toolslive

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1201.
by toolslive 14y ago
ocaml has an awful default interpreter repl, so most people use it with emacs. Alternatively, my default rlwrap is this: rlwrap -p"0;31" ocaml -init _init.ml the -init allows me to preload, set directories aso. As a remark on the side. A lo
1202.
by toolslive 14y ago
Great read. You can feel the pain he must have suffered.
1203.
by toolslive 14y ago
> If it is so good why ain't it is used more? I'm too pessimistic, but there is almost no correlation between quality and frequency as far as programming languages are concerned. Reasons for that are legio.
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Magnus Carlsen to beat Kasparov's all time high rating(chess.com)
1 points by toolslive 14y ago|0 comments
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by toolslive 14y ago
maybe take a look here: http://nixos.org/docs/papers.html from a theoretical, conceptual view point, nix is the holy grail in package management.
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Caulking your distributed algorithm implementation(blog.incubaid.com)
3 points by toolslive 14y ago|0 comments
1207.
by toolslive 14y ago
I admit this was bait ;) It comes from "Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design" (R.Bird) It's basically a tree with shared nodes.
1208.
by toolslive 14y ago
GOF patterns are indeed language agnostic, as long as you work within the OO paradigm. You can indeed apply the same pattern (fe visitor) in Python, Java, C++, Go. This is also the reason why it isn't that difficult to move from one OO lang
1209.
by toolslive 14y ago
"There is no solution". Well, sometimes you can prove it too. "I’ve learned all I want/will ever need to know about X". Often you don't need to know everything about X before you decide you don't want to be anywhere near X. "I hate progra
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by toolslive 14y ago
Funny, I came to the exact opposite conclusion: It's unsettling our models of physics are based on continuous functions while the space-time we exist in is obviously discrete. Considering them as continuous is a simplification to make the
1211.
by toolslive 14y ago
Yes, but only if it's bad news. (since nothing travels as fast as bad news)
1212.
by toolslive 14y ago
not all evolution converges, and even if it would converge, you might want to influence where it's going, no?
1213.
by toolslive 14y ago
I'm pretty sure you're lying ;) . If you've ever used the GOF command pattern or an object representing an action, you've used reification.
1214.
by toolslive 14y ago
"declarative programming languages(SQL, XSLT, regular expressions, etc.)" Is it just me or are semantics really shifting? There used to be a time where 'declarative programming languages' was a group name for Prolog, Mercury and friends. Th