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Sure, but verroq was talking about vector spaces and linear maps, not matrices. The theory of vector spaces over a field is more general and can be applied to much more than system…

> Someone who has never seen the type of problem that would make a given abstraction useful would not be able to understand it easily. Whether or not someone is sufficiently motiva…

As is often the case, the way to get the intuition here is to just work out the computation. Once you do that, it should all "click".

What in Clojure is biased towards web programming (or any other domain)?

> About one in four adults suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year. That means if you think about your 10 favorite people in the whole world two of them could be …

> That's like saying, "If we start putting people in jail for using illegal drugs, people will eventually stop using illegal drugs." Unfortunately that's just not how it works If y…

> The issue isn't that people are voting up comments or submissions that don't fit with what HN is supposed to be, the problem is that those submissions and comments are being made…

> Mostly, when I come across complex equations in CS papers, I tend to skip over them and only go back to look at them if there are parts of the paper I can't make sense of without…

Dear kristianc, You are comparing en.wikipedia.org with their redesign of www.wikipedia.org. Notice that the latter is, with respect to content, the same as their redesign: languag…

The funny thing is that most of these APIs wind up with what's essentially a "this" pointer at the front of every argument list so you're really doing OO anyway. Do you have much e…

You really find IO more interesting than problem solving?

I’m not the OP.

Any reason for the personal attack (based on unfounded assumptions)?...

https://github.com/facebook/javelin/issues/9 https://github.com/facebook/javelin/issues/10

> Every other language I've learned either has as many warts as JavaScript or isn't practical. Time to learn some more languages.

I don’t see an interpretation that makes sense. In fact, I don’t think there is one. I guess you define a “statement” to be a complete sentence, judging by “its title alone isn’t a…

This is a more precise statement, but you have replaced “art” with “other mediums than text”. Is literature not art?

This statement is meaningless as is and I think if you were to make it precise you would find it ridiculous.

“Bandwidth Limit Exceeded”

Not sure I understand your point. Gauss is credited for the term “complex number” as well.

A programming language designer shouldn’t have to make accommodations for users of whatever other languages are popular at the moment. If “return” is the natural name for a keyword…

What is “computer syntax”?!

> Intelligence/coding go hand in hand. Are you joking? There are tons of very intelligent people who know nothing about coding.

I don’t think so. When does “programming” ever mean technical literacy? What Atwood is arguing against is the idea that “everyone needs to learn programming”. Because of the title …