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by smanek 18y ago
another article from 2 years later: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2006-07/07/content_636244...
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by smanek 18y ago
You're right - Haskell does lazy evaluation far better than Lisp/Scheme do. I've been making my way through real world haskell, and I'm constantly amazed. I'm not proficient enough in Haskell to write a public blog post on it though; and I
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The Power of The Functional or: I’ll bet you can’t do this in Java(arantaday.com)
15 points by smanek 18y ago|29 comments
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by smanek 18y ago
It's definitely possible. I haven't seen any benchmarks myself. I just remembered hearing that ICC purposefully produced crippled code on amd cpus. ( http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/DownloadableAss... ). The relevant section:
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by smanek 18y ago
Because icc's performance isn't great on non-intel cpus? And it isn't particularly portable (only available for Windows, Linux, OS X). Plus, the open source world got burned pretty badly by BitKeeper. Now they want to use free (as in speech
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The power of Slime (Emacs Lisp devel. mode)(common-lisp.net)
2 points by smanek 18y ago|0 comments
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by smanek 18y ago
Some of that sounds very impressive. Truth be told, I haven't played with Cappuccino much yet - but your post just inspired me to go take a closer look at it. Thanks.
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by smanek 18y ago
I don't get why people so want to abstract around Javascript itself - it's a great language. It supports OOP and functional programming (although, admittedly, the prototype object system does take some getting used to) and it's dynamically
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by smanek 18y ago
Those numbers actually seem a bit low. Even mediocre programmers bill out at $100+/hr ($800+/day). It isn't unusual for someone great to charge 5x that amount ...
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by smanek 18y ago
look at common-lisp (hunchentoot, uncommon web, etc)
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by smanek 18y ago
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1597642154209383351
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by smanek 18y ago
of course it is - anyone can print currency. You just can't claim that your currency is legal tender for any debts or try to pay your federal taxes with it. Most retail stores offer gift certificates or store currency (e.g., Toys R Us Dolla
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by smanek 18y ago
First of all, I said my numbers apply to major cites. Your own source places the median salary in th 60K-65K range for most metros. Second, my numbers aren't pulled out of nowhere they are based on my friends and my experience. And they see
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Ask HN: Anecdotes about the current job market
31 points by smanek 18y ago|29 comments
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by smanek 18y ago
ahh, we don't get housing either. so you may come out ahead after all
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by smanek 18y ago
It varies greatly on skill/pedigree (the two often, but not always, correlate). If you are poor to average you'll start at $50K-70k/year. If you're average to good you'll start at 70k-90k, and 90k+ if you're particularly good (about 150K is
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by smanek 18y ago
He never said that. He just said the "Haskell-ish beauty goes out the window," which is arguably true. In my (limited) experience, Haskell code to do I/O (i.e., Monads) isn't a pretty or elegant as purely functional Haskell code. A lot of H
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by smanek 18y ago
The harvard management company's 2007/2008 annual report ( http://vpf-web.harvard.edu/annualfinancial/pdfs/2008fullrepo... ) says that they only have about 1.5 Billion in venture capital (and only about 1 billion of that is domestic). Howev
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by smanek 18y ago
Harvard's endowment is so huge that they use it for everything. "Harvard depends on its endowment for about 35 percent of its operating budget, and some of its schools rely on endowment income to cover more than 50 percent of their expense
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by smanek 18y ago
care to share a source on the 17 year claim?
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by smanek 18y ago
We don't know evolution is true. The most you can say is that evolution is the best explanation we have for the data collected so far. There have been pretty major revisions to the evolution since Darwin's time, and I think it still needs a
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by smanek 18y ago
A few of my favorites (not programmer specific): A scientist is a machine that converts money into ideas while an engineer is a machine that converts ideas into money. --------------------------- An engineer, a mathematician, and a physicis
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by smanek 18y ago
The price isn't a mistake: "CURRENT SPECIAL: 99% off the first month on Virtual Private Server and Dynamic Dedicated Server VPS accounts! Discount automatically applied at checkout. The next 80 orders will receive this discount."
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by smanek 18y ago
In either case, the numbers still don't reconcile. Is the 5.7 Million hours of video/day number right, or is the 2000 Years of video/month right? 2000 Years of video/month only works out to half a million hours per day ... not 5 million. Th
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by smanek 18y ago
Sorry, I'm having trouble reconciling those numbers. Assuming 2.5 Million users: 2000 Years of video watching a month comes out to about 7 hours/month/user. 5.7 Million hours a day comes out to over 2 hours/day/user, or about 60 hours/month
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by smanek 18y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_thrift
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500 Exabytes per Raindrop(math.ucr.edu)
68 points by smanek 18y ago|24 comments
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The Bogdanoff Affair: Gibberish in Peer Reviewed Physics (a la the Sokal Affair)(math.ucr.edu)
9 points by smanek 18y ago|3 comments
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Hot water freezes faster than cold water (Mpemba Effect)(math.ucr.edu)
27 points by smanek 18y ago|15 comments
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by smanek 18y ago
Think it might have something to do with the "Hodo Hodo" generation? http://www.careerjournal.com/article/SB122548483530388957.ht...

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