Sniffnoy

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   by Sniffnoy 15y ago

   "Complexity theorists"?
2. 1382.▲
   by Sniffnoy 15y ago

   Or specifically, "impersonation".
3. 1383.▲
   by Sniffnoy 15y ago

   Does anyone know what happened to Wikipedia's proposed blackout? It would be best if the different websites doing this could coordinate.
4. 1384.▲
   by Sniffnoy 15y ago

   I'm wondering whatever happened to Wikipedia's blackout. Since they're the first ones to actually put forth a serious blackout suggestion (as opposed to this one guy's just announcing a day), shouldn't people be coordinating with them?
5. 1385.▲
   by Sniffnoy 15y ago

   Link to the actual article, not to a blog that links to the article. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2011/12/strip-act-...
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   by Sniffnoy 15y ago

   Strangely it excludes eta-reduction... that wouldn't be hard to include...
7. 1387.▲
   by Sniffnoy 15y ago

   No, all of those have in-arrows: Sather 0.1 has one from Eiffel 2, Icon has one from SL5, and BASIC has one from FORTRAN II and one from ALGOL 60.
8. 1388.▲
   by Sniffnoy 15y ago

   Trying to find the ones that have no in-arrows. I see: FORTRAN, B-0, Lisp, APL, SNOBOL, JOSS, ISWIM, Forth, sh, Prolog, sed, ML, B (not the predecessor of C, some other B, 1981), and Tcl. Did I miss any?
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   by Sniffnoy 15y ago

   This wouldn't be so much a problem if "shareholder value" were taken to mean "the value one can get by holding a share" (i.e. profits) rather than "the value one can get by selling a share"...
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    by Sniffnoy 15y ago

    "RPG" is an empirical cluster. It's a mistake to seriously attempt to infer the properties of the cluster from the term used to describe it. It does seem safe to say that the above description is overly narrow, but that doesn't mean most v
11. 1391.▲
    by Sniffnoy 15y ago

    Sure you can validate emails by regex! :D http://ex-parrot.com/~pdw/Mail-RFC822-Address.html
12. 1392.▲
    by Sniffnoy 15y ago

    Ah, so by "if this were not so" he meant "if they weren't protected"? I read it as "if they didn't have to be protected", which is why I was confused.
13. 1393.▲
    by Sniffnoy 15y ago

    > If this were not so, targets could simply sidestep our intelligence collection vectors. Sorry, could you explain this? I can't seem to put this together.
14. 1394.▲
    by Sniffnoy 15y ago

    As someone who doesn't typically have reason to use either -- is using floats rather than doubles actually common? I was under the impression this was pretty rare.
15. 1395.▲
    by Sniffnoy 15y ago

    In particular they awarded a "Best one-liner" that year (sykes2) if you want something that'll only take an hour or two to figure out. :) (Shorter if you don't miscount and get thrown off by the distractor like I did...)
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    by Sniffnoy 15y ago

    Bah, Unlambda is clearly artificial. You want something that is ridiculous in a natural way, you use Iota: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iota_and_Jot
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    by Sniffnoy 15y ago

    I'm not sure this really explains how the price came to be that way?
18. 1398.▲
    by Sniffnoy 15y ago

    Huh, that's good to know. Unfortunately what I was looking for was a reverse sort by date...
19. 1399.▲
    by Sniffnoy 15y ago

    I still wish there a sort by date option, for when I'm trying to find the oldest occurrence of something...
20. 1400.▲
    by Sniffnoy 15y ago

    Really? I think you meant rhumb lines. :) They're both important, just for different reasons; and it's rhumb lines that are easily visible on a Mercator projection and that were so useful for navigation.
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    by Sniffnoy 15y ago

    They may have done this also, and I have no idea who was first, but Facebook definitely did this as well. (In particular, I've never used LinkedIn.)
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    by Sniffnoy 15y ago

    What Facebook does is to discourage people from adding people they don't know in the first place; evidently this hasn't worked. One interesting thing they used to do but don't anymore: back when they kept track of where people knew each ot
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    by Sniffnoy 15y ago

    Argh. Misnegation from earlier version. "As you point out, the importance of rhumb lines comes from the fact that..." -- there shouldnt' be a not there.
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    by Sniffnoy 15y ago

    Let's not get mixed up about what the projection did and didn't do. As you point out, the importance of rhumb lines comes not from the fact that the thing they keep constant -- the bearing (with respect to north/south) -- was something tha
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    by Sniffnoy 15y ago

    Links in post are broken due to bad quotes.
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    by Sniffnoy 15y ago

    Program counter?
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    by Sniffnoy 15y ago

    I have to wonder if someone who can't determine order of execution should be an electrician or plumber either -- those aren't static systems!
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    by Sniffnoy 15y ago

    So can anyone explain just why malaria was so hard to vaccinate against by existing methods in the first place?
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    by Sniffnoy 15y ago

    I'm pessimistic that it would actually work, but I'd like to think it would teach people to think precisely.
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    by Sniffnoy 15y ago

    > The only reason they use it is because they wan't to socialize with their friends, but know of no other way to communicate through a network (Sorry MySpace). Well, there's plenty of ways to communicate! And plenty of ways to say some