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For more on monoids, see Brent Yorgey's paper _Monoids: Theme and Variations (Functional Pearl)_ at http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~byorgey/pub/monoid-pearl.pdf&#62 ; (there's also a vid…

Perhaps mistercow means things like def foo(): x = 5 def bar(): print x def baz(): x = 6 print x bar() baz() print x Which prints 5, 6, 5. If baz tried to print x before assigning,…

Not really -- "any" and "filter" are total functions, but "first" of an empty list is undefined. On the other hand, that also applies to foldl1 and {max,min}imum{,By}, so it's prob…

You should add the word "web" to the title. There are many other kinds of caching.

That's a fixed-point combinator, but it's not actually the Y combinator; in fact, it defeats much of the purpose of Y, since it's defined using explicit recursion, which Y is desig…

"bar none" is a little excessive -- Haskell's syntax is probably even cleaner. Compare: 1. map (*2) [1..10] 2. sum [1..1000] -- sum = foldl (+) 0 3. any (`isInfixOf` tweet) wordlis…

No, because robbing someone of their incentive to work is a net loss to society, so the bandits would no longer be perfect (unless they in turn gain a corresponding incentive to wo…

This title is designed to get people to click it (to discover what "The One Group" is), rather than to be informative. Please add e.g. ": Developers" to the end of it, so that peop…

The difference is that the whole point of the Y combinator is that it's a fixed-point combinator that doesn't use explicit recursion. Imagine that you didn't have "var", and couldn…

> The court determined that the discount was intended to encourage women to attend the bar in greater numbers, rather than to discourage attendance by males. Regardless of whether …

Here is Richard Feynman's answer to a similar question (this isn't about gravity but about this type of question): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMFPe-DwULM

Some methods: 1. Change your layout from "USA" to "USA International (AltGr dead keys)". Then use right-alt+key to make various special characters (you can look at what each charac…

It is somewhat ironic that this article is on www.theonion.com...

That seems like a fairly cliché series of dichotomies. Life isn't black and white; if choices were always this clear-cut then they wouldn't be hard.

> Either that, or getting a Ph.D. in Education. Is this a Heinlein reference?

At any rate it violates Facebook's terms ( http://www.facebook.com/terms.php , 4.5): "You will not use Facebook if you are under 13."

More Feynman on the same topic ("Energy makes it go"): http://physics.gu.se/~f3aamp/teaching/wakalix.html

See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=277099&#62 ; -- the linked post doesn't seem to work for me, but the first link in the first comment does.

> The singular "they", on the other hand, is artificial, at least among people of my generation -- we already have "one", thank you very much. Huh? Singular "they" has little to do…