James_Duval

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by James_Duval 13y ago
C#'s namespaces also make more sense to me than Java's packages.
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by James_Duval 13y ago
What I like most about Java is that you can switch more easily to certain fashionable languages (Scala and Clojure) which have good interopability with Java because they use the JVM. Sources for this claim: http://www.slideshare.
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by James_Duval 13y ago
I imagine most web devs don't mind about AdBlock if they run that kind of advert -- I mean, it's a self-selecting filter. The people who are savvy enough to use AdBlock (and I'm sorry for my condescension here, I really am) a
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by James_Duval 13y ago
There is a huge benefit related to your point about smoothing out human error: People who pick the wrong lanes can change back immediately and travel the right way rather than either (a) slowing to a crawl with their indicator on hoping to
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by James_Duval 13y ago
Most of the article seemed to be defending Gideon Levy ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon_Levy ), so I don't think it has a pro-Israeli bias.
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by James_Duval 13y ago
King have been around for a fair while. The appeal while I was under-employed was that you could win small cash prizes, which was pretty compelling. I was able to use these as seed money to earn from various poker sites. I think that King.c
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by James_Duval 13y ago
Wait, " your are activating your VIP Membership"? That's sloppy. You'd think with $40 a month for shoes (wat) they'd be able to hire a proof reader.
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by James_Duval 13y ago
For me, "file:pdf" returns .pdfs, .pdf documentation, .pdf information...all kinds of things which aren't .pdf. "filetype:pdf" seems to be the only command which reliably returns just .pdfs. I'm in the UK, yo
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by James_Duval 13y ago
> By "invisible", do you mean that webapps that use JSP typically use URL mapping so that you never see the .jsp extension? If not, then I'm not sure I get your meaning. Oh, I just meant that JSP is never, ever mentioned i
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by James_Duval 13y ago
From the point-of-view of a web developer, JSP is virtually invisible. For this reason, I guess the majority of online tech magazine readers, who would presumably be mostly ninjas, pirates and rockstars, would think of Java as dead. I mea
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by James_Duval 13y ago
I'm currently attempting to write a roguelike using nothing other than Excel formulae (no macros etc.). It's going surprisingly well so far, although the limitations are obviously frustrating - not least the inability to correctly
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by James_Duval 13y ago
As practised here: http://blogs.hbr.org/2010/08/an-innovation-lesson-from-dr-se...
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by James_Duval 13y ago
Thanks for this. I don't actually use C, although I know a few languages with C-like syntax (Java, JS, AS2.0) and I'm learning Go & planning to learn D. This small change will be really helpful in all these languages. Even if
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by James_Duval 13y ago
They might be, but equally they could be a marker of an unorthodox but brilliant piece of work (fast inverse square root springs to mind). I suppose that's the unscientific part, but it does strike me as being a bit of a useless marker
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Disturbing infographic on damage caused by malaria(doctorfox.co.uk)
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by James_Duval 13y ago
There is also a course involving network analysis on Coursera, https://www.coursera.org/course/sna EDIT: The relevance being that it involves the use of Gephi.
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by James_Duval 13y ago
Which actually would make sense as a bullshit job title, taken in context with the memes of certain online communities...
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by James_Duval 13y ago
Probably for the same reason you use 'it' when it's quite obvious he's a 'he', it's a more convenient and more colloquial way of phrasing something. *EDIT: for tone & clarity
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by James_Duval 13y ago
What, like this? http://playstarbound.com/
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by James_Duval 13y ago
What I really found helpful was learning Racket. Common Lisp is a little less straight-forward and a little more complex, so Racket is awesome for learning the patterns you'll use to program with. I'm starting to move into Common
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Faster, Statically Typed PHP With C-Arrays(php-qb.net)
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by James_Duval 13y ago
> An exception is made in the case of consensual sex with someone under 16 "when the other party is of a similar age or stage of development and maturity", a loose concept that judges will have to define on a case-by-case basis
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by James_Duval 13y ago
> The cheapest funding level which actually gives you the hardware is $149, and they say their factory requires a minimum order of 10,000 units. That seems to be the $1,490,000 right there. That seems tight. How do you think they are the
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by James_Duval 13y ago
Why? It happened during World War II, when the entirety of Bletchley Park was covered up. I can easily imagine this being the case.
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by James_Duval 13y ago
- the colonies
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by James_Duval 13y ago
> Same applies to scientists. They work individually, and pretty much do work and are judged in isolation. I don't think this is true any more. Historically, you had individual scientists working hard on very specific problem areas.
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by James_Duval 13y ago
That's certainly a relevant test, and I'd like to see the method and results. I can believe it, if only because the quality of the best fresh produce at Aldi tends to be very high, but that of the worst tends to be relatively low.
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by James_Duval 13y ago
I don't know Python, so I may be missing something, but: I don't understand how the naive approach can be O(n^2) if it involves matrix multiplication. Surely at best it would be somewhere between O(n^2) and O(n^3), and most likely
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by James_Duval 13y ago
It's not fair at all in Britain. The whole "Didldidi" Mitchell & Webb snobbishness conceals the fact that Aldi's food is generally of better quality and cheaper than Tesco's or Asda's. It doesn't ten
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by James_Duval 13y ago
Yes, that was why I thought of Asimov. The thing I was unaware of was that Asimov did actually think of his writing as social science fiction.

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