christopherdone

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by christopherdone 16y ago
Well I'd never heard of Wordnik but this is very cool and I'll be using it. This is like a respectable Dictionary.com+ Urban Dictionary. I don't see the category theory definition of a monad on it, though. Which is somewhat odd.
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by christopherdone 17y ago
Hi there. This happened last night after I was tweaking the number of FastCGI processes. I changed it from four backends to one. Then Lighttpd believed the backend was overloaded: 2010-03-01 07:16:21: (mod_fastcgi.c.2926) backend is overloa
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by christopherdone 17y ago
Lisp's macros are a lot more expressive. They don't look weird (unlike Template Haskell) within the language, they look like normal constructs. And they're native to Lisp. I miss Lisp in Haskell because I can't define, e.g., my own macro to
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by christopherdone 17y ago
That's a good way to see if the language actually helps you do things easier, too!
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by christopherdone 17y ago
I did a ten-week course in BSL (passed with full marks!) and your assessment matches up with my experience, which was that it was like exaggerated enthusiastic telling of a story. It's like miming, too. Hearing people talk with their hands,
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by christopherdone 17y ago
I just temporarily gave up on something I was trying to program. That's why I'm on Hacker News. Thanks for backing me up, random Internet blogger!
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by christopherdone 17y ago
I am the same. I yawn when nervous or scared. I used to yawn when walking past a bunch of thugs at school in the mornings. People at work tend to yawn when I talk to them.
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by christopherdone 17y ago
Yeah, I worked it out just as the interviewer explained it. $0.1 per click, 20 out of 100 visitors click, that's 20*0.1=$2.0 per 100 visitors. We need $20 dollars so we need 1000 visitors. This really is child's play. Honestly I think the p
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by christopherdone 17y ago
Smart people get their news from aggregators and feeds. Normal people go to sites directly for their daily dosage of drivel. Both Google search for individual stories. It just so happens that the same news story is linked 10 times down the
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by christopherdone 17y ago
Deja Vu Sans Mono is highly superior to all the mentioned fonts there. It works perfectly clearly with anti-aliasing. I honestly wonder if the people praising other fonts are just trying to be different. I'm probably being subjective. It wo
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by christopherdone 17y ago
I don't think the PDF offers any new insights for existing web developers, but nice to emphasise it nonetheless. The F-Shaped reading ( http://www.useit.com/alertbox/reading_pattern.html ) and banner blindless ( http://www.useit.com/alertbo
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by christopherdone 17y ago
I've wanted and want this feature so hard it's unreal. It's also based on Webkit which is amazing because it is the most ACID-compliant browser last I checked, supports JavaScript, Flash, all the usual horrible-but-necessary-for-getting-mos
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by christopherdone 17y ago
> Doctors are urged to be vigilent for a new bug that has arriving in Britain This has broken grammar, and they can't spell ‘vigilant’. In the second paragraph. Don't the Telegraph writers use a spell checker? Well-written text is kin
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by christopherdone 17y ago
I don't think this is really what is meant in SICP. It's not that the function takes in inputs, it's that the program itself is a language evaluator. Consider the following program: (define (add-squares x y) (+ (* x x) (* y y)))
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by christopherdone 17y ago
I believe SICP's definition of a language involves these: means of simple data, means of combination and means of abstraction. Numbers, strings, data structures/objects are the simple data as you would find in any program. Functions and var
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by christopherdone 17y ago
Presumably this is newsworthy because everyone assumes building Tetris in Haskell is harder than in an imperative/OO language. This is a good thing because it proves that it's not.
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by christopherdone 17y ago
It's "should have"; the contraction is "should've".
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by christopherdone 17y ago
I have seen my coworkers viewing applications... many were discarded outright because of stupid spelling errors or poor grammar, or no letter at all. Applicants whose work and homepage weren't available or were scarce lead to the (inductive