Estragon

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by Estragon 15y ago
Tarring all of postmodern theory with the Sokal hoax brush is like claiming that all of medicine is a fraud because of the Thalidomide disaster. Not saying you're necessarily wrong, just that your reasoning here is at least as lazy and flaw
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by Estragon 15y ago
Just an anecdote, but I have been using chrome for the last six months because everything else was slow as a dog on my Mum's MacBook Pro, and chrome was super-fast. But the lack of decent keyboard link navigation is driving me crazy, and m
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by Estragon 15y ago
It also had really good governance for a while, under Rudd. Shame the mining companies had to take him out.
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by Estragon 15y ago
Thanks, Lukas.
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by Estragon 15y ago
This sounds interesting. Can anyone recommend some highlights from his blog which would help evaluate whether it's worth purchasing?
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by Estragon 15y ago
What did SearchYC give you over a google search like "site:news.ycombinator.com <search term>"?
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by Estragon 15y ago
What's Larry Wall up to these days, anyway?
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by Estragon 15y ago
Evidence of it being mounted could exist, for instance in his shell history.
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by Estragon 15y ago
getaround.com looks interesting. Shame they require a facebook account.
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by Estragon 15y ago
There is always capacity to choose not to act on a reactive impulse. The notion that that capacity is a finite resource which can be depleted is an illusion.
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by Estragon 15y ago
One of the things I've learned from meditation is that the "depletion" model of willpower is bogus. The Happiness Trap is a good model for the development of willpower. http://www.thehappinesstrap.com/
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by Estragon 15y ago
How are you extracting the points for each comment?
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by Estragon 15y ago
That was a brilliant joke, hardest I've laughed all day. Some choice comments: I don't like to wait 218382 seconds to sort '(0 218382) If you slept exp(n) instead of n it could easily include negative integers too*!* Oh shit, w
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by Estragon 15y ago
Plus some flame bait, to attract links like this thread.
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by Estragon 15y ago
You might want to note this in the README of that repository, and maybe update the tag-line description at the top of the github page. (I assume it's this one https://github.com/daeken/Emokit )
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by Estragon 15y ago
It's not really possible to shut it down. They may be able to chill it substantially with sting operations on buyers, but that's not going to stop it.
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by Estragon 15y ago
That's not strictly correct. It really comes down to whether you're calling a native python function or a C extension. If it's a native python function call, it's going to be relatively slow.
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by Estragon 15y ago
> ...the article is from January 2007; I'd wager that Python has > evolved and had a wealth of optimisations since then... The observations I made regarding list-comprehensions vs map have been true since list comprehensio
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by Estragon 15y ago
> [Despite the existence of "enumerate", "xrange(maxint)"] can still > be useful when you want to include an index along with several > other lists, however, e.g. zip(list_1, list_2, indices) I would just use for
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by Estragon 15y ago
What are the bandwidth limits on this service?
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by Estragon 15y ago
It's another example of shortsightedness by the USG,but fortuitous in this case. The technology described in this article will likely be used to circumvent domestic USG intentions within 10 years.
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by Estragon 15y ago
I work without shoes. It takes a while for your feet to toughen up to the strain on your arch, but they do.
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by Estragon 15y ago
This is cool. How does one go about learning these kinds of skills?
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by Estragon 15y ago
Actually, if it's a GNU licence, the original author may be perfectly entitled to licence the software under more commercially favorable terms. I know of at least one author who's made a significant amount of money doing this.
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by Estragon 15y ago
Regarding the snarks about the unlabeled x-axis, obviously it's time transformed so that days-of-work-not-yet-in-production decreases exponentially.
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by Estragon 15y ago
The networking costs will kill you.
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by Estragon 15y ago
Very likely a coincidence. D-Wave is a bit of a joke. Do you think the method is scaleable up to the 128 qubits that D-Wave is claiming? Well, there’s no reason of principle why you couldn’t scale to a larger number of qubits! Bu
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by Estragon 15y ago
Your phone will now also be an even more powerful device for tracking your activity. I'm surprised at how relaxed everyone is about that.
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by Estragon 15y ago
Pavlina's usually pretty out there. It suprises me that he still gets as much attention as he does. There's one born every minute, I guess.
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by Estragon 15y ago
Are there any replacements which plug me into Australia's landline phone system for $12/month? Because that is Skype's primary utility, for me.

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