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by zopa 14y ago
Contracts need an offer, acceptance, and consideration. "Consideration" just means that both sides should stand to gain something from the agreement. Non-disclosure text at the bottom of an email seems like a real stretch for that. Of cours
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by zopa 14y ago
"Pure" is an adjective applied to "functional" so I don't see the conflation as odd. A language like JavaScript has first class functions, so it's a little bit functional. But no more than that, because most expressions aren't (mathematical
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by zopa 14y ago
This wasn't what I got from Rich Hickey's talk. I understood him to be saying that, while of course you shouldn't use something just because it's new, you should use whatever will make your code simpler, even if there's a learning curve.
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by zopa 14y ago
assuming that the length of a list will never be bigger than 232 Should be 2^32, of course. Though I think the real upper bound is (2^31)-1: there's a bit used for negative numbers, and there's zero.
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by zopa 14y ago
Sure, but if you want a Preferred Way, like the OC seems to, Yesod's your huckleberry. Right? Or is that not so?
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by zopa 14y ago
Fair enough, and sorry. Sci-fi version: once you're moving that sort of tonnage, logarithmically speaking you're closer to Ringworlds and Dyson spheres than you are to near-future asteroid mining.
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by zopa 14y ago
By all means worry about environmental problems. Like the various suggestions on this page to crash-land a mining asteroid on Earth---let's not do that. But at the moment the possibility of changing the mass of the earth has to be really lo
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by zopa 14y ago
The earth is ~ 6*10^24 kg. So if you bring back a billion kilograms, you'd increase the Earth's mass by around 0.000000000000017 percent. You get variations in surface gravity well over a trillion times larger just by traveling from Ecuador
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by zopa 14y ago
I think you've stated the main Snap vs. Yesod distinction in Haskell-land: "here are some tools" versus "do this." There's advantages to each approach, and luckily there are solid Haskell frameworks for both.
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by zopa 15y ago
It's a floating point number: there are limits to its precision. You've only got 2^64 bits to work with. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_point
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by zopa 15y ago
I used to tutor math at a community college. I did mostly the basics: lots of algebra, very occasionally a little calculus. I learned two things. First, it was usually the assumed knowledge that got them. They'd mess up at calculus because
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by zopa 15y ago
Actually, the VA is one of the best providers in the country on most standard-of-care measures. Used to suck, doesn't suck any more.
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by zopa 15y ago
I'd go with a business rational over the theory of distributive just over lifespans. It's an adverse-selection problem. Wisdom-tooth extraction is usually not an emergency (Nick's case excepted!)-- they have to come out sooner or later, but