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by wz1000 11y ago
> a new language is just changing the syntax used to represent those same concepts. I can think of two counter examples for this. First, Lisp with its meta-programming is completely unlike any other language that doesn't support suc
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I think the way we do it is more natural. Numbers which have an infinite decimal expansion towards the right side of the decimal point are relatively much more common and useful compared to numbers which have an infinite decimal expansion t
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I don't think that's paradoxical. We deal with convergent infinite series all the time in everyday life. 10/3(3.333...) is 3 + 3/10 + 3/100/ + 3/1000 + 3/10000... π(3.1415...) is 3 + 1/10 + 4&#x2
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The War on Drugs Is a War on Children(huffingtonpost.com)
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Non-mobile: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menger_sponge
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Gabriel's Horn(en.wikipedia.org)
98 points by wz1000 11y ago|29 comments
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That's why you use specialized constructors.
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I hit the left Control key with the edge of my palm, and use my thumb to hit Alt. Those are the only modifier keys I use regularly, other than Shift(which I can comfortably hit with my pinkies). This practice along with evil-mode and Vimper
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> make semi-permanent fixes myself You could always use libspotify.
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All those points along with the parents apply to Haskell too. Yet Haskell does not enjoy the same hype/success.
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Steal This Book (1971)(mindmined.com)
36 points by wz1000 11y ago|13 comments
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Feynman sprinkler(en.wikipedia.org)
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For me, monads are just as beautiful as any other part of the language. Like almost everything new, you just have to work with them for some time, until you build intuition for the underlying mathematical object and everything just "cl
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Can you use different kernels with this?
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> Haskell is a good example of how you can overdo it, with the best intentions: concepts that are beautiful and frictionless in pure math become a cumbersome burden and an impractical cognitive load when translated too directly into a PL
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> When an error in one of the articles was pointed out by Vesselin Dimitrov and Akshay Venkatesh in October 2012, Mochizuki posted a comment on his website acknowledging the mistake, stating that it would not affect the result, and promi
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The Paradox of the Proof (2013)(projectwordsworth.com)
32 points by wz1000 11y ago|5 comments
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Indeed. I keep showdead on solely so that I can see his comments.
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Behaviour could be implemented by shell commands. That way, if you wanted to implement a method for a particular object, you could just write a binary/shell script/whatever that reads the object from stdin and writes its result to
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Many shells already come with a few default aliases that call ls with different arguments. Your "four programs" can be combined in a simple alias.
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A solution to this might be a standardized object format, like JSON.
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AFAIK PowerShell pipes stream objects, not text. I've never used it though.
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> So do you propose to make the separation of content and behaviour go away? Because that is one of the key features of the HTML+CSS+JS structure. No, only thing that goes away the cognitive burden of keeping in mind the original HTML, C
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What Colour are your bits? (2004)(ansuz.sooke.bc.ca)
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Yes, my second example which translated XML to equivalent Lisp would be better at illustrating my point. With a Lisp, you don't need HTML as there is no distinction between code and data . Your Lisp is rendered and displayed on screen
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> Personally, I prefer the HTML version over the ClojureScipt version. It is shorter and to me it is much more readable. That is only because this is Lisp that generates HTML. Also, in the example you had given, there are no closing tags
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A Lisp gives you all of this and more in a single, consistent, powerful programming language. I fail to see why we need three vastly different, intricate and complex technologies when we could have done with just one simple, elegant languag
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by wz1000 11y ago
Isn't this problem solved by having HTML/JS/CSS as a compile target, which is what we are heading to now, with languages and technologies like CoffeeScript, PureScript, Elm, ClojureScript, ghcjs, emscripten etc. Even on the b
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Polywater(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by wz1000 11y ago|0 comments
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> I don't care for Haskell for anything remotely related to "work" Why not? Haskell seems perfect for this task. It has fast, robust and safe concurrency and GHC's IO manager is highly optimized and insanely fast.

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