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Of course not; if they trained TSA agents beyond having a simple state machine there wouldn't be so much money left to buy Rapiscan machines. I highly doubt being assholes is due to anything but poor training and their salaries are probably too low for them to really want to put any effort into anything. I'd remove the machines and give them higher wages and better training if I had any say in the matter.

I agree but still find the blog author to be a ridiculous caricature. There are also other interesting languages and x86 isn't preventing anyone from hot loading bug fixes.

Under the assumption that Lisp is the best programming language that will ever be created and the x86 processor is a horribly flawed piece of garbage the author is correct.

Sorry mate, it would be about one billion times more profitable to write a machine learning system to astroturf group discussions.

No that's just for young adults downloading files that someone regrets making available publicly.

If you check with Oleg, it actually is wrong! Delimited continuations are strictly more powerful and composable. We're supposed to be using shift/reset or prompt/abort.

Seriously, just imagine if a fraction of the students taking the massively popular ML class on Coursera had created a project on Github.

Not even a Wikipedia link? This was so anti-climactic.

The appropriate course credit for online classes is to finish a project demonstrating publicly that you know the material. This option is available right now.

API design is really key to working together. If I could pick one thing about myself to improve right now it would be API design skills. I think a lot of other programmers don't get it for whatever reason, so I can see why that would be in high demand.

That's because that journal is doing it wrong and someone there is getting too much money. You give me 3k and I'll seed a torrent for one thousand papers as long as my Internet is billed per month instead of per GB. I just saw some redditors link a torrent with tens of gigabytes of technical books, so the method appears to work just fine. And if the author's intent is to distribute it wouldn't be violating anyone's copyright.

There's no reason you can't have immutable variables and pure functions in imperative languages, though.

Not that I don't support your quest to learn Haskell, Haskell is awesome and I hope you enjoy it :)

As if Apple reads those. Apple doesn't care about developers, they only care about their real customers; people that don't know how a computer works. I know this because I am a developer and Xcode still uses all the memory and creates a zombie process everytime I run on the simulator.

I disagree with your argument! If inventing the language meant you got to choose all the definitions we wouldn't have English in the first place. Shift happens. I don't think this particular usage is common, though.