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by batterseapower 16y ago
The cynic in me says that elite colleges understand that the largest value they add is the prestige you obtain from having one on your CV. That is what they are selling, not education - so there's really no contradiction in giving the educa
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by batterseapower 16y ago
Most interesting features: * Added an invokedynamic instruction for faster execution of dynamic languages on the JVM * Small language changes (e.g. strings in switch). See http://openjdk.java.net/projects/coin/
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by batterseapower 16y ago
It looks like you get this algorithm almost directly if you just memoise a very simple recursive Levenshtein distance function. (This insight could be implemented directly in Haskell by using e.g. the MemoTrie package) The standard imperati
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by batterseapower 16y ago
There is a nice paper explaining why the "PSI paper" is a sign that psychologists must adopt better statistics: http://www.ruudwetzels.com/articles/Wagenmakersetal_subm.pdf There is a really nice paper that finally explained to me why B
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by batterseapower 16y ago
Personally I ate nothing but processed, microwaveable meals for 3 years during university. I find it hard to believe that this significantly affected my performance since I still managed to get the best result in my year (twice) and second
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by batterseapower 16y ago
You can "printf debug" Haskell code pretty well using 'trace' ( http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/base/latest/doc/... ) which was designed for the purpose. The lack of gdb support for Haskell is very irritating, but it seems you w
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by batterseapower 16y ago
Plausible Labs have released PLBlocks - a version of GCC + a runtime library that allow you to use garbage collection in your iOS apps. Presumably MacRuby could just use the runtime library to provide the GC support it needs. The BridgeSupp
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by batterseapower 16y ago
21 million bitcoins seems like a low limit to set. According to http://newlibertystandard.wetpaint.com/page/Exchange+Rate the exchange rate is currently 221 Bitcoins per USD, so the total value of all possible bitcoins is only 95000USD.
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by batterseapower 16y ago
I also had no idea what it was meant to do from the tagline - at least say social network or something. It was not at all obvious that you could roll over those pictures - they need to look more clickable. Like others on this thread, I didn
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by batterseapower 16y ago
Actually they are exactly equivalent. See for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression ("Regular expressions in this sense can express the regular languages, exactly the class of languages accepted by deterministic finite a
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by batterseapower 16y ago
You can turn your ASCII arts drawings into actual images with ditaa: http://ditaa.sourceforge.net/ . I've found this handy for when you are generating HTML manuals from text comments in the source code, and you want to include a quick-n-di
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by batterseapower 16y ago
Note a very good CAPTCHA, since as a spammer I can get the answer by just feeding the question to Google: http://www.google.com/search?q=square+root+of+minus+one This should also work on those CAPTHCAs that ask the user to solve a simple
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by batterseapower 16y ago
The blog post from the speaker has a link to the slides: http://lunduke.com/?p=1075
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by batterseapower 17y ago
I think your comments here are off base. The SWF standards (and associated standards like RTMP) are available for free on the Adobe website. You are permitted to construct alternative implementations based on this specification. I think it
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by batterseapower 17y ago
PDGC would make a lot of sense as the GC system for Haskell. The key change you need to make to the RTS is, when you evaluate a thunk, rather than overwriting it with the final value, instead append the evaluated value to the thunk. Then, t