zohebv

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by zohebv 13y ago
It should be fairly clear from the responses to your post that the characterization of this reaction as a "lynch mob" does not meet the established standard of usage of this term. Getting universally criticized for a statement is
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by zohebv 13y ago
> Frankly, posting and upvoting that sort of comment is the behavior of a lynch mob. Posting a photograph of a victim of a lynch mob http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/Lynching2... I t
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by zohebv 13y ago
Are you the same guy as ramkahen on reddit? _ has only one meaning => "unspecified" http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/uk015/kotlin_m2...
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by zohebv 13y ago
> Furthermore, insofar as you create competition to hold that position, you're creating a destructive work environment. Software development is a cooperative activity that can't be efficiently partitioned. Seen way too many of
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by zohebv 13y ago
> Three undergrads Correction : A Professor(Manindra Agrawal) who had been working on the problem for quite some time and 2 undergrads.
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by zohebv 13y ago
+100 for Scala. You can pry the super powerful type system, functional programming support, monad comprehensions, library ecosystem, IDE support from my cold dead hands :D
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by zohebv 13y ago
Reading your response, I think I need to read more on the topic. I haven't read Moggi's paper and I need to look up on the continuation Monad. You are probably correct and I am probably wrong. However, I will let my original post remain as
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by zohebv 13y ago
I don't know how else to put it, but at least half of what you have written above is completely wrong. > but they're less useful in other languages where you already have effects everywhere. Scala has side effects everywhere, yet the Mo
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by zohebv 13y ago
Interesting, this seems very similar to Haskell at a very basic level. A Haskell program consists of declarations of functions and constants. Constants belong to the class Eq http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/D...
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by zohebv 13y ago
Any one with work experience and common sense can tell that talking to boss^2 and HR is a recipe for disaster. You are also unwilling to challenge michael's claim that he was meeting expectations and in the midst of a transfer. You also thi
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by zohebv 14y ago
http://blog.sigfpe.com/ http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/
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by zohebv 14y ago
Off topic comment. Just tried the surface RT at the Microsoft store today. I think its awesome. I am considering the surface PRO for purchase. However, I am concerned that I cannot use it as a "laptop" i.e. balance the surface while typing
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by zohebv 14y ago
Some examples 1. Purely declarative animations in a general purpose language http://conal.net/fran/tutorial.htm 2. A recursive descent parser where you can declare your grammar as in yacc i.e. it is not a separate compiler generator but a
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by zohebv 14y ago
I have never agreed more with a HN comment than this time. This has to be the worst post by Yegge in terms of the negative impact it can have on software engineers and engineering. He took a technical topic and labelled his belief system as
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by zohebv 14y ago
Gates was indeed a programming genius. He wrote the BASIC interpreter and most of the software in Microsoft's early days. He also managed to publish an algorithm with Papadimitriou as an undergrad, while running Microsoft in parallel. http
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by zohebv 14y ago
Steve Yegge was also unable to successfully maintain a not-too-complex 2D game and managed to blame Java for it http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/12/codes-worst-enemy.ht... 10Xer imples 10X some base level. Depending on what base you c
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by zohebv 14y ago
> I have not seen a case of wrongful execution as bad as this I have bad news. This is a "typical" death row victim story. There have been several others like him. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Todd_Willingham http://online.w
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by zohebv 14y ago
Its an April Fools joke. 3) was true until a few months ago. Or maybe its because I switched from a remote source repo mounted via Samba to a local flash HDD :-) I have been using Eclipse trouble free for a few months now, no issues whatsoe
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by zohebv 14y ago
Scala is far more object oriented than Java. So + is a method of the Int object and you can write 2.+(3) instead of 2+3. Methods are allowed to be operators, so that you can write 2+3 instead of 2.+(3). If _ is a separate token it represent
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by zohebv 15y ago
> Basically, if you produce two ultrasonic frequencies, they will create an interference pattern at a much lower frequency than either of the individual frequencies. So the interference pattern will be made up of one low frequency sound
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by zohebv 15y ago
You have fouled up in the marketing department. You need to geo-target. You need to focus on a geographically dense close cluster for you initial release. Probably a business district with lots of small offices where there should be plenty
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by zohebv 15y ago
What are the specific features from dynamically typed languages that you would want to see in a statically typed program. The standard argument is "ease of use", but programs in modern static languages tend to be as easy/terse/short. You ca
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by zohebv 15y ago
I have tried writing non-trivial Haskell programs in the past, but the IOMonad/lack of parameterized modules has stifled me. Essentially, I start with basic code and possibly use some constants in the beginning. Eventually, I need the const
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by zohebv 15y ago
He did muddle around the definition of one way functions, but the information provided is useful. http://home.comcast.net/~bretm/hash/8.html This seems to indicate that CRC is not a good fit for hashing. I have used http://burtleburtle.n
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by zohebv 15y ago
I think functional programmers would disagree with your thesis :-) As an example http://xmonad.org/manpage.html - Window manager in 200 lines of code http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Screenshots Or FRAN http://conal.net/paper
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by zohebv 15y ago
Interesting post. However, I think the primary consequence of driverless cars could be more mundane - everyone will end up using cabs/taxis far more often. This is the life I lived in Bombay a decade ago. The parking, cost overhead of a car
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by zohebv 15y ago
import scala.collection.JavaConverters._ Scala doesn't provide a built in for your specific case but import scala.collection.breakOut and you can convert mutable Java hash map to immutable scala map b = a.asScala.map(p => p)(breakOut) w
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by zohebv 15y ago
EDIT: Quoting, as OP updated his comment as I responded. >But Scala doesn't let that happen nicely does it? Interfacing with Java collections feels just awkward. Awkward? The Scala interface is better than the native Java interface itse
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by zohebv 15y ago
This is a familiar pattern in any language, not just scala. If you doubt me just check out the source code for memcpy.c. Witness the loop unrolling, the byte fiddling the register level manipulations and the several hundreds, if not thousan
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by zohebv 15y ago
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it! --Upton Sinclair

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