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by arundelo 10y ago
If you don't like JavaScript's type coercion rules, fair enough. But if you're criticizing the fact that you can write JavaScript programs with nothing but punctuation characters, remember that no-one ever does so except as a
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by arundelo 10y ago
I have six young relatives (nephews and a niece) that are all 19 or younger. I'd bet that all of them but maybe the 2-year-old know what a battery (of this type) is and all but the 2-year-old and maybe the 6-year-old can name different
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by arundelo 10y ago
I've had my own domain for quite a while and have been meaning to start using an email address on that domain. The main reason I haven't is that I'm procrastinating the initial trouble of setting it up, but I'm also a bi
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by arundelo 10y ago
You bag the groceries yourself in the U.S. too. The cashier puts them in a shopping cart which you take to a nearby long counter where you bag them. (They charge for bags but sometimes there are empty cardboard shipping boxes at the counter
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by arundelo 10y ago
If you're not already familiar with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toki_Pona , check it out. "Both its sound inventory and phonotactics (patterns of possible sound combinations) are found in the majority of hu
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by arundelo 10y ago
Esperanto has way way more speakers than Klingon. "Arika Okrent guessed in her book In the Land of Invented Languages that there might be 20–30 fluent [Klingon] speakers."[1] "In 2009 Lu Wunsch-Rolshoven used 2001 year cens
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by arundelo 10y ago
Two Markdown line breaks don't translate to a single line break in the output but to a paragraph break. (To output a single line break, precede your source line break with two spaces. As others have pointed out, these behaviors are to
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by arundelo 11y ago
"Additionally, there are certain types of circular references that may never be freed under this scheme, although that's not a huge concern to look at from the start." Early versions of PHP were released in the late 90s, with
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by arundelo 11y ago
The author's point here is that in ReQL the order things happen in is the order you write them in, which is not the case in SQL. (In SQL the order things happen in is partially baked into the language -- see the page that "look it
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by arundelo 11y ago
The author of Irregular Webcomic walks through a Banach-Tarski decomposition and it turns out not to require any really heavy-duty math. You should understand it if you know what rational and irrational numbers are: http://www.ir
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by arundelo 11y ago
Code actually starts with relays.
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by arundelo 11y ago
From the article, which you apparently didn't read: In the United States, we usually don’t autopsy people unless the cause of death is mysterious or foul play is suspected. In fact, we autopsy less than 5 percent of all deaths.
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How can we fight online shaming campaigns?(scottaaronson.com)
28 points by arundelo 12y ago|33 comments
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by arundelo 12y ago
I don't think he is, but one of his main current projects is a conversion tool for revision control systems. http://www.catb.org/~esr/reposurgeon/features.html
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by arundelo 13y ago
being able to do minus, union, intersection, etc. I had to code those in-line every time. I'm not sure I understand the post author's complaint here. What's wrong with writing your own SetDiff, SetUnion, and SetIntersect
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by arundelo 13y ago
I believe these are both meatspace identities. Nick Szabo is a "former law school professor at George Washington University" according to Wikipedia. Wei Dai has attended SIAI/MIRI workshops in person: http://lesswr
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by arundelo 13y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi
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by arundelo 13y ago
Not a very good analogy. [...] a very particular piece of grammar, expressing a nuance that standard English leaves to context. Black English is a seemingly still water that runs deep. http://www.theroot.com/views/why
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by arundelo 13y ago
A couple quotes from Hadfield's Reddit account: We are trained to be able to do everything onboard - we have to be. It takes many years. To be an astronaut who orbits earth and stays for a while, it needs to become your main life's work.
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by arundelo 13y ago
Someone fixed that; here it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5659278
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by arundelo 14y ago
Even Homer nods!
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by arundelo 14y ago
Correction: LuaJIT's creator Mike Pall is http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mikemike .
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by arundelo 14y ago
Terminology note: This is called the opponent process theory. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opponent_process
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by arundelo 14y ago
I figured it was broken (on my browser) too, and I didn't know how to get to other levels. After seeing your comment I went back and saw that touching the rectangle with the yellow glow takes me to the next level. (On the first level this
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by arundelo 15y ago
I made a Commodore 64 play "Taps": http://youtu.be/cPtdcv1G01Y
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by arundelo 15y ago
I see 24 hours (not the correct 23) when I follow that link. Edit: Now I see that the link has both times in EST, which is not on point. See chrisrhoden's link in a sibling to this comment.
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by arundelo 15y ago
It says that there are 24 hours between 1pm EST March 10 and 1pm EDT March 11, when there are really 23. It's probably using my IP address (and the original poster's IP address) to pick these timezones, so you may see something different,
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by arundelo 15y ago
Upvoted for the first two paragraphs, but I can't make sense of the second sentence of the third paragraph. The algorithm given in the article works in Python because Python has different overflow behavior than Java, C, or C++. When you s
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by arundelo 15y ago
It's by Richard Gabriel.
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by arundelo 15y ago
1. Tierney is a journalist. (Neither Wikipedia nor his nytimes.com bio seem to specify what his degree is in.) 2. Though this was not its intent, Markovitz's article can be taken as a warning about particular failure modes of to-do lists r

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