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Comment #36187215
I don't know, variable decelerations seem to me to be funny but useful. I mean constant constants, constant variables, and variable variables seem useful. I'm not sure how would va…
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Comment #35987551
That's interesting. Would you share the details of the hardware setup (MiniPC, USB remote control) and screenshots of your configured KDE/Plasma desktop?
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Comment #30207978
... and aspect ratios. Country flags are not (almost) squared as in the OP link.
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Comment #27383859
Just type > before pasting the quoted text. But you have type some text in a separate line as a place holder of your own response before you paste your quote or else your response …
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Comment #25882102
I'm not even American, but CNN coverage of the 1990-91 Gulf War really put them on the radar. The whole Middle East watched CNN Live coverage.
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Comment #25882090
2001 was the first time I got online; first site visited was also cnn.com on a 56k modem.
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Comment #25630271
Thanks, I stand corrected.
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Comment #25630120
Are you thinking F#? I believe that other than being ML-like language and being developed jointly by Microsoft Research and Inria, F* has nothing to do with F# and .NET.
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Comment #23429086
... and C. But I can see why you dropped Part C. Part A and B were excellent but C not that much. Dan Grossman is an excellent educator. You'll probably learn more programming [lan…
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Comment #22728206
Just be careful when setting up Algo VPN. Its secure defaults will probably block all other services you're running on your server and render them inaccessible. You might even end …
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Comment #18413865
I would say IEnumerable interface.
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Comment #18209187
Why do think is the reason that most managers in technology are bad? I tend to think of management as abstraction. A mid-level manager provides an abstraction of the work for high-…
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Comment #17861270
I'm not going to say the M-word, someone will *maybe* say it in ... *either* case. Just wanted to say I see what you did there. Nothing insightful to add.
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Comment #17509342
Any chance you'd record the lectures like the 2012 iteration? Seems that the discussions are a big part of this pedagogical approach; and those are better captured through videos t…
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Comment #17378680
I thought soundness (when it comes to statically-typed languages) means that the static type checker won't pass a program that would raise runtime type errors. Your comment (and Da…
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Comment #16284927
Is Visa sponsorship an option?
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Comment #15408846
Well, he just posted the second entry in the series. Let's hope he keeps posting that frequently. http://blog.ploeh.dk/2017/10/05/monoids-semigroups-and-frien...
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Comment #13200707
I was going to ask "why?" before I read in the overview the reason being helping non Arabic speaking learners of the language. It still defeats the purpose of learning a language t…
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Comment #12618331
I don't know about Rust; but in ML family, everything in top level is a binding. Whether it's a variable, function, type or structure. SML is explicit about it and its syntax makes…