gambogi

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by gambogi 9y ago
is there really any reason to expect the students who didn't take free points in exchange for privacy to outperform the observed group? Sure, the results pertain more to excluding the internet from the classroom, but really that's
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by gambogi 9y ago
Good designers and programmers do care about people of all ages, colors, orientations, genders, and ability. If tech is to make the biggest positive impact possible everyone must be on board.
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by gambogi 10y ago
> Why would you want a job you are not qualified to do. money.
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by gambogi 10y ago
A terminal mux. Mux is short for multiplexer, which chooses between different inputs. It is a tool for running keeping multiple terminal sessions open at the same time. These sessions can be attached and detached from, which is often helpfu
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by gambogi 10y ago
> you can actually read and understand the code without even any formal training in the language. Forgive my youth, which languages are these?
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by gambogi 10y ago
GP suggested otherwise. Either way the bit about ethics was the point I'd prefer to discuss
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by gambogi 10y ago
I don't understand how race, gender, and class in particular can possibly be separated out from tech any more so than software patents. A community that has been so obsessed with disrupting any and all aspects of life can't ethica
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by gambogi 11y ago
Looks like you just communicated it in 16 bytes though.
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by gambogi 11y ago
Just like we pronounce 9¢ "9 cent sign" right?
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by gambogi 11y ago
You know that it works for at least two values of w, but you don't know that it holds for any value of w.
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by gambogi 11y ago
But that's exactly the point. All growing up we were told, "Be a generalist, not a specialist" There was no other acceptable route, so all the "good" kids identified patterns to get ahead. That leaves many of us bar
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by gambogi 11y ago
Not quite. One of the biggest features of Moose is it's concept of roles. They're in some senses similar to typeclasses in Haskell and Traits in Rust. Effectively, they give you access to parametric polymorphism in perl land. htt
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by gambogi 11y ago
Can that handle statically linking dependencies with FFI calls?
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by gambogi 11y ago
Thank you
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by gambogi 11y ago
Why in the world would "male geeks" want to indicate they have given a topic serious thought any more often than "female geeks"?
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by gambogi 11y ago
Here's a link explaining why they haven't switched yet: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=137530560232232
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by gambogi 12y ago
Supremely useful reference: http://dev.stephendiehl.com/hask/
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by gambogi 12y ago
So, just like software, we should throw in the towel and give up?
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by gambogi 12y ago
It's too bad most of the discussion here is centering around the title, rather than the post
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by gambogi 12y ago
I don't know what Google pays, but I know several interns (including one freshman) working for similarly large companies pulling down $45+/h (Which works out to over $7k/mo before considering the free housing etc.) I'm i
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by gambogi 12y ago
I don't have the expertise to dissect this code, so I will choose instead to criticize the name of the project. My opinion is valuable, relevant, and provokes further discussion.
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by gambogi 12y ago
...but they're Field-Programmable Gate Arrays
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by gambogi 12y ago
This is a pretty broken argument. Those companies also wouldn't exist without the steel industry, or the construction industry, or the electronics industry, etc. etc.
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by gambogi 12y ago
"Someone who knows Haskell learns some Racket" "Tonight at 11: this rose gardener learns to plant tulips"
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by gambogi 13y ago
mutually exclusive endeavors etc etc
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by gambogi 13y ago
oh you know, same old, same old. ...oh and anonymous functions and default behavior in interfaces, and Streams, which are basically way better collections.
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by gambogi 13y ago
I think you might be underestimating the complexity of nethack
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by gambogi 13y ago
Since it's not mentioned in the article, FRP stands for Functional Reactive Programming
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by gambogi 13y ago
Maybe you should give an obj-c seminar
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by gambogi 13y ago
Not knowing how to read a language you don't know isn't a great readability metric

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