Estragon

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by Estragon 13y ago
If you have any citations for that, they'd be interesting reading.
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by Estragon 13y ago
Could you give a more concrete example of the idempotent update problem, please? It's too abstract for me to follow.
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by Estragon 13y ago
It's certainly disturbing to see someone you respect misinform people in order to advance a personal agenda.
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by Estragon 13y ago
It was reverence for his reply, which is indeed quite skillful and restrained.
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by Estragon 13y ago
A key foundation of a modern nation's power over its citizens is the ability to arbitrarily create and destroy the national currency, to legitimately demand that taxes be paid in that currency, and to thus be able to use it to purchase
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by Estragon 13y ago
I stopped following bitcoin about 18 months ago so it's possible my information is out of date, but I think your assertion is only true in the sense that today's client does no mining. It is miners which run these scripts, and whe
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by Estragon 13y ago
It's an invitation to IA to dig themselves a deeper hole. :-)
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by Estragon 13y ago
Seconding the recommendation of Spivak's Calculus . That book lit a fire in me when I was 18. Be sure to work through the exercises, that's where all the fun is.
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by Estragon 13y ago
I help teach a nonviolent communication program at a nearby prison, and the technological restrictions placed on the prisoners are pretty shocking to me. They are allowed an electric typewriter with 7K of memory (down from 16K.) The only
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by Estragon 13y ago
Another way to ask what backs a currency is "Why would I want to acquire this currency, even if I had alternative methods for procuring the goods and services I want?" For a national currency, the answer is that the government pu
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by Estragon 13y ago
You're just going to have to get used to the fact that discovering cool websites is not as rewarding as it used to be, and go find some activity which is more rewarding. It helps, when you catch yourself in the addictive activity, to f
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by Estragon 13y ago
It makes it fast and easy to back out if you screw anything up. Even if the data is still there, it can be complex to pull it back out and configure it the way it was when you started (as the commands in this tutorial demonstrate.) So a f
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by Estragon 13y ago
In certain forms of Theravadin practice, the bliss is the "engine" which motivates the concentration on the target object. Fostering the bliss does tend to make it much easier to settle down, particularly when the mind is disturb
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by Estragon 13y ago
Yes, I just took 18 months off work, and I'm finding that no one cares. Seems like the fact that I can code is plenty of reason to hire me.
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by Estragon 13y ago
Yes, so much bullshit has been published over the last decade as a result of artifacts in the measurement of TFBS that you have to be skeptical.
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by Estragon 13y ago
I rely on talking to people who share my interests and do read the news. Works pretty well.
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by Estragon 13y ago
It is that bad. http://www.labtimes.org/labtimes/issues/lt2011/lt02/lt_2011_...
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by Estragon 13y ago
You didn't miss much. It was an "inspirational" talk.
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by Estragon 13y ago
It was probably a suggestion by a pharmaceutical industry lobbyist.
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by Estragon 13y ago
I see no interesting features in this visualization. What part am I supposed to be looking at?
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by Estragon 13y ago
From the thread in the OP: ...to exploit the real power and appreciate design choices takes months if not years... It sounds like the benefits of Scala are very subtle, and I would love to read an informative overview of them and why
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by Estragon 13y ago
I volunteer with a nonviolent communication program at a local prison, and I would guess that sentence would completely shatter her, at least if she was male. Every fellow inmate will identify with her victims and in a male prison they wou
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by Estragon 13y ago
Actually, I agree with him, but it's funny how these articles always pile on when the price is crashing.
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by Estragon 13y ago
Huh, I always assumed that was just more security hysteria, but it looks like you are right. http://www.laserpointersafety.com/page52/laser-hazard_diagra...
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by Estragon 13y ago
This clojure code takes six seconds to run in an ubuntu 12.04 vbox guest, two seconds on the ubuntu 12.04 host. http://clojure.org/agents#Agents and Asynchronous Actions--Example
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by Estragon 13y ago
Why is pointing a laser pointer at a plane a big deal?
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by Estragon 13y ago
It's more complex than that. For instance, I was on student health insurance which (a) jumped substantially in price and (b) required upfront payment of 12 months of premiums, with no possibility of reimbursement if something better c
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by Estragon 13y ago
apt-get install lubuntu-desktop
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by Estragon 13y ago
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:mZhbfnr...
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by Estragon 13y ago
No, I mean the conversation that link is part of.

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