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Einstein's Chronology for 1905(aip.org)
1 points by abscondment 17y ago|1 comments
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by abscondment 17y ago
Interesting. My blog home page is only titles, and that wasn't enough data for a correct prediction - it said I'm an ESTP. With more data (i.e. my rss feed) it was spot on: INTP.
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by abscondment 17y ago
Clojure solves a whole set of problems at the language level that imperative languages like Ruby can't easily address: Simple concurrent programming ( http://clojure.org/concurrent_programming ).
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by abscondment 17y ago
I should have made it clear that we opted not to use Duby for this project because a) the Java version was almost done and b) it still seems immature. Android development depends on a prerelease version of jRuby, so I wouldn't consider it p
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Closures in Java, Ruby, and Duby(threebrothers.org)
12 points by abscondment 17y ago|6 comments
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Energy Costs Of Riding A Unicycle(cozybeehive.blogspot.com)
2 points by abscondment 17y ago|0 comments
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Choosing a vector difference function(threebrothers.org)
11 points by abscondment 17y ago|3 comments
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Probability distribution parameterizations in SciPy(johndcook.com)
2 points by abscondment 17y ago|0 comments
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Twitch - a Chrome-only canvas game(reas.com)
3 points by abscondment 17y ago|2 comments
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by abscondment 17y ago
In the general case, I agree with you. With the specific niche of food, however, I disagree strongly. In the US, supporting independent, community farmers is key in battling the negative effects of the government corn subsidy. There are num
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by abscondment 17y ago
Q: What's ∫dCABIN/CABIN? A: A natural log cabin by the sea!
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IPad: Falling Short of the Past(threebrothers.org)
5 points by abscondment 17y ago|0 comments
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by abscondment 17y ago
Doesn't seem to make much fuss under Chrome/Linux. Of course, per a past thread Chrome's Canvas is way faster than other browsers': http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1084456 A very cool effect in any case.
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by abscondment 17y ago
Here's 2000 and on: http://www.uis.unesco.org/ev.php?ID=5794_201&ID2=DO_TOPI... It seems that computer use should be naturally bounded by literacy. It'd be difficult to use a computer without being able to read.
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by abscondment 17y ago
One of the big Rails philosophies that could help any platform is DRY: don't repeat yourself! ActiveRecord et al attempt to give you the reusable building blocks that will be required in most sites. And in that regard, I think it real
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14 Megapixel, Six Monitor Ubuntu Karmic Setup (blog.jasonmorton.com)
83 points by abscondment 17y ago|74 comments
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The Expression Problem(daimi.au.dk)
15 points by abscondment 17y ago|1 comments
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by abscondment 17y ago
Yeah, I thought the analysis was interesting enough to stand on its own. Hopefully people will discard the political aspect and focus on the linguistics analysis angle.
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Political Buzzword Correlations(fivethirtyeight.com)
5 points by abscondment 17y ago|2 comments
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by abscondment 17y ago
Agreed.
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by abscondment 17y ago
The chart makes Chrome look really impressive, but ~7.9fps is still not that great.
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by abscondment 17y ago
Totally. The article is a good read regarding data crunching, but I take exception to some of his methodology. Specifically, he's only using data from 1929 and on -- this is all part of the hockey stick's head. The 1920s are supposedly the
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Global Warming vs. Clojure(bestinclass.dk)
69 points by abscondment 17y ago|28 comments
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Updating extensions for Ruby 1.9(threebrothers.org)
1 points by abscondment 17y ago|0 comments
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by abscondment 17y ago
I avoid Python philosophically due to language feature shenanigans like this: http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=98196 And this: http://coding.derkeiler.com/Archive/Python/comp.lang.python/... Because of that, I've never
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Why You Should Start a Company in Seattle(fastcompany.com)
1 points by abscondment 17y ago|0 comments
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by abscondment 17y ago
You have to look at the WASL specifically and filter on other criteria from there. For example, a bar chart of 10th grade scores comparing low/non-low incomes: http://reportcard.ospi.k12.wa.us/waslTrend.aspx?year=&gr...
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by abscondment 17y ago
The first table cites the pass ratios for all low-income students at 37.3%, 28.3%, and 26.4% for 4th, 7th, and 10th grade respectively -- the pass rates for black children are lower than that. So one can accurately infer that non-black low-
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by abscondment 17y ago
Old, but still quite interesting.
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Making and Breaking HDCP Handshakes(freedom-to-tinker.com)
1 points by abscondment 17y ago|1 comments

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