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by aphyr 16y ago
What the what? Averages over kinetic energies are summations. Adding them is well-defined and has a straightforward interpretation as the average energy per particle. Formally, temperature is defined as T = 1/(\partial(S)/\partial(E)) with
692.
by aphyr 16y ago
I'm not sure I understand your sentence (did you mean language x does implement dynamic scope?), but I feel obliged to mention Perl offers lexical scoping as well--within each file and each block.
693.
by aphyr 16y ago
Lucky bastard. How'd you find the dimensional portal to BeOS world?
694.
by aphyr 16y ago
Sadly, Verizon insists that a task killer is essential to maintain free memory. I've tried to convince them otherwise--watching the ADB logs should be sufficient to conclude that the memory manager is doing its job just fine--but no luck. I
695.
by aphyr 16y ago
The point of the article is that on Android, you don't need to know what a task killer is either, since it's not necessary.
696.
by aphyr 16y ago
This gets even more fun in languages which allow unicode names. Did you know there are dozens of identical-looking ways to spell "true"?
697.
by aphyr 16y ago
...run through a Perl script that removes all 'final' keywords except those required for hacking around the 15-year-old Java language's "fucking embarrassing lack of closures." This guy feels my pain! :)
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Building an Android app as a startup(geekblog.vodpod.com)
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699.
by aphyr 16y ago
I saw that and flipped out. It also requires an extra two scans through the list, in addition to the memory overhead for the temporary structures. Happily, the merge-with suggestion is much more efficient.
700.
by aphyr 16y ago
I'd donate it to Aaron Diaz, in thanks for his work on http://dresdencodak.com .
701.
by aphyr 16y ago
I really want to get into Clojure, but everything I've read suggests that I'll have to learn Emacs to do it. Does anyone think giving up Vim for a few months is worth it?
702.
by aphyr 16y ago
Are any antibodies entirely genetically determined--"off the rack", so to speak? One would think that having an innate immune response to extraordinarily dangerous yet infrequently-mutating pathogens (polio, for example) would be worthwhi
703.
by aphyr 16y ago
I Am Not An Immunologist, but antibodies are usually produced by plasma cells, after their predecessor B cells are triggered with the appropriate antigens, right? I'm pretty sure that mechanism and its memory is acquired, not innate. In oth
704.
by aphyr 16y ago
Neat! Yeah, I'd love to take the full test and see their dataset.
705.
by aphyr 16y ago
There's a survey that you can take from the popup on the article page.
706.
by aphyr 16y ago
22 year old gay male here--I chose right, left, right, right. For the women, I thought the right faces looked happier and more engaging. I was pretty confident in my answers except for #2, the first male in the series. I think the transpare
707.
by aphyr 16y ago
An unlisted landline number with Verizon returned full name, carrier, and cost center location within 10 miles. A Sprint cell number gave correct name, carrier, and city as well. Trying a Google Voice number, though, gives only an unrelated
708.
by aphyr 16y ago
Am I the only person who saw the line about the parking lot being half empty at 8 and 5 and thought, "Oh, that's consistent with a normal distribution of people working 10 hour days with a couple hour variance in arrival times"?
709.
by aphyr 16y ago
Perhaps a better question: can it start in under 30 seconds? If you don't use Nautilus for your desktop, opening those file browser windows is a serious drag!
710.
by aphyr 16y ago
The hunt for the Higg's Boson, and the "failure" to find it after all these years just seems like a reminder that empirical evidence > theoretical models. Just because the math seems elegant doesn't mean it necessarily applies to the u
711.
by aphyr 16y ago
The hell? I explicitly stated that I make no judgement, since there isn't sufficient evidence. It's a consistent explanation, but that doesn't make it probable .
712.
by aphyr 16y ago
Ah yes, implied nudity. You know, like clothes. ;) Here's the iPhone dev agreement: http://www.eff.org/files/20100302_iphone_dev_agr.pdf The only pertinent section I can find is: "Applications must not contain any obscene, pornographic, o
713.
by aphyr 16y ago
Agreed, but what Apple philanthropy believes and what the app store approval monkeys insist on are by no means congruent. ;)
714.
by aphyr 16y ago
Given that there is no frontal nudity in any of the panels shown, and many of the censored scenes have no nudity whatsoever, could you further explain your case that this censorship is "about no-nudity"? You can see more explicit nudity tha
715.
by aphyr 16y ago
My linode in Dallas is still online.
716.
by aphyr 16y ago
My comment above is a regex derived straightforwardly from the spec. Not a full parser, though.
717.
by aphyr 16y ago
It's certainly more concise than my previous favorite, qtext = '[^\\x0d\\x22\\x5c\\x80-\\xff]' dtext = '[^\\x0d\\x5b-\\x5d\\x80-\\xff]' atom = '[^\\x00-\\x20\\x22\\x28\\x29\\x2c\\x2e\\x3a-' + '\\x3c\\x3e\\x40\\x5
718.
by aphyr 16y ago
Especially when the spec itself is in EBNF.
719.
by aphyr 16y ago
I use init. Most of my services manage their own daemonization and forked workers. It's easier to design a correct system to detect failure, issue alerts, and restart as necessary than building unkillable workers. Coupled with some basic in
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by aphyr 16y ago
"...dynamic, non compiled languages are neither clever nor difficult to implement." Some days, HN really needs a downvote. This article is not even wrong.

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