zephyz

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by zephyz 9y ago
I did. I left it out for two reasons: - the comment asked for a "simpler" explanation and associativity isn't a specially simple concept if you are not familiar with it and does not really help understand the core idea of a m
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by zephyz 9y ago
You have a value of a certain type. You have another value of the same type. If there exist a function (let's call it "combine") that combines those two values and emits a third value of the same type. AND There exists a valu
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by zephyz 9y ago
I'm surprised the author does not mention another reason that've heard in favour of using Latex: scale and predictability. A LaTeX Document will always behave the same whatever its size and content. Whereas word processors may une
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by zephyz 9y ago
Too bad this as just a rant. There are some interesting statements to make about programming language features that come from this title. For example one can contrast languages that choose to have total type inference at the price of some o
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Excuse me sir, there is no curry in my java(medium.com)
3 points by zephyz 10y ago|0 comments
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by zephyz 10y ago
Why didn't they fork the actual swift compiler that does all the lexing, parsing, syntax checking, type checking, SIL generation, LLVMIR generation, and add a final phase that compiles to JS? This whole project seem like a lot of dupli
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by zephyz 10y ago
Good point. Thank you!
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Ask HN: Get into PLT with no CS degree
5 points by zephyz 10y ago|3 comments
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by zephyz 11y ago
Your behaviour exactly illustrates the equivalent between the two: arbitrary social pressure against what is, I would argue, better for humanity. Thankfully, we have strong smart influencal people taking a stand for us,humans. And we should
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by zephyz 11y ago
It's like the author doesn't know what he's doing. Why would you ever want to maintain such code when the language already solves all that for you with optional chaining and flatMap?
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by zephyz 11y ago
This post is basically saying "I don't understand programming and I won't even try"
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by zephyz 12y ago
If I disable meanings in the settings I see video and picture results. Is that the intended behaviour?