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I agree, this should be verified, Mulcahy ( https://twitter.com/CardColm ) is wearing a jester hat, it may very well be playing a joke on us all.

Promises and monads are way different though. Promises are used for "simplifying" asynchronous coding in imperative languages, and monads are a general computational methodology to…

Was this written in a hurry? There's lot of spelling/grammar errors in the article.

Also Trump has already mentioned he's in favor of leaving the issue at the State level.

I can't believe I'm getting down-voted just because I'm not bullish on ANN. As I said, in my humble opinion (IMHO), (and educated opinion) NN don't really have a lot of practical u…

ANN are not that big of a deal, IMHO, when you compare them to other machine learning techniques i.e. Support Vector Machines. Also, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_ne…

I'll admit, I don't know what the specific legal definition of private equity is. According to wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_equity "In finance, private equity i…

because of the irony.

As soon as I read the article too I wanted to check if the NYT is owned by private equity. According to wikipedia, it's both part publicly traded on the NYSE and privately owned: h…

The wikipedia definition is good: "Metaprogramming is the writing of computer programs with the ability to treat programs as their data. It means that a program could be designed t…

I mentioned it in the comments of Edward Yang's article but I'll mention it here again, Template Haskell is based on C++ templates, here's the original paper http://research.micros…

oldy, but a goody!

I too would like to know how to install via brew.

I agree, things are probably too good to be true right now. I really don't think it's fair to blame engineers though. My only advice to people working in this industry is to save y…

> The Employees’ Choice Awards is based on the input of employees who choose to provide feedback on their job, work environment, and company via an anonymous online company review …

did you post this just to feel better about something you either just did or did in the past?

I wanted to point out, though somebody changed the title, this is the first paper written on using Monads in programming. It's by Eugenio Moggi. This paper goes on to influence Phi…

wish there was more bickering. Doesn't look like anybody really cares. Though, yes, it is nice to see google using their own technology for once.