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by Fixnum 17y ago
Sadly, no commit in almost a year: http://github.com/fab13n/metalua (The article itself is from 2007.)
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by Fixnum 17y ago
Thanks!
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by Fixnum 17y ago
Without taking the time to read the rest of the book, I am suspicious of the author's claims that he has really solved the problem. Consider: - Wolfram Mathworld references this topic and claims Benford's Law was put on a rigorous footing
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Schneier: U.S. enables Chinese hacking of Google(cnn.com)
15 points by Fixnum 17y ago|0 comments
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by Fixnum 17y ago
Or Wikileaks really needs to find a new electronic payment service.
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The girl who conned the Ivy League(rollingstone.com)
52 points by Fixnum 17y ago|18 comments
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by Fixnum 17y ago
For example?
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by Fixnum 17y ago
Wanted: web programmer with knowledge of game theory to help design a rating system (must be useful, fair, and hard to subvert) for new programming tutoring site.
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by Fixnum 17y ago
Given the type of rhetoric coming from Perminov, I suspect that the driving force behind this announcement is merely resurgent Russian nationalism, if not an explicit political directive to distract Russians from the economy, the continuing
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PCC builds OpenBSD kernel (4.6 -current)(undeadly.org)
44 points by Fixnum 17y ago|19 comments
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by Fixnum 17y ago
Agree. Along the same lines, the items of the form <span style="font-size:24px;" class="blue">Learning is a game.</span> look like they ought to be links to describing the features (they're blue!) and so sent me needlessly
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by Fixnum 17y ago
I am genuinely curious as to how you think this will come to pass. We are finally seeing commercial PC/laptop vendors selling preloaded Linux and OpenSolaris. One has the freedom to remove the preloaded OS or even the BIOS, and install the
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Obituary: MIT's "foremost academic economist of the 20th century"(nytimes.com)
20 points by Fixnum 17y ago|2 comments
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by Fixnum 17y ago
Incoherent is a good word: "Don't build a framework ... It's advice the Perl Parrot and Radaku [sic] projects should probably have heeded ages ago, advice the Ruby on Rails people should keep in mind today." Why does he cite open source pro
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by Fixnum 17y ago
Cool, but the IP and associated search query are still stored, no?
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by Fixnum 17y ago
As far as I can tell, opening the universities to the masses damages the classes, standards, and student-faculty relations to the point where those who really 'ought' to be at university rather than at technical colleges don't benefit in th
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by Fixnum 17y ago
"... the competent people are still competent ..." Sadly, one could adduce many reasons this no longer remains true.
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by Fixnum 17y ago
I'm not sure it's easy to provide the specific information you're requesting, but Glenn Greenwald documents the influence Goldman Sachs has over financial regulation in the US: http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/10/16/goldman/in..
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Colourblindness cured in monkeys by gene therapy(news.nationalgeographic.com)
2 points by Fixnum 17y ago|0 comments
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by Fixnum 17y ago
Agree completely. To my knowledge, Apple hasn't supported SCO-like efforts to destroy Linux, funded studies claiming Linux was plagiarized, consistently shipped buggy and insecure code, and wielded the patent and lobbying swords against it
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by Fixnum 17y ago
There seems to be a parallel with Arc here (though Arc's still running on top of Scheme): both languages are new versions of mature languages (Perl 5 and CL) which are/will be languishing in not-quite-final versions for the community to com
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by Fixnum 17y ago
This post is interesting but hard to take too seriously. First, I don't understand the author's hostility to the idea of graduates taking courses. Grad courses supply general knowledge not acquired in undergrad and in-depth knowledge to p