thethirdone

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by thethirdone 10y ago
> Theory is useless without implementation and implementation is nothing without an understanding of theory. I feel that you greatly misunderstand why theory is important. It is not just something to be memorized to aid in implementation
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by thethirdone 10y ago
The main point of the article is not that scheduling is superior to TODO lists. Instead it is that continually adding to a TODO list is bad and instead making a schedule makes that impossible. I feel using a TODO list with time estimates wo
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by thethirdone 10y ago
The problem is in the sort function. It expects the comparison to be deterministic and thus does not give the fully randomized list. Instead giving each name a distinct value (between 0 and 1) and sort based on those values.
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by thethirdone 10y ago
> The full Y combinator is also vastly more mystical and less obvious than the partial step :) The full Y conbinator simply binds func to func(func) as seen in `(y => f(x => y(y)(x))))`, an easy jump to make and pretty easy to unde
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by thethirdone 10y ago
> "Optimise" JavaScript code taking advantage of the fact a function can access all local variables in the scope of the caller. This is just not true. I believe he means in the scope of where it is constructed which is actually
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by thethirdone 10y ago
I think Zed Shaw should get off of his high horse. He knows a little about statistics, and think he knows plenty. A distribution that cannot go negative (a real world system), cannot be a normal distribution because normal distributions mus
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by thethirdone 10y ago
Disclaimer: I come from America, so what I am saying may not be applicable to other countries I would say that the mathematics taught before college is incredibly useful in day to day life. Without knowing how to add/subtract/mult
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by thethirdone 11y ago
The Euler's formula one is amazing. That is such a simple explanation.