jonsterling

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by jonsterling 5y ago
I wish to clarify this comment; what I said above is strictly correct, but several people have drawn an undesirable conclusion from it which leads me to find a clarification necessary. It is not the case that trolling English speakers was t
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by jonsterling 5y ago
In english at least, we call this a “double entendre” ;-) Obviously the very purpose of double entendres is to troll those who will get the second meaning. duh!
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by jonsterling 5y ago
To be clear, this name was chosen by the creator of Coq, Gerard Huet, with the intention of trolling. It wasn't an innocent French word.
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by jonsterling 9y ago
There's nothing wrong with mutable data structures from a type soundness perspective. We know how to do it properly. But you need to get the type system right in order to include mutable data structures; often people get this wrong, an
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by jonsterling 9y ago
TypeScript, the language which only just this month added a flag to turn off their completely incorrect subtyping rules for functions! A flag! I remember reporting this bug years ago, and they said it was "by design, since JS programme
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by jonsterling 9y ago
Not only this, but strangely it doesn't use standard methods or names in the categorical understanding of computer science. All this business about "CompFunc" as a category of sets and computable functions, but I see nothing
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by jonsterling 9y ago
For some of my documents which use opentype fonts, the difference is by a factor of 20-30 between xelatex and lualatex.
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by jonsterling 9y ago
I think it is not just a minority opinion, but just plain wrong.
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by jonsterling 9y ago
> I have to admit I have no idea what racket is, nor did I do much more than scan the article. why have you commented then? Mao Zedong had a dope saying about this, "No investigation, no right to speak!" -----------------------
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by jonsterling 9y ago
You went straight from saying, “Don't assume I'm a running dog!” to literally proving that you are a running dog! So cool.
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by jonsterling 9y ago
This is not true. Some of the best papers ever, I have benefited from reading many times, more than three.
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by jonsterling 10y ago
You (and I) are not in the target audience for those books. She does very serious mathematics, which should be defended; she gave a very nice talk on Trimble n-categories to my research group on Friday, for instance.
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by jonsterling 10y ago
Standard ML. I develop proof assistants.
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Science of Logic (nLab)(ncatlab.org)
1 points by jonsterling 10y ago|0 comments
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by jonsterling 10y ago
Sorry for my harsh comment; here's what I'm thinking of... In math, you are dealing with many different kinds of object, not just numbers. In fact, one of the big realizations that led to modern mathematics is that not all mathem
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by jonsterling 10y ago
wtf are you on about? That is not how math works.
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by jonsterling 10y ago
Folks unironically using the term "thought leader" are one of the reasons people dislike Twitter...
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by jonsterling 10y ago
Hmm, I think you should aim for sentences to be correct on their own and be arranged such that understanding & precision is built incrementally (in the way you suggest). This is harder, but that's what good writing does---I want
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by jonsterling 10y ago
That paper is just a bit of bureaucracy which demonstrates that total programs behave the same in a total language as when they are embedded into a partial language (which is an intuitive result, and it's nice that they worked out the
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by jonsterling 10y ago
This is like one of those evil spirits/creatures that changes shape while you are wrestling with it!
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by jonsterling 10y ago
still exactly like this
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by jonsterling 10y ago
F# doesn't even have modules. Not really in the SML spirit—it's like if you combined Classic/LCF ML from the 1970s with C#.
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by jonsterling 10y ago
> but I've found that what I get from a community/workplace/neighborhood/family has a lot to do with what I put into it. Huh? The comment I am criticizing in this thread is not directed at me, and has nothing to do wi
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by jonsterling 10y ago
> Perhaps I'm oversensitive, but when people do this it usually strikes me as a presumptuous attempt to seize the last word in an argument. Apologies---my intention was to signal that I wasn't interested in escalating the conve
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by jonsterling 10y ago
Chief, this was not the cultural revolution, this was the Great Leap Forward. The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution started in 1966.
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by jonsterling 10y ago
I suppose with respect to this particular community, I am most likely to take a position similar to that of Ra's al Ghul toward Gotham in Batman Begins... By the way, do you mean that it is better for a HN member to attack an outsider
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by jonsterling 10y ago
I really wonder how "snarky attack that pushes back against glib dismissal" is somehow worse than "snarky attack which glibly dismisses the work of a professional philosopher". Do you have any clarification of your opini
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by jonsterling 10y ago
Oh yes, rando on Hacker News is far more educated about philosophy of science than an actual philosopher! Surely he knows about Popper (duh!).
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by jonsterling 10y ago
My last day is in just over two weeks! Starting my PhD in type theory at CMU.
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by jonsterling 10y ago
This is maybe the stupidest HN comment I've ever seen...

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