anatoly

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by anatoly 16y ago
Most people who use vim don't use it as an exercise in minimalism we're often caricatured as constantly undergoing. How do you know that?
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by anatoly 17y ago
LaTeX is more difficult than word by a single aspect: the compilation step. That's a bold statement that's backed up by no facts and makes no sense. If you were just to stop and think for a second, I bet you'd see how ridiculous it is. La
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by anatoly 17y ago
LaTeX is not much easier to use than Word; it's incredibly more difficult to use. It requires you to remember or look up a bewildering number of strange-looking commands, a special syntax, etc.
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by anatoly 17y ago
The actual square root of 73 is 8.544. No it isn't. </pedantry>
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by anatoly 17y ago
I don't get it. Why are they calling themselves kids?
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by anatoly 17y ago
I'm sympathetic to your overall argument, but not to this specific example. It's very much in US interests to know that someone else knows the launch codes. The consequences of having them made public (a public scandal, the cost of changing
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by anatoly 17y ago
So it goes.
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by anatoly 17y ago
I applaud the effort, yet deplore the writing. I looked at the first few pages and was dismayed. This isn't a book I would recommend to anyone with no knowledge of graph theory who needs to pick it up. The authors make no effort to connect
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by anatoly 17y ago
I don't understand. Why not start with caching, then do all those things you mentioned when the site bogs down again? It'll be after all the same queries, the same rendering etc. post-cache; the same technique to improve them will work in t
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by anatoly 17y ago
No, the requirement is specifically to use just ANDs, ORs and two NOTs. There is a solution, I did find it. It's not particularly easy to find.
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by anatoly 17y ago
Most of these examples are either naturally graphs already, or on the contrary, can be presented as graphs through ingenious reductions (e.g. coloring as an approach to register optimization). So transforming the domain problem to a graph t
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by anatoly 17y ago
i,j, sometimes n. When working with coordinates - x, y, z.
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by anatoly 17y ago
Surely there's nothing wrong with single-character variable names, used appropriately.
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by anatoly 17y ago
Top-ten lists have been getting more and more annoying to this programmer. They're surely somewhere in the top ten by now.
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by anatoly 17y ago
The Microsoft partner in question actually launched their design.
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by anatoly 17y ago
I'm sorry, but this is ridiculous. The student's behavior was completely justified, and the professor comes off as a self-important prick. Whenever there are several courses competing for the same time slot, it's reasonable to visit all of
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by anatoly 17y ago
You forgot to sign with "peace and love". Although maybe that's because it's been ringing hollow lately... might I suggest that you also add "xoxo" to your signature? Maybe that'll win people over.
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by anatoly 17y ago
I agree that it's much more likely for a math geek to develop serious knowledge of lit-crit than it is for a lit-crit type to develop serious knowledge of math. That's the something that there is to what you're saying. However, being that e
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by anatoly 17y ago
I don't really like where you're going with this. For every lit-crit type who'll never understand what quaternions are, I'll find you a math geek with a shelf full of Star Trek novels, who'll never understand what real literature is. (I onc
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by anatoly 17y ago
No. If you read the genuinely good critics, that's not so at all. They open your eyes to great things you haven't noticed, but have actually been there.
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by anatoly 17y ago
I read this argument before, in a paper by the author I think. I thought it was nonsense then and this article doesn't change my opinion about it. The purported explanations are really unconvincing, the analogies very strained.
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by anatoly 17y ago
How does it compare to Martin's _Song of Ice and Fire_ novels? (my new yardstick for high-quality contemporary fantasy)
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by anatoly 17y ago
Sure. The total number of yellow balls (the ones not in bottom row), is 1+2+3+...+(n-1). But each yellow ball determines exactly two blue balls (the ones in the bottom row): they're the ones you get by travelling left and right from the yel
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by anatoly 17y ago
Yeah, I figured it out from context, but before I did, I was like O_x.
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by anatoly 17y ago
While you're harnessing the power of simple and direct communication, it'll help to not present your bad/good examples as fancily formatted "X" and "O", so as to hopelessly confuse your readers into trying to parse what seems to be an excha
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by anatoly 17y ago
"Hard to believe it, but the OStatus process is underway." Why is it hard to believe? It seems like four people from StatusNet wrote up a spec and are trying to turn it into an open standard. What was the hard to believe part?
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by anatoly 17y ago
Wait-wait-wait. So is every other company doing this or aren't they? You're moving the goalposts pretty fast here. Google is young (>10 years), but they have a large portfolio. But you can't find a "pattern that would argue they would n
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by anatoly 17y ago
Every other tech company does it; why hold Apple to an exceptional standard? Is that really true? Can you cite Google suing to enforce a patent? What about HTC iself?
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by anatoly 17y ago
No.
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by anatoly 17y ago
And the x2 (as opposed to x^2) touch.

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