vram22

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by vram22 8y ago
Breadth-First Search (BFS) and Depth-First Search (DFS) are actually both pretty interesting algorithms (although relatively simple for the basic cases - there are some variations), partly because of their applications. It's actually i
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by vram22 8y ago
None of those "tricking other people" problems you mention have anything to do with UBI, per se. They are all about human nature, both the trickers and the tricked. That is not going to change just because of UBI being enacted &#x
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Ask HN: Are you using Mastodon? What is your experience with it?
5 points by vram22 8y ago|0 comments
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by vram22 8y ago
>Yeah, it's the modern version of a minor landed gentleman who can pursue his interests. It's how we got science. And some of how we got Perl. I had read some time ago that Larry Wall said that Tim O'Reilly was his patron,
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by vram22 8y ago
Thanks, will check that too. I remember The Art of Prolog coming up here on HN a while ago.
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by vram22 8y ago
Thanks, will take a look.
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by vram22 8y ago
>Just starting that book on how Erlang was 'grown' using Prolog... What book is that?
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by vram22 8y ago
1. So what? It's not always that case that people on HN reply (or must do so) to a question with an answer that exactly answers the question and nothing else. Diversions are fine and done a lot by users here, within reason. Otherwise t
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by vram22 8y ago
One interesting thing about this set of solutions is that many of the languages seem to use a pattern-matching approach (e.g. Elixir, F#, Rust, others, IIRC). As a result, having been reading about pattern-matching recently (in F# and OCaml
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by vram22 8y ago
By coincidence, I had just posted this earlier and updated it recently: print(" ".join("FizzBuzz" if i % 15 == 0 \ else "Buzz" if i % 5 == 0 else "Fizz" if i % 3 == 0 \ else str(i) for i in ra
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by vram22 8y ago
>This sort of stuff isn't taught anywhere though, you have to either be shown it by someone else in a previous job, or have it annoy you enough to figure it out with some serious google fu (and the freedom to follow that path). Sure
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>Python is the new Perl, not sure what the new awk is. Red, said sed.
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by vram22 8y ago
Yes, it may be able to. At least, Delphi, the idea (and language) of which Lazarus is based on, was written in itself, at least for v1, I've read. Probably for later versions too, because Object Pascal (although IIRC the language is no
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by vram22 8y ago
Yes, I forgot to mention that in my other comment about bamboo in this thread. In India, bamboo scaffolding is or used to be (not checked lately) very commonly used on the outsides of buildings when they were being constructed. Tied togethe
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by vram22 8y ago
There's also this interesting and devastating phenomenon I read about a while ago: in some places where bamboo grows (IIRC, one or more of the north-eastern Indian states, like Assam, is one of them), there are periodic famines or at l
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by vram22 8y ago
Yes, I don't have data (can be looked up), but I've read that some bamboo species grow really fast.
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by vram22 8y ago
Those bamboo "bowls" - the long half-pipes - look cool. There seems to be a banana leaf plate in the photo too, like I said in another comment here. http://www.patokallio.name/photo/travel/Thailand/C
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by vram22 8y ago
Moringa (drumstick) and jackfruit are two others.
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by vram22 8y ago
Bamboo, coconut, neem and maybe banana are considered "wonder trees or plants", IIRC, because each has many uses. Banana maybe a bit less than the other three. Also garlic for health (neem is known for health uses but also has man
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by vram22 8y ago
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by vram22 8y ago
>and the CLI has no parameter to run scripts directly, so you have to start the CLI manually and do .read foo.sqs). It does work, but only sort of. Just did: $ sqlite3 -init select_contact.sql test_sqlite.db -- Loading resources from sel
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by vram22 8y ago
There's also Hy: http://docs.hylang.org/en/stable/ "hy - A dialect of Lisp that's embedded in Python"
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by vram22 8y ago
>If your at home and have the option to sleep what I find works for me is lying flat on my back. Then relax, in sequence, your forehead, shoulders, upper arms, lower arms, fingers, chest, stomach, groin, upper legs, lower legs, toes. Tak
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What Happened in 2018(avc.com)
2 points by vram22 8y ago|0 comments
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by vram22 8y ago
>to join one of those frothy to join one of those frothy dotcos, I meant. Sometimes my tendency to parenthesize overwhelms me, and I drop some words as a result. (Maybe I was a Lisper in a previous life) See what I did there? :)
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by vram22 8y ago
Well said. And often buggy or rapidly changing (or both) dependencies too - because the authors are keen on showing they are keeping up with the Joneses (er, times) and so their project is the latest and greatest - never mind if stuff doesn
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by vram22 8y ago
>and living paycheck to paycheck because you took out too large of a mortgage. In one case you have an asset to sell if needed. Did a lot of people wrongly (as it turned out) think that in the 2008 Great Recession?
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>In a very relaxed way, without any tension, taking my time for each small change, so I was fairly sure that each small refactoring change did not change the meaning or correctness of the program. Unlike the rushed, tense way in which so
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by vram22 8y ago
>Man, I miss making a living as a C programmer. Same here. I worked quite a lot on C on Unix and some on Windows (including working on a successful database middleware product on Windows, which was used in some VB+Sybase/Oracle clie
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>The primitives tribes that just left them in the jungle to die, or threw them to the woods, had it right. There is actually a community in India (so I've read - not sure if true) that does that - the Todas. They leave (or used to l

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