Products Are Functions

Re:Products Are Functions by zemo on Thursday August 16, 2018 @12:03PM (#17775813)

everything is a function if you contrive hard enough.

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Re:Products Are Functions by tuespetre on Thursday August 16, 2018 @12:10PM (#17775881)

Am... am I a function? Oh my god

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Re:Products Are Functions by rpeden on Thursday August 16, 2018 @02:18PM (#17777225)

You know, if you read the article about Systems and Leverage Points[1] that's on the front page right now, it's not hard to see the entire world as a function made up of other functions. And one of those other functions is you.

The real question is, are you a serverless function? If someone likes you and wants more of you, can they infinitely scale you up on-demand, tuespetre? And if so, what will their AWS bill look like next month?

[1] http://donellameadows.org/archives/leverage-points-places-to...

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Re:Products Are Functions by machiaweliczny on Thursday August 16, 2018 @01:05PM (#17776470)

::world -> world :)

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Re:Products Are Functions by cestith on Thursday August 16, 2018 @06:20PM (#17778889)

Humans rarely produce identical output from identical input. You're probably more of a nondeterministic heuristic.

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Re:Products Are Functions by dragonwriter on Thursday August 16, 2018 @06:23PM (#17778903)

> Humans rarely produce identical output from identical input.

Sure they do, the problem is that humans take the state of the universe as input.

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Re:Products Are Functions by hahahihi on Thursday August 16, 2018 @05:54PM (#17778731)

no, ur a tool :)

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Re:Products Are Functions by w0mbat on Thursday August 16, 2018 @01:03PM (#17776458)

Right. Also everything is a file, an object, etc.

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Re:Products Are Functions by stupidcar on Thursday August 16, 2018 @01:46PM (#17776932)

"A fat guy, a watermelon, and a stack of magazines? That's a function!"

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