If you actually u
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by shrughes 17y ago
Yes. Anytime, anywhere. If it has a URL, it's OK to link directly to it. If sites don't like that practice, too bad. You don't have to care about them.
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by shrughes 17y ago
There are some code examples on Eric Lippert's blog that are made of good C# code.
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by shrughes 17y ago
Well, I didn't set the X-No-Archive header. And now there's no chance that I'll ever get elected to be President of the United States.
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by shrughes 17y ago
Why are all the comments mentioning picking the back of the lock now [dead]?
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by shrughes 17y ago
I haven't noticed it being a problem in Haskell. Most of Haskell's weird operators are either uncommon enough so that everybody uses parentheses with them (such as bitwise (.|.) and (.&.) and so on), common enough that you don't forget
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by shrughes 17y ago
It's not a useful phrase, because nobody knows what it means, and the words "begging the question" themselves don't make sense as a description of the fallacy.
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by shrughes 17y ago
The IRS is a federal agency, so it would be state tax agencies that try to clamp down on use taxes.
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by shrughes 17y ago
> Increasing our chances of survival as a species should be a high priority but it seems we can't see the forest through the trees. Why should this be a priority? There are better things for NASA to do than satiate some folks' religiou
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by shrughes 17y ago
How do you to propose that? Put time limits between receiving information and acting on it? This will just increase the arbitrage possibilities.
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by shrughes 17y ago
Earth's population isn't growing exponentially or even linearly, though.
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by shrughes 17y ago
> Unless you look at source code, you'll never know if a backup service is encrypting your backups or not. At least with tarsnap you have the option of reading the source code to verify that tarsnap does what I say it does. :-) You coul
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by shrughes 17y ago
I'm a user of tarsnap. I have no idea of whether it's fantastic. I can see a list of times when I've run ./tarsnap.sh, but I have no idea if it's really encrypting the backup, and I have no idea if it's making a backup in the first place
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by shrughes 17y ago
At around that age I read The Tripods trilogy and liked it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tripods
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by shrughes 17y ago
What happens nowadays is that people will at first carry them in their pockets, but as they get further from their youth, their thighs get flabbier. Soon enough they find it more comfortable to have the phone on the belt, because their poc
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by shrughes 17y ago
No.
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by shrughes 17y ago
Another good example: forM_ [1..9] $ \i -> do this i that other

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