trobertson

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by trobertson 12y ago
On your last point, I would switch "may take time" to "will take time". All functions pure, all data immutable, strongly and statically typed, all computations lazy? It will take time to get used to.
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by trobertson 13y ago
Already exists. It's called Second Life.
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by trobertson 13y ago
Yesterday, they loved the guy. Say what you will about the deal, but Facebook has generated a lot of negativity in a lot of people. Not only did the Kickstarted future of VR sell out, they sold to Facebook. That subreddit has interpreted it
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by trobertson 13y ago
With regards to your first paragraph, we have plenty of money to spend on defense. The USA is expected to spend around 1.2 trillion dollars on defense in 2014 [0]. The problem, is that most of that spending is overseas "defense",
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by trobertson 13y ago
> with threaded comments, it's very difficult to follow a discussion as it develops I actually completely disagree with this. Threads allow for a single point of interest to spawn multiple straight-line conversations, where each thr
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by trobertson 13y ago
Popcap is owned by EA, who is well known for being heavy handed with their studios. EA happens to really like the IAP model.
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by trobertson 13y ago
> competition tends to benefit the consumer In regulated markets. After all, things like anti-cartel laws are regulations, and we absolutely do need those.
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by trobertson 13y ago
I'm not sure how useful that canary is going to be, though. Secure transfer of large files is a powerful tool for many people, including unsavory types like child porn distributors. I expect and encourage the government to investigate
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Dynamic Linking (is a bad idea)(harmful.cat-v.org)
2 points by trobertson 13y ago|0 comments
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by trobertson 13y ago
The common term "bitrot" suggests otherwise
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by trobertson 13y ago
Haskell's GHC is working on it [1]. It's not primetime (not even close, really), but it does work with modified libraries and compiling to llvm. There is also Intel Lab's HRC (Haskell Research Compiler) that does have SIMD ca
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by trobertson 13y ago
There are several libraries that do distinguish between strict and lazy types. containers [1], for example, separates strict Maps and IntMaps. That said, introducing new syntax to annotate strictness is far more troublesome than separating
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by trobertson 13y ago
> How is 'm >>= f' pronounced? How do you pronounce '4 + 5'? It's easy, because you don't try to pronounce '+', you pronounce 'plus'. With '>>=', there are a few nam
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Problems with Scala's Type System(reddit.com)
2 points by trobertson 13y ago|0 comments
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by trobertson 13y ago
Certifiably false. USA imprisons ~6x more of its citizens than China does [1], as a matter of percentage. Considering that the USA has ~1/4 the population of China [2], we can determine that the USA has more people in prisons than Chin
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by trobertson 13y ago
I would recommend 'Concepts of Modern Mathematics' [1], by Ian Stewart. It has some very nice illustrations and humor, and reminds me of 'Learn You A Haskell For Great Good' (though I believe CoMM came out before LYaH).
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by trobertson 13y ago
On page 100 of the actual documents [1], the refusal was not based on chain-of-evidence concerns, but that by using the solution proposed by Levison, the FBI would not have real-time access to the data: The e-mail again confirmed that
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by trobertson 13y ago
This is an inaccurate account of events. If you read the actual documents [1], you can see that the FBI had exactly 2 demands: A pen register device, attached to his servers; and his SSL private key. That is the sum total of what they wante
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by trobertson 13y ago
I think the US government is engaging in a massive overreach, and I think that other countries have an opportunity to develop sane data protection laws. Normally, when you want data on one person, you get a warrant for data on that person.
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by trobertson 13y ago
Yeah no prob. I'm particularly interested in Lavabit's story, because I'm looking to get off of Gmail and get some degree of privacy. But with how this is going, it looks like I'm going to have to wait for a non-USA comp
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by trobertson 13y ago
I'm reading/skimming through this now, and most of the beginning exhibits repeat a lot of stuff. Also, IANAL, so I may be interpreting some of this incorrectly. On the PDF's page 51, there begins a record of a court proceedin
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by trobertson 13y ago
The establishment rewards those who aid the establishment.
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by trobertson 13y ago
For all these language issues, I generally preface the query with the language name. "Python3 Django", "Haskell Quickcheck", "C++ Boost", etc. It makes things so much easier for the search engine to give me Goo
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by trobertson 13y ago
Thanks for doing this. My email is in my profile.
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by trobertson 13y ago
Honestly, I would pay for a site that was only hard-core tech articles. Hacker News' guidelines are decent, but are incredibly open. Citing sentence 3 of the guidelines: If you had to reduce [what's on topic] to a sentence,
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by trobertson 13y ago
I don't mean to nitpick, but the three parameter form is exactly what you use in day-to-day Haskell programming. You simply let c be the infix (->), and you get (y -> z) -> (x -> y) -> (x -> z). We just tend to think
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by trobertson 13y ago
So that others don't have to search, it's brony porn, where 'brony' means 'middle-aged man who's obsessed with the "My Little Pony" television show. NSFW, obviously.
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by trobertson 13y ago
Even disregarding the corruption part, his point still stands. Laws are made by people. People are not infallible. People make mistakes. It is therefore obvious that there is potential for bad and unjust laws. Adding in the corruption part,
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by trobertson 13y ago
They don't. They don't need to. This idea of a 'patriotic American' is propaganda. A complete and utter fabrication. It's a tool used to divide the American populace into opposing factions: those are patriotic, and
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by trobertson 13y ago
Not to mention Org Mode... but there's about a zero chance of emacs being picked up as 'standard'.

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