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by avita1 11y ago
But they can't be stealing any identifying information right? At best it can count the number of times the package was downloaded. Isn't the solution for npm to have tighter controls on where it will download packages from?
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by avita1 11y ago
The article mentions mass desalination, but it doesn't actually go into how impractical it is compared to recycling wastewater. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/world/asia/11water.html
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by avita1 11y ago
Out of curiosity, has anyone managed to find something more detailed about the guts? It sounds like it's basically a BTree that stops branching at a certain threshold, but I'm almost certainly wrong.
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by avita1 11y ago
Sure, I was referring to pre-1.0 rust ;)
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by avita1 11y ago
Ditto. I'm also curious if D ever came up. My impression is that it was (until recently) much more stable than rust.
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by avita1 11y ago
Not to dredge up this debate for the umpteenth time, but the same can be said of unit tests: they are not a proof of correctness, and they often give you a false sense of security.
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by avita1 11y ago
There was an article on here a few months ago that talked about Shazam's ability to predict hits months in advance. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/12/the-shaz...
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by avita1 11y ago
Such an instrument exists! http://www.rogerlinndesign.com/linnstrument.html My biggest gripe with this notation is that it assumes you're playing in a key, so the lines go <D E F# G...> for the key of D. That ca
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by avita1 11y ago
You lose a lot of information that way, e.g. voicing/inversions. Also, reading text names get a lot more cumbersome when you need stuff like "Ab half dimished +9".
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by avita1 11y ago
I play both piano and trumpet and I think two hands make reading music at least a little bit more difficult. I've never struggled with reading trumpet music, but lots of piano sheet music still gives a hard time at tempo.
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by avita1 12y ago
Is there a real use-case for this? IIS has run server-side JS for years, and nobody's really using it.
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by avita1 12y ago
Yup, the best example I know of is resolving implicit scopes in Scala.
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by avita1 12y ago
Microservices are touted as being fault tolerant. Erlang provides fault tolerance as part of the OTP. While I haven't programmed much in Go, I haven't seem much in the way of fault tolerance.