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Comment on Idea Dump 1: Swimming Gear by Dakota

Dakota — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 01:12:36 +0000

(competitive swimmer): yes your ideas are pretty good but those sets you show they just arent to appealing to me i usually swim those kick sets with 15 to 25 seconds less intervals btw are these 50 meter pools or just like community pools yardage or meters…

Comment on Javascript On The Desktop by DatNt

DatNt — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:31:47 +0000

Hi,

It is unbelievable that I had the same idea with you.
Almost everything you wrote here, came to my mind 6 months ago til now.

Thank you for a good post.

Comment on V8 under the hood by A Comparison of JavaScript Engines | tips & tricks

A Comparison of JavaScript Engines | tips & tricks — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:18:05 +0000

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Comment on Multi-layered Perceptron Trained With Backpropagation (in Scala) by Infospacer

Infospacer — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 02:34:37 +0000

I’m also planning to use scala fo my neural project. I don’t have much experience in scala, so it would be interesting to know about speed of scala in matrix and linear algebra operations.

Comment on Slashing File.join in Ruby by Clean file separators in Ruby without File.join « Gooder Code - web development blog, php, java, asp.net, html, javascript

Sat, 10 Jul 2010 19:44:07 +0000

[...] that can be done to clean up source code and make it more readable. So, when I came upon this post, I was pretty excited. This is precisely the kind of thing I [...]

Comment on “Microsoft will die” scenario by Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:59:03 +0000

Seems like you’re right about the variation on #2

Comment on Why Not Haskell? by dp

dp — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 04:18:09 +0000

here’s something that bothers me about haskell: data constructors appear to be functions but aren’t, in any traditional sense. example:

data NaturalNumber = NaturalNumber Integer

there isn’t anything restricting NaturalNumber to be greater or equal to zero. data constructors are functions you don’t define, which makes sense because if you did define them i’m not really sure where it all would end… but it’s still annoying that you can’t make any kind of assertions on the data that is given to your data constructors.

another thing, why isn’t there function type polymorphism. that is, i can’t define an operator -> because it’s taken, even if the type would be completely different. same goes for map. if you could do those things, making new operators wouldn’t be such a pain because you’d have better options.

Comment on Slashing File.join in Ruby by Gooder Code

Gooder Code — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:42:11 +0000

Clean file separators in Ruby without File.join…

I love anything that can be done to clean up source code and make it more readable. So, when I came upon this post, I was pretty excited. This is precisely the kind of thing I love.
I have never felt good about ‘file separator’ strings ……

Comment on Which VM? by Kirby Urner

Kirby Urner — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:42:21 +0000

The new Google Go language seems like it might serve as a basis for a new VM, including for Python. Languages and VMs jump around. Python currently targets the Java VM (Jython), the .NET/Mono VM (IronPython), plus has its own C language VM. Then there’s the PyPy VM and Unladen Swallow. Why stop there? A VM in the Go language would probably be at least as powerful as a VM in the C# language.

Comment on Distributed Hash Tables (part 1) by Ray

Ray — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:25:32 +0000

Have you also implementated something in C/C++?