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by wetmore 10y ago
AMP gives WSJ an incentive to serve a faster version. Why would they spend money improving their site - especially a big name like WSJ? Plus, from what I've heard from developers working at new sites, "our pages are faster and use
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by wetmore 10y ago
How does telling someone to smile cheer them up? Besides, you can be cheerful but not smile.
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> great side story, Rescorla infiltrated and identified a radical Iman at a NY Mosque who was later charged Not quite, it was his friend Daniel Hall.
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by wetmore 10y ago
He's saying there is no abstraction over higher-kinded type constructors, i.e. no abstraction over types which accept their own type arguments.
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by wetmore 10y ago
It wouldn't be too hard to write a function to turn a tree-based structure of your design into a tree of function calls using the existing API.
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by wetmore 10y ago
It is from Breaking Bad, the caption is a joke.
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by wetmore 10y ago
> The real value in Haskell, to me, seems to be for learning functional programming, since it forces you to use that paradigm. Beyond that, it's just a hobby language. It's not a bad thing, but I think like you said in the begi
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by wetmore 10y ago
Really a very compelling telling of the story behind SimCity and its effect on the world.
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by wetmore 10y ago
It's a joke. From the github page: > In a class I taught at Berkeley, I did an experiment where I wrote a simple little program that would let people type either “f” or “d” and would predict which key they were going to push next. I
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by wetmore 10y ago
Sounds much harder than training computers to me.
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by wetmore 11y ago
So you're saying this guy's blog post is part of a conspiracy to drive down the price of Tesla stock?
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by wetmore 11y ago
This is a kind of dickish way to reply. Yeah it's not the original point but there is a discussion of this issue in it IIRC.
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by wetmore 11y ago
For whatever reason the non-technical public has this impression of Google engineers (or just engineers in general) as really smart people who do things they don't understand. This is the impression typical Google engineers have of Jef
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by wetmore 11y ago
For sure. Having read a fair amount about the circumstances surrounding the release of Go Set a Watchman, it's sad to see that the widespread opinion is that it should be canon.
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by wetmore 11y ago
Something like this came up on hn a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8042673
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by wetmore 11y ago
I think the way to interpret this page is not "these are all the ways to do this task in Haskell" but rather "Haskell allows me to express this problem in these ways". The vast majority of examples on the page are curios
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by wetmore 11y ago
Well, you do need some of them if you'd like to use Servant, for example. But you can write an API wrapper without enabling any of them if you'd like, which I guess is what you are saying.
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by wetmore 11y ago
> I'd bet most under 30s in the US do not link 'gate' with watergate Doubt it. I'm 24. First of all, we obviously learned about Watergate in high school history. Moreover, ever since Watergate happened, people have be
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by wetmore 11y ago
>The characterization was that Sanders is "Saturnine" The characterization was of Obama, not Sanders. Or at least that's what the post says right now.
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by wetmore 11y ago
I just said this somewhere else, but if you change it to ten lines per function you can rearrange FUCRS and then you'll really be adding CRUFT.
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by wetmore 11y ago
Perhaps if they used 10 instead of 7 for the magic number, they could have used CRUFT.
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by wetmore 11y ago
>That's the top comment. Embarrassing. My experience on HN has been that the top comment in most threads is usually the most incendiary one, not the "best" one.
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by wetmore 11y ago
He should set up a script to take a screenshot of it with each commit as well and make an animated gif.
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by wetmore 11y ago
I'm almost certain the way you've read it is correct.
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by wetmore 11y ago
You can read the book online. Beyond that, if by hacker feeds you're referring to hacker news, you may notice that the author of the book and the submitter are two different people. Finally, do you really think it's unusual for so
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by wetmore 11y ago
This is roughly how I learned; I used Hakyll[0] to make my personal site, and working with the Compiler monad it uses taught me to understand monads and use do notation. It's way easier to learn when you have a reason to be learning, a
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by wetmore 11y ago
Considering I've spent my life seeing people that looked like me everywhere I look in the field of CS, I'm happy there's an effort to highlight the fact that CS also includes people who _don't_ look like me. I think the
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by wetmore 11y ago
Not only did you nitpick the least important part of the article, but you were also wrong. If you're gonna be pedantic, at least be correct.
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by wetmore 11y ago
I know what you mean, I spent a lot of time exploring Shadow of the Colossus when I was younger, but now it's really hard to find the time to spend quality time with a game.
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by wetmore 11y ago
You're missing the point of the article though. It's about the search, not what they found. Sometimes the journey is more important than the destination.

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