anghyflawn

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by anghyflawn 15y ago
I don't agree with the downvotes, and you have a point in that statistics cannot prove fraud. But these numbers do provide strong evidence for irregularities. > - rregions with large number of milinary men Huh? Does that include Mosco
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by anghyflawn 15y ago
Do you mean the head of the election commission's ridiculous claim that all the videos of ballot stuffing, multiple voting etc. were filmed in advance by the opposition? The only thing that the Russian internets do with this claim widely is
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by anghyflawn 15y ago
What's wrong with Common Lisp's keyword arguments? I'm not being snarky, just asking. I'd say CL works at least as well as Python in this respect.
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by anghyflawn 15y ago
Actually, as a non-EU national living in Norway but currently looking for (academic) jobs everywhere, continental European immigration policies are not that bad. I came to Norway as a highly skilled migrant, and the process was more or less
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by anghyflawn 15y ago
> Guess this depends on how you work. Oh, absolutely. If I were a actual road warrior, the iPad wouldn't work at all for me. However, between my laptops at home and at work I don't really need a third one, and since I already have the i
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by anghyflawn 15y ago
I use a ZaggMate which doubles as protection, weighs about the same as any other case and is not bulky at all. It works quite well. > Maybe you just need a smaller laptop .. No, I don't want to have a small laptop as my main computer. I
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by anghyflawn 15y ago
Um, for about any other reason that you would want to use document editing software on a tablet? For instance, I use LibreOffice and its ilk only for the most throwaway documents (and open others' files). Having an iPad means I don't need t
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by anghyflawn 15y ago
This is Statistics Norway's overview of immigrants by country of origin. So this means that people from Scandinavian, or rather Nordic, countries other than Norway (i.e. Denmark incl. the Faroes and Greenland, Sweden, Finland and Iceland).
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by anghyflawn 15y ago
Yep, 200K sounds a bit too many: Statistics Norway shows under 70K Scandinavians (not just Swedes) as of 01/01/11 http://ssb.no/emner/02/01/10/innvbef/tab-2011-04-28-08.html You probably have to add some commuters, but they will hardly ch
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by anghyflawn 15y ago
Well, I suppose I fall into this category: I'm a grad student in the humanities, with a fair bit of math background which I don't actively use in my work (apart from some simple statistics), and I mostly program to automate away things that
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by anghyflawn 15y ago
I'm not sure why you are being downvoted, but this is at best only partially correct. Yiddish was supported along with pretty much all minority languages in the 1920s and early 1930s, but this support also ceased when the minority support p
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by anghyflawn 15y ago
FWIW, here in Norway, the share of young people from a Pakistani background who are currently pursuing a degree is higher than among their Norwegian peers.
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by anghyflawn 15y ago
Again, it varies by publisher. For instance, CUP (at least for the type of journals that I read) allows the author to put up a preprint (before peer review) or a postprint (after review but before editing) on a personal page or the institut
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by anghyflawn 15y ago
Data roaming is expensive (for now), but there are EU-wide caps on roaming charges for voice, so it's not all bad.
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by anghyflawn 15y ago
How many European operators have regional pricing? There is certainly no regional pricing in Norway, where half the population lives in about 15% of the land area and the rest is pretty much empty space (a lot of empty space)
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by anghyflawn 15y ago
True, of course. Still, any such automated system would have to have massive redundancy and sophisticated heuristics just to get certified.
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by anghyflawn 15y ago
It's a fine line. There are cases where we actually know that pilots listening to the computer would have saved lives (as in the Überlingen crash)
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by anghyflawn 15y ago
Pitot tubes, even when jammed, are not the only instrumentation a plane has. In this particular case, whatever gyroscope device is available would probably signal that the angle of attack is completely wrong, tubes or no tubes.
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by anghyflawn 15y ago
No, it was not a Low German dialect. It was what is called an Ingvaeonic dialect, most closely related to Old Saxon and Old Frisian. Old High German is what is sometimes called Istvaeonic (and the Franconian dialects that were to become Du
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by anghyflawn 15y ago
Uh, really? Japanese: topic instead of subject marking, deference forms, completely different morphological categories? Chinese: productive verb serialization, very different syntax? That's just off the top of my head But that's not the poi
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by anghyflawn 15y ago
Also speculating, but I would hazard a guess that a lot of that was due to the fact that the library ecosystem was much smaller then, which means people would be implementing things that you don't have to think too hard about now.
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by anghyflawn 15y ago
As far as I understand you have more surcharges to fear from European authorities than from Amazon. Signed - unhappy person living in Norway, where the government is enforcing VAT (which is 25%) on all digital services bought abroad, includ
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by anghyflawn 15y ago
Would I be far off the mark if I thought this is something like org-mode without the Emacs? (And yes, you should get the title right.)
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by anghyflawn 15y ago
My impression is that a lot of the Python in such a book would be highly non-idiomatic and/or too clever to be considered "good Python practice", which is not a very good idea in a pedagogical setting
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by anghyflawn 15y ago
Your point is plain to see, and it is correct in principle, but there are plenty of bindings for Lisps too. As far as I understand, making CL talk to Oracle is a battery included in the commercial implementations, or available through CLSQL
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by anghyflawn 15y ago
Have you looked at "The Joy of Clojure"? I thought the authors did a very good job of showing why exactly they're so excited to be working with the language. In any case, this is very much a question of discourse. For historical reasons Lis
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by anghyflawn 15y ago
I think that Zach Beane is doing a stupendous job with quicklisp. Of course it's nowhere near CPAN at this stage, but it's a tremendous step forward compared to, say, plain asdf-install.
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by anghyflawn 15y ago
Re your case in point 1, it is precisely this thinking that they want to exploit. "They wouldn't be suing us if they didn't have a case, so let's just settle". Except that if it actually comes to court, chances are it'll be thrown out withi
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by anghyflawn 15y ago
Percent is not the same as percentage points, you know. Growing from 6% to 10% is actually a growth of 66% percent, which sounds much more impressive. Fair point about the margins, but the fact is that Apple's entire business model is built
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by anghyflawn 15y ago
Um, no. He pointed out that as the smartphone market grows (at the expense of feature phones, probably), HTC and Samsung are riding that wave much better. It's not horribly surprising, since Apple's product is not likely to be immediately a

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