I saw it earlier on reddit, and when I noticed it on hn, I was about to flag it for being yet another trash story copied from reddit, but then I saw that it already got 15 votes. I must be too young for this, but I did't find it funny, insightful or engaging, thus I did't feel any inclination to read more than a couple pages.
The idea is really nice, but I'm not sure it would work on the OP's Joe, who probably wouldn't even care about the hypothetical language and would regard the whole concept hypothetical, only for those who have way too much free time. (With WoW on the table, you don't have that luxury.)
I would take the route of first order functions -> anonymous functions -> closures, but I think it is really a lost cause for the typical 9-5 programmers.
Roger Penrose is not merely saying that quantum mechanics is wrong. Instead it would be more fair to say that he views quantum mechanics as an incomplete theory, and one that should be continually challenged.
That's how every scientific theory should be approached, as that's what sets them apart from dogmas.
Wow, apparently I expressed my point poorly, as you guys seem to pick up that I'm advertising how awesome I am and how I kick GS' ass on the markets.
What I wanted to say is that it's hard to find an index that went down during Q3 so those hundreds of traders could actually manage to not lose money but only one day, so that post and the comments really seem to be... subjective and biased.
As your note of my "strategy" being a mistake, I'm actually fine with my results and I'll keep going long, thank you.
I haven't lost any money on investments in 3 years, and I'm nowhere near being an educated economist. With a diversified portfolio, I could always find an equity to sell above the buying price when I needed money, and this way I could ride out the bear markets without realizing losses.
Of course I'm nowhere near Goldman Sachs in volume (about 6 trades a month on average), just telling that it is actually possible to achieve a "perfect score".
I know Goldman Sachs is not really popular right now among the people, and I have absolutely no intention to defend them, but this seems a bit like a witch hunt.
It's not as bad as it sounds, basically great many of the http://git.kernel.org/ repos are actual forks of the kernel, regularly pulling changes from vanilla, resolving the occasional conflicts and maintaining/developing their own patches.
Gnome and KDE has their own window managers, namely Metacity and KWin. These can be replaced by other window managers, like Xmonad, and you can still use the Gnome/KDE infrastructure and utilities just as nicely.
I have always had the habit of quickly editing the query if the top 5 results aren't what I was looking for, up to the point where I don't even really think about it, just adding some more keywords or sprinking a couple pluses, minuses or quotes. So I can't really tell if it has deteriorated in the past years.
However, I do think it could be possible that the pagerank algorithm does not scales good enough for the growth of Web pages, and especially with the "SEOs" out there always trying to come up with new ways to game the system.
Right, although there are options to combine the two.
Shader language can be used to write raytracers running entirely on the GPU, rendering the output to merely two textured triangles streched over the screen.
However as we are talking about Clojure, not shader languages, an alternative way would be offloading some of the weight lifting to OpenGL, for example by calculating visibility using the videocard's z-buffers or creating shadow maps by rendering the scene from the lights' viewpoint into shadow buffers and using the results in the raytracer.
I had this fun idea of registering an email address with an username being a common noun. Although I found it strange that the address was still available, but I didn't care too much about it, I was happy to have the account. (You know, new inbox smell).
And then emails started to arrive to the address. Of course, lots of them were spam-spam-spam-spam. But there were also some personal letters. For a while I thought it was some mistake, and replied nicely to them pointing it out, and tried to inquire about what could be the reason behind the confusion, but never really figured out.
The mails kept coming, and I realized that they weren't even addressed to the same person. Up to now I have at least 30 alteregos, giving out my email address to their friends, relatives, and using it in an attempt to register on web sites. Most of them seem to be female, so I get many mails trying to hit on "me" after that talk on im or seeing my profile on some website, etc. Also pictures of nieces, invitations to bbqs, and questions about my iron and if I can bring it to "the club" next Tuesday.
Who is this guy anyways? I saw lots of submits to his blogs on HN and other sites, but they seemed short, shallow and uninteresting, so I figured they were posted because Seth Godin is some kind of authority, not because they were so good posts. But I never figured out when and how he became such an authority.
I had a course that employed the same system. The course wasn't about debuging or real world applications, it was about algorithms. The task was to implement an algorithm correctly. If you did not implement the algorithm correctly, the test cases would fail. If you did not use the correct data structure, the test would time out. That's what it's all about. No specific clues were given so you can't do workarounds taylored to the test cases, or god forbid, hardcode the expected results.
You could do as much testing on your machine as you'd like, with your debugger of choice. And when you are sure you understood the algorithm and implemented it correctly, you can submit.