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by sramsay 12y ago
I'm not sure I see what having "a strong type system" has to do with whether or not a language can be considered functional. It seems like it's just a way to say that Haskell and the MLs are the only languages that qual
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Maryam Mirzakhani is First Woman to Win Fields Medal(businessweek.com)
1 points by sramsay 12y ago|0 comments
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by sramsay 12y ago
This is pretty much exactly what I do, and I based it on instructions I got over at CoffeeGeek. There is one difference with their method, though, and that is that they recommend that you give it quick stir after the second pour. Does any
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Ask HN: Paradigmatic Programming Languages
1 points by sramsay 12y ago|0 comments
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by sramsay 12y ago
But what good is a five overcomplication library without overly complicated documentation?
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by sramsay 12y ago
Slightly off topic, but anyone here receive the US President's Council on Y2K Conversion medal? Last one on this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awards_and_decorations_of_the_U...
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by sramsay 12y ago
It was an egregious lapse in judgment. I am shutting down my computer now, and will schedule an appointment with my therapist later today.
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by sramsay 12y ago
I was, um, joking.
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by sramsay 12y ago
> cellphones are now such a pervasive and insistent part of daily life that the proverbial visitor from Mars might conclude they were an important feature of human anatomy. Anyone else concerned that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Cour
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by sramsay 12y ago
60 wpm? The monks who taught us to type in Catholic school would have beat us for having that kind of sorry-ass typing speed.
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by sramsay 12y ago
One of my main fears about space travel was the coffee, so this is really good news.
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by sramsay 12y ago
What would be some examples of "environmental estrogen-like substances associated with affluence?"
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by sramsay 12y ago
Dating in Korea: "Hey, really enjoyed talking to you! Can I have your email address?" "Sure, it's john sea snail hotmail dot com." "Oh. Great."
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A Call for Bots of Conviction(medium.com)
1 points by sramsay 12y ago|0 comments
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by sramsay 12y ago
I was really hoping this article would explain the signs you see as you're taxi-ing around. I've always wondered what system is at work there, since they're clearly not simple "road signs" (as in, "this way to
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by sramsay 12y ago
I remember Dragon's Lair. For me, it went: Quarter, quarter, death, death, death, death, death. Couldn't have taken more than a minute. I would definitely have been the one standing behind this guy watching in awe.
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by sramsay 12y ago
Hmm. No one has mentioned Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles by Nissan and Schocken (which is absolutely superb).
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by sramsay 12y ago
Or the cigarettes that used to be obligatory for cyclists in the Tour de France (opens the lungs . . .).
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Programming Sucks(stilldrinking.org)
314 points by sramsay 12y ago|37 comments
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by sramsay 12y ago
I think I've written far more ordinary prose in Vim than I have code: two books, a dissertation, a dozen articles, probably sixty talks, letters, notes, thousands of email messages . . . you name it. I mainly use it, though, as an edit
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by sramsay 13y ago
The OP jokingly names a law after himself at the end, but I move that we do name something after him. I'm going to call it Ahmdal's Condition. It goes like this: In this lengthy [post|comment], I’ll share my thoughts and opin
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by sramsay 13y ago
"When you can, self-modification is harmful. It lets you accept things you could change if you worked to to change them." I think "changing the things you can" (as Niebuhr once put it) is precisely the second half of the
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by sramsay 13y ago
Both amazing, but I think I prefer Epictetus' Discourses to either one. I'm not a big fan of Guide to the Good Life either -- mostly because I think it takes a very profound (and by no means simple or obvious) set of ideas and
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by sramsay 13y ago
I'm pleased that Tim Cook said this, but Apple has been marketing itself as the manufacturer of counter-cultural hippy objects for anarchic outside-the-box geniuses for decades, while at the same time behaving like any other RoI-driven
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by sramsay 13y ago
This is true of being a professor as well (I certainly didn't understand what teaching really was about until I starting doing it). I've always thought that our graduate students should be made to take acting lessons, because ther
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by sramsay 13y ago
I think that's an excellent point. Vim is, after all, "Vi iMproved." nvi is a clone.
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by sramsay 13y ago
Perhaps this was mentioned the other day, but Neovim did make me think of this old chestnut from Joel Spolsky: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html I realize Neovim is being characterized as an &qu
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by sramsay 13y ago
Ah, of course. And of course to crb200 below as well.
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by sramsay 13y ago
What is the point of articles like this? I'm not trying to be snarky; I really am trying to understand why a company would go out of its way to advertise the technology its using. Sometimes we see blog posts from devs at companies (of
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by sramsay 13y ago
Maybe I am too, but that phrase just bugged me. Surely there are other reasons to use these tools than just "explicit memory management?" I suppose I could say, "I haven't used any JVM languages, because I haven't

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