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You're picking a pretty fine nit on the meaning of the word 'intention.' I see your point, with the exception that you don't know what Apple's intentions are. We have a few pointers, though. The fact that Chris La
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This is false. > "You can imagine that many of us want [Swift] to be open source and part of llvm, but the discussion hasn't happened yet, and won't for some time." - Chris Lattner, LLVMDev mailing list. http:&#x2
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I was hoping the article would mention something about their neuroscience, too. From a control systems perspective, it's rather remarkable that they're able to stand upright. They have similar nerve conduction velocities as we d
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One thing that's unclear in the app description: does the free app come with 3000 words? And then is the $15 purchase is for an additional 3000? That would be amazing! Are all the words nouns? Or are there verbs/adjectives&#x2
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Note that the Pennsylvania (four foot!) law explicitly allows cars to cross the double-yellow line to overtake bicycles as long as it is safe to do so.[1] I'm not sure what the specifics are for the California law are, but many states
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Given that the set of rationals is countable, and that the set of irrationals is uncountable , nearly "all" real numbers are irrational. In our experience, however, we mostly interact with rational numbers, and so irrational num
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by 3JPLW 12y ago
The author of this piece, Arch Robison, has been an active contributor to Julia. Not only did he write this tutorial, but he actually contributed the `@simd` implementation himself.[1] He also presented this information as a talk at Juliaco
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Exactly. Once I moved away from the expensive plans with "free" phones, it made me value and appreciate the major investment that a pocket computer is much more than I had before. And I'm saving lots of money — I recoup the
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Hunh? Developers work in terms of the "points" described in the first image. The 6+ has an extra 39 points in height and 69 in width the 6; about 10% more real estate in each direction. Sure, it's not that much, but it&#x
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> com.apple.WebKit.Networking.xpc wants to sign using key "Apple ID Authentication …" in your keychain. Do you want to allow access to this item? http://imgur.com/n3Ay8Ik What is this? I've never seen th
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What a riot. The city of Pittsburgh still has jitneys [1], and still calls them that, too. I always considered it a part of Pittsburghese, but I never knew the word was once used nationwide — I had never heard it before moving here. It&#
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Here's the actual article: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/345/6199/897 There's also a short review of the state of the literature in this same issue. Well worth a read: http://www.sci
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Yes, they do. A few weeks ago this hit hacker news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8062864 . 62 containers were lost due to a "once in a 100 year wave." One of which contained Legos. I'm not sure what
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Very related is our perception of randomness and our surprise at a cluster of accidents. It falls out quite nicely: if plane crashes are a poisson process, then, on average, they happen in clusters of e . See: Celebrities die 2.7183 a
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In my experience, local MLSs are still way ahead of the publicly available online services. Trulia tended to be better than Zillow in my region, but they still lagged weeks behind what my realtor was able to send me. Properties moved so f
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by 3JPLW 12y ago
Honest question: why does that matter to you? The language is still pre-1.0. There's also a fully functional Julia implementation if the parser now, too: https://github.com/jakebolewski/JuliaParser.jl
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Interactive scientific computing: Goldilocks languages(graydon2.dreamwidth.org)
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Would using a GPL test suite with an MIT implementation make the whole GPL? You're not "linking" to it, but it'd worry me somewhat.
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> purpose-built and general-purpose tooling and environments That seemed to me to be a big unresolved tension in his comparison between command centers and physical workshops. Command centers still just have lots of general use multi-pu
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AppleScript contains some amazingly powerful APIs, but is nearly impossible to write. Having a Javascript (successor?) implementation is going to unleash its full potential. I could see it becoming much more widely used and supported by t
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What a wonderful comparison. And it gives hope to the fact that software at either end could play the role of this conductor — it can negotiate a "true" sync time and pre-empt the delay, just like a conductor.
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Ugh, on [3], watch out for the non-zero axes. NHL and NBA start their axes at 0, while the others do not. Very tricky, and very deceiving. I think NFL would look very similar to NBA if plotted the same way (they're both within ~10-1
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Interestingly, just yesterday, David Moon posted a very impressive patch to Julia to make its macros much more simple and sane, incorporating some of the concepts from PLOT. https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull&
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Why use braille when you can have a real image? A really awesome feature of iTerm 2's new beta is the ability to display PNGs right inline with the browser[1]. It's easy to use and can create some really cool effects[2]. [1]. Do
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That's from 2012. This was a new plea for another $8MM USD.
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But, really, do you think Apple would have made Grapher if Graphing Calculator had never existed? I'd bet not.
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And here's the NYT story: http://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/11/business/chip-makers-compe... It's a shame the photo is missing.
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Looks nice. I know you weren't asking for a review, but check the last line of the second page: "Led a team of 6 engineers" I'm curious, what does νε παβoρ mean?
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The biggest thing I'd like to see is enabling in-page (control/command-f) search. In my quick scan through the page it looks like it doesn't do that… is that right? Are there plans to add invisible text to the DOM that cont
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Regardless of their perceptions or actual travel speeds, the lane-switchers could be providing a much needed liquidity between the more dynamic right lanes (with entrances and exits) and the more static left lanes. Perhaps it's in doi

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