victorh

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by victorh 13y ago
Of course not; if they trained TSA agents beyond having a simple state machine there wouldn't be so much money left to buy Rapiscan machines. I highly doubt being assholes is due to anything but poor training and their salaries are probably
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by victorh 13y ago
I agree but still find the blog author to be a ridiculous caricature. There are also other interesting languages and x86 isn't preventing anyone from hot loading bug fixes.
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by victorh 13y ago
Under the assumption that Lisp is the best programming language that will ever be created and the x86 processor is a horribly flawed piece of garbage the author is correct.
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by victorh 13y ago
Sorry mate, it would be about one billion times more profitable to write a machine learning system to astroturf group discussions.
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by victorh 13y ago
No that's just for young adults downloading files that someone regrets making available publicly.
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by victorh 13y ago
If you check with Oleg, it actually is wrong! Delimited continuations are strictly more powerful and composable. We're supposed to be using shift/reset or prompt/abort.
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by victorh 13y ago
Seriously, just imagine if a fraction of the students taking the massively popular ML class on Coursera had created a project on Github.
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by victorh 13y ago
Not even a Wikipedia link? This was so anti-climactic.
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by victorh 13y ago
The appropriate course credit for online classes is to finish a project demonstrating publicly that you know the material. This option is available right now.
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by victorh 13y ago
API design is really key to working together. If I could pick one thing about myself to improve right now it would be API design skills. I think a lot of other programmers don't get it for whatever reason, so I can see why that would be in
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by victorh 14y ago
That's because that journal is doing it wrong and someone there is getting too much money. You give me 3k and I'll seed a torrent for one thousand papers as long as my Internet is billed per month instead of per GB. I just saw some redditor
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by victorh 14y ago
There's no reason you can't have immutable variables and pure functions in imperative languages, though. Not that I don't support your quest to learn Haskell, Haskell is awesome and I hope you enjoy it :)
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by victorh 14y ago
As if Apple reads those. Apple doesn't care about developers, they only care about their real customers; people that don't know how a computer works. I know this because I am a developer and Xcode still uses all the memory and creates a zom
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by victorh 14y ago
I disagree with your argument! If inventing the language meant you got to choose all the definitions we wouldn't have English in the first place. Shift happens. I don't think this particular usage is common, though.