Aqueous

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by Aqueous 13y ago
Alpha House...Betas....where are we going with this?
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by Aqueous 13y ago
Right - I count being the official money of the eurozone as an extrinsic quality, not an intrinsic one. Fiat money is intrinsically worthless, just like BitCoin. Unlike gold which has utility in that its market value isn't just based o
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by Aqueous 13y ago
Right. That's what I mean. I'm talking about start-up currencies here; the EU could offer its currency higher than $0 because it was putting its own credibility behind it. But that's the only because people agreed to buy it a
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by Aqueous 13y ago
No, it's a fundamental problem with all upstart currencies that have yet to gain widespread adoption. All currencies are going to start off at $0, being worth nothing. Obviously the price can only go up as adoption occurs. So any start
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by Aqueous 13y ago
LXC is to Jail as Docker is to CBSD
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by Aqueous 13y ago
I see GCC as performing the necessary function of defining the radical antithesis to proprietary tools, historically like Think C, C++, Borland,and Metrowerks, and presents tools like Microsoft's Visual C/C++. Without GCC staking
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by Aqueous 13y ago
I remember the IIfx...it had a 68030 with an FPU, which made me jealous because I had a Performa 475 with a 68LC040. The 68LC40 was a deliberately crippled 68040 with no FPU, which made it in some very important ways worse than the 68030, a
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by Aqueous 13y ago
The problem with quantum computers is that you never know whether they are one or not.
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by Aqueous 13y ago
Yes. I also should have placed my response in reply to mlchild's application.
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Even as a rabid user of Scala and sometimes Erlang, it strikes me that "exciting purely functional data structures" may be an oxymoron.
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by Aqueous 13y ago
Dear founders of Y Combinator, We regret to inform you that we are unable to offer you a spot in this year's Y Combinator class. Do not take it personally. It does not reflect poorly on the quality of your company, "Y Combinator,&
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by Aqueous 13y ago
So if you ship something you thought I was going to buy but don't, do I still have to pay for it when it arrives? Because I'm fucking keeping it.
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by Aqueous 13y ago
Perhaps it would be best to move all non-specialized builds into Amazon or Rackspace or some automated CI service, and to move the specialized builds to a differnet, less expensive place, or keep them where they are. At the very least your
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by Aqueous 13y ago
More likely no personnel was required because they simply paid off American manufacturers to implant these circuit boards in computers they knew were going to be shipped and used overseas. The bottom line, though? This isn't surprising
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"I often have to back off of idiomatic Scala to achieve these goals (especially when it comes to GC pressure). " Can you give an example of when you had to do this? I often wonder about the performance costs of chaining together s
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by Aqueous 13y ago
That's true about JSON - it can be quite tedious if you have to write JSON reads and writes for things like JSON validation. But Play can autogenerate the reads/writes combinators for cases where validation isn't needed, so i
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by Aqueous 13y ago
Right. But my argument is that the compile hit as at least mostly compensated for by the guarantee of program correctness, which PHP doesn't have. Forcing you to go through a user interaction to see if your change broke anything, which
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by Aqueous 13y ago
Well, I mean, we are just seeing the beginning of fully fledged AI in the movie. We are coming into this story just as this high-level AI is arriving on the market and being billed as a companion and/or possible romantic partner for th
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by Aqueous 13y ago
I too have had to maintain PHP code that I've since replaced with Scala, and our Scala production cycle has gotten quite fast indeed. The thing about Scala is: the compiler is the worst, slowest part of the language by far, and admitte
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by Aqueous 13y ago
Well, it's not going to end. Right? I think the answer is we just have to know when to shut it off. Infinite scroll is a gift because we are going to have to rely on ourselves to know when to stop. Which could be a useful skill, given
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by Aqueous 13y ago
This seems obvious. Having no money is very stressful. Stress not only makes you generally very unhappy - it actually damages your brain ( http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15511597 ). Stress is an unhealthy thing to ex
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by Aqueous 13y ago
Right. But that is the prohibitive factor for many startups. They cannot afford nor are they willing to pay Stanford for PageRank.
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It's not really a static ranking, though, is it? The PageRank is constantly recalculated when incoming links change. I don't know what other search engines have implemented because none of them will let me see their code :-) I do
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Woops. Even so Google might not mind because the opensiteexplorer doesn't really compete with its core business.
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Google pays Mozilla hundreds of millions a year to keep its default status in the search bar. Perhaps being able to use PR was part of the deal, or perhaps Mozilla is rich enough to pay royalties to Stanford. Or perhaps Google doesn't
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Part of the problem is that Google's PageRank algorithm is patented and the patent won't expire until 2017. Google insists that its current search mix is based on a lot more than just PageRank, but it seems that PageRank probably
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by Aqueous 13y ago
It sounds like they probably don't have a comprehensive test suite. Or perhaps they don't have a test suite at all.
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Every attempt to compel humanity towards some higher degree of morality, or to accelerate this process, either through force or through law or by throwing money at the problem, fails. Our morality is increasing, but slowly. It is a developm
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by Aqueous 13y ago
I dont really want my mid-level domains to potentially be hashes - I want domains at all levels to be intelligible and, optimally, to be named what they are, i.e. foodinchicago.com or food_in_chicago.com or food in chicago.nlp_name Perhaps
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"In fact, if you strip away its technological trappings -- the encryption, the peer-to-peer networks -- and Bitcoin closely resembles these earlier private efforts." In other words if you strip away everything that makes BitCoin d

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