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cornelis

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About cornelis

Working and living in the Netherlands. Running a startup focusing on a new software development paradigm.

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    Comment #35044619

    I really like the concept of tagged unions in TypeScript. I have difficulty understanding your code. Can you create a real life example?

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    Programming Scavenger Hunt

    about 10 years ago, I did a programming scavenger hunt with my colleagues which was good fun. Every next challenge required you to program a solution. Only when you found the solut…

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    Comment #16748214

    I don't understand your point. How is 'the academic world' not a subset of 'science'? Is it the same, a superset, or something else?

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    Comment #16748177

    I might not have been clear enough about the point I was trying to make. OP's comment on the Super Mario Bros neural network was really insightful to me: "Seen as tinkering, that w…

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    Comment #16747972

    My point is that science is meant to 'sell' something. Not a product, but the knowledge that has been created. If the knowledge is never applied in the real world its missing out o…

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    Comment #16742145

    Thank you OP for your very insightful blog post. You have been better than any other academic at articulating exactly what happens when I (or one of my colleagues) interact with th…

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    Ask HN: Recommended licenses for free binary distribution

    We are considering making our software available for free for non commercial use. We will not distribute the source code, just the executables. I was thinking about using a creativ…