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by xtho 17y ago
Are you sure you got the order right. The standard pyramide rather goes like: explain people how to do it, help them doing it, let them do it, let them explain to/tutor other peoples how to do it.
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by xtho 17y ago
Some guy who happens to be a member of the ecmascript committee ...
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by xtho 17y ago
This point of view is also maintained by D Crockford[1] who is supposed to know JavaScript's background. [1] IIRC eg in this presentation: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/The-State-and-Future-of-J...
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by xtho 17y ago
"Ioke" != "Clojure" => true (not (= "Ioke" "Clojure")) => true
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by xtho 17y ago
I haven't read the article after reading the comments. But this actually is a rather naive view on nutrition. Just recently I read that in ancient Egypt priests had the very same diseases we have because of the unhealthy food they ate. Suga
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by xtho 17y ago
Tools that don't have difficulties computing large numbers maybe?
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by xtho 17y ago
I personally think it's sad that hardly anybody mentions OCaml or F# as alternatives to haskell. For a while I had the impression that OCaml had the potential to become really big but now it seems to have slipped people's minds. BTW it soun
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by xtho 17y ago
What's so bad about downvoting comments you disagree with? IMHO the problem rather is "kharma whoring", which is incited by the possibility of accumulating kharma. IMHO2 those points should be only relevant for sorting articles and comments
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by xtho 17y ago
Define "quite different".
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by xtho 17y ago
Which subclasses do you want to search through in JavaScript? That said to me lua seems a little bit like JavaScript's sane cousin.
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by xtho 17y ago
One wonders though why they didn't implement it as a general js library that could also be used from gm.
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by xtho 17y ago
With Groovy the boilerplate code "melts away" too. Most java code is valid groovy code, but not the other way around.
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by xtho 17y ago
And next week, we try to insert a footnote in a table (the footnote's text should be displayed at the bottom of the page) while we have no Internet access.
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by xtho 17y ago
What do you think came first?
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by xtho 17y ago
How is clojure useful as a java repl in comparison to groovy, which is much closer to the java mindset?
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by xtho 17y ago
With documentation I mean a) offline readable documentation and b) non-technical documentation targeted at newcomers. Please take a look at the scala site http://www.scala-lang.org/node/198 and compare that (especially the "Language Speci
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by xtho 17y ago
As long as the freely available documentation of clojure doesn't improve significantly, I personally don't see clojure participating in any kind of battle/war/...
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by xtho 17y ago
It will be 2 billions in ten years when linux + new gui has conquered the desktop (or what is left of it) and mobile devices. The difference between 2 billions and $20-30m (or whatever imaginary sum you suggest) is called profit (or rather
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by xtho 17y ago
There is no need to make an internal encoding comply with utf8 or any standardized encoding since it is internal. The point is that the existing solution simply doesn't work out well. I personally won't upgrade to 1.9 if they don't fix that
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by xtho 17y ago
C++, Java, C#, even common lisp programmers are socialists then? And hey, JavaScript is a standard too. Does this mean JavaScript is the tool of socialists? I personally consider it actually funny how the notions of socialism and capitalism
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by xtho 17y ago
Not just "some people" but law makers and lawyers.
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by xtho 17y ago
"Clinical decision support systems" have been a test bed for AI since the 1980s at least. For whatever reason they never catched on.
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by xtho 17y ago
IMHO their problem is that they use too many technologies and many of those they keep not for too long. In that sense it matters.
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by xtho 17y ago
Since you can include a python interpreter in vim, building some sort of REPL should be rather trivial.
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by xtho 17y ago
Because the job of a medical doctor is to treat people who are ill. Unless you have enough money to hire a personal assistant for biophysical issues.
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by xtho 17y ago
Oh come on. A blog is a highway to eternal procrastination.
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by xtho 17y ago
I simply tried to elaborate on your above statement. But since you want to spend more time on productive tasks and given that time isn't elastic, you want to save time on unproductive tasks anyway.
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by xtho 17y ago
Quit your day job today! There a plenty of jobs out there you'll really love more. For starters, I'd recommend working on the assembly line in a cozy factory somewhere in South America or Eastern Asia.
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by xtho 17y ago
In German, the notion of education (Bildung) is distinguished from training (Ausbildung). It seems to me that in English these two concepts are often intermingled and that, for historical reasons, a concept of education as Bildung is missin
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by xtho 17y ago
Well, it's an easy argument to use against people you don't like. The article's point is true though. As a novelist he really wasn't that outstanding, his prose is repetitive---it's not as if 1984 wouldn't have benefited from another editin

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