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541.
by bloaf 9y ago
I'm sure you've seen this; it's posted here regularly: http://www.flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html
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by bloaf 9y ago
How many really truly secure C programs have ever been released into the wild? Maybe qmail? But qmail did it by completely rewriting the C standard library.
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by bloaf 9y ago
Atrazine research has an... interesting past: http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/2013/atrazin... The big Atrazine manufacturer was caught hiring investigators to dig up dirt on researchers and re
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by bloaf 9y ago
I agree, and if it became commonplace, I suspect people would offer templates that would help homogenize things.
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by bloaf 9y ago
I apologize that Vonnegut wrote his letter at a time before the internet made defensive writers of us all. https://pchiusano.github.io/2014-10-11/defensive-writing.htm...
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by bloaf 9y ago
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/03/i-am-very-real.html >It is true that some of the characters speak coarsely. That is because people speak coarsely in real life. Especially soldiers and hardworking men speak
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by bloaf 9y ago
It depends on your field. There are some experiments you can't just walk away from, for safety reasons. You can't just "focus" and make your chemical reaction go faster.
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by bloaf 9y ago
Offbeatr was the adult equivalent of kickstarter for a while, but it shut down a year or so ago.
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by bloaf 9y ago
Question: How do you present the user with a list of all the applications on the computer? Answer: With a list (of icons + text) or list (of icon tiles) or a couple of lists (same as the others, split by categories.) You can slice and dice
550.
by bloaf 9y ago
The HolyC language was mandated by God and therefore needs none of those things.
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by bloaf 9y ago
Do you have any experience with Nickel–iron batteries from Chinese companies? They seem like the kind of tech where a "cheap knockoff" might be good enough because they're A) not that fancy and B) durable as heck.
552.
by bloaf 9y ago
Several search engines have had issues today, I haven't heard anything about a root cause though. http://downdetector.com/status/bing
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by bloaf 9y ago
I don't know, a lot of HNners seem to believe in Cunningham's Law, and it certainly seems to have held in this situation.
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by bloaf 9y ago
https://millionshort.com/
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by bloaf 9y ago
http://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Slot.html?q=Slot At the bottom of the page, it says: >Introduced in 1988 (1.0) So WL had this syntax several years before the JVM was even invented.
556.
by bloaf 9y ago
But that's my point. Mathematica's # syntax is both. (i.e. it is good enough for very simple cases, and it is the more powerful mechanism.)
557.
by bloaf 9y ago
It'd be cool if I could make a small botnet that would influence companies to make the kind of stuff I actually wanted to buy.
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by bloaf 9y ago
The "whatever star" seems like a less-well-implemented version of Wolfram Language's pure anonymous functions: http://www.wolfram.com/language/elementary-introduction/2nd-... Essentially, WL uses #
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by bloaf 9y ago
>But however imperfect his attempt, he was fired, in short, for thinking on his own. I agree with this sentiment. I also agree that google had a right to fire him for it. There was a time when I thought that google wasn't the kind
560.
by bloaf 9y ago
In which departments have you seen that? [Not denying, genuinely curious]
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by bloaf 9y ago
This is part of a long and slow change in the role of higher education. Previously, college was seen as being for people who academically deserved it. College was not for teaching high-school level concepts, it was for teaching advanced c
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by bloaf 9y ago
> That was not the argument of his memo. His argument was that, because of this broadly measurable difference, this leads to women being less interested in computer science (although not to the degree of similar STEM fields, oddly enough
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by bloaf 9y ago
http://www.spsp.org/blog/stereotype-accuracy-response > Stereotype accuracy is one of the largest and most replicable effects in all of social psychology. Richard et al (2003) found that fewer than 5% of all effect
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by bloaf 9y ago
The ocaml compiler found a bug in Intel's Skylake/Kaby Lake. If they found one for Ryzen too, I haven't heard about it. https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2017/06/msg00308.html
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by bloaf 9y ago
You can just build from scratch too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfVWFe-0UxM
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by bloaf 9y ago
They're pretty bad for meta-scientific research. That is, they are very much a for-human-eyeballs-only format.
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by bloaf 9y ago
I'd say that the OSS UX will always lag in terms of overall polish. But in terms of pushing ideas, they can be ahead of the curve. E.g. gnome 3 (April 2011) did a full screen "start menu" before windows 8 (Aug 2012)
568.
by bloaf 9y ago
It sounded to me like what the company objected to was Amazon claiming that the MSRP was higher than it actually was.
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by bloaf 9y ago
Sure. But in practice everyone is just going to make extensions that are compatible with "all" the browsers, and there are developers who have simply decided not to rewrite their firefox extensions. http://fasezero.com
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by bloaf 9y ago
I switched away from firefox once they announced they were moving to the Chrome extension model (and thereby sank their "better extensions" selling point.)

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