Viewing profile — ndeine

The author covers a lot of similar material at his blog. http://blog.ezyang.com/category/ghc/

This is actually the same thing as regular Python scoping rules; there's not even any fancy OOP logic behind it. Here's the same thing, but using global scope and functions instead…

He means immutability when he says "const-ness". There are four possibilities for mutability of a single pointer: 1. The pointer is mutable, but its contents are immutable. 2. The …

/dev/urandom is a perfectly fine source of machine-generated randomness. In order to break /dev/urandom (but not /dev/random), you need to find a corner-case where you can break th…

For all it's worth: the Gimp devs were originally the creators of GTK+, which stood for "GIMP Toolkit" - so GIMP doesn't rely on QT. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTK+

Yes, that is his point. My interpretation: He is saying that more people on average will respond more directly and immediately to punishment than reinforcement. The context is that…

I haven't messed around with x86 enough to know whether it is actually somehow easier than the ARM stuff, but I certainly agree with you that CPUs are damn complicated. I loaded up…

The expression 52x/x has a restricted domain as well (x /= 0). But that's normally not what you mean when you write it. It isn't often you really care about expressions like 52x/x;…

The relationship f(x)=x/x is only defined for x /= 0 and thus is not equivalent to 1. We can see this in [a] when we ask for the domain of the function, and thus we can redefine so…

Better yet, isn't that what the State Monad[1] is doing internally? [1]: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/State_Monad

Here's a mirror of the original MS-DOS version of the license: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:TTs0lxz...

Yeah, you'd have to rig up your own charger (if you wanted to make it easy to charge) and USB power output manually, and then make those things effortlessly portable. I've had a lo…

I think the target userbase for Keybase is nerds who found GPG too horribly unintuitive to figure out how to use it for themselves. I know I was like that for a while. The other ta…

He's not actually talking about saving the diff and patching within a git repo, as far as I can gather from: > [...], apply the changes (patch) from the file and continue the work.…

That's my perspective on it. I first took calculus as a junior in high school, and the majority of it boiled down to memorizing what the derivative of `x` type of function is and w…

Should we not be bending these cold, standardized, "agreed-upon meanings and relationships" anyway? Is that not what the great English authors have done? Also, the title for this a…