gambogi

is there really any reason to expect the students who didn't take free points in exchange for privacy to outperform the observed group?

Sure, the results pertain more to excluding the internet from the classroom, but really that's just splitting hairs imo

Good designers and programmers do care about people of all ages, colors, orientations, genders, and ability. If tech is to make the biggest positive impact possible everyone must be on board.

> Why would you want a job you are not qualified to do.

money.

A terminal mux. Mux is short for multiplexer, which chooses between different inputs. It is a tool for running keeping multiple terminal sessions open at the same time. These sessions can be attached and detached from, which is often helpful when working on a remote machine you may want to access from different work stations.

Screen is a similar program.

> you can actually read and understand the code without even any formal training in the language.

Forgive my youth, which languages are these?

GP suggested otherwise. Either way the bit about ethics was the point I'd prefer to discuss

I don't understand how race, gender, and class in particular can possibly be separated out from tech any more so than software patents. A community that has been so obsessed with disrupting any and all aspects of life can't ethically refuse to discuss the consequences of doing so.

Looks like you just communicated it in 16 bytes though.

Just like we pronounce 9¢ "9 cent sign" right?

You know that it works for at least two values of w, but you don't know that it holds for any value of w.

But that's exactly the point.

All growing up we were told, "Be a generalist, not a specialist" There was no other acceptable route, so all the "good" kids identified patterns to get ahead.

That leaves many of us barking up when we notice a pattern. Of course, a generalization is a big bundle of things: abstractions, ceteris paribus, the act of generalizing, a general statement, pattern naming

Not quite. One of the biggest features of Moose is it's concept of roles. They're in some senses similar to typeclasses in Haskell and Traits in Rust.

Effectively, they give you access to parametric polymorphism in perl land.

http://modernperlbooks.com/books/modern_perl_2014/07-object-...

Can that handle statically linking dependencies with FFI calls?

Thank you

Why in the world would "male geeks" want to indicate they have given a topic serious thought any more often than "female geeks"?

Here's a link explaining why they haven't switched yet: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=137530560232232

Supremely useful reference: http://dev.stephendiehl.com/hask/

So, just like software, we should throw in the towel and give up?

It's too bad most of the discussion here is centering around the title, rather than the post

I don't know what Google pays, but I know several interns (including one freshman) working for similarly large companies pulling down $45+/h (Which works out to over $7k/mo before considering the free housing etc.)

I'm inclined to believe those numbers you hear in public.

I don't have the expertise to dissect this code, so I will choose instead to criticize the name of the project. My opinion is valuable, relevant, and provokes further discussion.

...but they're Field-Programmable Gate Arrays

This is a pretty broken argument. Those companies also wouldn't exist without the steel industry, or the construction industry, or the electronics industry, etc. etc.

"Someone who knows Haskell learns some Racket"

"Tonight at 11: this rose gardener learns to plant tulips"

mutually exclusive endeavors etc etc

oh you know, same old, same old.

...oh and anonymous functions and default behavior in interfaces, and Streams, which are basically way better collections.

I think you might be underestimating the complexity of nethack

Since it's not mentioned in the article, FRP stands for Functional Reactive Programming

Maybe you should give an obj-c seminar

Not knowing how to read a language you don't know isn't a great readability metric