ostso

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by ostso 14y ago
unset -f command_not_found_handle
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by ostso 14y ago
For more on monoids, see Brent Yorgey's paper _Monoids: Theme and Variations (Functional Pearl)_ at < http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~byorgey/pub/monoid-pearl.pdf&#62 ; (there's also a video of his talk at the Haskell Symposium at < http:
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by ostso 14y ago
Perhaps mistercow means things like def foo(): x = 5 def bar(): print x def baz(): x = 6 print x bar() baz() print x Which prints 5, 6, 5. If baz tried to print x before assigning, it would b
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by ostso 14y ago
Not really -- "any" and "filter" are total functions, but "first" of an empty list is undefined. On the other hand, that also applies to foldl1 and {max,min}imum{,By}, so it's probably not the reason. The reason is probably that in JavaScri
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by ostso 14y ago
You should add the word "web" to the title. There are many other kinds of caching.
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by ostso 15y ago
That's a fixed-point combinator, but it's not actually the Y combinator; in fact, it defeats much of the purpose of Y, since it's defined using explicit recursion, which Y is designed to avoid. If you just want a clear definition of a fixed
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by ostso 15y ago
"bar none" is a little excessive -- Haskell's syntax is probably even cleaner. Compare: 1. map (*2) [1..10] 2. sum [1..1000] -- sum = foldl (+) 0 3. any (`isInfixOf` tweet) wordlist 4. fileText <- readFile "data.txt"
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by ostso 15y ago
No, because robbing someone of their incentive to work is a net loss to society, so the bandits would no longer be perfect (unless they in turn gain a corresponding incentive to work, or some other equivalent gain). There are no perfect ban
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by ostso 16y ago
This title is designed to get people to click it (to discover what "The One Group" is), rather than to be informative. Please add e.g. ": Developers" to the end of it, so that people can click on it only if they actually want to read the ar
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by ostso 16y ago
The difference is that the whole point of the Y combinator is that it's a fixed-point combinator that doesn't use explicit recursion. Imagine that you didn't have "var", and couldn't name anything (which is the situation in, say, the lamb
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by ostso 16y ago
> The court determined that the discount was intended to encourage women to attend the bar in greater numbers, rather than to discourage attendance by males. Regardless of whether it should be legal or not, "positive discrimination" is
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by ostso 16y ago
Here is Richard Feynman's answer to a similar question (this isn't about gravity but about this type of question): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMFPe-DwULM
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by ostso 16y ago
Some methods: 1. Change your layout from "USA" to "USA International (AltGr dead keys)". Then use right-alt+key to make various special characters (you can look at what each character does at "Show Current Layout"). 2. Enable the "compose
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by ostso 16y ago
It is somewhat ironic that this article is on www.theonion.com...
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by ostso 16y ago
That seems like a fairly cliché series of dichotomies. Life isn't black and white; if choices were always this clear-cut then they wouldn't be hard.
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by ostso 16y ago
> Either that, or getting a Ph.D. in Education. Is this a Heinlein reference?
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by ostso 16y ago
At any rate it violates Facebook's terms ( http://www.facebook.com/terms.php , 4.5): "You will not use Facebook if you are under 13."
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by ostso 16y ago
More Feynman on the same topic ("Energy makes it go"): http://physics.gu.se/~f3aamp/teaching/wakalix.html
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by ostso 16y ago
See < http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=277099&#62 ; -- the linked post doesn't seem to work for me, but the first link in the first comment does.
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by ostso 16y ago
> The singular "they", on the other hand, is artificial, at least among people of my generation -- we already have "one", thank you very much. Huh? Singular "they" has little to do with "one" -- it's used as an alternative to "he"/"she"