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by bcoates 13y ago
It's a dynamic-typing thing. In some hypothetical static-strong-non-duck version of Python, if name != '' and len(pets) > 0 and owners != {} would tell you that name is a non-empty string, pets has values, and owner
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by bcoates 13y ago
That 1981 story is bizarre. Pocketable (AM-only!) transistor radios with an earphone were on the market in the 50s and the "little Japanese radio" was ubiquitous by the 1960s. By 1981 I'm sure there were people still grousing
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by bcoates 13y ago
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=series+representation+o...
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by bcoates 13y ago
If the headgear is comfortable enough, it might help with RSI/fatigue issues -- body position is no longer narrowly constrained by practical display mounting.
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by bcoates 13y ago
Communication tools that people use heavily enough to care about acquire a context beyond just "Who I can communicate with". As the recipient, for the majority of my routine communications I get information from medium > sender
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by bcoates 13y ago
I think the problem with that analogy is the standard advice for men in that situation is to grow up and get over it.
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by bcoates 13y ago
The point of the entire US atomic weapons arsenal was a murder-suicide pact against International Communism. If you don't burn the planet after a Soviet victory you may as well have not built it in the first place.
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by bcoates 13y ago
That's not how taxes work. You can tax anything you can get your hands on. Unless this hypothetical robo-island has a mercantilist military capable of ensuring access to markets by force, the states would just tax the goods or resource
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by bcoates 13y ago
The future belongs to companies that realize exactly how little the average worker cares about "work". I can get driven to work by a nice guy in a clean car for $11 instead of a surly driver in a grotty $25 taxi (who probably has
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by bcoates 13y ago
Thanks for explaining more. I didn't respond because I realized that we didn't agree on terms, and dictionary arguments are boring. I was using "decoupling" in the sense of "what happens to an overfit model after it
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by bcoates 13y ago
Oh come on. Microsoft's "evil" amounted to giving the competition a few kicks in the ribs while they were down. It was nasty and unsporting but let's keep things in perspective. The comparison with Nestle would only be r
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by bcoates 13y ago
There's two big missing facts that I've never noticed Murphy in particular acknowledge: the 1980s peak in global births -- population growth is now driven entirely by decreasing mortality -- and the late 20th century decoupling of
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by bcoates 13y ago
Worrying about ecological self-sufficiency and sustainability at a smaller than planetwide scale is essentially throwing away the entire advantage of how much our massive global logistics network has shrunk the world in recent decades.
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by bcoates 13y ago
I think the idea is that food aid isn't just being given out on its own but as part of a development strategy. I agree that just giving food isn't enough, and it's wrong to pretend that the drought is the problem and not the
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by bcoates 13y ago
Yes? If you can't tell the difference between what happened to Nicolae Ceaușescu and what happened to Fred Hampton I'm not sure what planet you're living on.
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by bcoates 13y ago
An idealized dynamic strong typed language can actually give you the guarantee that all statically valid programs give you well-defined runtime behavior. This is a huge advantage over weakly typed languages that you also get out of the idea
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by bcoates 13y ago
What are the distributions on the answers? I always get xxxP where the first three are always around neutral and I'm P off the charts, whatever the hell that means.
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by bcoates 13y ago
The images themselves aren't illegal, and in the US search engines are covered by the online service provider safe harbor if they follow the rules.
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by bcoates 13y ago
The Free World won the war against Communism through economic warfare, surely Toshiba contributed to that impoverishing them by $517 million of hard currency for weapons they never got to use?
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by bcoates 13y ago
You're seriously using a dead six year old kid as a springboard for a another dreary rant about surge pricing? You're a damn ghoul.
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by bcoates 13y ago
http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2008/01/how-to-out-sundown-town... The racial distribution of the US is neither an accident or the result of voluntary actions by individuals.
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by bcoates 13y ago
I've done a lot of digging through other people's code, in general the only comments I've found helpful are those that explicitly call out defective code, and those that provide links to external references. Writing clear cod
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by bcoates 13y ago
Nobody's claiming it won't work; they're claiming it will work in a way that is dangerous to its users.
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by bcoates 13y ago
"if hands were scrubbed, rinsed, and dried properly." ... which never happens. Seems like the same faulty logic used to justify blow-driers over paper towels. It doesn't look like the study that would actually answer this que
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by bcoates 13y ago
The article wasn't complaining about density but about structure; a fences-and-backyards suburb arranged on a grid or some other well-connected layout is much more walkable than the same density suburb where all traffic must pass throu
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by bcoates 13y ago
I think the new color scheme is nice, but the contrast is way too low for the tiny, low-weight font they're using. A bold or larger text or increasing the contrast a little would make it work. To meet http://accessibility.ps
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by bcoates 13y ago
Here's one for RAM in servers, from Google: http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-10370026-264.html Found it here, which also goes into some testing the Guild Wars guys did on their population of gamer PCs: http:/&#x
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by bcoates 13y ago
It looks like the second is still valid C, but a C++11 compiler is allowed to break it if it declares "strict pointer safety" rules are in effect at runtime (which a GC implementation would presumably do)
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by bcoates 13y ago
Thread context: https://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/11/179
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by bcoates 13y ago
What model of computation is this? Heap-to-stack pointers are routine, any object/closure system is going to have them.

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