bmm6o

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by bmm6o 13y ago
Yes, it's always interesting how different presentations of the same basic idea are received. "Is X false?" gets a much different response than "why is X true?". It's good to keep in mind that the second one
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by bmm6o 13y ago
I guess I could see your interpretation, but it requires that you ignore all of the context of the paper. For instance, you take distribution to equal histogram. This may make sense in some contexts, but here it's absolutely not true
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by bmm6o 13y ago
I don't think people understand what your point is. What do you think is missing from the sentence? An explicit mention of independence? Why do you think 1,2,1,2,1,2,... is indistinguishable from uniform? In another response you sa
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by bmm6o 13y ago
Not only technically very difficult, but requires the MS VC++ team to be complicit and silent. I'd put it pretty far down the list.
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by bmm6o 13y ago
I don't know much about the inner workings of the penal system, but the 13th amendment (which generally abolished slavery) specifically allows for involuntary servitude as punishment for a crime.
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by bmm6o 13y ago
> I don't get why writers try to abuse copyright law to artificially constrain the disbursement of their material That's not an abuse of copyright law, that's it's exact purpose. > Instead, I'd attach a dona
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by bmm6o 13y ago
Yes, and deservedly so. It's not a question with an answer, it's not even a poll. Other communities would close it as "Chatfilter" or "GTKY". What's interesting is that it was ever allowed on SO, and th
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by bmm6o 13y ago
Does anyone not have a "financial relationship with Microsoft"?
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by bmm6o 13y ago
The only issue I recall is that the random-looking data involved in crypto confuses the conservative GC, so your app is unlikely to release memory in a timely fashion. More of a problem in the small address space of a 32-bit application.
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by bmm6o 13y ago
Why does it make sense to introduce into this discussion some number of hypothetical counter-factual fatalities?
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by bmm6o 13y ago
On the other hand, could that work without server-side code? If the logic is all done in the browser, you don't need support in your web server and you can still load pages straight from disk.
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by bmm6o 13y ago
Why do you say "similarly" when you give opposite answers?
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by bmm6o 13y ago
But if you have a const reference to a non-const object, it's legal to use a const_cast to remove the const part. This is the more likely scenario, since most objects aren't const.
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by bmm6o 13y ago
This is nit-picky, but why does the HN title use "fraction" when the linked question uses the more-correct "rational"? It doesn't replace the other instance of "rational".
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by bmm6o 13y ago
Comparing JS libraries with web server frameworks is pretty apples-to-oranges, first of all. But MVC frameworks pretty much have to be "everything". Can you use a desktop UI library without going with it completely?
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by bmm6o 13y ago
Not to refute your experience, but I've never had to re-auth facebook on my android.
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by bmm6o 13y ago
Sure, but that's the only exception, right? If there's no eval call in the function that requires the closure it's easily determined what variables don't need to be included, right?
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by bmm6o 13y ago
Part of the reason people are misunderstanding you is that terminology got abused a little bit upthread. "I just always assumed that all the variables present in a closure are maintained" should really be (something like) "I
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by bmm6o 13y ago
There was also Windows NT 3.1/3.5/3.51 (among other lesser known ones: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Microsoft_Windows )
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by bmm6o 13y ago
> I wouldn't consider crash bugs in general security issues You should, until proven otherwise. If it crashes because it's reading an invalid memory location (for instance), it's a matter of time before someone figures ou
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by bmm6o 13y ago
I've heard it attributed to Feynman, though I don't remember where.
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by bmm6o 13y ago
free is just a way for you to tell the C runtime that you are done using a piece of memory and that it may be re-used to handle another malloc request. Of course, the programmer has to know that he is done with a particular piece of memory
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by bmm6o 13y ago
And 100 HN points to you for spotting the fallacy! Well done, but you don't really believe the suggestion that after controlling for all else, closeness to Canada ends up being correlated with educational outcomes and crime rates, do you
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by bmm6o 13y ago
Detroit is about as close as you can get (geographically) to Canada.
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by bmm6o 13y ago
> This feature is made available [...] in the hope that they will use it to spread the word about their favorite LWN articles Emphasis mine. Can you make a case for it being "abusive" in the context of the full text? I take it to m
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by bmm6o 13y ago
The term is very well-established in mathematics (for e.g. matrices and transformations) that is the precisely correct term for this, and it is already widely used in CS. Inventing a new word would not be helpful in the long run.
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by bmm6o 14y ago
LtU thread: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4725
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by bmm6o 14y ago
It's kind of a weird article. The title blames SO, the text exonerates them, blames Google, backs off of that, all without ever explicitly stating what the "problem" is. Problem in quotes because I'm not convinced that "I run a search and
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by bmm6o 14y ago
I should probably say "scrum" where I say "agile" above. I would edit but I'm on my phone.
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by bmm6o 14y ago
A 45-90 minute meeting with 12 people doesn't even sound good in theory. I know defenses of agile can run into "no true scotsman" territory, but that is pretty objectively not agile. Your last paragraph explains why you have to be committed

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