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by tkahn6 15y ago
> Currying isn't something that one should do all the time or think about, so basing a language on it is dumb. Can you elaborate on what you mean by this? As it stands I don't understand what this means. > (And that's true even if w
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Ouch. No need to be condescending, Jon. When I write Python, I use classes and magic methods and all that jazz. Programming in a functional style in Python is often verbose and brittle due to the duck-typing. I was under the impression we w
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Not really redundant when you can curry the function when needed. This is how libraries in functional languages are written. Classes make code harder to reason about given that you have hidden state everywhere.
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Why not just pass the url into each function where it needs to be used?
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You can surround your text in asterisks to achieve italicization. http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
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Virginia Tech's routers assign public IPs. I'm using a laptop as a server from my dorm room.
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> They've made it very clear that they consider digital copies of physical property to be just as valuable as the original. What does this even mean? It appears the message of this campaign is that digital music is devoid of monetary va
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Cancellations through the service went down, but did actual cancellations (as in, the person just doesn't show) go down? If you make it harder to cancel you're relying even more heavily on the integrity or conscience of the cancelling party
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Nations and borders exist because different peoples have different values and different collective aspirations. Even the notion of an 'internet citizen' is not an entirely universal citizenship. How much interaction do people on HN really h
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> Democracy means "the people should be governed exactly how the majority of them likes to". No bait and switch representation, no BS. Direct democracy without constitutional checks is tyranny. The majority would just vote the minority
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Since when did learning a language stop being a big investment? Beyond syntax there are idioms, idiosyncrasies, standard libraries, advanced features, upstream features, and toolchains. How many people do you know have full understanding of
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I started at 9 but I don't think you have much to be jealous about. I did it because it was fun and I probably had a bit of a head start in terms of debugging skills, but really I don't think the intellectual maturity of someone <= 13 i
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I think the main difference is that computers are a lot cheaper than they were 200 years ago.
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I'm not going to defend Irgun because it's indefensible. It is simply a matter of fact that the attack was on the headquarters of the British military. Edit: Your subsequent edits are quite sick and disturbing. You should consider reverting
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It is incorrect to classify the attack as an attack on civilians when in fact it was an attack on the headquarters of the British military. Do not put words in my mouth.
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Yes the part of the hotel that was bombed was the part of the hotel that was used by the British military thereby invalidating your value judgement that the attack was meant to kill civilians.
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> of the first historic examples of terrorism targeting civilians. Not only was the KD hotel a military headquarters, it was supposed to be empty at the time of the bombing. You're either ignorant or lying for some reason.
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You should look up the Balfour Declaration and the Treaty of Sevres. The answer to your question, disregarding your hyperbole and nonsense (what is this pre-existing country you speak of), is yes.
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This is a property of how javascript and python do closures. In the above code i refers to the same piece of memory in every case. So f and g are closed over i. The reference is preserved but the value is not. This behavior is the motivatio
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Long story short, OP is conflating closures with lambdas. A closure is a lambda that is closed over its free variables meaning that the variables which are not defined in the body of the function (variables that are not local or the formal
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by tkahn6 15y ago
I'm not sure your solution computes what you want. A[2] = B[2-1] + C[2+1] A[2] = B[1] + C[3] A[2] = 2 + 9 A[2] = 11 Your solution gives 12 for A[2]. f xs ys = zipWith (+) (0:xs) $ tail $ ys ++ [0] f [1..5] [6..10] == [7,9,11,13,4
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Is there a way to change your User-Agent in the iPad browser?
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I only barely understand the appeal of twitter so take this with a grain of salt, but it seems really narcissistic to inject yourself into your friends' wedding with something like this. It's their wedding; for them it's a life-altering m
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Given that the Arab League was asking for NATO help, this was a 'damned if you do, damned if you don't' situation. Clearly one that gives you glee and plays into some nationalistic inferiority complex that you have with respect to American
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There is no attitude. It's simply a fact that military action in Iran would not have the purpose of helping Iranian citizens. That is not logically equivalent to the statement that US/NATO would/should abandon regard for civilian life in pu
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The point is not to make life better in Iran. The point is to remove the regime's nuclear capability. If the goal was to make life better in Iran there would be no economic sanctions.
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So how does the Libyan intervention play into your narrative?
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I suppose I should have said 'full scale' invasion a la Shock and Awe .
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> Because the US doesn't do military action without death, without shooting, without explosions. I don't know any nation that does. Either this is a strawman or you should go back and trace the thread of argument again. > What we ca
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Again, I don't understand why military action in any capacity is synonymous with invasion and occupation. I don't dispute your statements.

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