bowyakka

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by bowyakka 14y ago
I have never really got this, I think ipython is the best thing since sliced bread. (Not that I dislike bpython, just never had the desire to use it)
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by bowyakka 14y ago
.... the core openjdk team are sun^H^H^H oracle engineers like John Rose, Jon the collector, Printezis etc etc, Oracle still have a very strong hand in it
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by bowyakka 15y ago
Not that I need flash anymore for youtube, I have given up on flash its slower and more crappy on any platform than webm / h264 video (where my browser is compiled with both).
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Lightspark - its time to make youtube people no longer smurfs on linux(github.com)
1 points by bowyakka 15y ago|2 comments
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by bowyakka 15y ago
I would second this, in my $DAYJOB which is focused on building search engines, python is one of the goto languages alongside R for doing a lot of exploratory stuff. Sure ruby could, but it would have to play catchup adding things like sage
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by bowyakka 15y ago
The first one reminds me of a story I was told by my embedded engineer friends. They had just been recently hired to maintain this video harddisk storage application, and had found it to be horrifyingly slow. Looking into the code it was fo
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by bowyakka 15y ago
I am going to be a little naughty and quote my good friend who I had this very conversation over email with about two years ago ---- ME: It just dumbfounds me that, with card in hand they cant make this shit work. I had the same problem wit
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by bowyakka 15y ago
Oh for sure, I was just poking a little bit of fun, thanks for the Naggum article though I had not come across that one. FWIW I tend to think of common-lisp when people say lisp in general, the schemers and clojurites tend to self identify
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by bowyakka 15y ago
Ah check that makes perfect sense, so until I invent the turing oracle we are stuck :)
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by bowyakka 15y ago
Not that being a bank means much in the EU, see the situation in quite a few member states.
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by bowyakka 15y ago
? My lisp has more lispery than your lisp ?
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by bowyakka 15y ago
Since you say you have been involved in the production of such things I have a question for you.... Many of the comments below discuss how people experience HDTV "lag", I was wondering if you could shed any light on what causes this. Initia
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by bowyakka 15y ago
So cant we just support SEED in more modern browsers, look ma its a real specification it even has an RFC and everything :P Heck NSS supports it so Firefox and Chrome must be good for SEED ( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4788
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by bowyakka 15y ago
"If we stop, no one can do it for us." .... India, China, general outsourcing .....
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by bowyakka 15y ago
... so can I drive instead ?
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by bowyakka 15y ago
I also have had exactly the same experience. Now if only the vim plugin could be made a little less buggy (not jetbrains fault)
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by bowyakka 15y ago
I started my long road to recovery a few years ago, like many I was taught the parrot fashion of maths. Mistakenly, my impression of how to learn maths was based around the ideas of learning how to calculate new idea X and then spending hou
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by bowyakka 15y ago
I found the handwritten section quite illegible.
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by bowyakka 15y ago
I seem to remember you get to opt-in to this, I never agreed to carrier IQ.
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by bowyakka 15y ago
We do say this in the UK, but ....... its really rare to be asked for ID, it happens but only on the really big stuff (loans, getting a car, buying a _house_). You would not need to provide a driving license to buy an iPhone. I have just mo
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by bowyakka 15y ago
I have been saying this for years, but most people have refused to believe me Like most people a long time ago I also held the belief that robots were just dumb scripts, however I learnt that this is not the case when I had to trap said rob
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by bowyakka 15y ago
I have yet to try it mind
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The Lack Thereof: Keyboard Number-Symbol Swap(thelackthereof.org)
2 points by bowyakka 15y ago|1 comments
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Phage - The Virus that Cures(video.google.com)
5 points by bowyakka 15y ago|1 comments
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Rebranch - A debugging tool for replay bugs(gitorious.org)
1 points by bowyakka 15y ago|0 comments
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by bowyakka 15y ago
I wish I had checked that over I just saw that my phone mangled perl twice
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by bowyakka 15y ago
I would have to lookup the serious academic paper that says peel is technically unparsable in the same ways as PL/1. I think to date there have been two aborted perk on java efforts Not sure if perl6 has the same properties mind.
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by bowyakka 15y ago
I would be interested in _how_ someone would develop an automated system for detecting child pornography, as has been said not only is the legal definition subjective, but it would appear that possession and analysis is illegal. That would
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by bowyakka 15y ago
I would be deeply skeptical about position papers from the UK, British Nuclear Fuel are a massive, partly government owned company that makes a lot of money from reprocessing. The government started dismantling BFNL into private companies o