Well, depends what he means with "your"; OP specifically, or an arbitrary person? Because I think we are getting dangerously close to shooting down useful criticism and discussion for fear of hurting someones feelings.…
Apparently the developers are reading this thread, so I have a request: Please reduce your website's dependence on javascript. Doesn't leave a great impression when I need to fiddle with noscript before seeing static…
No; lookup Calculus of Construction. Dependent types allows you to specify an dependence between different values in your type directly within your type system; which has great implications for type safety and so on. A…
I do not really agree with the article's (implied?) statement that multivalues are an ugly part of Lua. It's subtle yes, but like most of Lua, is incredibly consistent. For example, let's compare with Python: In Python,…
Pedantic point: The whole "reading the bible in Latin" is a very Catholic thing (and maybe Orthodox?). The Protestant churches I've been in has read from the bible in the native tongue, and it was indeed one of Luther's…
Well, yes, it would be that hard. The whole idea with tail call elimination is that a stack trace shouldn't be able to see the frames for the tail calls, because the tail call reuses the frame. To add support for…
Thanks. It is easy to forget how much reporting is specifically about the US, and that a lot of the rest of the world doesn't really have the same problems.
That sounds more realistic than one might expect. Most printers will apparently reject printing of patterns containing the EURion pattern [1], commonly found on paper cash. Not a far stretch that some facial recognition…
May be a similar system to Denmark, where one of the major POS system sellers operator sort-of on a subscription basis. The retailers don't own the card machines themselves, but the machines are swiftly replaced when…
Not sure where you get those weird infinity results from, but the "a = b = c = 0" solution is easily show: Note that "a + b = c" implies "b = c - a", and given our assumption that "a = b = c", we can rewrite as "a = a -…
Thought experiment on funding models for dating sites, assuming omniscience (exclusively regarding relationship longevity, and success rate of services): - Monthly: Incentives variable, but generally low quality results…
Remember, states (and multistates) are large collections of people. The people who are negotiating the contracts with companies are most likely several steps removed from the people who are making laws.
The word "predictable" implies "deterministic", but they are not identical. The universe can be governed by strong deterministic laws, while being too complex to simulate and thus predict. This poses some difficult…
Having lived in Denmark for 20 years, I find this in many ways reprehensible. Cooking down the complex geopolitical problem of whether to sell a large piece of territory (with people!) to exclusively monetary concerns.…
I'm really conflicted at this. I do not want the internet to be censored, but at the same time, I think that big internet companies are making the world worse through inaction. Even if a user or $/yr minimum is…
I don't see the difference between this and any other Context-Free Grammar specification language. Yacc is an industry standard, and even SNOBOL4 (1967) had first-class CFG datatypes. Maybe he's just excited about being…
Slightly related: Lua will intern every string ever created, that is two strings are equal if and only if their pointers (as represented internally) are identical. This results in slow string creation, but very fast…
I haven't read the article, but one reason may be the unappetizing portrail. The photographs in this article are bleak and chaotic, in sharp contrast to the colorful and organized way food is depicted nowadays.…
I'm with you on Functional Languages being solid and useful, I've done quite a lot of work in Standard ML, but the parent's point wasn't only do it for the education, it was at least do it for the education.
What non-indented markup languages gain by avoiding indentation, they lose in succinctness. What is the difference between a section, a list, and a field set? When would I use one instead of another? If your aim is data…
> Excited to see that finally someone has written an imperative language in a functional runtime. Normally it's the other way around - countless Lisp implementations running in C, because those are trivial to write.…
Well, it's a trade-off between comfort and privacy. You should self-host what you are capable of and deem of higest importance / privacy. To upgrade from gmail, you don't even to jump directly to self-hosting. There are…
Go was explicitly designed to be a simple language, without a rich tapestry of data structures to suit every use case. Languages are like tools. If you need a saw, use a saw, instead of complaining about the knife you…
I already have issues with my smartphone's drain-rate. Withstanding the issue of a huge ledger, you don't what to be mining on your smartphone.
