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RedLang Blockchain Site(ico.red-lang.org)
1 points by throwaway7645 9y ago|0 comments
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
I think with a sufficiently advanced compiler pretty much any page of Go code would compile to a few lines of APL albeit in a different style. I have no source for this view though I can't imagine something in Go being more terse.
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
Agreed on that front. I've used R & Mathematica as a swiss-army-knife for those things as well, although the stats stuff I do is a lot more basic than the stuff you do professionally. I'd like to get more proficient at J &
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
Hey Scott...didn't know u were on HN. I've enjoyed most of your writing tremendously and am sad Kerf didn't work for you and your business partner. I hope you find time to write more about J in the future. Your comment on not
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
I ran into this recently myself. The default implementation is 1 based, but a lot of APL users override it to 0, so that trips up a lot of beginners.
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
I actually read this recently...very interesting. I've learned a bit of Esperanto myself and if anyone is wondering, yes it is really easy to learn. My grasp of Esperanto grammar and vocabulary is significantly stronger than Spanish de
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
Numpy does have much better scientific capabilities, so you can use vanilla Python for the basic coding and Numpy routines when you need them. APL uses arrays for everything though. I just wish it had taken off more on the scientific front
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
People make fun of Perl6 for adding Unicode operators, variables and such like having them would just be totally insane when APL has been doing that since the 60's and it works well lol.
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
Certain things translate, but not everything. In J when almost everything is an array and you're using points free form, you can pretty much combine everything without having to build classes...etc. Those python examples are much longe
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
Haha, I was joking but the substance is tar-like and won't come out easily (sat on a creosote bridge once). We have some plants in my area that make it as well...I'm kinda scared what the long term impacts will be healthwise as yo
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
We do have plenty of 500 KV (all over Louisiana and Arkansas for example), but a good bit of 765 as well. It's very costly to get right-of-way and the bigger the installation the more right-of-way you need.
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
220V isn't very high in the power world. The US has 765 KV. I'm not sure what the highest voltage cable in the world is, but now I'm curious.
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
Can confirm they use creosote....nasty nasty stuff.
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
They're treated with something called creosote which if it touches your clothes you must burn them. They'll last a good long time though.
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
Do you mean matter replication (no we won't as this violates the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle similar to the transporter), or something akin to a very complex vending machine that can make things from Ramen to Fajitas?
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
I agreed with y'all as well at the time. Anytime someone hated on windows phone I would show it to them and it wasn't at all uncommon for them to go out and buy it later. The PDF viewer is the only thing I've ever had an issu
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
Agreed. A single-core windows phone 7 was waaaay more stable than my android flagship. Superb phones and this is coming from a Linux fan boy.
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
I haven't found a good beginner F# book yet. If you're a .NET (C#) expert you might find the one from No Starch Press to be good.
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
Pretty cool to see Nim being stable enough prior to 1.0 for people to be writing other languages with it. Spry does look pretty cool too. Besides JS, I have huge respect for all the langs that Spry was influenced by (Lisp, Rebol, Forth, &am
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
How could they do that without doing something like LuaJIT?
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
Optimistic. On the whole, things are getting better globally despite what the media proclaims. My concern for the future is the continued automation of jobs that sometimes unemploys thousands of people without a valid skill set to fall back
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Global Latinists(newcriterion.com)
38 points by throwaway7645 9y ago|21 comments
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
There's a lot of things I like about Sweden, but reading things like this make me cringe a bit. Hopefully his lawyer keeps the deportation off.
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
I know what you're saying, but I don't think you're catching my meaning. I believe good leadership involves specific skill sets applied to a particular area and that very few people can truly serve in the generalist role that
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
I think I'd be fine with a politician with a non science background if they had excelled in Math/Science based courses in highschool and were generally curious as to how our world works. The problem is that most politicians I&#x27
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
My company has two engineering departments. 1 that has a very traditional management chain (non-technical) that is very bureaucratic with lots of meetings. The other promotes only the best technical engineers with ~10 years of experience an
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
Yep, as someone not writing production code it is pretty awesome as a personal productivity tool.
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
Yea I used it a bit in college. It is pretty neat when it has the information you need, but a lot of people are using proprietary information not on the public wolfram alpha cloud. So Alpha is a little gimmicky to me although great for help
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
I think it's just something that catches the press and gets publicity. Then someone looks at their products and maybe likes what they see(Mathematica is pretty neat). Kinda like a foot in the door. That or Wolfram really does feel that
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
Yea he is obviously smart getting his doctorate at a young age and the prestigious MacArthur grant, as well as making some important contributions to the CA field, but his best attribute might be being a businessman making millions selling

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