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by bsznjyewgd 10y ago
Maybe related, Essentials of Compilation: An Incremental Approach: https://www.sharelatex.com/project/5637a774990f556d48bab667 "Abdulaziz proposed an incremental approach in which the students build the compiler i
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by bsznjyewgd 10y ago
In Canada, after you fill out your ballot in secret, you fold it up and hand it to the poll worker, who tears off a stub and then hands the ballot back to you, and then you insert it into the ballot box yourself in plain view. I don't
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by bsznjyewgd 10y ago
"Foreigners buying up real estates" is only an issue in Vancouver and maybe Toronto.
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by bsznjyewgd 10y ago
I don't really get why trams are better than buses. Do they really carry a ton more people than buses? Why are people more likely to ride them? Buses come in short/long/articulated/double-decker sizes and don't need
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by bsznjyewgd 10y ago
Is there an option/mode to simply highlight matching parentheses for plain text or files that don't have their own language modes?
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by bsznjyewgd 10y ago
You might be interested in Programming Praxis https://programmingpraxis.com/ , a blog that posts a few exercises per week, with solutions. Some of them are more interesting, some of them less so.
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by bsznjyewgd 10y ago
I'm reminded of one of Neil Fraser's blog entries "CS by Mail" https://neil.fraser.name/news/2015/04/13/ , in which he received mail from someone inquiring how he could learn programmi
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by bsznjyewgd 10y ago
Actually, I think I implied more than what I meant to say. While they are now pushing the use of Mandarin as a language of instruction (and pushing it further down the age group), I'm not so sure they are starting at grade one (I'
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by bsznjyewgd 10y ago
I'm not sure if you're missing the point. Yes, secondary schools used to teach in Chinese and English (more of the former if you chose a Chinese school, more of the latter if you chose an English one), but the Chinese used to be C
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by bsznjyewgd 10y ago
"shouldn't Vala be a research branch of C#?" Vala is a nicer shinier layer for programming with GObject in C. I don't really understand what it has to do with C#? Do you mean just the syntactic influence? Keep in mind, l
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by bsznjyewgd 10y ago
I'm not familiar with your exact distro/installation situation, but at least on Debian/Ubuntu, TeX and friends are split into multiple packages, where many binaries (including latex/lualatex/xelatex) are in one pack
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by bsznjyewgd 10y ago
Civ IV had a very nice mod called Rhye's and Fall of Civilization that "simulated history" up to a point until the starting time period of your chosen civilization, and it had "historical forces" (random and scripte
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by bsznjyewgd 11y ago
This is already kind of the case. Debian stable tracks the Firefox ESR releases, updating when a new one comes out. If you want the Firefox frequent releases, you get them with backports from the Debian Mozilla team (out of the main archive
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by bsznjyewgd 11y ago
I'm dense. Why is it less effective to choose the midpoint fraction and more effective to choose with the Stern-Brocot tree? Is it just the growth/storage or are there other issues too?
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by bsznjyewgd 11y ago
In a broad (and rather optimistic) sense, advertising informs you of available opportunities, not just things that you can buy. I guess you can try to separate it into "selling products and services" versus "brand promotion a
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by bsznjyewgd 11y ago
On the 5th year report (that you linked to), they mentioned that they had funding for another year and a final report. It's unfortunate that there was never a 6th year final report to wrap up the project.
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by bsznjyewgd 11y ago
I found it: https://he.palgrave.com/resources/sample-chapters/9780333992... It's the sample chapter from the product page on Springer: http://www.springer.com/us/book/9781403907721
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by bsznjyewgd 11y ago
This is a link to only one chapter of the proceedings. Some of the other chapters can also be found individually, but I suspect the whole is out of print and not easily available. (I have Okasaki's chapter, but I don't remember wh
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by bsznjyewgd 11y ago
As jerf said, amortized complexity is discussed in a CS2-style course (in the second semester) when implementing array lists, but invariants are also discussed in the same course when implementing binary heaps or balanced trees (typically
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by bsznjyewgd 11y ago
A length n vector of a's, appended to by a length m vector of a's, results in a length (n + m) vector of a's. This is a safety guarantee that is statically checked at compile time rather than dynamically checked at run time.
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by bsznjyewgd 11y ago
I watched a few of the rescues, and they were all of kids falling out of their floaties and seemingly unable to swim at all. What does it look like when an able swimmer encounters trouble? Would it look the same as the drowning response kic
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by bsznjyewgd 11y ago
What's wrong with Red Delicious? I usually peel them (thick skin), but otherwise they are crispy and sweet (rather than tart), pretty much exactly how I expect my apples.
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by bsznjyewgd 11y ago
>recursion and restricting all their programs to be a singular composite of expressions Simple effect-free loops in an imperative language translate directly to a recursive function, which is just a labeled loop that makes explicit what&
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by bsznjyewgd 11y ago
Along the same line of this post is sigfpe's "You could have invented monads" http://blog.sigfpe.com/2006/08/you-could-have-invented-monad... , which has convinced me at least a few times over the ye
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by bsznjyewgd 11y ago
The title is somewhat misleading. It is the Chinese writing system that's hard (in general). Standard Chinese, the spoken language, is only hard for native speakers of unrelated language, which is hardly surprising.
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by bsznjyewgd 12y ago
Does anyone know what the obstacles are to an official 64-bit Windows build? There are multiple unofficial builds in the wild and at least one (linked in the parent comment) builds without patches.
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by bsznjyewgd 12y ago
It's just poor wording. The "approximately" isn't "yes, it's approximately faster" but "here are the numbers -- approximately". Notice that it says the same thing when you reverse the Python vs J
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by bsznjyewgd 12y ago
I know you already realize it, but others might not, but xpdf is still "bugged" in this case. In the bug report, the missing font is substituted with a default sans-serif font (presumably DejaVu Sans or Ubuntu on Ubuntu), while in
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by bsznjyewgd 12y ago
The problem with that document (for me) is that it does not embed its fonts, and I do not have the fonts it uses (or any compatible ones) on my computer either. So, when I view it, the font gets substituted by the default sans-serif font, w