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by amouat 14y ago
Yeah, but at least it's a bit more trackable - they know they gave you a check.
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by amouat 14y ago
There was absolutely no need for that.
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by amouat 14y ago
Well, they could have used caps lock. Very unlikely I know.
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by amouat 14y ago
There are still some nice things such as destructuring and vectors & maps as base types. The syntax of Clojure is generally a bit cleaner and more concise, though I'm sure some lispers will disagree.
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by amouat 14y ago
A linked issue is that an answer to an easy question will gain much more rep as more people will feel able to judge the quality of the answer. Often the only person qualified to quickly judge if the answer to a hard question is correct is t
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by amouat 14y ago
> I can still make as much in a day consulting as I do in a month selling my own apps. I suppose it's worth bearing in mind that the app will presumably continue to generate money for a long time to come for little to no work, whereas y
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by amouat 14y ago
Depends what you mean by "proper". Any fool can get a C program to work, but ensuring there are no memory leaks etc is very hard without a tool like Valgrind. If you don't believe me, just run Valgrind on random sampling of C programs that
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by amouat 14y ago
I don't believe they misunderstand, though they may be greedy and stupid. They just want people to pay for the privilege of linking to their articles.
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by amouat 14y ago
> it's not an article-- it's a paraphrase If they had bothered to paraphrase, it would have been much better. They didn't - they just copied.
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by amouat 14y ago
There really isn't anything to see except: "Because of unsustainable subscription prices and conditions, the board of directors of the mathematics department has voted to cancel all of its subscriptions to Elsevier journals by 2013."
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by amouat 14y ago
Unfortunately frequent boring failures do not preclude rare spectacular ones.
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by amouat 14y ago
This continuously happens on StackOverflow. If a question can be remotely considered to be contentious it will very likely be closed. Quite a few times this has included Qs selected for their newsletter!
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by amouat 14y ago
I wondered that after I wrote the reply. However, I bet some people do use google drive to back-up other google services. It's not ironic, just foolish IMO.
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by amouat 14y ago
Err, isn't there a flaw in that plan? Surely the back-up should protect you in case you lose access to your Google account...
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by amouat 14y ago
My problem was the page appeared to randomly change whilst I was reading the text. Of course, what had happened was my mouse had crossed over the wheel, but it took a second to figure that out. Looks a like an interesting product. Good luck
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by amouat 14y ago
That's not fair, they could easily have overloaded the home page with junk at any point. They just realised that users came to google to perform a single, clearly defined task and decided the home page should reflect that. I wouldn't argue
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by amouat 14y ago
Thanks!
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by amouat 14y ago
I just had a flick through the book - the notation looked familiar and I'm pretty bad at math. Is there really that much that has changed since 1921? I ask mainly because I was thinking of using a book like this to brush up.
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by amouat 15y ago
Is EC2 really the right way to do these tests? I would have thought it would introduce unwanted variables related to network congestion and server load caused by other EC2 users.
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by amouat 15y ago
I saw this talk given at the 2011 Turing Festival in Edinburgh. One of the most inspiring talks I've seen given in person.
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The Internet - You ain't seen nothing yet (2011 Video)(turingfest.squarespace.com)
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by amouat 15y ago
Unfortunately that doesn't tell us a lot, unless you also do each of the other timings.
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by amouat 15y ago
The best current use case is transferring money . Assuming bitcoin is relatively stable hour to hour (which I think it is) and both sender and receiver have access to an exchange that will convert bitcoins to their local currency, it can b
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by amouat 15y ago
VBScript is the most awful language I've ever used. Thankfully I've forgotten most of the pain it caused me.
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by amouat 15y ago
That's not entirely fair - you haven't tested the branches or statements inside the sin function. However, even if the sin function is already tested elsewhere, you will still need further testing to ensure that you are calling it correctly
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by amouat 15y ago
Depends how you define functionality I guess. If you are talking about high-level user functions (create a new user, modify user, delete user), then lots of organisations probably do have tests for all functions. However, if you consider fu
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by amouat 15y ago
Quite frankly, I don't see too much to take offence at in cmhamill's words. It really doesn't appear to me that there was an intention to attack you personally, although it was perhaps blunt in places.
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by amouat 15y ago
Nothing wrong with being smart, confident and/or tough. It's being arrogant and snarky that upsets people. (I'm not aiming this comment at anyone btw!)
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by amouat 15y ago
I'm no sound engineer, but as far as I can tell, the main point of that paper is that some instruments produce harmonics at frequencies greater than 20kHz, not that these frequencies matter to humans. However, section X references other pap
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by amouat 15y ago
Whilst I'm sure all these suggestions may help to some extent, none of them address the underlying issues. This isn't something that can be cured by vitamin pills or bike rides. The only solution is a complete lifestyle change which the aut

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