Rudolf Olah › Comments

"I think I felt it unnecessary because it seems like something you would put into the function as an assertion and have a "wrapper" function that does any conversion/interfacing needed. I haven't used any ML languages much so I'm not sure if a wrapper or your let are more appropriate." - Rudolf Olah

"It might also help to outweigh all the crap content that's currently hosted on there!" - Rudolf Olah

"That was humor...I was trying to follow along with mrmoney's example. I guess I failed!" - Rudolf Olah

"How so?" - Rudolf Olah

"You mean that they lack a complete *specification*. You don't need tests for that. See: Pascal, ALGOL, C, LISP, many other languages and their implementations." - Rudolf Olah

"Freenet then." - Rudolf Olah

"So Wikileaks needs to be moved to Freenet? I think there's a mirror already setup." - Rudolf Olah

"[EMP grenades...eventually](http://www.schneier.com/blog...)" - Rudolf Olah

"They're helping only to stop a revolt. They aren't even commies anymore, more like fascists (capitalism + favourtism - democracy). Bullet trains: getting you to the gulags faster than you can say "Freedom"." - Rudolf Olah

"I don't like it. Somehow it feels unnecessary." - Rudolf Olah

"PLTScheme" - Rudolf Olah

"You could also start a union. Force management to use a better productivity measurement or the union strikes. Or whatever else. Collective bargaining FTW." - Rudolf Olah

"Thanks for the Christmas gift of learning! :p" - Rudolf Olah

"GNU/Linux is a boot loader for GNU Emacs. Just as *BSD is a bootloader for XEmacs." - Rudolf Olah

">Suppose we want to write a procedure 'sort' to sort an integer array. Because arr10 and arr20 have different types, it is not possible to write a single procedure that will sort them both. Arrays are not the solution to all problems and arrays of characters are not very good substitutes for a string data structure. Having the size of the array as part of its type is only a barrier to lazy developers." - Rudolf Olah

"They could use *editors* or something, eh? :P" - Rudolf Olah

"Maybe there are more programmers who want to work on a GPL-licensed project than on an Apache-licensed one?" - Rudolf Olah

"The computations evoked are more important than the program written. I would accept pseudo-code if the student understood the concepts." - Rudolf Olah

"What a dumbass. Universities have been in bed with industry for a long time. Java is taught because of the industry. C and C++ are taught because of the industry. Unit-testing, code reviews, UML, Agile, etc. are taught because of the industry. Has that helped much? Looks like, not so much." - Rudolf Olah

">Brinn & Page, Gates, Stroustrup, Berners-Lee. Dijkstra, Knuth, Stallman." - Rudolf Olah

"Charging massive fees isn't a problem, you can do that with Free Software too (I wouldn't be surprised if a consulting company was setup that sold Shapado as packaged software). The problem is the retarded licensing model." - Rudolf Olah

"Why?" - Rudolf Olah

"Why can't we use VLC or whatever video player we want??" - Rudolf Olah

"That reminds me of Commander Keen, 4 I think. At the end there's a huge-ass fish that eats you. Damn near impossible to swim around him :|" - Rudolf Olah

"What do you call the editing of Wikipedia pages? Hand-outs as well?" - Rudolf Olah

"Why?" - Rudolf Olah

"I don't get it :|" - Rudolf Olah

">Remember that most of what you hear in the news is bad news. Then why don't we raise the quality of things so that the bad news isn't so bad?" - Rudolf Olah

">Craftsmen inevitably grow defensive of their favourite tools and practices. ew. there's a reason CS exists...to elevate computing to a respectable level rather than to have it treated as magic." - Rudolf Olah

"Something like The Running Man, or the stuff in Sleep Dealers." - Rudolf Olah