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by wirrbel 12y ago
how does this reduce accessibility? javascript interpreters are not hard to find nowadays.
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by wirrbel 12y ago
SICP does the job of demonstrating the Closure-Object relationship just as fine, without boring the reader with endless references to the superiority of Lisp, as Let Over Lambda does.
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Anyone using MonetDB?
1 points by wirrbel 12y ago|0 comments
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by wirrbel 12y ago
however they do teach and you will attend their lectures as a grad student!
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by wirrbel 12y ago
I really love the idea of GNU, yet the FSF seems to more interested about "principles" than shipping good code and empowering collaboration. In times of Github and low-entry barrier participation, GNU sticks to the old ways like a
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Ask HN: Relational Databases and Concepts
13 points by wirrbel 12y ago|6 comments
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by wirrbel 12y ago
Great read on so many levels! Its accessible writing while getting to the core of such a well-known database.
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by wirrbel 12y ago
I was going to write a provocating comment on how I expected to find a repository that did not use a Markdown or restructured Text (or akin) Readme file and how ignoring advances in the open source community was a reoccuring pattern with li
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by wirrbel 12y ago
do you have a link/source for paul graham recommending Clojure?
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Free Pascal – Open Source Compiler for Pascal and Object Pascal(freepascal.org)
2 points by wirrbel 12y ago|0 comments
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by wirrbel 12y ago
C does not semantically separate arrays from pointers, Pascal does this. C uses indexes starting from 0, Pascal does not. Pascal usually does not come with strong memory layout guarantees that one knows from C (packing of structs, unions, e
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by wirrbel 12y ago
Some criticism about Pascal is kind of unfair, the one-pass compiler nature of the original language for example made Pascal compilers so much faster. When I tried to learn how to program I had played around with C, C++ and Basic without un
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by wirrbel 12y ago
As a bayesianist I would like to defend Frequentism here. p-value hacking IS NOT "Frequentist", it is malpractice has its roots in lack of education (copy-paste-analyses), publication pressure and using the p-value as a strong me
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by wirrbel 12y ago
What has always confused me is that the perceived gap between doctors and nurses is so big. I have the impression that nurses could benefit a lot from better training and there could be a good case for positions somewhere between a nurse an
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by wirrbel 12y ago
You are right about optimizations, there are a lot of situations where type annotations could greatly help the compiler. I just do not have the feeling that performance optimizations in CPython are the reason for Guido's proposal. It r
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by wirrbel 12y ago
This is a very nice article showing some of the issues troubling python and the proposed type anotations. I would summarize my view of the type annotation proposal as follows: Statically typed languages can introduce inference heuristics th
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by wirrbel 12y ago
I have grown to really like Gnome 3.
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by wirrbel 12y ago
really the link posted by another commenter here http://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec9.html is worth a read
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by wirrbel 12y ago
The author mentions two interpretations of probability, the frequentist and the bayesian one. With both interpretations, a negative probability does not make sense. The frequentist thinks of the ratio number of occurences in the limit of an
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by wirrbel 12y ago
That clojure does not follow the duck typing approach of ruby and python but uses interces (protocols) does not make it a statically typed language. It is still dynamically typed to my understanding as the implementation of a protocol &quot
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Irken Language – A Scheme with parametric polymorphism(nightmare.com)
106 points by wirrbel 12y ago|24 comments
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by wirrbel 12y ago
the article does not claim that they were arrogant in this discussion. It was very much not an article of the "Linus-Torvalds-is-rude" kind but more of a comparison of visions. In a way, Torvalds showed with git that he is a good
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by wirrbel 12y ago
I think this is a good example for complexity management. Linus has a bottom-up approach to this. With a few building blocks you build up a system where you can define and work with simple algorithms that are both understandable and approac
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by wirrbel 12y ago
I like to see Clojure definitely scheme-inspired, but it is a very different language. Scheme has this approach where you can build almost anything out of cons, car, cdr. After using Clojure for a while, all this cons, car, cdr stuff of Sch
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by wirrbel 12y ago
I really like python-based http://tinkerer.me/ It uses Sphinx markup which is great for embedding source code snippets and extending the blog with own extensions or pre-built ones.
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by wirrbel 12y ago
I would very much like to read a comparison of CL and Clojure from the author at some point. As it seems he is offering a fair comparison.
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by wirrbel 12y ago
Again quite a poor press release for a university. * Antioxidants have lost a lot in recent studies in terms of supposed health benefits. Mentioning antioxidants without reference to today's antioxidants and health research is implying
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by wirrbel 12y ago
the only problem that I can think of is that of exchanging word documents over the "city lines".
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by wirrbel 12y ago
Nitpick on the nitpick: You could not take a German text and change the font type to get proper Fraktur typesetting. It involves using some different rules (final s and inner "s"), ligatures that are context sensitive as well as d
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by wirrbel 12y ago
I would say it just looks really old fashioned and outdated. But of course this is a matter of perception.

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