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by arh68 13y ago
It'd be good, but words like that need to come from the Attorney General or a Circuit Court to have any weight. The most I would expect any company to do is donate matching funds to a legal defense.
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by arh68 13y ago
There are various methods and various languages. Scheme uses continuations, javascript can use futures/promises, sometimes you just see a 'yield' operator. Many of these ideas are close to Tony Hoare's 'Communicatin
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by arh68 13y ago
> I think that from nothing to being one of (if not the most) popular Linux distros on desktops can probably be considered headway. The last Ubuntu release I really liked was Hoary Hedgehog, but I can agree to disagree. With a $300 andro
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by arh68 13y ago
So if neither intelligence committee (HPSCI, SSCI) has the clearances, who does? How many Congressmen have clearance to be even briefed on programs classified for _both_ military and intelligence 'purposes'? It surprises me they&#
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by arh68 13y ago
Perhaps the real leaker here is Tim Clemente, and not Ed Snowden? How many adversaries adapted their communications to avoid the sources and methods Clemente revealed? .. dozens?
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by arh68 13y ago
Wow, what a crap article. I've got a more to-the-point headline, if Mr. Vaughan-Nichols has trouble coming up with another: "World Doesn't Stop On A Dime To Fix Problems: Must Mean Nobody Cares". Classic spin-down.
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by arh68 13y ago
This does seem implausible and I understand why. This program couldn't last more than a couple weeks, right? But 2 things, neither of which are solid, can't rule it out (for me): if all search engines are monitored, what does it m
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by arh68 13y ago
The LISP 1.5 manual [1] is quite old, fairly straightforward, but still seems 'fresh' to me. The Arxiv [2] seems to always have to newest ideas, and CiteSeerX [3] has many, many popular (old) ideas. [1] http://www.softw
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by arh68 13y ago
> The LLVM architecture is actually already set up to do optimizations at runtime on LLVM "binaries". Pragmatically, exactly how fast is that run-time optimization? Could you realistically JIT it, or should the more-optimal, ch
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by arh68 13y ago
> There was no serious Q&A on offer at the keynote. The questions were pre-screened; all attendees could do was vote on them. A joke in every sense, then. Audacious. He leads with a bit of humor, then says, > and I do want to give
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by arh68 13y ago
Indeed. I hear 'protesting' near any member of the Secret Service has recently become a very, very big no-no.
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How can anyone really be behind something they barely know anything about? When a bill like that comes around, the general reactions usually run from If You Say So to They'd Better Not Screw This Up. Some are completely deferential, so
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by arh68 13y ago
I'm trying to piece together the legal basis for the whole no-residential-server thing, and the more I dig, the more baseless it all seems. Darah Franklin's dismissal [1] of McClendon's complaint states, 'Google Fiber&#x
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by arh68 13y ago
So could you describe what the discussion for, say, "P = NP" would look like? What would it score? .01 truthiness? Are entire comments upvoted, or can single statements be up/downvoted line-item-style? Can the result of one d
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by arh68 13y ago
The trick is that you (or even the audience) actually dial Mr. Smith's number in front of them. The trick is no good if you dial your friend's number openly.
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by arh68 13y ago
Wow, I'm a little surprised. I took the _exact_ same path all the way up to PAIP. It's eerie to read your thoughts on a blog that isn't yours. Anyway, the CLQR [1] is by far the most useful CL book I've found. It's
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Software Carpentry: 15 Years of teaching Computing to Researchers(software-carpentry.org)
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I think it's a false dichotomy to either use kid gloves for citizens or secret hit lists. To compare with the recent Snowden extradition attempt, charges were filed and authorities were notified. Why should Snowden & Anwar be appre
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by arh68 13y ago
> No language, operating system or compiler could ever have more impact on developer productivity than an effective global Q&A site for programmers Well that's just opinion. The text editor seems pretty important to me. Syntax c
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by arh68 13y ago
Do you have a good test for 'us' vs 'others' other than citizenship? What should it be based on? What should we call 'us', and what should we call the 'others'? 'Citizens' & 'Foreig
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by arh68 13y ago
And what, do away entirely with reviving old topics? I thought it was rather poignant to consider the old news article about Geocities' acquisition by Yahoo when Tumblr was recently acquired. Who knows what links submitted recently wil
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by arh68 13y ago
I've yet to solve the problem once and for all, but so far, in no particular order: - Take a vitamin B pill (B12 mainly) and/or a 5-HTP supplement. - Keep lots of interesting books lying around, without making a goal out of readin
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by arh68 13y ago
Of late, I've been using a 12" 1024x768 screen. It's hard to get distracted when you can only see 1 thing at a time ;) A single IPS 27" 2560x1440 is great, though. (I used one for about a year) Tiling 3 windows verticall
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I was a little shocked to see this! > The access by an ISP of information within an internet packet, other than that information used for routing, is equivalent to wirtetapping a phone or opening sealed postal mail. This starkly contrast
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by arh68 13y ago
I felt most the analogies lacking, so here goes. I'd tell my grandma, "the PCA for a loaf of bread is actually listed right on the back, cleverly labeled 'Ingredients'." If I took some sort of microscope to a loaf o
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by arh68 13y ago
All my 'needs' are met so here are some wants. Rendering pdfs was solved long ago, so I'm not sure what distinction you see between Mendeley and 'the reader itself'. It's been a while since I used Mendeley, but
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by arh68 13y ago
What if it's not going to be used as evidence by you, but maybe perhaps the defense? How would you know what could necessarily interest the defense? It seems a prosecutor could argue that they had no idea these images they saw would ev
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If you wait until the final form of the code, it would seem very difficult to trace back from function symbol to its generating/binding macro. That is, how do you know which macro bound a specific function? Hope for no ambiguities, I s
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> clever AST savvy tools will fail in the presence of metaprogramming, unless you restrict it to patterns the tool knows. And then you're halfway towards static typing with inference. Common Lisp has plenty of well-defined macros wi
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by arh68 13y ago
Do you think it matter if veterans were disallowed from joining law enforcement? Without getting into constitutionality arguments, would it really make the country safer for all its citizens (and not just those lucky enough to never be conf

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