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by auvrw 11y ago
> Don Stewart he wrote my window manager! going out on a limb, i guess these people would say that they don't know much category theory because they understand that category theory contains results , not just definitions. moreover
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by auvrw 11y ago
i once had a conversation that ended with "i don't know enough category theory to be good at haskell." after learning a (little) more category theory and a (very little) more haskell, i think that assessment was inaccurate, a
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by auvrw 11y ago
"Within the past decade the ability to bypass muscles and speech between a brain and a computer has become a reality." bypassing speech? i haven't heard about that one? the phrase for "bypassing muscles" is "n
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by auvrw 11y ago
dunno know if it's necessary to go all the way back to the 60's to see interesting approaches to cognitive science.. hofstadter's 1995 book is a good read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid_Concepts_and
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by auvrw 11y ago
yea, i tried to run it on real hardware a couple of years ago, and the response from the community was "no one does that, use virtualization." i got the sense that it was a friendly group. expressing interest, even as someone who
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by auvrw 11y ago
only recently started using less.js and thought nesting was helpful: i had a not-so-well organized css file, and systematic nesting quickly enforced a sensible grouping of statements. also, if you want to change an id attr in your html, sa
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by auvrw 12y ago
I'm talking about something I don't understand....
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by auvrw 12y ago
this makes perfect sense after reading some molecular biology lately: bacteria are constantly trying to attach and detach from our skin, and that, apparently, involves a constant struggle between electrostatics and biological structures...
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by auvrw 12y ago
So true.... just went tothe local museum saturday morning... symmetry, colors, asymmetry. What's not to like?
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by auvrw 12y ago
the grad school -> prison movement isn't new.. i recall a friend who, as far as i know, went from a ritzy grad school to jail based on some fairly radical eco-"terrorism".... incarceration is a really scary thing, and ther
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by auvrw 12y ago
this is a pretty naive comment, but it's really intended to be totally serious: what's up with cores? like, why do we really need cores? is it really fundametally better architecture to have a RISC sitting at the front of the i
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by auvrw 12y ago
I'm not familiar with all the available chart libraries built on top of d3.js，but having used vanilla d3 on several projects, my first response to this article was that c3 looks really useful/cool... That said, it's probably
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by auvrw 12y ago
they're for different use cases. mechanicalsoup is more like zombie.js ( http://zombie.labnotes.org/ ) than selenium, chromedriver, or some other webdriver ( https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webdriver/r
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by auvrw 12y ago
the title is a reference to a flannery o'connor story ( http://faculty.smu.edu/nschwart/2312/lifeyousave.htm )
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by auvrw 12y ago
about python > I definitely don’t understand the class system. this could be worrying if you mean you don't understand class-based OO languages as a whole. if you specifically mean you don't understand multiple inheritance, th
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by auvrw 12y ago
seemed like a good idea to me, although i didn't go the full 9 and write a schema or anything. https://github.com/ransomw/ransomw.github.io/tree/master/med...
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by auvrw 12y ago
if all you're after is two-way data binding and don't necessarily need all the other functionality provided by Angular, it might be worth mentioning that React actually can do that, even though it's not a pattern that occurs
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by auvrw 12y ago
except the hurd runs on mach... i read a bunch of the hurd documentation a couple of years ago, including the paper by the people who tried porting it to L4. i also tried installing the debian port on an old desktop but had some driver issu
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by auvrw 12y ago
is this thing named after Cowboy Bebop? the controller design looks almost exactly like something from that tv show.
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by auvrw 12y ago
fairly oblivious also, but here are some semi-informed guesses: > what does this new architecture mean for folks writing software on top of it? i think the plan is to use a custom compiler (made out of LLVM components) to build usual C t
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by auvrw 12y ago
looks cool on several levels: empowering people to build the things they want w/o being "1337", volunteer driven, a "noBackend"/"One Backend Per User" ( http://www.infoq.com/presentati
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by auvrw 12y ago
this is pretty slick. i'm glad people are making more modular implementations of the programs that i depend upon in addition to creating fancy new programs that i might find useful. for comparison, the openbsd version of openssh'
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by auvrw 12y ago
> iterm2 and its enormous feature set. and codebase and dependencies, probably. i like that st is < 1000 lines of C. > It seems a little embarrassing that the linux world is outdone by the OS X world when it comes to terminals. ye
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by auvrw 12y ago
from the panic_bcast source s.bind(("", 1337)) # Listen on all devices haha
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by auvrw 12y ago
i was going to say something similar. since the problem appears, essentially, to be that threaded programs are difficult to write, perhaps some certain language or library with a model of concurrency other than threads would've preven
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by auvrw 12y ago
> I also noticed the suspicious looks for my terrible crime of not owning a car after dark. i lived near mountain view and did not notice this when visiting on my bicycle or the caltrain. sure, it's not the city proper, but mountai
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by auvrw 12y ago
i like graphic design of the site, especially the hanzi interspersed throughout. i've no idea what the "remember" boxes say, although it might sound like 记 from "to remember," based on it looking like 迹?
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by auvrw 12y ago
i'm at the beginning of a node project and need to choose a promises implementation. it seems like when and q are the most often cited, but then i've noticed someone mentioning this "bluebird" library. it seems like th
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by auvrw 12y ago
as someone else has already mentioned, you're not using the second (error-handling) argument to .then(). you might also check out the aosa on twisted ( http://www.aosabook.org/en/twisted.html ). twisted's De
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by auvrw 12y ago
more generally, from Lang: > Let F be a subfield of a field E. An element \alpha of E is said to be {algebraic} over F if there exist elements a_0, ..., a_n (n >= 1) of F, not all equal to 0, such that a_0 + a_1\alpha^n + ... + a_n\a

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