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by acomar 13y ago
Yep, you've got it exactly right. The problem for dynamic type systems is how do you enforce 3? Do you care to?
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by acomar 13y ago
Except the reference can itself be null, which is still problematic.
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by acomar 13y ago
There are a ton floating around, they just aren't terribly useful because every type is by default nullable. So even standard library functions can return null. You might be able to make your own code a little safer, but you still have to n
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by acomar 13y ago
But you're quite clearly NOT overloading "=" or ";". Instead of saying do a = getFoo x y z b = getBar p q (which won't compile), you're saying do a <- getFoo x y z b <- getBar p q Which
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by acomar 13y ago
Off the shelf? Not that I know of. Tracking isn't an easy problem, but it is tractable. It's a complicated problem of mathematics and computer science.
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by acomar 14y ago
Several of the listed countries aren't democratic in any sense of the word. Even with context the argument is still absurd -- we intend to communicate meaning with the words we use, and the introductory paragraph in the OP and the comment y
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by acomar 14y ago
Of course, but that does nothing to take power over research away from the likes of Sarah Palin and Todd Akin.
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by acomar 14y ago
> There is no objective meaning of "democratic" outside of the ideal that no country satisfies, so what we can conclude is that in just about all cases it's to differentiate the governments from their predecessors. Oh come on, you can
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by acomar 14y ago
> The open source movement has shown that there's a third way, and I suspect that that's the way to go. It's fault tolerant: if a group of people are detracting from its mission, the others can very easily go on and continue as is. You
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by acomar 14y ago
As other posters have noted, ion thrusters don't generate very much thrust.
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by acomar 14y ago
You're confusing rigor with mathematical formality. Computing with equations that were taught to you formally, and solving mathematical problems rigorously are two different things. One of the easiest ways to tell the difference between the
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by acomar 14y ago
Some how this only makes the comic and reaction way more funny.
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by acomar 14y ago
The problem has never been Gnome Shell though, and the flak against would never have occurred if a few simple things had been done. A lot of people love Gnome Shell, but many more people simply hate it. But the Gnome developers insisted tha
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by acomar 14y ago
It will possibly still require workarounds for non-ubuntu users though, the official sources are only citing compatibility with Ubuntu as a goal. That said, every distribution will likely have a package available through non-official source
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by acomar 14y ago
Install from the AUR, the package is just called steam.
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by acomar 14y ago
Woah, you weren't kidding about switching away from XMonad first. That is the most broken focus switching I've ever seen -- and that's after I figured out why I couldn't click anything in the window.
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by acomar 14y ago
nvidia-settings provides a gui to adjust settings like this (and far more). The display configuration app should also work, I'm surprised it doesn't (the nvidia drivers finally play nice with xrandr -- it might be that the app assumes the d
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by acomar 14y ago
What I don't get is why the comments of "meh" are getting attacked with so much vitriol.
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by acomar 14y ago
I think the introduction of lambdas will ease the pain with the first two. That is, we can add weak syntactic support for first-class iteration and list comprehensions -- both are monadic features, and though Java can't express a general mo
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by acomar 14y ago
I think the point is that everyone wants a non-technical co-founder to be more like yourself. But the emails from the "idea" people fail in a more fundamental way -- imagine writing a cover letter to an employer that basically told the empl
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by acomar 14y ago
That's a great idea. Maybe it needs good auto-categorization to implement well, but another idea is to not bother with the thresholds at all -- every comment can potentially spawn off a new wave of replies, so why not just fork into separat
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by acomar 14y ago
Some of the pictures would have been impossible if the camera wasn't automatically swapping the filters very quickly. You can actually see the distortion is things moved around in the images and the colors separated, and there's even a sens
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by acomar 14y ago
I hypothesize that it's because design is expensive, and the other manufacturers are unwilling to pay to design "low-end" cars.
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by acomar 14y ago
Kn0thing jumped in to confirm it too.
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by acomar 14y ago
It's a different philosophy. Some of us come at it from the perspective that we want to know how our machine works. And when something goes wrong, we want to dig into it and fix it ourselves. The monolithic and opaque OSs that "just work" a
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by acomar 14y ago
Move to a simpler distribution that won't bother you. I've been on Arch for the last few years because once I set it up, new updates won't add new "functionality". It isn't perfect, but I can keep the entire system in my head. Nothing opaqu
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by acomar 14y ago
I'm going to be thrilled if it looks like they're even within shooting distance of solving this problem, but for the time being I'm skeptical. I hope they prove me wrong.
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by acomar 14y ago
Are you sure it's getting eaten? I have had issues with efi bootloader, where it'll forget to boot from the right OS but the bootloader is still there and accessible from the boot menu.
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by acomar 14y ago
But you can also embed interesting information into an image without distorting the image itself (much). Similarly, the DNA of most organisms have a ton of garbage space that could be used to encode information without hurting the organism.
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by acomar 14y ago
Download is easy enough, just click the transfer via usb option, and it'll download a .azw file. You can't read it without stripping out the DRM first, but that's not very hard either.

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