artyomkazak

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by artyomkazak 12y ago
Do notice how the answer to “Are the Yankees the best team in baseball?” has changed from “Yes.” to “We used to think so.”
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by artyomkazak 12y ago
Doesn't really matter what it's written in as long as its logic is easily extendable by someone who doesn't know Ruby. Preferably without having to code at all.
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by artyomkazak 12y ago
Why yes, I agree that the vast majority of people aren't very high in the Humanity Table of Records (to put it mildly). However, I think that if you're trying to set the world ahead purely to appear higher in the record table , y
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by artyomkazak 12y ago
> Each generation that goes by, your relative contribution is halved. I prefer a different way of measuring contribution: suppose that (for simplicity) the checkpoints on the progress of humanity are fixed and the only difference you can
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by artyomkazak 12y ago
Only if you base your evaluation of “outcome” on what will happen to you , completely ignoring the effect you've had on this world. Which is why I am disappointed with this game and utterly false “wisdom” it's trying to convey.
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by artyomkazak 12y ago
Thanks for telling! (I've written a bit of a response here: http://artyom.me/learning-racket-2#gus_massa-from-hn .)
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by artyomkazak 12y ago
Which is exactly why I was very surprised when it got posted to Reddit and wasn't immediately downvoted.
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by artyomkazak 12y ago
Pascal is strict, but it still has stuff like “move(var1, var2)”, out parameters, etc., so it's also call-by-reference. I didn't know at the time that Racket was call-by-value. Quote was confusing at first, yes.
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by artyomkazak 12y ago
I think this was a cached thought – a year ago I was reading a bit about Lisp and probably had stumbled upon what is known as the Lisp Curse.
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by artyomkazak 12y ago
Of course I couldn't summarize Racket in a page – I don't know it! And there's so much to learn about it that I could probably write half a hundred posts of this length and still consider myself a beginner.
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by artyomkazak 12y ago
There are lots of tools which allow sending typo reports instantly to the author, e.g. http://orphus.ru/en .