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by tumult 16y ago
Wrong, this happens all the time. For example, municipalities pay out all the time to the Westboro Baptist Church when local police are unable to defend them from the people they are intentionally enraging. (This is how WBC makes their mone
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by tumult 16y ago
posting from phone monads are not for simulating side effects. they can model many things. functions are already composable with the dot (.). if you want to compose arbitrary structures, use Control.Category. unit does not have anything in
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by tumult 16y ago
In the author's own words: I should stress that this is very hand-waving imprecise definition... I don't want to be too hard on this guy, but this is a bad article. Sorry. This article uses incorrect terms to define things. It also doesn'
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by tumult 16y ago
The tech press needs to play up the competition to the iPad as much as possible, because drama drives clicks. But the reality is that Apple's iPad is so far ahead of everything else that it's almost out of sight. Have you used one of the 'i
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by tumult 16y ago
Accused.
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by tumult 16y ago
Forgot to also add: good job so far, but clean it up so it works with cabal/hackage :)
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by tumult 16y ago
One reason to have separate domains for data and functions is that it allows you to have types. If you start with the presumption that you aren't going to have types, you no longer need to make this distinction. Scotch only goes half-way. F
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by tumult 16y ago
Looks like it was because I had a space after the comma. Oops! Why did you choose to distinguish between data constructors and functions?
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by tumult 16y ago
What's the evaluation strategy? At first glance I thought it might be term rewriting, but it doesn't appear to be so. I don't understand what I'm allowed to pattern match. I cannot define a function like "foo(Somedata(a, b)) = a" and I don'
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by tumult 16y ago
I'm in the Bay Area. The servers are in the Bay Area. I don't see why that's unreasonable. People don't know what they're missing now.
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by tumult 16y ago
One effect some older gamers may have noticed over time – lag has gotten worse. I used to be able to ping 5ms to servers in the Bay Area on my old Pacific Bell DSL connection back around 1999/2000. Now I'm lucky to get 50 from Comcast. It a
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by tumult 16y ago
Not brave enough to stand up for censorship with your own account? I voted you down. I don't think your comment has any meaningful place in this thread. It should go without saying that you shouldn't use someone's death to soapbox about cen
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by tumult 16y ago
Neal Stephenson's novel Anathem has a section that talks about how the 'reticulum' (the internet, in the book's fictional world) was overrun with false copies of documents with slight changes made to them. 99.99% of all of the information
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by tumult 16y ago
mapM_ print [1..1000] Yay Haskell. (Original question is for C/C++, so obviously this is a bogus answer.)
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by tumult 16y ago
The performance of some of these apps is appalling. The Sparrow GMail client idles in the background on my MacBook Air around 20 or 30% CPU usage on one core. If you try to scroll the list of mail, resize the window, or breathe on it wrong,
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by tumult 16y ago
Important VIM tip that cheatsheets never mention for some reason: text objects. First, remember these two things: a for a, and i for 'inner'. 'daw' deletes a word under the cursor. 'diw' deletes the contents of a word (the 'inner' of a word
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by tumult 16y ago
Monads have nothing to do with OO. Ignore this guy's comment and read samstokes' instead.
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by tumult 16y ago
Template metaprogramming is awesome. All of the C++ messes I've seen are related to ridiculous OO crap.
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by tumult 16y ago
I stand corrected.
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by tumult 16y ago
You've included many redundant languages while simultaneously excluding several classes of languages. Many of your other decisions seem odd. C/Pascal/Delphi are not so different from each other. C++/Java/C# are not so different from each ot
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by tumult 16y ago
No, fight for your freedoms. Be thankful for them as an afterthought.
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by tumult 16y ago
I've been asking for years why browsers do not have this. The only reply I've gotten is for performance considerations, which is a bad answer for several reasons.
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by tumult 16y ago
Regular Cocoa Emacs, probably better than Aquamacs for most people: http://emacsforosx.com/ And if, instead of Things, you want an awesome todo feature in emacs, check out org-mode, and its partner iPhone app, MobileOrg. (The MobileOrg ic
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by tumult 16y ago
The state of software patents continues to deteriorate without any hope of reform in sight. I'm starting to suspect the situation will only improve once it has become bad enough that major players in the game begin to ignore litigation in
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by tumult 16y ago
GHC Haskell actually supports mutually recursive generic container types, but you must enable type class system extensions which make type checking undecidable.
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by tumult 16y ago
I guess I should have been clearer. It has a focus on run-time replacement of properties on objects. Duck-typing with an object-oriented emphasis. It is a dynamic language that supports lexical scoping but does not focus on the classic func
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by tumult 16y ago
Mathematica seems like a much cooler language than Python. Python is like a dynamic Lisp but with an emphasis on imperative programming.
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I don't see where 'security' fits in with this.
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An anecdote: I have restless legs, though it does not terribly bother me. (Perhaps if I shared a bed with someone, it would.) I am a frequent runner – I can bang out a marathon 5 nights in a row each night for exercise – and it doesn't seem
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Homeland Security? Intellectual property infringement of media corporations is now relevant to the safety of our nation?

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