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Calkin-Wilf for Early(-ish) Haskellers · tel.github.io

This post was inspired by a Hacker News comment of mine. I presented what follows somewhat poorly there, so I hope my expansion below clarifies the idea.

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Hasnain says:

"“Publishing is a shyster business,” he reflected. “One day it’s ‘You rock, bro,’ and the next day they’re not returning your calls. If I’m not moving books on Amazon, they’re not going to ask me back. It’s not a charity.”"

Posted on 2014-07-13T22:21:48+0000

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Hasnain says:

I hadn't thought about it this way, but the author argues that Rust is inherently closer to a functional language than an imperative one.

Posted on 2014-07-13T22:21:25+0000

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Miami, the great world city, is drowning while the powers that be look away

Low-lying south Florida, at the front line of climate change in the US, will be swallowed as sea levels rise. Astonishingly, the population is growing, house prices are rising and building goes on. The problem is the city is run by climate change deniers

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Hasnain says:

"Low-lying south Florida, at the front line of climate change in the US, will be swallowed as sea levels rise. Astonishingly, the population is growing, house prices are rising and building goes on. The problem is the city is run by climate change deniers"

Posted on 2014-07-13T06:32:06+0000

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How Private Colleges Are Like Cheap Sushi

Fifty percent off? That doesn't sound like such a good deal for sushi or a college degree. We ask some economists: Why not?

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Hasnain says:

"Unfortunately, there's a real world impact here. In recent years there's been a lot of attention to the issue of undermatching. This is the finding that a majority of highest-achieving but low-income students fail to apply to a single competitive college. Even when financial need means that they would pay little or nothing to attend a school like Harvard or Stanford, these students are instead choosing non-selective schools that tend to have a lower advertised price."

Posted on 2014-07-13T06:05:24+0000

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Levittown: The Imperfect Rise of the American Suburbs | US History Scene

Although 1950s suburbia conjures visions of traditional family life, the story of the suburbization of America is also one of exclusion, segregation &

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Hasnain says:

"Levittown itself arguably embodied the best and worst of the postwar American story; it was a result of the entrepreneurship and ingenuity that has come to define the American spirit, but it also participated in the violent prejudice that has also been part of American history."

Posted on 2014-07-13T05:21:18+0000

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static single assignment for functional programmers -- wingolog

By that I mean that lambda is my tribe. And you know how tribalism works: when two tribes meet, it's usually to argue and not to communicate.

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Hasnain says:

"the machine tribe in two sentences

In the beginning was the
Segmentation fault (core dumped)"

This is a really interesting read on compilation and intermediate languages (CPS, SSA, ANF, etc)

Posted on 2014-07-12T05:56:24+0000

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