bshanks

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   by bshanks 12y ago

   Tangentially, there is recent discussion of the idea that the neocortex is homologous to structures that do exist in the avian forebrain, eg that mammalian neocortex vs avian forebrain is almost the same processing units, wired with almost
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   by bshanks 12y ago

   > For me that desert of despair was fun and nothing could have stopped me. > To me educational efforts for adults are misplaced. My theory is that the difference is just that (some) young people have more spare time. If you have lots
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   by bshanks 12y ago

   In the context of electrical engineering, j is often used to denote the imaginary unit, that is, something such that j^2 = -1; in other words it's the same as what is usually called 'i'. But, in the context of the split-compl
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   DemocracyOS liquid democracy software(democracyos.org)

   2 points by bshanks 12y ago|0 comments
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   The Connection Between Memory Management and Data-race Freedom(smallcultfollowing.com)

   7 points by bshanks 12y ago|0 comments
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   Wearing the hair shirt: a retrospective on Haskell (2003) [pdf](research.microsoft.com)

   4 points by bshanks 12y ago|0 comments
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   A Tour of the Haskell Prelude(letu.edu)

   1 points by bshanks 12y ago|0 comments
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   A No-Frills Introduction to Lua 5.1 VM Instructions (2006) [pdf](luaforge.net)

   45 points by bshanks 12y ago|5 comments
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   Guile’s virtual machine instructions(gnu.org)

   2 points by bshanks 12y ago|0 comments
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    More than just words: Lambda, the ultimate political party (1995)(nhplace.com)

    17 points by bshanks 12y ago|0 comments
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    The Gnu Extension Language (an Essay in Praise of Guile, by Andy Wingo, 2011)(wingolog.org)

    2 points by bshanks 12y ago|0 comments
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    Comparison of C/POSIX standard library implementations for Linux(etalabs.net)

    2 points by bshanks 12y ago|0 comments
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    by bshanks 12y ago

    (I do worry about the size though; my current computer is a 10.1" Fujitsu Lifebook T580 and i really appreciate its small dimensions -- as noted in the post, what i'd really like is something between 8" and 10", but i mi
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    by bshanks 12y ago

    Thank you, yes, I'm aware of the keyboard problems with the the SP3, but i'm confident they'll be fixed soon and in fact some people have claimed to have fixed it already on their systems eg http://ubuntuforums.org
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    by bshanks 12y ago

    Thanks -- it looks like a decent computer.
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    by bshanks 12y ago

    i haven't tried the Yoga yet but i will soon. It sounds like you've had a great experience with the MBA, though, thank you, that helps.
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    by bshanks 12y ago

    Thank you, unfortunately the 8GB is a requirement as i sometimes work with some large datasets in Numpy.
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    Ask HN: Which small laptop for Ubuntu development work? (mid-2014)

    6 points by bshanks 12y ago|11 comments
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    by bshanks 12y ago

    I use emacs with the 'viper' mode extension, along with a custom keymap that i made that places the keys i use most on and near the home keys: https://github.com/bshanks/viperre I actually use viperre with a
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    Focusing on Ownership in Rust(smallcultfollowing.com)

    5 points by bshanks 12y ago|1 comments
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    Demystifying continuations in Ruby (2009) (gnuu.org)

    2 points by bshanks 12y ago|0 comments
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    Why Ruby is an acceptable Lisp (2005)(randomhacks.net)

    1 points by bshanks 12y ago|0 comments
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    Defensive Patent License (DPL)(defensivepatentlicense.com)

    1 points by bshanks 12y ago|0 comments
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    by bshanks 12y ago

    afaict http://www.defensivepatentlicense.com/ attempts to cover this case
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    by bshanks 12y ago

    http://www.defensivepatentlicense.com/ (i'm not asserting it is perfect, just that it is an effort towards what you describe)
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    by bshanks 12y ago

    https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documenta...
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    by bshanks 12y ago

    I propose that someone create a proof-of-work system that creates a distributed auction of the computing power of the miners. This has the twin benefits of not wasting electricity on doing useless hashes, and of providing a backing for the
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    by bshanks 13y ago

    > Our use-case was in writing large-ish documents (a few hundred pages each) as a committee. And it was pretty trivial to just create a wave for each section of each document, then use top level comments in the Wave for each subsection,
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    Hacker News All-Time Top Links(hn.algolia.com)

    14 points by bshanks 13y ago|2 comments
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    by bshanks 13y ago

    i found this via https://lobste.rs/s/e7rezf/twitter_has_enabled_photo_tagging... by https://lobste.rs/u/eik3