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by astine 11y ago
Fun fact about archives: a lot of the time, people have no idea what's actually stored in them. Obviously the University didn't know they had the bible or didn't know what it was because of a lack of bookkeeping. Now they kno
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by astine 11y ago
FBI != NSA
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by astine 11y ago
But, in the mind of the populist masses that Mr Levine it criticizing it is. I don't work in finance and I'm not going to make any judgments on the industry, just to say that people who are opposed to it would be opposed to HFTs a
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by astine 11y ago
"Here you have an industry that has undercut the business of the big banks, irritated hedge fund managers and been great for small investors. Why would cracking down on that business be populist? Why would it alienate wealthy donors?&q
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by astine 11y ago
Last time I used nfsn, they supported newLisp. It's possible that they dropped support.
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by astine 11y ago
False advertising is a scam, it's just one that lots of established companies get away with. I guess there is a difference between that and one of those confidence schemes where the entire organization is a fraud, but it's still a
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by astine 11y ago
Oh, my bad thanks. Though I think my point still applies. STOVL is useful enough that they kept the Harrier around in multiple incarnations, since 69.
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by astine 11y ago
No, reducers are about reducing things. Transducers are about creating reducers that can be used on arbitrary collection-like things. Reducers come from the observation that many higher order operations on collections can be built on reduce
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by astine 11y ago
It's also worth mentioning that the Harrier is an older plane than the A10; by around ~8 years actually.
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by astine 11y ago
If you don't know Clojure, you should know that Clojure has a sort of generic collection type called a 'sequence'. Arrays, Lists and Lazy Sequences are data structures that implement the sequence interface. There is a standar
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by astine 11y ago
That's not a very plain-language description of transducers. Transducers are functions which can be applied to any sort of collection or sequence. You can use then to do something like filter a collection or an input stream with the
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by astine 11y ago
If I brought my quadcopter to work and started flying it around, people would take notice and comment on it. Some might also want to try it out. No one would mistake it for a fashion accessory, however. That's because it is a toy; whic
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by astine 11y ago
I just a took really quick look at the javascript they used and it looks like they matched the lines to a limited set of line shapes based on various heights. So, if the low income part of the line is between these certain values, the mediu
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by astine 11y ago
You say we are hypersensitized to death, yet also think it's not a big deal. The GP didn't say that we think death is no big deal, he said that we are attempting to convince ourselves that it is no big deal. We a
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by astine 11y ago
There are a couple of problems with this suggestion. The first is, have you ever read any fan-fiction? Often, the reason these fantasies are so engaging to authors is the same reason they would rather off-putting to others. They're gen
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by astine 12y ago
Or have not sent an email to that person before.
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by astine 12y ago
I tried teaching my little brother to program using the Ruby version of this book. The lessons were really basic but he still struggled. If the first lesson in an introductory guitar book was how to properly handle a guitar, I would not be
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by astine 12y ago
Close enough. A lazy sequence is a sequence who's elements are only generated when they're asked for. In Clojure, a sequence (seq) is a list datastructure. It can be traditional Lisp list, an array, or some other datastructure who
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by astine 12y ago
I would make parsers and generators much easier to write.
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by astine 12y ago
Microsoft actually predates the free software movement. And proprietary software predates Microsoft. And free software 'culture' still exists, in as much as it ever did.
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by astine 12y ago
I actually used om-tools before I switched to reagent. Om-tools does cut out a lot of boilerplate, but I like reagent's approach more from the outset. One thing I found confusing about Om with or without om-tools, was how to manage com
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by astine 12y ago
He could have said "code editor". I think everyone would have understood that and it wouldn't have sounded weird to programmers.
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by astine 12y ago
The biggest difference is that, unlike Om, Reagent does not require you to reify an interface to define a component. Instead, components are defined with functions which return a hiccup-like datastructure. If you need access to React's
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by astine 12y ago
In a way you're right, the executable is definitely within bounds and if that is your definition of the program, it's small enough. If you count resources that are necessary to make the program run, however, you'd use a dif
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by astine 12y ago
I think it's helpful to consider that this program in 672 bytes of machine code rather than source code or assembler. That helps the comparisons to English text seem a little less jarring: if my words were expressed as 8bit bytes rat
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by astine 12y ago
The idea is that you have to actually implement all of the rules, even if your AI never invokes them. The game in this article for example, was originally designed as a two player game. If you can swap out the AI for a second human player a
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by astine 12y ago
Then you have to keep your database and those files in sync. There are tools that help with this, but it's no longer as simple as redeploying your code.
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by astine 12y ago
Because then it's not in version control.
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by astine 12y ago
Yes: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/22/electronic-voting-m...
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by astine 12y ago
Not certain about the OP's reasoning, but doing aggregate functions on the database server is often more performant than doing the same in your application. This is, in part, because of the smaller result set sizes. Also, it's use

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