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Lacaranian

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    Comment #36030894

    I love everything about this! I think a lot of code could benefit from restructuring via ADTs, and ser/deser is an important piece of that story. But I suppose I do have one nitpic…

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    Comment #33569426

    There's one perspective (popular in funtional programming circles) that says data structures simply _are_ a special sort of function; that is, one that take no arguments. Really, i…

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    Comment #30874731

    I do wonder how "normal" human genitalia is compared to the vast majority of the animal kingdom. Though is that simply anthrocentric?

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    Comment #29365884

    The card game example you propose is a pretty apt one. One might have any number of cards in a given hand, with any number of varying properties (like for standard 52 card decks, s…

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    Comment #28952136

    Does that mean if someone was raised in a mine are they better at bare-metal development?

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    Comment #28922465

    As others here have hinted at, while NNT and NNH are both extremely useful concepts, they (deliberately) leave the consideration of whether a treatment's level of effectiveness, or…