calvins

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by calvins 11y ago
This is really nice. It's fast and gives good results (I mainly searched for some cryptography topics that I've been learning about recently), and the faceted search (filtering by publication venue, author, etc.) is very well done
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by calvins 11y ago
Meeting the rules for inclusion that were known by all parties (and were in fact used for the first debate) should have been all that was needed for Lessig's inclusion. This last-minute change of the rules to specifically exclude Lessi
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by calvins 11y ago
I use ubuntu, and haven't noticed any performance issues. What sorts of things did your friend report? Edit: I have a model with 8GB RAM and SSD, but some models have less RAM and solid-state drives.
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by calvins 11y ago
I've been using a Samsung Series 9 ( http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0082PZ1JU ) with Linux for about three years and I've been very happy with the laptop. All the special function keys work, battery lif
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by calvins 11y ago
A third option: existence is not a concept that can be used with the spatio-temporal totality that is the universe. Just as there are syntactically correct but meaningless sentences such as "colourless green ideas sleep furiously"
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by calvins 11y ago
CentOS for servers, and Ubuntu for desktop.
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by calvins 11y ago
This sounded interesting to me when I first loaded the page and imagined it was talking about virtual tea: me sipping tea at home while typing/conversing live with a random person halfway around the world. Is there such a thing? Turns
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by calvins 11y ago
I operate systems myself, but that doesn't make me an operating system.
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by calvins 12y ago
"Considered harmful" considered harmful ;-)
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by calvins 12y ago
Interesting, and reminiscent of what Douglas Hofstadter has called Sphexishness < http://www.personalityresearch.org/evolutionary/sphexishness...
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by calvins 12y ago
I noticed a couple of minor issues and thought I'd post them here rather than making issues on github since the author is reading. First, desugaring doesn't treat the shebang line of a file properly for executable python scripts o
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by calvins 12y ago
That's not about path manipulation. It's about resizing the hash table that is required for keeping track of hard links when copying hundreds of millions of files using cp. The path manipulation that cp does would still be inconse
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by calvins 12y ago
Yes, I agree with dmurray that it shouldn't happen consistently. I haven't seen it, and I've found the ratings system to work really well in practice. I'm roughly an intermediate level player, so can't speak to lowe
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by calvins 12y ago
The ratings system in chess is what makes it easy to get a competitive game. You just have to play a handful of games in order to get a rating (whether in real-life tournaments or online), and then you know that playing somebody with a rati
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by calvins 12y ago
Obama was elected despite being an intellectual. And I did think of Obama and carefully phrase my statement to account for him. The point stands that intellectual is a dirty word in politics, just like nerd , which wouldn't be the c
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by calvins 12y ago
Being perceived as an intellectual of any type (nerd or otherwise) still mostly excludes one from public office above a certain level (in the USA, at least). Until that changes, it's difficult to take the idea seriously.
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by calvins 12y ago
I wasn't suggesting to blindly use a tar pipe for as many files as the OP was trying to address. My main point was that the tar pipe (locally or over ssh) is superior to cp/scp for the sorts of things that many of us do regularly
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by calvins 12y ago
I would usually use the tarpipe mentioned already by others for this sort of thing (although I probably wouldn't do 432 million files in one shot): (cd $SOURCE && tar cf - .) | (mkdir -p $DEST && cd $DEST &&
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by calvins 12y ago
I emailed twice in the last year (many months apart) and got no response either.
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by calvins 12y ago
Agreed. I don't know how anybody could use vi with escape unmapped. It's also very useful outside vi though, since esc is the default 'cancel' key in many cases. For example, most browser dialogs (and keyboard-navigable
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by calvins 12y ago
The more things change, the more they stay the same. In the early nineties, there was A Rape in Cyberspace http://www.juliandibbell.com/texts/bungle_vv.html
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by calvins 12y ago
Even if pi isn't normal, there are plenty of normal numbers to choose from (almost all of the reals are normal, in fact), including some really simple and predictable ones like Champernowne's constant (in base 10: 0.12345678910111
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by calvins 12y ago
Nah, e is obviously the best transcendental number. I hope the author's pending patent is limited to pi though, so I can work on ef^H^H. Hmm, I see why maybe the author preferred pi over e.
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by calvins 12y ago
I think only the second is truly bug-free. The first only does what the user expects if they pass in a non-empty list: my_list = [] append_one(my_list) # my_list didn't get anything appended to it This shows up another subtl
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by calvins 12y ago
"Valid concepts are arrived at by induction." If the point is to argue that OOP is not a valid concept, the author should show first that 'programming' is a valid concept (using the same definitions) and that there are s
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by calvins 12y ago
"Listen to fellow developers" can be very dangerous too. It's how you end up with programs that have menus nested 4 levels deep and thousands of options that will only be used by the developer who recommended/implemented
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by calvins 13y ago
It's been patched since, and is no longer vulnerable.
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by calvins 13y ago
heartbleed.com itself is still using a vulnerable OpenSSL, according to http://filippo.io/Heartbleed/#heartbleed.com
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by calvins 13y ago
Many of the things we all find contentedness through can be purchased with cash. I for one would love to take a multi-year round-the-world trip with my partner, or own a house and a grand piano I could use without having to worry about neig
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by calvins 13y ago
You might enjoy one of the many books that exist for undergraduates to ease the transition into higher math classes, where there is a shift from the strong calculation-focus and rote-learning of most math teaching through calculus, to the m

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