adeelk

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by adeelk 14y ago
Sure, but verroq was talking about vector spaces and linear maps, not matrices. The theory of vector spaces over a field is more general and can be applied to much more than systems of equations.
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by adeelk 14y ago
> Someone who has never seen the type of problem that would make a given abstraction useful would not be able to understand it easily. Whether or not someone is sufficiently motivated to study something should not affect their ability t
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by adeelk 14y ago
As is often the case, the way to get the intuition here is to just work out the computation. Once you do that, it should all "click".
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by adeelk 14y ago
What in Clojure is biased towards web programming (or any other domain)?
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by adeelk 14y ago
> About one in four adults suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year. That means if you think about your 10 favorite people in the whole world two of them could be at risk of suicide. No, that means on average , an arb
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by adeelk 14y ago
> That's like saying, "If we start putting people in jail for using illegal drugs, people will eventually stop using illegal drugs." Unfortunately that's just not how it works If you believe this, then what is the purpose of putting ill
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by adeelk 14y ago
> The issue isn't that people are voting up comments or submissions that don't fit with what HN is supposed to be, the problem is that those submissions and comments are being made. If people stop voting up such comments, people will ev
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by adeelk 14y ago
> Mostly, when I come across complex equations in CS papers, I tend to skip over them and only go back to look at them if there are parts of the paper I can't make sense of without them - it is very rare to find that they are necessary
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by adeelk 14y ago
Dear kristianc, You are comparing en.wikipedia.org with their redesign of www.wikipedia.org. Notice that the latter is, with respect to content, the same as their redesign: languages, search, and sister sites. Secondly, in the screenshot y
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by adeelk 14y ago
The funny thing is that most of these APIs wind up with what's essentially a "this" pointer at the front of every argument list so you're really doing OO anyway. Do you have much experience with non-OO programming? Or even OOP, for that
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by adeelk 14y ago
You really find IO more interesting than problem solving?
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by adeelk 14y ago
I’m not the OP.
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by adeelk 14y ago
Any reason for the personal attack (based on unfounded assumptions)?...
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by adeelk 14y ago
https://github.com/facebook/javelin/issues/9 https://github.com/facebook/javelin/issues/10
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by adeelk 14y ago
> Every other language I've learned either has as many warts as JavaScript or isn't practical. Time to learn some more languages.
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by adeelk 14y ago
I don’t see an interpretation that makes sense. In fact, I don’t think there is one. I guess you define a “statement” to be a complete sentence, judging by “its title alone isn’t a proper statement”, but titles are rarely statements anywa
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by adeelk 14y ago
This is a more precise statement, but you have replaced “art” with “other mediums than text”. Is literature not art?
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by adeelk 14y ago
This statement is meaningless as is and I think if you were to make it precise you would find it ridiculous.
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by adeelk 14y ago
“Bandwidth Limit Exceeded”
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by adeelk 14y ago
Not sure I understand your point. Gauss is credited for the term “complex number” as well.
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by adeelk 14y ago
A programming language designer shouldn’t have to make accommodations for users of whatever other languages are popular at the moment. If “return” is the natural name for a keyword, then regardless of its semantics in other languages, that
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by adeelk 14y ago
What is “computer syntax”?!
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by adeelk 14y ago
> Intelligence/coding go hand in hand. Are you joking? There are tons of very intelligent people who know nothing about coding.
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by adeelk 14y ago
I don’t think so. When does “programming” ever mean technical literacy? What Atwood is arguing against is the idea that “everyone needs to learn programming”. Because of the title he chose for his first post (which didn’t actually repre
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by adeelk 14y ago
Wow. Please look past the title of his first post to see what he's actually saying: not everyone needs to know programming (which is distinct from “computer literacy”).
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by adeelk 14y ago
> why is mathematical and logical thinking, common to programmers, so rare? What evidence is there that programmers have better mathematical and logical thinking? > I've tried teaching many people the difference between "8" and (th
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by adeelk 14y ago
> I cannot recommend it to hackers since the functionalities are quite limited. Come on, iA Writer is not competing with Emacs.
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by adeelk 14y ago
> I think the 'most people can't...' is off slightly because good vs bad is purely a personal, instinctive thing. Typography is not subjective. That non-experts are unable to distinguish between good and bad typography is simply a cons
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by adeelk 14y ago
This seems like a reasonable definition. Does CoffeeScript not have its own idioms, though? I’ve never used it myself, but a search turned up this chapter on idioms in “The Little Book on CoffeeScript”: http://arcturo.github.com/library/
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by adeelk 14y ago
A programming language is independent of its implementation. If web browsers supported CoffeeScript natively, would that make it more of a language?

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