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by S4M 12y ago
Well, I downvoted him after reading your comment, so I thought I might as well explain it in your response. Now, jacquesm's reply is making me regret my downvote. Also, I agree with what you think about downvotes. I think HN should h
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by S4M 12y ago
I just downvoted the GP, and not because I disagree with his opinion, but because I think his advice is a dangerous one to follow. For example, the stalker could be using someone else's computer, and hacking him back would only harm th
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by S4M 12y ago
In the same vein, here's how a Common Lisp programmer view other programmers: http://kvardek-du.kerno.org/2010/01/how-common-lisp-programm...
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by S4M 12y ago
I think Earth has to be closed enough from the Sun to get heath, otherwise the whole mankind will die from cold.
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by S4M 12y ago
Do you have Minara available somewhere? I'd be interested in taking a look.
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by S4M 12y ago
I don't disagree with what you are saying, but you are not answering my question.
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by S4M 12y ago
> The judge didn't allow evidence that my attorney wanted to show the jury, including a range of videos of the incident. That's the part I find the most shocking in this article. Aren't trials supposed to be fair? What are
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by S4M 12y ago
Yes, but then the scam business would be less profitable for them since they would have to buy or build those bots to analyze answer. Plus it could create some kind of war on automated conversation bot which would be a net win for the AI in
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by S4M 12y ago
http://sql.learncodethehardway.org/
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by S4M 12y ago
Not really, the goal is to have lots of emails responding to the scammers, so they don't know who to pay attention to, so that's hard to have a manual process for that (and there's already 419eaters).
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by S4M 12y ago
Wouldn't that be a blatant abuse of dominant position?
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by S4M 12y ago
I think you're taking about http://www.419eater.com Yeah, my idea would be to automate what they are doing. It won't be able to do the crazy stuff people came out with though, but it will be able to "reach" m
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by S4M 12y ago
One thing I have been wanting to do for a long time about Nigerian like scams, but never got around doing it, was the following: 1. create some bait email accounts from gmail, yahoo, and so on, and expose them somewhere on internet so t
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by S4M 12y ago
And is there a way it from my machine without installing MacLisp? is there some way to translate MacLisp into Common Lisp?
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by S4M 12y ago
It's seems to be in a Lisp dialect that predates common lisp unfortunately.
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by S4M 12y ago
OT, but what do you find irritating in LOTR's writing? too many descriptions? Personally I appreciate Tolkien's style of writing (I read LOTR several times in English which is not my mother tongue).
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by S4M 12y ago
In this article, my guess is that Bob said to be "philosophically opposed" to marriage to avoid marrying Jaqui, the real reason behind that is that it would leave a trail of official papers behind him, which is not something you w
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by S4M 12y ago
In the article, it says: "Bob claimed to be philosophically opposed to marriage; Jacqui was fine with that." so I suppose they didn't get married at all.
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by S4M 12y ago
I don't have the exact link, but I recall an article on HN where the OP complained about NASA stopping to use LISP. The killer feature LISP had was what is just described here: the possibility to interact with live systems through the
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by S4M 12y ago
CORRECTION: `+(a,*(b,c),1)` is NOT like LISP code. However, Julia helps you to get the head of an expression (in this case, +) and it's args.
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by S4M 12y ago
Julia is not lisp like, and has macros [1]. The way it works is that your code is first interpreted to get the AST that looks like LISP code (`a+b c+1` becomes `+(a, (b,c),1)`) and your macro operates on that. So basically it works like a l
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by S4M 12y ago
> I had a friend who was Manjul's TA for a probability class our senior year. I still remember him exclaiming, "There's no way that series telescoped!" [1] when Manjul solved one problem in a particularly clever way.
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by S4M 12y ago
The winners were listed yesterday, then I noticed they removed the list, but now it's back.
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by S4M 12y ago
Man, this guy is impressive as well.
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by S4M 12y ago
The more I read HN, the more I am impressed by the diversity of its readers. Now we have the cousin of a field medalist, nothing less!
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by S4M 12y ago
I really, really don't see how you can say that the Macs have the best UI when you can't change the desktop manager.
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by S4M 12y ago
Ah! I haven't thought of using wc, although I frequently use it to count the number of lines in my code. For awk, yes, I have to learn it. Thanks to you and the others who gave the example in bash.
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by S4M 12y ago
I like it! Now I can count the number of files I have in a directory: ls |py -l 'sum(1 for x in l)' And also I can count the number of files whose names matche a certain extension: ls |grep .py |py -l 'sum(1 for
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by S4M 12y ago
Do you check xkcd and Dilbert?
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by S4M 12y ago
I don't know about Embedded, but if you want to make money by doing Game programming, I strongly suggest to work on your own - and possibly team up with a graphic designer.

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