tpetricek

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by tpetricek 8mo ago
There is an entire paper looking at the history, meaning and cultural significance of the foo, bar, baz words: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13347-019-00387-2
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by tpetricek 3y ago
Carbon paper was also a key part of Samizdat production in the Eastern bloc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samizdat (which is why my family still has piles of it in the attic somewhere...)
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by tpetricek 3y ago
Should be fixed now!
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by tpetricek 3y ago
The videos are now up again.
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by tpetricek 3y ago
Fixed now!
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by tpetricek 3y ago
For anyone interested in the slides & videos, those are now accessible again! Sorry for the technical issues (it was not the HN effect, but a migration to a new disk...).
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by tpetricek 3y ago
Yes, this is fully open - I'm posting all the materials and videos as the course goes (but the server is down at the moment - should be back up soon).
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by tpetricek 3y ago
Seems like someone needs to restart some server somewhere. I'll investigate. Videos should be back up soon :)
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by tpetricek 4y ago
The article uses TfL signage from Kings Cross as an example of clear and crisp direction. This is a bit funny, because Kings Cross signate (specifically) sometimes directs you to take a longer path (hoping to avoid overcrowding in peak time
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by tpetricek 5y ago
Thanks for a nice comment!
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by tpetricek 5y ago
I was looking through the comments to see if someone mentioned Jean Bartik already! Just to add to this comment, she also wrote an autobiographical book, which is worth reading: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pioneer-Programmer-Je
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by tpetricek 6y ago
For those who want to compare this 1971 article with a 2018 talk by the very same person (and see that his arguments remain relevant): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-qAPvYdXgM
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by tpetricek 6y ago
I think a useful reference here is the idea of "wicked problems", which is a kind of problem where the structure of the problem makes it hard to solve - because you cannot even know what a solution is until you make your problem s
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by tpetricek 6y ago
Author here - there are better emulators (I used this one myself for testing things out: https://www.retrodevops.com/c64.html ). You are absolutely right that my POKE is not like the real one - because for that, you actually
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by tpetricek 6y ago
This is very odd! I handle the input myself (so that it can look like C64 console), but this is done via pretty simple "window.onkeypress" and "window.onkeydown" - so if it receives random inputs, it's either odd ev
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by tpetricek 6y ago
Thanks for pointing this out. I'll get it fixed :-).
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by tpetricek 6y ago
Author here - thanks for the nice words about the article!
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by tpetricek 6y ago
It's not just that alchemy was not "scientifically disproven" in Newton's time. There was no such thing as "scientific" and "pseudo-scientific". Reading about Newton's thinking about alchemy is a
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by tpetricek 6y ago
I'm a lecturer (assistant professor) in computer science at University of Kent in the UK. I did my undergraduate degree and Masters at Charles University in Czechia and later a PhD in Cambridge. Most of my work has been on programming
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by tpetricek 6y ago
There is a link to the answer right on the page under "Editorial Expression of Concern". This answers how it bypassed an ethics council: https://www.pnas.org/content/111/29/10779.1
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by tpetricek 6y ago
Another person to talk to would be Brooks Paige, who recently joined UCL: https://tbrx.github.io/ This is totally not my area of research (I'm a PL person), but I know Brooks from the Alan Turing Institute and I think
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by tpetricek 7y ago
The history of how the pipe operator got into F# is documented here: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dsyme/2011/05/17/archeologi...
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by tpetricek 7y ago
I'm this case, there is virtual-dom dependency, one more file with some code to simplify the creation of UI and whatever Fable (F# to JS) provides. So it's not 100 lines, but there is a lot less dependencies than you'd expect
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by tpetricek 7y ago
I don't have much experience with Elm or Purescript, but one nice thing about F# with Fable is that it's a pretty flexible language that let's you do things in many ways and integrates well with libraries that use different s
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by tpetricek 8y ago
Haha, thanks for linking to this thread! This was definitely an idea that I've been thinking about for some time and this thread is a part of it. As pointed out in a comment elsewhere in the discussion, I think most of these do not qui
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by tpetricek 8y ago
Author here. I'm aware of work in this area (though certainly not all of it) and I had the pleasure of attending last two PPIGs! The idea I outlined in the blog post is absolutely inspired by all of this, but I think there is one funda
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by tpetricek 9y ago
Yes, that's what I meant, thanks :-). The idea is that you can just write `unbox<MyType>(jsonParse("{whatever:42}"))`.
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by tpetricek 9y ago
Fable pretty much replaced FunScript - all the activity around F# to JavaScript translation moved from FunScript to Fable nowadays!
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by tpetricek 9y ago
Sssh. Speaking as one of the two people who know F#, I'd be very sad if others learned about it. It's my secret weapon that lets me solve problems that would otherwise take me weeks in a matter of days.
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by tpetricek 9y ago
The fact that the best parts of C# are its few functional bits might be a good hint that if you had a language that was designed around those good bits, it would be so much better ;-). I don't expect to convince anyone in a HN discussi

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