jimdesu

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by jimdesu 13y ago
Wow, I always suspected that our industry was rife with narcissism (I'm a cynic by nature), but these results are astonishing.
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by jimdesu 14y ago
... until you start relying on it. Then Google will shut it down. No way I'm using any more Google products except the one I pay for (mail).
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by jimdesu 15y ago
The word you're looking for is 'ecumenism'. :)
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by jimdesu 15y ago
You can build cons-lists or other initial-algebraic data-types with them very nicely. I <3 them.
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by jimdesu 16y ago
Need a conjunction option: with my 3.0 & go from a state school I'd never be hired there, but conversely, until they start putting all that brainpower to work doing something besides freeloading on their search/advertising guys, I'll pa
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by jimdesu 16y ago
Add fexprs and a system F-based type system to lisp/scheme, and I might just go there...
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by jimdesu 18y ago
My dad is a nuke engineer (studied under Rickover) who hires bomb designers -- he maintains that the physics behind building a bomb is simple and easy, and far from classified. What distinguishes the really scary weapons from home-brew isn
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by jimdesu 18y ago
I agree that the article's not too great -- I think that the big bang-for-the-buck for most of these features (except closures) will do is make for much cleaner, more streamlined library support that'll make day to day "hey this module's te
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by jimdesu 18y ago
I just now created an account here just now so I'd have the opportunity to tell y'all that Oleg's a freakin' god. He's up there with sigpfe, Wadler & Peyton-Jones -- he's one of those cures for hubris we're lucky to have around....