This is one of the reasons I love Lua. I'm constantly pleasantly surprised by Lua. It defines a few simple primitives, and allows you to do whatever you want with them, even to the absurd. Hell, it even allows you to do…
Well, depends what he means with "your"; OP specifically, or an arbitrary person? Because I think we are getting dangerously close to shooting down useful criticism and discussion for fear of hurting someones feelings.…
Apparently the developers are reading this thread, so I have a request: Please reduce your website's dependence on javascript. Doesn't leave a great impression when I need to fiddle with noscript before seeing static…
No; lookup Calculus of Construction. Dependent types allows you to specify an dependence between different values in your type directly within your type system; which has great implications for type safety and so on. A…
I do not really agree with the article's (implied?) statement that multivalues are an ugly part of Lua. It's subtle yes, but like most of Lua, is incredibly consistent. For example, let's compare with Python: In Python,…
Pedantic point: The whole "reading the bible in Latin" is a very Catholic thing (and maybe Orthodox?). The Protestant churches I've been in has read from the bible in the native tongue, and it was indeed one of Luther's…
Well, yes, it would be that hard. The whole idea with tail call elimination is that a stack trace shouldn't be able to see the frames for the tail calls, because the tail call reuses the frame. To add support for…
Thanks. It is easy to forget how much reporting is specifically about the US, and that a lot of the rest of the world doesn't really have the same problems.
That sounds more realistic than one might expect. Most printers will apparently reject printing of patterns containing the EURion pattern [1], commonly found on paper cash. Not a far stretch that some facial recognition…
May be a similar system to Denmark, where one of the major POS system sellers operator sort-of on a subscription basis. The retailers don't own the card machines themselves, but the machines are swiftly replaced when…
Not sure where you get those weird infinity results from, but the "a = b = c = 0" solution is easily show: Note that "a + b = c" implies "b = c - a", and given our assumption that "a = b = c", we can rewrite as "a = a -…
Thought experiment on funding models for dating sites, assuming omniscience (exclusively regarding relationship longevity, and success rate of services): - Monthly: Incentives variable, but generally low quality results…
Remember, states (and multistates) are large collections of people. The people who are negotiating the contracts with companies are most likely several steps removed from the people who are making laws.
The word "predictable" implies "deterministic", but they are not identical. The universe can be governed by strong deterministic laws, while being too complex to simulate and thus predict. This poses some difficult…
Having lived in Denmark for 20 years, I find this in many ways reprehensible. Cooking down the complex geopolitical problem of whether to sell a large piece of territory (with people!) to exclusively monetary concerns.…
I'm really conflicted at this. I do not want the internet to be censored, but at the same time, I think that big internet companies are making the world worse through inaction. Even if a user or $/yr minimum is…
I don't see the difference between this and any other Context-Free Grammar specification language. Yacc is an industry standard, and even SNOBOL4 (1967) had first-class CFG datatypes. Maybe he's just excited about being…
Slightly related: Lua will intern every string ever created, that is two strings are equal if and only if their pointers (as represented internally) are identical. This results in slow string creation, but very fast…
I haven't read the article, but one reason may be the unappetizing portrail. The photographs in this article are bleak and chaotic, in sharp contrast to the colorful and organized way food is depicted nowadays.…
I'm with you on Functional Languages being solid and useful, I've done quite a lot of work in Standard ML, but the parent's point wasn't only do it for the education, it was at least do it for the education.
What non-indented markup languages gain by avoiding indentation, they lose in succinctness. What is the difference between a section, a list, and a field set? When would I use one instead of another? If your aim is data…
> Excited to see that finally someone has written an imperative language in a functional runtime. Normally it's the other way around - countless Lisp implementations running in C, because those are trivial to write.…
Well, it's a trade-off between comfort and privacy. You should self-host what you are capable of and deem of higest importance / privacy. To upgrade from gmail, you don't even to jump directly to self-hosting. There are…
Go was explicitly designed to be a simple language, without a rich tapestry of data structures to suit every use case. Languages are like tools. If you need a saw, use a saw, instead of complaining about the knife you…
I already have issues with my smartphone's drain-rate. Withstanding the issue of a huge ledger, you don't what to be mining on your smartphone.
This is one of the reasons I love Lua. I'm constantly pleasantly surprised by Lua. It defines a few simple primitives, and allows you to do whatever you want with them, even to the absurd. Hell, it even allows you to do…