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Here is some scala code does the same thing FileIterator("input.txt").map{_.split('@').last}.distinct.toFile("output.txt") Lets compare it to the Python version. It looks much shor…

It should be fairly clear from the responses to your post that the characterization of this reaction as a "lynch mob" does not meet the established standard of usage of this term. …

> Frankly, posting and upvoting that sort of comment is the behavior of a lynch mob. Posting a photograph of a victim of a lynch mob http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d…

Are you the same guy as ramkahen on reddit? _ has only one meaning => "unspecified" http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/uk015/kotlin_m2...

> Furthermore, insofar as you create competition to hold that position, you're creating a destructive work environment. Software development is a cooperative activity that can't be…

> Three undergrads Correction : A Professor(Manindra Agrawal) who had been working on the problem for quite some time and 2 undergrads.

+100 for Scala. You can pry the super powerful type system, functional programming support, monad comprehensions, library ecosystem, IDE support from my cold dead hands :D

Reading your response, I think I need to read more on the topic. I haven't read Moggi's paper and I need to look up on the continuation Monad. You are probably correct and I am pro…

I don't know how else to put it, but at least half of what you have written above is completely wrong. > but they're less useful in other languages where you already have effects e…

Interesting, this seems very similar to Haskell at a very basic level. A Haskell program consists of declarations of functions and constants. Constants belong to the class Eq http:…

Any one with work experience and common sense can tell that talking to boss^2 and HR is a recipe for disaster. You are also unwilling to challenge michael's claim that he was meeti…

http://blog.sigfpe.com/ http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/

Off topic comment. Just tried the surface RT at the Microsoft store today. I think its awesome. I am considering the surface PRO for purchase. However, I am concerned that I cannot…

Some examples 1. Purely declarative animations in a general purpose language http://conal.net/fran/tutorial.htm 2. A recursive descent parser where you can declare your grammar as …

I have never agreed more with a HN comment than this time. This has to be the worst post by Yegge in terms of the negative impact it can have on software engineers and engineering.…

Gates was indeed a programming genius. He wrote the BASIC interpreter and most of the software in Microsoft's early days. He also managed to publish an algorithm with Papadimitriou…

Steve Yegge was also unable to successfully maintain a not-too-complex 2D game and managed to blame Java for it http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/12/codes-worst-enemy.ht... 10Xe…

> I have not seen a case of wrongful execution as bad as this I have bad news. This is a "typical" death row victim story. There have been several others like him. http://en.wikipe…

Its an April Fools joke. 3) was true until a few months ago. Or maybe its because I switched from a remote source repo mounted via Samba to a local flash HDD :-) I have been using …

Scala is far more object oriented than Java. So + is a method of the Int object and you can write 2.+(3) instead of 2+3. Methods are allowed to be operators, so that you can write …

> Basically, if you produce two ultrasonic frequencies, they will create an interference pattern at a much lower frequency than either of the individual frequencies. So the interfe…

You have fouled up in the marketing department. You need to geo-target. You need to focus on a geographically dense close cluster for you initial release. Probably a business distr…