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by icarus127 12y ago
You may be interested in this paper www.cs.ox.ac.uk/ralf.hinze/publications/ICFP01.pdf. It solves Dijkstra's algorithm as an example for the implementation of a priority search queue data structure, which is very simila
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by icarus127 12y ago
I don't know about the author but not all of us oppose Gay marriage.
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by icarus127 13y ago
Sure but unless this new service is along the lines of "I generate my own key pair _and then only ever give Google my public key_" there's no way they're getting me to trust them. And I seriously doubt that's som
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by icarus127 13y ago
Not only are those wise words for users, enabling that way of working, and making security an easy verifiable default, and, is going to be the only way to heal this problem for US tech companies. And they have been sl
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by icarus127 13y ago
At my previous job I thought the same thing. They didn't stop people being bullied by superiors and basically did nothing but exit interviews and layoffs. The entire company was really dysfunctional. At my current job HR is _supreme
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by icarus127 13y ago
> variables don't have types, only individual values do. It really depends on what language you're using. This is more or less true in Python, Ruby, and Javascript. In Lisp generic methods you can specify the type for the inp
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by icarus127 13y ago
That latter's debatable but probably not the former unfortunately.
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by icarus127 13y ago
Indeed, the first thing that came into my mind when reading this was "You wouldn't have this problem if the only valid type in a conditional was boolean."
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by icarus127 13y ago
I think the point was that homosexuality has been taboo for a lot longer than the CIA has been around. So while they obviously have found it useful there's no reason to think they needed to work to keep it taboo for so long.
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by icarus127 13y ago
>they've gone way beyond being about what any actual women think and care about... And those articles were written by whom then? Apparently at least one woman actually cares about those issues. Or are you trying to say that by goi
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by icarus127 13y ago
Could you elaborate or provide links to examples of what you mean by solving this with codata?
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by icarus127 13y ago
My point was not that no guys do, of course I know some do. The OP used 'guys' to seemingly include all men. My point was that, no, not all men do, so you don't get to play the "everyone does it so it's okay"
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by icarus127 13y ago
None of the guys I'm around, nor myself, think that's okay just because women aren't present.
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by icarus127 13y ago
I notice substantial overlap between the things these men are wanted for and what the NSA and FBI have been doing....
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by icarus127 13y ago
I was thinking the same thing. At my last job we had one dev board (TI ARM/DSP SOC + lots of custom hardware) that we could reset with a static discharge into the carpet 6 - 8 feet away. That took us a while to figure out :p
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by icarus127 13y ago
One might say that being polite and not insulting people are traits of merit.
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by icarus127 13y ago
A lot of people are criticizing Schneier for lack of empathy or too much nonchalance. Can we really have too much nonchalance in our post Afghanistan/Iraq/Drone strikes/Surveillance state world? I think about what our world
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by icarus127 13y ago
I'm interested, what is the open source core in OSX and iOS? I was not aware of any. I know they share code with BSD but I didn't think it was to the extent that one could compare Apple's OS relationship with BSD to Android
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by icarus127 13y ago
I too share your general optimism about the current state of open source. I really hope that you are correct in your conclusion that the GPL mandate is unnecessary because, as we see here, many projects are trying to get away from it. Howe
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by icarus127 13y ago
I was thinking this as well. I see the GPL, and Copy Left licensing in general, as a sort of regulatory force in free software. If you want to participate the GPL will put constraints on you to play nice with others in the FOSS space. Giv
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by icarus127 13y ago
Having state does not mean a function/algorithm is not pure.
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by icarus127 13y ago
The argument seems to be "you shouldn't do this because it accomplishes the goal it was intended to". Saying don't use this pattern to hide internals because it achieves the goal of hiding internals seems dubious at be
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by icarus127 13y ago
Does anyone know anything about Project Meshnet? http://projectmeshnet.org/ I discovered it a few days ago and it sounds promising but some of the cjdns whitepaper was over my head. Apparently there are a few hundred peopl
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by icarus127 13y ago
I haven't written any Elm but having written some Haskell I can say it's surprising how often you _don't_ need a debugger in a functional language. I doubt Elm not having a debugger is as difficult as, for instance, Javascript or Coffeescr
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by icarus127 13y ago
I'm genuinely curious, why do you think inversion of control is an unqualified Good Thing™?
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On Go(cowlark.com)
3 points by icarus127 13y ago|0 comments
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by icarus127 14y ago
Ah, that was exactly how I read it. Basically what Yesod uses template Haskell for in a variety of cases.
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by icarus127 14y ago
> Lazy computation has its disadvantages. Still, impressive gain. After reading the article I don't see anything about lazy evaluation. What am I missing?
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by icarus127 14y ago
The reality is someone like bmelton probably can write what he wants and get away with it. As a normal white guy who believes in technology and etc. etc. It's very unlikely that he has, or will ever, face oppression for his views. And th
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by icarus127 14y ago
Why would it matter? If they decide to not release a maps app at all that would be their prerogative.

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