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by arkx 14y ago
Yes you can. It just requires sufficient karma.
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by arkx 14y ago
I've had fun solving the Rosalind collection of introductory bioinformatics problems: http://rosalind.info/problems/list-view/
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by arkx 14y ago
Good Old Games recently started selling a lot of (old) games for OS X.
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by arkx 14y ago
Why rely on memory when the truth is two Wikipedia searches away? PS2 graphics chip comes nowhere close to any modern GPU. GPUs have progressed a great deal in the last 12 years. Also, rating GPUs based on their pixel fill rate stopped maki
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by arkx 14y ago
If you're comfortable with SSH you could also just fire up an EC2 or Linode instance in UK, install a local proxy and tunnel traffic through it. It's way more versatile than signing up for just VPN.
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by arkx 14y ago
Why does taking the game world as an input seem so odd? Thanks to Clojure's structural sharing "returning a brand new world" can be efficient. Judging from later parts of James Hague's series, he was working with Erlang which doesn't seem t
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by arkx 14y ago
Brilliant, thank you!
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by arkx 14y ago
I wish the instarepl supported doc and source, something all other Clojure REPLs seem to support. I've found both invaluable when working with Clojure.
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by arkx 14y ago
The hash list posted might be incomplete.
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by arkx 15y ago
Indiegogo offers a very similar service without that limitation.
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by arkx 15y ago
I'm not sure if it's a match featurewise, but http://indiegogo.com looks and feels very similar. Nikodemus Siivola used it to fund SBCL threading improvements: http://www.indiegogo.com/SBCL-Threading-Improvements-1
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by arkx 15y ago
Is public school teacher a desireable profession in the US? Is it anywhere near the level of prestige associated with lawyers or doctors? How is the pay? This is one of they key differences that's repeated in nearly every one of the numerou
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by arkx 15y ago
Hey, I remember you from HUT circa 2006. I was comparing the level of primary and upper secondary school teaching with university teaching, not different universities. Seems like university rankings have little to do with that. For what it'
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by arkx 15y ago
You seem to mainly address universities, which were out of scope for this article. OECD PISA is measuring 15-year-old students. There is a huge difference in the level of teaching at compulsory schools and universities in Finland. "People a
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by arkx 15y ago
Comments like this drive me away from FSF, despite heavily using open source software each day of my life.
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by arkx 15y ago
First time in 3+ years of lurking on hackernews when I wish I had enough karma to downvote you.
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by arkx 15y ago
For rest of the world: 1 ounce = 28.3 grams.
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by arkx 15y ago
Carthago delenda est.
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by arkx 15y ago
Why not fix all the typos if it's as easy as clicking 'edit file'? He has the option to merge it by clicking one button. I just can't see the downside. He didn't want to merge it due to the lack of signed-off-by, but at least he knows there
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by arkx 16y ago
They are not in ASCII, and that is the problem. You wouldn't believe how many times I've tripped over Python 2.x's UnicodeDecodeError for example. Moreover, I wasn't searching for the best example -- merely using something I have personal e
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by arkx 16y ago
In my opinion, it needs to be in the core. Imagine you need to go through a library every time your string includes or might include the letter "s" or "v". Basically you'd need to use this library for all your strings. But then you lose com
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by arkx 16y ago
As a Finnish software dev I can say that in these days native support for Unicode is a must. We have a couple of special characters in the alphabet (åäö) and if you have to do a lot of manual work to use these, the programming language is p
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by arkx 16y ago
It's true: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_ra... General rate is almost twice as high as well, so it's not bias. Scandinavians are also generally much happier, according to OECD: http://www.forbes.com/2009/05/0
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by arkx 17y ago
Are there some sort of studies or statistics out there regarding adoption of different versions? I'd be interested to see them.
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by arkx 17y ago
And that's about all it does. You have to update packages manually and you can't remove them at all with easy_install. What's so beautiful about gem to me as a Python dev is this: $ gem update && gem cleanup A lot of headache I don'