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1081.
by DonaldFisk 10y ago
It would be interesting to see the distribution on the Political Compass ( https://www.politicalcompass.org/ ).
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by DonaldFisk 10y ago
He also said, "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." "Perhaps the late Lord Attlee was right," she [Mrs Thatcher] observed, "when he sai
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by DonaldFisk 10y ago
Oh very funny, and not particularly accurate. Ptolemy used the term Great Britain (μεγάλης Βρεττανίας) for the large island in 147AD, long before Scotland or England existed. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_
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by DonaldFisk 10y ago
If the Scottish independence referendum had resulted in Scotland gaining independence from the UK (like Spain, then a EU country) and then applied to join, there might be a reason for Spain to worry, as that roughly mirrors the situation wi
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by DonaldFisk 10y ago
I'm no fan of hers, but home secretaries seem to get house trained by the security service (MI5) soon after taking office. The home secretaries of the previous Blair/Brown Labour administration were also dreadful. Someone once
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by DonaldFisk 10y ago
An bhfuil Gaeilge agaibh? I was correcting someone who didn't think that the Celtic languages and Latin were in any way related. That is not true: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo-Celtic explains this, even
1087.
by DonaldFisk 10y ago
Scarblac is correct. We became the United Kingdom .
1088.
by DonaldFisk 10y ago
http://www.snopes.com/language/apocryph/german.asp
1089.
by DonaldFisk 10y ago
Ahem. France is a republic, and Spain is a constitutional monarchy.
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by DonaldFisk 10y ago
Celtic languages (Scottish Gaelic, Irish, Manx, Welsh, Cornish, and Breton) are all distantly related to Latin, and probably closer to Latin than other branches of Indo-European. Basque is a language isolate spoken in parts of Spain and Fra
1091.
by DonaldFisk 10y ago
He was out campaigning for a Remain vote but this was largely ignored by the media.
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by DonaldFisk 10y ago
The last time there was a referendum on EU membership was in 1975, and the result was overwhelmingly in favour of staying in, so many of those older voters who voted for Brexit must have changed their minds.
1093.
by DonaldFisk 10y ago
The Conservatives have an absolute majority in the HoC and their MPs will be whipped to vote for the UK to leave the EU.
1094.
by DonaldFisk 10y ago
Unlikely. Much of the resentment from Leave voters was over immigration from EU countries. The EEA guarantees free movement of people within it. If there are further referendums, they'll be for Scottish independence, Irish unity an
1095.
by DonaldFisk 10y ago
It wasn't one of EU's founding countries. Those were France, (West) Germany, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg.
1096.
by DonaldFisk 10y ago
Merit can't be defined generally, varies according to circumstances, and people disagree on what is desirable. When it can be defined, it is usually difficult or impossible to measure. When we attempt to measure it, some people fin
1097.
by DonaldFisk 10y ago
It would be nice, but I don't see it happening any time soon. http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterubel/2014/12/15/is-homo-eco... Peter Ubel writes: "The researchers paint a powerful picture o
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by DonaldFisk 10y ago
http://hammerprinciple.com/therighttool/items/php http://www.azquotes.com/author/47278-Rasmus_Lerdorf As a language designer myself, I would find it hard to design a language worse than PHP
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by DonaldFisk 10y ago
None. That's why I've been developing my own language ( http://web.onetel.com/~hibou/fmj/tutorials/TOC.html ). It isn't ready yet: there are still bugs in the IDE, and without a compiler it&#x2
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by DonaldFisk 10y ago
Farsi has four additional letters: : پ [p], چ [t͡ʃ], ژ [ʒ], and گ [ɡ].
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by DonaldFisk 10y ago
You are mistaken. In Lisp, lists are constructed out of NIL and dotted pairs, so, (1 . (2 . (3 . NIL))) = (1 2 3) I chose to implement lists in Python in the same way, out of () and 2-element tuples. So (1 2 3) = (1 . (2 . (3 . NIL))) i
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by DonaldFisk 10y ago
C is weakly typed. You have to declare types in the languages you mention. You shouldn't have to. Type inference was figured out decades ago, it can be done by the compiler, and in some languages, it is.
1103.
by DonaldFisk 10y ago
# No. x = sexpr.list(1, 2, 3, 4) >>> print x (1, (2, (3, (4, ())))) >>> print sexpr.cdr(x) (2, (3, (4, ()))) # which is what you want. >>> def cdr2(x): return x if x == () else x[1:] ... >>> print cdr2(x)
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by DonaldFisk 10y ago
> So, if one has a device attached to ones genitals and it is remote controlled by another person There's a word for that, and it's "teledildonics". The term was invented by none other than Ted Nelson.
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by DonaldFisk 10y ago
Here's my implementation, using tuples. But bear in mind that for almost everything Python's used for, Python lists (i.e. vectors) are good enough. def cons(x, y): return (x, y) def car(x): return x if x == () els
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by DonaldFisk 10y ago
I use lists a lot. That's because I program in Lisp most of the time. Lists are a very flexible data structure. But I wouldn't use them in a language if I had to implement them from scratch, such as C, or in a language where
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by DonaldFisk 10y ago
Agreed.
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by DonaldFisk 10y ago
I don't think C (or C++) should be used for autonomous vehicles at all, as it is known to be unsafe, but if it is, the MISRA C guidelines or something similar should be used to help prevent certain kinds of bugs. Almost any other stati
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by DonaldFisk 10y ago
There are standards (MISRA C) which are supposed to stop things like that happening. Perhaps they weren't being followed? There are other safe languages they could have used which have a longer track record than Rust, e.g. Ada. It&
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by DonaldFisk 10y ago
Here, Chuck complains about bloated C programs: https://web.archive.org/web/20121028010948/http://www.colorf... Of course, even C is a simple, tiny language compared to C++.

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