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by arohner 16y ago
Thank you, Rich, very informative. What is the rationale behind not letting 'declare' declare vars in other namespaces? I've run into that when dealing with circular dependencies, and sometimes it seems that would help.
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by arohner 16y ago
Like many other people, I was skeptical about the need for bitcoins. The thing that finally made me think BitCoin could potentially have value is internet weed dealers. Let's say there are three people, A, B,C. A sells weed (or other illega
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by arohner 16y ago
A longer answer, because there seems to be a lot of confusion here. The JVM security model allows a function to goto anywhere inside the current function, but does not allow a goto to outside the current function. This means that JVM based
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by arohner 16y ago
In no way did I imply all art is useless. What I did strongly imply is that spending $50-100k and four years of your life is a big decision. Please, get a degree in whatever you like, but realize that you are probably in the minority for be
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by arohner 16y ago
The current system is completely broken for people who don't get useful degrees, but only annoying for people who do get useful degrees. 1) Have a plan. Go into college with a measurable goal. Say "I'm going to get a degree in X, because th
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by arohner 16y ago
Here's a good solution: https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/master/src/jvm/cloju...
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by arohner 16y ago
He was definitely clueless about the implementation of Ruby. MRI started as a half-assed Scheme implementation, which is easy to see when you read the MRI source code. Scheme has lexical scoping, while Ruby has...python/perl-style scoping.
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by arohner 16y ago
Anecdotally, my karma per post has gone way up. Either that, or I've had a lucky few days. My guess is, when people don't see how many points a post has, they have no way to calibrate whether it has "too many" points or "too few".
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by arohner 16y ago
That's "only" for social security and medicare. You still pay federal income tax on top of that.
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There is, if the MD5s match.
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by arohner 16y ago
I know you're trying to be positive here, but this is one of my biggest sticking points when talking about Detroit. The collapse of detroit is a catastrophic failure in what is supposed to be a well-run country. There's no real consensus on
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by arohner 16y ago
My favorite joke about this is, as a TV broadcaster, it's not in their interest to explain radiation. CNN could correctly say, "living in California, you are exposed to more radiation watching TV on a CRT than from Japan". Then the viewers
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by arohner 16y ago
Actually, when I said 'update', I meant the functions that in standard languages that would modify the existing structure return a new one, but it's great you found update-in. That's a beautiful function. There's also assoc-in, which is bas
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by arohner 16y ago
Here's an easy example. In some code I'm writing for my startup, I'm attempting to build the DAG that maximizes a scoring function. I permute through the candidates, and then run a scoring function. I perform greedy hill climbing , and retu
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by arohner 16y ago
As of this morning, $1200 for a 512GB SSD is cheaper than what's available on newegg.com
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by arohner 16y ago
The source is the National Enquirer? Flagged.
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by arohner 16y ago
When the article didn't load, it took me a minute to remember I'd blacklisted experts exchange in my hosts file several years ago. Apparently I'm still not missing anything.
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Battery life is not an issue with my iPad. When using it for only reading (i.e. not streaming video), it can easily go for a week without charging. Even with video, on a full charge, it can easily play 8 hours without recharging.
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by arohner 16y ago
Yes, but my biggest question is, why will anyone start using it? Gold was valuable before it was money. Bitcoin is not. These first movers that are paying real money for bitcoin, seem to only be doing so because they think other people
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by arohner 16y ago
Most of the comments here are "why bitcoin?" I'll ask again, but in a form that I hope is slightly more detailed: Gold was valuable before it started being used as money. It started being used as money because it has several valuable proper
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by arohner 16y ago
I use my iPad nearly every day. It's a better experience than my laptop (which I do use literally every day) in several areas: * reading in bed * reading long PDFs. This is my primary "work purpose". I read a lot of machine learning
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by arohner 16y ago
Not really. On *nixes, there's a library called zoneinfo ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database ) that has the list of rules about "if you're in living in California, then DST starts on March 23" or whatever. When a country changes the
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by arohner 16y ago
Why are timezones a good idea? 12:00 is not solar noon for essentially everyone.
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by arohner 16y ago
Yes, but that feature still hinders SQL today. If "usability by normals" was dropped as a design requirement, SQL would look a lot more like a normal programming language, and suck a lot less.
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by arohner 16y ago
> It's just like almost everything else programmers do. If I dash off quick program, I don't expect the VM figure out how to make it perform perfectly. Why would I expect database software to be different? Except that SQL wasn't designe
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by arohner 16y ago
Yeah, both a Deepness in the Sky and Fire upon the deep didn't do a whole lot for me. The Aliens in DitS were too "human", which was a problem for me because he went to great lengths to describe what their planet was like, and their physiol
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The Technology behind L.A. Noire [vid] (Motion Capturing Faces in a Video Game)(youtube.com)
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by arohner 16y ago
This particular implementation will probably never work, but that doesn't mean "3D movies" in some form will never work. This guy built a stunning demonstration giving a 3d effect with a wiimote and a standard TV: http://www.youtube.com/wa
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by arohner 16y ago
Or being generous to the customer. Valve made a DLC for Left4Dead2, released for 360 and Mac/PC. Valve released for free on PC, but MSFT told them they must charge for it on 360, $7.99 (or thereabouts). In response, Valve had a sale on M
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by arohner 16y ago
The PS3 is now viable as a new host platform for XMBC (XBox Media Center). >Then Sony's console business would go bankrupt? The Music and Movie industries continue to stay in business even in the face of piracy. Wake me up when PS3 pira

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