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by thomasz 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aura_(symptom)
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by thomasz 12y ago
> All my sympathy for her just instantly evaporated. Wat? Why!?
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by thomasz 13y ago
It may be hard to believe, but people actually want a fridge before they even think about buying a computer or mobile phone
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by thomasz 13y ago
Uh, no. I downvoted because I want to keep discussions civil and technical. Questioning peoples competency because they name a directory '~/Script' instead of '~/js' or whatever just won't fly here. This i
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by thomasz 13y ago
What about stuff like Il.Emit and Expression<T>.Compile
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by thomasz 13y ago
Still, his interpretation is more plausible than expecting that the ghost of steve himself visits Tim Cook at night to tell him which 100 guys out of a workforce numbering over 80,000 really deserves that honor.
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by thomasz 13y ago
> Ubuntu/RedHat/SUSE abandoned the distro? Well, hire devs to support it. You have the code. They are too incompetent to switch from xp to vista or 7. What makes you think they could survive the transition to linux, let alone
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by thomasz 13y ago
> The current maximum transaction rate for the bitcoin networks is something like seven transactions per second What? I'm not entirely sure that I understand this correctly: Do you say that the whole bitcoin network, with all that c
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by thomasz 13y ago
I feel exactly the same way, but we should be aware that the grass is always greener on the other side.
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by thomasz 13y ago
If you are willing to invest a few bucks, http://www.albahari.com/nutshell/ is a comprehensive reference and good introduction for c# and the .net framework.
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by thomasz 13y ago
I know. But it's not even released yet, and it takes a lot of time for such massive changes to ripple through until you can expect them to be useful for the general public: Developers need to be trained, documentation, tools and libr
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by thomasz 13y ago
C# is years ahead on the language feature side: - lambdas - Expression trees - sensible operator overloading - value type semantics (you can define your own types that behave like primitives) - reified generics instead of type erasure,
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by thomasz 13y ago
The team is infinitely more important than the language, and the Dylan Hackers team was top notch.
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by thomasz 13y ago
The problem with the Kaplan-Meier curve is that most of the time, they represents figures about the whole patient population, but depending on the disease, there are extreme differences between stages and possibly dozens of cytogenetic fact
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by thomasz 13y ago
> If you think doctors don't have time for you for economic reasons, and not the fact that there are other patients out there, you really have no idea what doctors do all day. You are the one who explains that behavior with economic
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by thomasz 13y ago
Two to three extra hours is vastly exaggerated, and not that much time for someone who needs to know the chances of dying a horrible death. I might add that this is an objection based on economic argumentation, which, while not invalid, i
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by thomasz 13y ago
> We never cite detailed statistics, and usually advise against Googling survival numbers, assuming the average patient doesn’t possess a nuanced understanding of statistics When I was at the receiving end of that talk, this attitude mad
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by thomasz 13y ago
In primary school? Seriously, this sounds exactly like the pseudo radical bullshit you'd expect from not-quite-20 year old college freshmen.
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by thomasz 13y ago
I'm pretty sure that more than 90% of them can read...
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by thomasz 13y ago
"Your poverty makes my uncomfortable" is not a valid reason for enacting discriminating legislation.
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by thomasz 13y ago
Furthermore, it's a little bit odd that when Mozilla explores that space with a new language, it's the hottest thing since sliced bread on HN, but this here gets drowned in snark. At the same time, the discussions on reddit (of al
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by thomasz 13y ago
There is a post on G+ about the error model: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6983904 The author is participating in this reddit thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1tzk5j
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The error model of Microsoft's new language(plus.google.com)
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by thomasz 13y ago
Does this fallacy has a name?
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by thomasz 13y ago
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/simonpj/ Yes, I'm aware that it's not the Haskell core team who is working on this new language. But they probably have their offices across the floor.
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by thomasz 13y ago
I'm really appalled by the hostility that's being displayed here. This is Microsoft research in Cambridge, not the Xbox one marketing department. You know, the guys who work on Haskell, ported OCAML to .net and generally do a lot
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by thomasz 13y ago
Not everybody can be part of the glorious STEM master race!
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by thomasz 13y ago
I don't understand your argument. You will have problems finding Erlang devs, especially if you are not located in the SV. You will find it difficult and/or prohibitively expensive to even get Erlang training for your devs. And
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by thomasz 13y ago
The key here is p. 217. Examples and Exercises that come before p. 217 are: - Square Roots by Newton's Method - Testing for Primality - Arithmetic Operations for Rational Numbers - Extended Excercise: Interval Arithmetic - A Picture
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by thomasz 13y ago
That's using a metaphor to explain OOP, not teaching OOP modeling with examples from the physical world.

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