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by calcnerd256 16y ago
step one: solve it in LISP step two: tell a C compiler how to do it (although the solution I would write first in LISP isn't actually what I would do in C; in C, I'd start with stack/cons-like linked list and do a slinky-queue shift)
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by calcnerd256 16y ago
I somehow don't get particularly nervous during important tests or interviews. I get a little nervous if it's really really important, but I somehow get over that pretty quickly. It's nothing that I earned by hard work or practice, either.
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by calcnerd256 16y ago
whenever the user wants it
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by calcnerd256 16y ago
low probability of legality in the United States
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by calcnerd256 16y ago
Then disable it by default, but don't leave it out altogether.
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by calcnerd256 16y ago
Software engineering may be (currently) part of CS, but theoretical CS is more than just applied statistics. The halting problem, one of the most famous undecidable problems, is pure math and is CS. Lambda calculus is CS and is pure math.
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by calcnerd256 16y ago
because it's a choice Edit: I misread "is" as "could be". It's a good thing to have because it could be a good thing to use. It may be a bad thing to have enabled by default, but it's a bad thing to omit outright.
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by calcnerd256 16y ago
Well, if the device were a file and the driver were allowed to request (once) unlimited access to that "file" ...
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by calcnerd256 16y ago
So many of the comments are "You're describing [something that already exists", and most of them are wrong.
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by calcnerd256 16y ago
No, it's "the answer to the ultimate question of" life, the universe, and everything. Also, the question is "What do you get when you multiply six by nine?" (so the answer's wrong anyway)
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by calcnerd256 16y ago
Be careful not to confuse science with pure mathematics.
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by calcnerd256 16y ago
So what we have is a timeseries of user-post pairs, and we want a good view for that, a UI that scales well to handle pathological cases. I like the idea presented in the article, but, as you mention in this comment, it is only the first st
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by calcnerd256 16y ago
Unless they implement trust. "Your friends [in this friend list] like these pages today."
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by calcnerd256 16y ago
I'm not sure I see why so many people are against having a .xxx domain name. If it's opt in (like all other TLDs that aren't restricted are), then only sites that want to identify themselves as explicit pornography will be branded with it.
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by calcnerd256 16y ago
The halting problem isn't open to be solved. It would have been funnier to claim to have solved an open problem (maybe P=NP?) so as not to break the willful suspension of disbelief.
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by calcnerd256 16y ago
I've never donated any money to them, but I guess I accidentally donated some mindshare when I wasn't looking.
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by calcnerd256 16y ago
Either you're not just talking about how we build them or I misunderstand you, because the first thing you said was, "Mathematics is a product of the mind."
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by calcnerd256 16y ago
Wouldn't a contract make it a civil violation, not a criminal one?
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by calcnerd256 16y ago
I'm guessing you're missing their definition of "application".
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by calcnerd256 16y ago
I'm not talking about how we build them. I'm talking about what they are, and what they are is as they would be whether they were built by humans or computers or nature. That the theorems follow from their axioms is not a human invention, n
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by calcnerd256 16y ago
Mathematics is not a product of the mind any more than physics is. All theorems are true (or, more precisely, all theorems follow from their axioms), even the ones we haven't discovered yet. That a mind can choose an axiomatic system to exp
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by calcnerd256 16y ago
Why wouldn't it be susceptible to malware? The fact that that question is even worth asking demonstrates that you've abused the phrase "by definition"
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by calcnerd256 16y ago
Calling all flowers roses would undermine the attributes that make a rose special.
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by calcnerd256 16y ago
Please do. I want something to point people to.
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by calcnerd256 16y ago
No. http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html#sec9.6 versus http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html#sec9.5 makes it clear that you PUT something somewhere and that you POST something to the resource located so
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by calcnerd256 16y ago
Upvotes aren't for agreeing.
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by calcnerd256 16y ago
I'm bad at detecting sarcasm. You realize the title truncated from ...-targeting-right-now to targeting-right, right? A lot of sites use the first few words or characters of their article titles to make the URL.
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by calcnerd256 16y ago
Segway is Dean Kamen's company, not the product. The product is the Human Transporter (or HT). They make other things, too, including the Segway Centaur.
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by calcnerd256 16y ago
I thought the Hinnom valley was burning, not rotting.
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by calcnerd256 16y ago
By "proper" do you mean mandatory? Otherwise, people are going to yell "CLOS" at you.

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