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You may be interested in this paper www.cs.ox.ac.uk/ralf.hinze/publications/ICFP01.pdf. It solves Dijkstra's algorithm as an example for the implementation of a priority search que…

I don't know about the author but not all of us oppose Gay marriage.

Sure but unless this new service is along the lines of "I generate my own key pair _and then only ever give Google my public key_" there's no way they're getting me to trust them. …

Not only are those wise words for users, enabling that way of working, and making security an easy verifiable default, and, is going to be the only way to heal this problem for US …

At my previous job I thought the same thing. They didn't stop people being bullied by superiors and basically did nothing but exit interviews and layoffs. The entire company was re…

> variables don't have types, only individual values do. It really depends on what language you're using. This is more or less true in Python, Ruby, and Javascript. In Lisp generic…

That latter's debatable but probably not the former unfortunately.

Indeed, the first thing that came into my mind when reading this was "You wouldn't have this problem if the only valid type in a conditional was boolean."

I think the point was that homosexuality has been taboo for a lot longer than the CIA has been around. So while they obviously have found it useful there's no reason to think they …

>they've gone way beyond being about what any actual women think and care about... And those articles were written by whom then? Apparently at least one woman actually cares about …

Could you elaborate or provide links to examples of what you mean by solving this with codata?

My point was not that no guys do, of course I know some do. The OP used 'guys' to seemingly include all men. My point was that, no, not all men do, so you don't get to play the "ev…

None of the guys I'm around, nor myself, think that's okay just because women aren't present.

I notice substantial overlap between the things these men are wanted for and what the NSA and FBI have been doing....

I was thinking the same thing. At my last job we had one dev board (TI ARM/DSP SOC + lots of custom hardware) that we could reset with a static discharge into the carpet 6 - 8 feet…

One might say that being polite and not insulting people are traits of merit.

A lot of people are criticizing Schneier for lack of empathy or too much nonchalance. Can we really have too much nonchalance in our post Afghanistan/Iraq/Drone strikes/Surveillanc…

I'm interested, what is the open source core in OSX and iOS? I was not aware of any. I know they share code with BSD but I didn't think it was to the extent that one could compare …

I too share your general optimism about the current state of open source. I really hope that you are correct in your conclusion that the GPL mandate is unnecessary because, as we s…

I was thinking this as well. I see the GPL, and Copy Left licensing in general, as a sort of regulatory force in free software. If you want to participate the GPL will put constrai…

Having state does not mean a function/algorithm is not pure.

The argument seems to be "you shouldn't do this because it accomplishes the goal it was intended to". Saying don't use this pattern to hide internals because it achieves the goal o…

Does anyone know anything about Project Meshnet? http://projectmeshnet.org/ I discovered it a few days ago and it sounds promising but some of the cjdns whitepaper was over my head…

I haven't written any Elm but having written some Haskell I can say it's surprising how often you _don't_ need a debugger in a functional language. I doubt Elm not having a debugge…