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The Rise and Fall of Australia’s $44 Billion Broadband Project(spectrum.ieee.org)
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by bjz_ 13y ago
Knuth loves his type-setting. He created TeX for crying out loud! I'm sure he detests what epub readers do to his works. And I'm sure he is no fan of how pdfs look on e-readers either.
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by bjz_ 13y ago
For an chillingly realistic depiction of how a worldwide pandemic could unfold, I'd highly recommend watching the film Contagion (2011)[1]. For all those who complain governments and scientists overreacting to new flu strains, I would
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by bjz_ 13y ago
> Rust doesnt really offer GC, the @pointers are more like ARC with cycle detection, and are behind a featre flag now. @ is being removed, but GC will still be there - implemented properly as a library with language hooks (via traits) to
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It's a shame there's not much out there for OSX. :(
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Original video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16oaGSltUPE (thought she deserved the credit!)
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I normally have dot and cross as free functions.
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I've donated $10 once or twice. Feels good to support it! Too many people take it for granted.
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From the website ( http://www.idris-lang.org/ ): > Idris is a general purpose pure functional programming language with dependent types. Dependent types allow types to be predicated on values, meaning that some aspects of
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Programming in Idris: a tutorial(eb.host.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk)
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I'm from Australia too, and it says: "It's just you. The Australian government is still up!"
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The source he posted on Github calls it 'annotated'[1]. I'm guessing it was just a poor choice of word. [1] https://github.com/logaan/typed-game-of-life/blob/master/src...
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by bjz_ 13y ago
Those interested in using Rust for game development can check out our list of resources: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Computer-Graphics-and-G... If you want to chat feel free to stop by `#rust-gamedev
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The other benefit to these plants over nuclear is that the time it takes to get them operational is much shorter. This allows for faster iteration time, and therefore more opportunities to improve the technology and reduce costs.
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> When you calculate the amount of power the plant is likely to produce over its lifetime, the cost per kilowatt-hour is likely to be much higher than for fossil-fuel power. Solar thermal is cost effective if you take into account the
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I for one love the whimsy. We need more LearnYouaThings and Shoes and runtimes that spit out lovecraftian quotes...
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Great post, but I don't think the parent was attempting to make some kind of rhetorical point, merely asking an honest question.
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How long do the checklists normally take for airliners? I was actually surprised how short this was.
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http://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-stopped-in-19... The Daily Mail? Really?
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http://www.skepticalscience.com/its-not-us.htm http://www.skepticalscience.com/settled-science.htm
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No need for personal attacks.
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Exactly. That is what is lost in most of these debates. In order to move forward in the design of systems programming languages, we must first recognize what makes C++ great, in spite of its deep flaws.
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Characters, Symbols and the Unicode Miracle - Computerphile(youtube.com)
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It's great that she's actually using tumblr. It shows that she's likes her product enough to use it herself.
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Thanks for the headsup. Would be interesting to know more about in what respects Rust was different, and why this lang is out of date.
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Sixty symbols has just published a video discussing the physics behind this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ1Hgzi2ElQ
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If you have type inference, this is usually not a problem. Also, it is much easier to parse, both for humans and compilers. Rust uses the former way, and it's extremely readable. Even Herb Sutter, of C++ fame agrees: > One of the th
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Oh really? That's great! To be honest I don't follow the Windows situation too closely, as I work on OSX. So things might have improved.
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And unfortunately Windows support is one of Rust's weak spots. Which will be sorted in the future of course, but it needs some tenacious souls to donate some time if it's going to happen any sooner. Game devs will need this in par
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> Added to the fact that Rust is now developed in Rust! It has been for a good long while! :)

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