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by sirseal 11y ago
Wow! This is some fantastic stuff. To be (slightly) cynical, I wonder how much code reuse one could get out of this _in practice_. At any rate, I think it's a win to be able to do all of this kind of coding within the same language. Al
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by sirseal 11y ago
Thanks for writing this up! How'd you pay for this? Did you have to take out a loan? Did the companies have a payment schedule?
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by sirseal 11y ago
Wow. That's crazy expensive. I'm glad to hear about this story. I don't think I'd pay $50k for something like this.
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by sirseal 11y ago
No.
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by sirseal 11y ago
From the Crema wiki that I just glanced at, it is indeed not possible to write infinite loops: "The only type of loop supported by Crema is the foreach loop. This loop is used to sequentially iterate over each element of a list. Crema
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by sirseal 11y ago
This is a fantastic explanation. Thank you for phrasing it so concisely.
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by sirseal 11y ago
Sounds like it could work. With any supervised learning algorithm, the key is to have good labeled data that accurately captures the function you want to learn (i.e. something that exposes errors + their causes and supplies the proper sysop
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by sirseal 11y ago
They are actually a public company as you can buy stock in them.
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by sirseal 11y ago
Nope.
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by sirseal 11y ago
Do you really believe that it'll ever be on the JVM? Why would Microsoft put any effort into that? CLR is now cross platform. If you want functional programming that is similar in style to F# (and ML-family of languages), check out Sca
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by sirseal 11y ago
This is a good critique: it's important to cite the people who have laid the early groundwork, regardless of how far in the past that work was done.
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by sirseal 11y ago
HFT is a tool of oppression. Who can afford it? Who has the time, capital, and personnel to make and deploy HFT algos? And ultimately, who is really benefitting the most from this technological advance?
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by sirseal 11y ago
I hear you. I imagine that Scala poses a lot more problems than other JVM languages. Not knocking you, or anyone else at Parallel Universe.
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by sirseal 11y ago
It's an opinion, but I find that synchronous programming is a lot easier to reason about than asynchronous.
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by sirseal 11y ago
I'd pay money for this if it worked with Scala.
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by sirseal 11y ago
You realize a Monad is a concept, not a language feature. One can implement a Monad in any language.
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by sirseal 11y ago
Go is situated as a better node.js. The entire language appeals to people who come from dynamic language backgrounds: python, ruby, javascript, etc. It is also a language that actively works against clever, intelligent, elegant programmers
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by sirseal 11y ago
> On the first, few people effectively negotiate with their employers for salary increases, and a lot of people fail to negotiate at all. Boo-fucking-hoo. Grow the fuck up. If one cannot learn how to effectively communicate, then one wil
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by sirseal 11y ago
That's what it means to be salaried vs. hourly. You get the job done and don't mess around.
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by sirseal 11y ago
Does it make sense that doctors have to charge 10x just to even-out the insurance companies only paying 1/10 the price? Nope. You should direct your anger at for-profit medical insurance companies, which make billions of dollars in pro
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by sirseal 11y ago
> How long until doctors find themselves in a similar position? Medical bills are, after all, the number one cause of bankruptcy in the US, and US doctors are the highest paid on Earth. Blame medical insurance companies. Physicians must
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by sirseal 11y ago
There's certainly limits. Compilation-time type safety can only guarantee the absence of certain errors or presence of certain behaviours. Any question that can be reduced to the halting problem is something that cannot be automaticall
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by sirseal 11y ago
Definitely. It's because, fundamentally, Ballmer was not a technology person. He simply didn't get it.
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by sirseal 11y ago
Are you serious? You are incapable of reading and understanding an 8 page document? Or learning general strategies of where to find summary information (hint: the beginning and end of every paper). There's a lot of information loss whe
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by sirseal 11y ago
Awesome work! Thank you for sharing.
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by sirseal 11y ago
Except juice, which has the equivalent amount of harmful sugar. It's more because Bloomberg is a typical dickhead politician who makes policy only to further his own power.
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by sirseal 12y ago
I'm not that great at C++, but can't you use the const keyword to declare that something's value isn't changing?
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by sirseal 12y ago
Where's the Antritrust Probe of Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and all of those other shit-eating ISPs? At least Google gives me some fantastic services at little cost to me.
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by sirseal 12y ago
Let's use UTF-16: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-16 . Problem solved.
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by sirseal 12y ago
Yup! It's called scalariform. I use it 24/7 as an sbt plugin: https://github.com/sbt/sbt-scalariform

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