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by tokipin 11y ago
> Or it does, and you miss it. That's my point. Aside from my lack of amusement by Haskell's type system, I'm not making any moral or qualitative judgements one way or another. I'm talking about programmers in general
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by tokipin 11y ago
I'm saying that in imperative languages for loops are more "above the noise" syntactically and frequency-wise than sequential error checking is, at least traditionally. It's not as obvious that there is anything there to
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by tokipin 11y ago
I think it's because they solve a problem that people don't realize they have (and truth be told maybe they don't really have it), so the learning process has no motivation. They solve a major problem that Haskell has (namely
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by tokipin 11y ago
I wager it's consensus that determines what sequence of words is considered "proper" or not. Personally I have very generous criteria for what a reasonable sentence is. Thought experiment: Reversed words of sequence the with
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by tokipin 11y ago
At the moment of death you're having your last memories, so dying alone is like going into the abyss alone forever. Dying with people is like going into the abyss with that company forever. Or something like that. It could be even more
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by tokipin 11y ago
I don't think there's any relation. Some people may be nervous just because they are interacting with strangers, whereas they would have no problem with people they already know. Personally I don't have nervousness/stres
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by tokipin 11y ago
the concept of "macros" in Mathematica doesn't really exist as its own concept because the whole system is based on rewriting structure. for example, the ReplaceAll function[1] which is commonly used in idiomatic code is basi
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by tokipin 11y ago
i think you're thinking that Lispification is some kind of goal for the language, but it's not. the lispininess is just one aspect of the language, which is why i think calling it a lisp isn't fair to Mathematica -- it's
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by tokipin 11y ago
Mathematica has lisp essentially as a subset built on top of its rewrite system. In other words its rewrite system is so powerful that lisp can be naturally threaded into it. In particular the symbolic nature of the language means that ever
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by tokipin 11y ago
> Why not? i'd say it means the market isn't being allowed to work or even exist in the first place, which is the whole point of this discussion. 'going for it' is exactly what the establishments are trying to keep Te
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by tokipin 11y ago
> Again, this was a very convenient outcome for the Obama Administration. as jfb mentioned, this isn't an argument. you're thinking that it's a "motive," except that it's a motive to a crime you haven't
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by tokipin 12y ago
any one of Einstein's contributions in his miracle year would have put him in the history books. to say his contributions to science have been exaggerated is incorrect. he really was that good, whether you like that fact or not.
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by tokipin 12y ago
it isn't magic, but simply the fact that the language is "dynamically typed" (or more accurately, that the whole system works symbolically). the "magic" is due to its UI compositing system using the same exact seman
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by tokipin 12y ago
that would seem to be a similar argument to "if someone denies a police officer entry to their home, that means they're suspicious and therefore there is probable cause" which isn't valid
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by tokipin 12y ago
nice! reminds me of the recent Reading Rainbow kickstarter :D
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by tokipin 12y ago
i need to add some pop here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M94ii6MVilw
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by tokipin 12y ago
I'm not so sure about this. Maybe if you've graduated from a good school. I've known at least one person who graduated with a CS degree but didn't actually know how to program. There are many schools where students get b
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by tokipin 12y ago
The Ghost in the Shell universe explores these kinds of things.
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by tokipin 12y ago
i'm going to take a guess that the oil sector doesn't need any subsidies whatsoever, especially compared to renewable energy experiments
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by tokipin 12y ago
Just a note, those artists don't necessarily use all their vocabulary. Eminem for example clearly holds back on his vocabulary. Rap is as much an art as anything can be so there are all sorts of factors. Be careful what you might want
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by tokipin 12y ago
the show is often dungeons & dragons-y, so i assume it was in that context. regardless, you wouldn't use the jargon of "stats" when talking about real-life scenarios. and besides this altogether, there are countless examp
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by tokipin 12y ago
The idea of "stats" is a gamer thing, but Jake is talking about "stats" as applying to real-life scenarios. Then there's the idea that a robot is "doing a thumbs up" in some sense or another that doesn&#x2
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by tokipin 12y ago
Besides the fact that the creator(s) are clearly geniuses, I think a big part of the awesomeness of the show is that those creators are abstract people. One example was when Finn (the human) suggested that they should pretend to be defeated
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by tokipin 13y ago
I think if Twitter was forced to shut down, a PR shitstorm of amazing proportions would erupt. There is no way the government would win that battle. And that's part of the point of civil disobedience: publicity.
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by tokipin 13y ago
Take this[1] for example. That's a regular Mathematica notebook. You can insert images (like drag & drop them from your desktop) directly into notebooks. It's actually very convenient for image processing. The same thing holds
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by tokipin 13y ago
personally i hope it highlights how arbitrary all the writings are.
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by tokipin 13y ago
It's not as simple as that. Religion was part and parcel of those cultures just as it is in many cultures today. It's not just about the one or two overt cases that we know about hundreds of years later, but the fact that for ever
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by tokipin 13y ago
It sounds like you haven't encountered people who are good at what they do ("animals", as PG might say). Probably just bad luck or not enough good luck, or something else.
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by tokipin 13y ago
I think it does have this risk, not in the sense of deliberately driving users away, but simply the fact that the cost of posting would be much higher and engagement would drop as a side effect.
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by tokipin 13y ago
Do one or two tutorials, then jump straight into a moderately-sized project. Google profusely but also don't be afraid of hitting the language's manual. Perhaps most important is to not settle for code that you know is not ideal.

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