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Smjörið er brætt og hveitið smátt og smátt hrært út í það, þangað til það er gengið upp í smjörið.

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Re: Smjörið er brætt og hveitið smátt og smátt hrært út í það, þangað til það er gengið upp í smjörið.

#101

Wikipedia to the rescue: "The butter is melted and the flour stirred into it (slowly but surely), until it is has blended with the butter." ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:S.Örvarr.S )

It's an icelandic recipe for roux?

Re: Smjörið er brætt og hveitið smátt og smátt hrært út í það, þangað til það er gengið upp í smjörið.

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I mean the kind that will not let you create a list whose elements could be of any type.

Java will happily let you fill a list or hash with objects that could be of any type yet it is generally the quintessential blub language.

No, it doesn't. Elements of a Java collection must all be of the same type. The elements may be implicitly coerced to a common supertype, but if you want to get the original types back you have to downcast--which is basically explicit dynamic typing.

Re: Smjörið er brætt og hveitið smátt og smátt hrært út í það, þangað til það er gengið upp í smjörið.

#103
किसी वस्तु, व्यक्ति, स्थान, या भावना का नाम बताने वाले शब्द को संज्ञा कहते हैं। जैसे - गोविन्द, हिमालय, वाराणसी, त्याग आदि संज्ञा में तीन शब्द-रूप हो सकते हैं -- प्रत्यक्ष रूप, अप्रत्यक्ष रूप और संबोधन रूप ।

Re: Smjörið er brætt og hveitið smátt og smátt hrært út í það, þangað til það er gengið upp í smjörið.

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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=111278

Interestingly, heterogenous lists are the only example I ever hear cited for how ML-family type systems can cramp your style. It leads me to wonder if the situation is not unlike Fibbonacci sequences and naive recursion. Anyway, I find that usually when I want a heterogenous list in Lisp, all I really need is a tuple. I want an ad-hoc way to group some values together (i.e., I don't want to bother creating a named st…

I rarely need to calculate Fibonacci numbers, but I use lists of varied types of objects constantly.

Re: Smjörið er brætt og hveitið smátt og smátt hrært út í það, þangað til það er gengið upp í smjörið.

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so someone downmodded all of: - a simple, popular comment - a comment suggesting maybe the first one shouldn't have been upmodded so much - a comment backing off Why would you downmod all of them? If you like dislike the first comment, you should like the second, and vice versa. And if you're unhappy with me in general for the first two, you should like the third one.

1) How do you know the same person downmodded the three? 2) Simplest explanation for that case would be that he's downmodding the latter two as noise. You can agree to a comment and still believe it doesn't add anything to the topic in which it appears.

all 3 downmods appeared between quick refreshes.

Re: Smjörið er brætt og hveitið smátt og smátt hrært út í það, þangað til það er gengið upp í smjörið.

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Η ευχαρίστηση στην εργασία βάζει την τελειότητα στην εργασία ~ kudos to 'Patrick Collison'

Έλληνας;!

Indeed. Aristotle in fact ... translates roughly as "... Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work ..."

Re: Smjörið er brætt og hveitið smátt og smátt hrært út í það, þangað til það er gengið upp í smjörið.

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Interestingly, heterogenous lists are the only example I ever hear cited for how ML-family type systems can cramp your style. It leads me to wonder if the situation is not unlike Fibbonacci sequences and naive recursion. Anyway, I find that usually when I want a heterogenous list in Lisp, all I really need is a tuple. I want an ad-hoc way to group some values together (i.e., I don't want to bother creating a named st…

I rarely need to calculate Fibonacci numbers, but I use lists of varied types of objects constantly.

So do I -- when I'm working in Lisp. Lisp gives you a Swiss army knife and lets you build specialized tools when you want them. Haskell gives you specialized tools and lets you build a Swiss army knife if you want it.
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