Pitarou

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by Pitarou 13y ago
So, Mr. Investor, you believe that this is normal, acceptable business practice, and you can't imagine why anybody would put a stop to these guys. And I bet you wonder why VCs get a bad name!
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Well, I guess the secrets are out now.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Oops!
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by Pitarou 13y ago
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by Pitarou 13y ago
If you're using Linux or OSX, run it like this: ./aek > aek.ppm That will produce an image in .ppm format. ('The world's second-dumbest picture format.') You'll probably have to convert it to a more
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by Pitarou 13y ago
I'm kinda' researching this question for my MSc e-Learning technology, so I've got a lot to say on the matter, but I'll try and keep this brief. We need the CompSci equivalent of Meccano sets for kids to tinker with. So
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by Pitarou 13y ago
This part shocked me: > They also collaborated. “When an escape did occur,” wrote one of the investigators, “the Chinese usually recovered the man easily by offering a bag of rice to anyone offering to turn him in.” This was extremely ra
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by Pitarou 13y ago
It takes advantage of JS's complicated type coercion semantics and the overloading of the [] and + operators. We start with [] and [[]]. convert [] to a boolean with !: ![] --> false !![] --> true convert [] to undef
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Shingling. And if you check the post carefully, you'll see that it is carefully designed so the pieces overlap like shingles.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
I just want to highlight what's important about this design: IT'S FRAMELESS This drastically brings down the costs. There are still disadvantages, of course -- the inflexible shape and lack of large, flat, vertical surfaces is a p
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Yes. Happy now?
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Am I the only one who sees all that complexity and yearns for a Tesla? (3 moving parts.)
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Yuckir and yuckir.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Like the form. Hate the bevelling. Am I just following the braying "flat is the new shiny-lickable" herd here?
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by Pitarou 13y ago
800? Wow. I speak French and Japanese, and I've spent a lot of time with Poles, but I still only got 500.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Even better, do away with MagLev altogether, and have them "float" the way an air hockey puck does. (You have read Elon Musk's proposal, haven't you?)
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by Pitarou 13y ago
The comparison with the Concorde was the first thing that sprang to mind with me, too.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
An accounting trick to keep the debt off the government books. A project of that scale could not possibly happen in Japan without whole-hearted government support. (I know I sound like a grumpy cynic, but I've learnt from experience th
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Sigh. I've got nothing against thinking big, but this is not the kind of investment Japan needs right now. BIG money, for only an incremental improvement. (The public transport infrastructure is already very good.) If the boys in th
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Pandoc does something pretty similar. But that doesn't mean there isn't room in the world for both projects. Pandoc strives to be a universal converter, and that means there are certain things it couldn't / shouldn&#x27
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by Pitarou 13y ago
I love this line: > Wall Street abhors a commercial vacuum. If the will to believe stirs within the customer, the merchandise will be supplied -- without warranty.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
As an English teacher, I was fascinated by the grammar questions: much to love and much to hate. On the one hand, diagramming a sentence is a powerful skill, which I wish was taught today. On the other, this one made me chuckle: > How ma
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by Pitarou 13y ago
I've no idea about Russia, but this WOULD NOT WORK in the Anglo-Saxon legal system. Legally, the signed contract is simply the physical manifestation of something deeper: the consensus ad idem or both sides agreeing to the same thin
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by Pitarou 13y ago
You need a clear Scheme. (And seriously, folks, the GNU people used to tout their Scheme interpreter, Guile, as a target for compilers.)
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Interesting. Is that why most engineers are guys?
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by Pitarou 13y ago
But when you say "your code sucks" a lot of people hear "you suck", especially when they've put their heart and soul into it. Still, I think we all know how difficult and time-consuming it can be to deal with people
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by Pitarou 13y ago
That would be cheaper, yes.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
And science marches on. Maybe I'm showing my age, but it astonishes me how quickly the study of exo-planets has progressed. I wonder if I'll live long enough to see images beamed back from an interstellar probe?
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Yes, there is. If we see a wave of cancers among Fukushima workers, that would change matters, but as things stand now it seems much, much more likely that Mr Yoshida got sick for reasons that have nothing to do with the radiation. I don&#x
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by Pitarou 13y ago
> Moving them away from their homes forever was a huge mistake and certainly caused more deaths than any nuclear incident. Living in temporary accommodation, you lose your job, your earnings, you are far from everything, which means over

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