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The Laughing Muggers(medium.com)
1 points by robinh 12y ago|0 comments
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by robinh 12y ago
Sadly not: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcoma
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by robinh 12y ago
The color red is often associated with bad; needs to stop; wrong. Removal isn't such a big step from there, I think. The opposite probably applies to green.
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by robinh 12y ago
Best of luck to you today, too.
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by robinh 12y ago
Ha, fairy nuff. It's what prompts one to have such a day that matters, methinks. ;)
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by robinh 12y ago
I'm pretty sure that's not even remotely related.
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by robinh 12y ago
Thank you. :)
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by robinh 12y ago
I suppose it's an OK sentiment, but I'm not in contact with my parents and on days like these I keep getting reminded of that fact. I was secretly hoping there wouldn't be anything about it on HN, but I guess I'll just h
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by robinh 12y ago
I agree that concurrency isn't fundamentally hard, but the reason everyone kind of prefers faster serial execution is because a lot of algorithms (extremely simple example: f^100000(x)) are fundamentally unparallelizable. Faster serial
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by robinh 12y ago
Okay, but that's not actually an answer to my question. My question basically comes down to this: > Yes, that is intellectually dishonest, which is a huge problem. Scientists have two options: (1) accept parapsychology as real, or (
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by robinh 12y ago
So... I know next to nothing about parapsychology itself, but have seen a lot of the drama around it, and I just have to ask: is it not intellectually dishonest to call something the 'control group of science' when their results o
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by robinh 12y ago
I think you accidentally commented in the wrong thread. Gave me a hearty chuckle in this context, though.
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by robinh 12y ago
Good god, if only mathematics professors would learn this. If I hear the word 'trivial' one more time I swear I'm going to scream.
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by robinh 13y ago
Except if you post a comment in a dead thread, your account is practically banned from participating again.
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by robinh 13y ago
I'm not yet sure how to feel about this, but I have one question that remains unanswered: Will this apply to submissions (possibly in the future) as well?
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PHD Comics: Cosmic Inflation Explained(phdcomics.com)
10 points by robinh 13y ago|1 comments
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by robinh 13y ago
I have two questions. 1. I'm unfamiliar with the term 'unpacking'. Is it any different from pattern matching in, say, Haskell (but perhaps not as feature-rich)? 2. Aren't slices pretty much a staple in Python? I didn&#x2
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by robinh 13y ago
Even in those extreme cases (which I hope we all agree are the exception rather than the norm), I would still consider putting someone in a few-square-meter box "cruel and unusual punishment" by any reasonable standard.
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by robinh 13y ago
RWH is a good recommendation, although it contains a rather large number of errors. LYAH is very good for learning the basics, too. But, if you're already a very experienced programmer, you can probably learn how to write practical p
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by robinh 13y ago
Yes. Although I have no experience with Racket (so correct me if I'm wrong), the Lisps are inherently multi-paradigm languages. Haskell, on the other hand, is functional programming in its purest form. I would consider it worth learnin
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by robinh 13y ago
Similar issues plague Haskell. A bunch of functions have illogical names, just because that's how they've always been used. And, there's the annoying matter of Applicative not being a superclass of Monad in the language, when
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by robinh 13y ago
Forkenheit 451.
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by robinh 13y ago
This incoherent rant as a response to a single sentence isn't really helping your case. "All those portability claims and that there somehow good: you're just doing things for lowest common denominator. Requiring a huge amoun
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by robinh 13y ago
"it will always be a result of human effort and ultimately an expression of human intent" Like babies? (Well, most of the time.)
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by robinh 13y ago
This is probably the best guide (and I've read a lot of them) to actually writing assembly on your average PC one can get. I definitely recommend reading it.
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by robinh 13y ago
Well... I'll see what I can do.
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by robinh 13y ago
Author here. And yes, that's a bug. I recently restored most of the pages on my website, and didn't check whether each page was the most recent version. When I first wrote the HOWTO, I for some reason was under the impression that
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by robinh 13y ago
"In addition, I'm sure there are hunt and peck typists that still legitimately use caps locks instead of shift because it requires less coordination and hand contortions, so leaving caps lock alone also has accessibility benefits.
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by robinh 13y ago
A fair point, I should probably have mentioned that. Thanks for pointing that out.
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by robinh 13y ago
I agree wholeheartedly. The syntax doesn't even have to be extremely obscure, it can be highly useful in lower-level languages such as C as well: Often, I just want to get a quick idea of what the next big block of code is going to do

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