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by tmptmp 10y ago
It's not to say Haskell is bad, though. I'd be a fool to say so. The above comment is mainly to point out that there are its shortcomings and that it has a lot to improve and most of the times I have seen the proponents of Haskell
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by tmptmp 10y ago
Here are some that I have encountered: Which string to use? String, ByteString or Text or something else? How to convert between zillions of String types, which are, it seems, completely incompatible even though providing similar function
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Flipkart to Lay-Off Hundreds of Employees(tech.economictimes.indiatimes.com)
2 points by tmptmp 10y ago|0 comments
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by tmptmp 10y ago
Here are some links on the acoustics of road/tyre interaction. [1] http://www.icacommission.org/Proceedings/ICA2004Kyoto/sessio... [2] http://www.acoustics.asn.au/conference_proceedings/A
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by tmptmp 10y ago
>>The only real solution is electric cars plus significantly reduced speed limits. Which isn't a solution as it would be like saying "the only real solution is no automobile (cars/vehicles)", because people will wa
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by tmptmp 10y ago
>>Except that there is a real advantage to using pure functional programming; being able to easily prove theorems about your code and understand different components in isolation. How much of the Haskell (a pure FP language) library c
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by tmptmp 10y ago
First of all a personal heartfelt "thank you" to you for contributing towards open-source project. It's because of people like you, who rise above the personal benefits to a significant extent and contribute to the open/
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by tmptmp 10y ago
What is "that"? If you are referring to the parent's analogy, then yes, I said his/her analogy fails. Tesla is not making it mandatory to their buyers go through a serious and rigorous training to use their so tauted
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by tmptmp 10y ago
>>Isn't the plane's auto-pilot pretty much a pilot assistance system designed to keep the plane at the specified altitude and follow a straight line (heading bug on older systems, GPS coordinates in the flight plan on modern
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by tmptmp 10y ago
ISIL is generally known to accept responsibility only if they see the person has declared their pledge. You may also wish to see this video [1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YCWf0tHy7M
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by tmptmp 10y ago
Nice terror attack: Isil claims responsibility for Bastille day attack that killed 84 people, as French minister says Bouhlel was 'radicalised very quickly' [1] [1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07
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Maajid Nawaz (ex-extremist) on the jihadist attack in Nice, France(telegraph.co.uk)
4 points by tmptmp 10y ago|5 comments
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With Tesla in the picture, there is a lot of pressure on the BMW, Volkswagen etc to invest in the EV technology. So they would be chuckling now because with Tesla getting out of the competition (or with Tesla becoming weaker), they would ha
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by tmptmp 10y ago
It's sad. I am a big fan of Tesla and had/still have very high hopes from them, but it's decreasing. It seems Tesla is hell-bent on committing suicide. This way, they don't need the fossil-fuel car lobby to destroy them.
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by tmptmp 10y ago
How can I be sure that some lazy code (may be from some library) may not encounter "head []" at all? Of course, I can avoid that by avoiding all such libraries . Another painful thing is the exception handling is also not as cl
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by tmptmp 10y ago
>>But in Haskell you can get anything done :-) Yeah, only if you are willing to spend anything (e.g. insanely large amounts of time) on it :( Please correct me if I am wrong, but for any large project, Haskell actually adds more woe
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by tmptmp 10y ago
I guess you caught me here logically. Thanks for it. But I guess with the adoption of the policy of taking such decisions by public referendums is a good way to counter this shortcoming.
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by tmptmp 10y ago
>>Where i'm from it's absolutely super easy to get a good apartment from the government, and i almost never see homeless, despite having lived in various cities with varying levels of affluence and density. Genuinely curious
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by tmptmp 10y ago
>like the myriad societal shortcomings that lead to homelessness I think the author has oversimplified many important things related to the problem of homelessness. I want to point of some other aspects of this problem. Let me explain. H
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by tmptmp 10y ago
>>At the point you've got the money into a russian exchange, you're pretty much safe. That's not a point that bothers me. I understand that I can easily get my money into a Russian or other such exchange. What bothers m
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by tmptmp 10y ago
I have a doubt: say you are a UK citizen, you can send BTC to the Russian exchange but what in return would you get from that russian exchange and how would you evade the UK government? Curious to know. Unless you succeed to make them ship
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by tmptmp 10y ago
>>You see an annoying commercial on TV about Butter over and over again, over the course of a month. These are quite intrusive and you certainly wouldn't want to see it again, if you had the choice. The very big difference betw
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by tmptmp 10y ago
You are right, long division is not very fundamental but the concept of division is. I have addressed this issue in a comment in a thread here [1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12034345
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by tmptmp 10y ago
>>What was her degree? Demanding maths when it's not needed by practitioners in a degree subject area seems perverse to me [I love maths FWIW]. Degree is inconsequential. I'd say "if she is a human, she will do better b
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by tmptmp 10y ago
Very good work. I enjoyed it and while viewing I just reminded myself the following: By watching it at full speed, I am causing the CPU on my machine to do so much computational work in so short a time just so that I can enjoy the animation
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by tmptmp 10y ago
It depends, upon your definition of house and on what kind of technology you have access to to build your house with, whether it takes months or years or days or even more or even less than that. See this news [1] regarding the time issue.
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by tmptmp 10y ago
>>If, say, a Software Architect and a Senior Director have the same pay and the same perks and the same bonus structure, and it really does take a talented person the same amount of time to climb that high from (say) Software Engineer
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by tmptmp 10y ago
You don't have to claim "10x more LOC", if your abstractions are powerful enough to capture a vast breadth of situations in an elegant and not-an-over-inefficient manner. If you could achieve this feat, I'd say you are a
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by tmptmp 10y ago
It is important to point out the issue of crappy students and their crappy parents too. The crappy students will not do work and when they fail they and their parents will complain about the teachers. No doubt, there are crappy teachers, an
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by tmptmp 10y ago
Here is a relevant point raised by Sam Harris. Sam Harris : Liberals failure to talk honestly about Islam is responsible for the rise of Trump [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YCWf0tHy7M

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