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by adrusi 10y ago
Does anybody actually believe that diverse cultural backgrounds are at all relevant to ideas about programming language design or compiler programming? Claims that diversity is good for project organization sound believable, but I see no re
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by adrusi 10y ago
Communication is a two-way street. A polite speaker has to take into consideration how their audience wants to be addressed, but polite listeners need to take into consideration that the speaker's words are the speaker's. My autis
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by adrusi 10y ago
In spite of my better judgement, I'll continue this discussion. What could possibly be your moral objection to soy? Is it GMO related? If it's Monsanto's abusive practices toward farmers, how is eating turkey any different, c
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by adrusi 10y ago
You're making a lot of assumptions: I'm not a vegetarian, first of all. My point is simply that tricking someone into eating tofurkey is objectively more moral than tricking them into eating turkey, because both involve equal tric
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by adrusi 10y ago
The idea is that you download the script, read through the downloaded file, then run the downloaded file. Obviously if you download it two different times the server can serve you two different versions.
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by adrusi 10y ago
I'm sure the parent would be upset if secretly served chicken, not because they would feel defrauded, but because they were tricked intol violating their ethical principles. Secretly serving non-vegetarians vegetarian food is, technica
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by adrusi 10y ago
This article presents evidence that Appelbaum was a creep, but theres a big gap between creep and rapist. Pseudonymous accusations don't make for very compelling evidence. Regardless, my intuition is inclined to accept his guilt, not t
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by adrusi 10y ago
Atom is essentially the same class of editor as emacs. Both have designs that can accomodate IDE features (so does vim, but it's more of an afterthought in that case), but normal usage is not IDE-like. Atom is essentially emacs built a
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by adrusi 10y ago
I'm having trouble fact-checking this, do you have a source?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_vortex#Climate_change http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/polar-vortex-to-v... Changes in weather patterns brought about by melting arctic ice has b
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by adrusi 10y ago
Sigh this topic always comes up. From a materialist perspective (which is the only perspective that makes sense in medical science), yes, any psychological phenomenon is ultimately a physical phenomenon. But when people talk about the psy
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by adrusi 10y ago
There's two parts to Bluray: the storage medium and the specification for the data on the storage medium. You can burn and read bluray disks with a filesystem, and presumably you could use your bluray reader with those kinds of disks.
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by adrusi 10y ago
Yeah but your app didn't used to have to be any good for people to download it.
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You just need a solenoid water valve to let the timer control the water flow. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00E1HXYQA/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid... https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d&#x2F
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by adrusi 10y ago
I haven't read the whitepaper, but from what I've gathered, urbit is a virtual machine that runs on a network, maybe with support for untrusted nodes? If that's the case then that's amazing, and it's understandable
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by adrusi 10y ago
I've dealt with the ogg container format a little and from what I saw it seemed quite reasonable, at least for the codecs it is typically used for, but for the sake of argument I'll assume everything in that article is correct.
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by adrusi 10y ago
Haskell doesn't have monads as a work-around. They are a useful abstraction because they capture a common semantic pattern found in many programming concepts. Nullable types, error handling, sequential execution, and asynchronous event
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In that case, do you condsider Go's nil to not be a null, since you can call methods on it that can do whatever? Or how about objective C's nil, where any messages sent to it are simply ignored? Edit: I see now that you're ta
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People using amphetamine off-prescription at work will be taking it like ADHD medication, not like at a party.
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Not sure which one(s) though There's only one "amphetamines". There is a specific molecule (and its enantiomer) called " amphetamine". There are some other amphetamine-class drugs like methamphetamine (crystal met
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by adrusi 10y ago
There isn't really a meaningful distinction in a dynamically typed language. Null is a value that indicates the absence of something else that could be there instead, Unit is essentially the lack of any value. So when a python function
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by adrusi 10y ago
OK, yes, that is the ultimate vr destination, but like bradhe said, thats not what anyone's talking about. Like you said, that's more like 100 years off (I think its a lot more before the tech is really all there AND people are
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The reason that's pushed for it in the context of articles on the web is that it breaks up the wall of text, and supposedly people are less likely to stop reading in the middle of an article if there isn't a wall of text. It'
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by adrusi 10y ago
Well there's no standard curriculum in the US, but based on my personal experience in Virginia and Maryland, matrix math in Algebra I is common. The problem is that that's never built upon and it seems many math teachers don'
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by adrusi 10y ago
Look, this is scary and a big problem, but can we please stop talking about the "end of the road" for antibiotics? The worry here isn't that antibiotics will suddenly become useless and whenever anyone gets a bacterial infect
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By that criteria neither Go nor Python can be considered systems languages. Maybe you could implement some basic code to bootstrap CPython in Cython or RPython, I'm not entirely sure, but neither of those are really Python. The only
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Just in terms of law: it's not an investment, it's not a purchase (since there's no guarantee of backers receiving their rewards), it's not a loan. It works exactly like when your local public radio station offers t-shir
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"Determination, patience and grit" go a long way only because other people don't have them. There's a limited number of opportunities and only the people with the most "determination, patience and grit" (among
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Why, because it goes against the "college is too expensive" rhetoric? The man had to work as a custodian full-time for this to work, and it took him nearly a decade to earn a four-year degree. Are you suggesting that it's rea
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If that were the only concern, then it probably would have been appropriate to drink the champagne. If your work suffers because your boss insisted you drink, then dicking around on HN for the rest of the day would be an acceptable option.

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