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by apo 9y ago
Let me try to sum up. On the one hand, we have a large number of true but commonplace ideas, especially about how simple rules can lead to complex outcomes, and about the virtues of toy models. On the other hand, we have a large mass of du
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by apo 9y ago
Really helpful link. What's the current state of tooling to directly write WebAssembly? What assembler/editor/debugger you would you recommend?
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by apo 9y ago
Maybe I'm mistaken then but I seem to remember having seen numerous cases in which GPL was involved, but only in the sense that the software was being redistributed as an unmodified unit or with modifications. But those cases may have
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by apo 9y ago
I'd be interested in knowing which cases you're thinking about.
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by apo 9y ago
Valuable resource with many uses beyond putting icons on buttons. For example: - source graphics for figures in books and articles - inspiration for new ways of expressing an idea graphically - gauging variation in visual representation of
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by apo 9y ago
To use Ghostscript for free, Hancom would have to adhere to its open-source license, the GNU General Public License (GPL). The GNU GPL requires that when you use GPL-licensed software to make some other software, the resulting software als
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by apo 9y ago
You don't need to test that. ... The code is obvious. There are no conditionals, no loops, no transformations, nothing. The code is just a little bit of plain old glue code. Here's the code: @Override public void initializ
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World’s first nanocar race crowns champion(cen.acs.org)
1 points by apo 9y ago|0 comments
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by apo 9y ago
If so, this would be the first orderly deflation of a credit bubble in history.
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by apo 9y ago
I was surprised the article didn't mention the euro, specifically how Germany gets to denominate its goods in a cheap currency that doesn't fully reflect its strong fiscal policies.
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Same Stats, Different Graphs(autodeskresearch.com)
4 points by apo 9y ago|0 comments
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by apo 10y ago
The algorithm might not be a trite as it seems at first. In particular, I find the first step to be extremely valuable: Write down the problem. Part of my bag of problem-solving tricks is to start by writing a question for StackOverflow.
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by apo 10y ago
After scanning for a few minutes, I was amazed at how readable the book is given its age and my experience with books of similar age. The book also does appear to go out of its way to keep language simple. For example: We call the ratio dx
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by apo 10y ago
Kekulé's account has been challenged, partly on the basis that at least two others reported very similar (and better organized) ideas right about the same time. The speculation goes that Kekulé may have been trying to bypass the priori
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Theranos gets wrist-slap fine, agrees to do no clinical lab work for two years(siliconbeat.com)
2 points by apo 10y ago|0 comments
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I Love You, Bot(money.cnn.com)
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by apo 10y ago
With understanding of a process comes the possibility (or inevitability) of controlling it. I'm not referring to mythology, but rather technology.
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by apo 10y ago
This type of research is mostly a dead end. Abiotic processes for generating amino acids and nucleotides from smaller components are well-known. The mystery revolves around how these building blocks turn into life through abiotic processes.
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by apo 10y ago
> ... I couldn't get either one [Spotify or Atom] to reproducibly use lots of CPU. Props to everyone involved in fixing that. It seems deceiving to conceal that information when your call to action is to ditch Electron for the sake
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Collision Finding the Maxwell Way(pdaian.com)
1 points by apo 10y ago|0 comments
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by apo 10y ago
> I recently removed Google Analytics from my site when I realized it didn't really matter to me. Interesting idea. If your analytics reports don't cause you to change course, there is no reason to collect them in the first pla
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by apo 10y ago
> Now to you: how do you deal with JS fatigue? If possible, ignore Internet Explorer completely. All the other current browser versions support ES6 (sans modules). A wonderful little utility called Reify allows you to load ES6 modules in
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by apo 10y ago
In what is surely one of the most astounding intelligence own goals in living memory, the CIA structured its classification regime such that for the most market valuable part of "Vault 7" — the CIA's weaponized malware (impl
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by apo 10y ago
> REST became popular when it was detailed and promoted by Roy Fielding as part of his doctoral dissertation entitled Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures in the year 2000. Roy is well known for his
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Citation analytics pioneer Eugene Garfield dies(timeshighereducation.com)
1 points by apo 10y ago|0 comments
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How a Pacemaker Led Police to Accuse Someone with Arson(fortune.com)
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by apo 10y ago
> So how did Vancouver tame its roaring housing market? Tamed? The article makes it sound like over a decade of faster-than-inflation price appreciation has been wiped clean with a one year decline of 3.7% and cooling sales. The real est
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by apo 10y ago
Bruce Ackerman, whose work was cited in the article, gave a dead-on analysis of the current situation in 2011: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7lCgKfxmuQ He appears to be discussing certain points in his book, The Decline
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by apo 10y ago
Good times. I owned one of these. The TI-99/4A was never very popular, but there was one store called "The Bach Company" on San Antonio Road in Palo Alto that specialized in selling hardware and software for it. It's eas
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He Made Money. Literally(nytimes.com)
3 points by apo 10y ago|0 comments

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