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by LesZedCB 12y ago
I think this is great! My only comment is I wish that the first example was something where meat wasn't the centerpiece. As a culture, we already consume so much more meat than is sustainable, maybe a good home cooked meal where a grai
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by LesZedCB 12y ago
Von Neumann architecture isn't the only form of computation that exists.
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by LesZedCB 12y ago
Technically, if a language can produce side effects, it's considered imperative. However, nobody really is going to say that Haskell is imperative.
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by LesZedCB 12y ago
>Clojure (like all Lisps) is an imperative programming language. "Imperative" languages are contrasted with "declarative" languages. Wikipedia, and probably everybody, defines truly functional programming languages (w
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by LesZedCB 12y ago
> Throughout history, technology has been a job creator—not a job destroyer This is one argument that I have always really disagreed with. Technology doesn't inherently create jobs. Rather it makes people able to be more productive
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by LesZedCB 12y ago
as a general hacker with an interest in learning whatever I can, I am also interested in how one would go about making one. it could be doable just onto a plain windshield, right?
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by LesZedCB 12y ago
The shell looks great, good work! On a side note, I have to say I love README's that look like this. The author did a couple things I really like. 1) They attributed feature ideas to the people they got them from. 2) They listed the go
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by LesZedCB 12y ago
Getting good relational DB schemas on REDIS is hard (read: not designed for that). It's mostly for flat data.
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by LesZedCB 12y ago
Xmonad is a way to optimize on 2D spatial scarcity. I don't think Xmonad will exist in any similar implementation in 3D viewing space. It might end up being similar, but I think that depth, being what humans with camera vision are used
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by LesZedCB 12y ago
An ant as an individual is smart enough to recognize food and bring it back, do basic social behaviors. However, the real intelligence of ants is emergent from the entire colony. http://www.fountainmagazine.com/Issue/de
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by LesZedCB 12y ago
they weren't. I noticed it right away and it annoyed me.
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by LesZedCB 12y ago
I never really learned those things in school, and I just graduated this May. The closest that we could have come to adaquate discussion of one of those topics would be the databases elective, though i didn't take that one. We gave a 5
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by LesZedCB 13y ago
could I get one? chris@avertentropy.com
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by LesZedCB 13y ago
From the same article: >The modern academic sense of the word, in the context of social roles of men and women, dates from the work of John Money (1955), and was popularized and developed by the feminist movement from the 1970s onwards (
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by LesZedCB 13y ago
previous is unambiguous. Last is extremely ambiguous. Last = Nth element or current -1? Similar with back or reverse. Previous means N-1 every time. Also it's a pretty commonly used programmer idiom.
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by LesZedCB 13y ago
I don't think he means big-O notation as a theoretical model... Processors are not the same as they were when they were single core machines. The entirety of computing and thinking about problem solving has become different than it was befo
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by LesZedCB 13y ago
So, as a linux user wishing to have some communication with other people in the world, what is the correct alternative to skype?
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by LesZedCB 13y ago
this video is actually just the exception that proves the point. Because this was so controversial, it was so popular.
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by LesZedCB 13y ago
I remember iPads felt that way for some when they first came out.
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by LesZedCB 13y ago
API: Application Program Interface. There is nothing other than the interface of an API to copy. That's what it is. However, the implementation is what copyright protects, so, honestly, I think this whole article is not very relevant.
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by LesZedCB 14y ago
This just simply isn't true. It does mean "too long, didn't read" as in, "this wall of text is too long. I didn't read it."
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by LesZedCB 14y ago
oh yeah, I forgot it was that simple. Watson has several different teams of people to manage its different parts...
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by LesZedCB 14y ago
~2045 i think you mean for brain uploading.
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by LesZedCB 14y ago
he was being ironic. We already have that technology.
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by LesZedCB 14y ago
There were a couple nobody got wrong... I got 5/10 right.
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by LesZedCB 14y ago
this is probably a good thing more often then not, though.
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by LesZedCB 14y ago
honestly I read this and that was instantly where my hope went. I mean, picking silverlight in the first place was a bad enough decision on netflix' part. Maybe I'm just bitter because I'm on ubuntu though.
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by LesZedCB 14y ago
I used to live in Istanbul, I actually lived in the section shown on this map. I can verify from walking hundreds of miles through those serpentine back roads that wandering Istanbul is a beautiful experience.
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by LesZedCB 14y ago
How about a TOS Wiki?
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by LesZedCB 14y ago
As of 10:44 pm eastern time, it has increased to 1.8M. Sounds like people believe in this to me...

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