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by candu 12y ago
This. Their revenue model is screwing you over relative to the exchange rate with massive buy/sell spreads.
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by candu 12y ago
Look into more recent language features: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3016107/what-is-tagged-s... http://www.stroustrup.com/C++11FAQ.html Also, the Boost library is worth a look. C++ is fa
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by candu 12y ago
...which is why I prefer extensions like AdBlock, Privacy Badger, etc. to disabling JavaScript: they cut out ad/tracker cruft without destroying my experience.
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by candu 12y ago
> Some people are just bastards and can't be helped. I'd say that's a difficult assertion to prove in a system that provides every incentive for recidivism. In addition, how would you (or anyone else) fairly evaluate who
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by candu 12y ago
Our approach to crime here in the US strikes me as the dark underbelly of the myth of meritocratic rugged individualism. If success is individual in nature, failure must be as well, and it's much easier to dehumanize an entire class o
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by candu 12y ago
...except that, with literacy, we don't talk about "task-oriented reading" or "no-fuss setup". The intrinsic value of literacy is widely recognized. Where resources permit, people are willing to spend time learnin
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by candu 12y ago
Yes, it's true that the tech industry has bad optics right now, and that this probably looks like ridiculous entitlement to just about everyone else. That's a shame, because collusion of this sort is illegal, full stop. If our in
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by candu 12y ago
You can both be right. It is true that this apparatus presents an unparalleled opportunity for the suppression of free speech. It is also true that, compared to Stalinist Russia, Nazi Germany, Crusades-era Europe, Cambodia under the Khmer
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by candu 12y ago
"Farming is still trivial. I'm not doing SO MUCH BETTER than my parents because I grow food instead of hunting for it. My parents did great as hunter-gatherers."
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by candu 12y ago
More importantly: can you measure it?
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by candu 12y ago
Erosion of privacy, ease of government surveillance, and monetization of personal identity could all be viewed as either upsides or downsides. It depends on who you ask. Technology doesn't have to have a net positive impact to have an
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U.S. Energy Department to make researchers' papers free(news.sciencemag.org)
94 points by candu 12y ago|6 comments
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by candu 12y ago
RunKeeper's HealthGraph returns discoverable URIs from /users: http://developer.runkeeper.com/healthgraph/users
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by candu 12y ago
Someone else mentioned this below, but it deserves repeating: Okasaki's Purely Functional Data Structures is definitely worth reading.
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MementoMap development over the #singly10k weekend, by the numbers
1 points by candu 14y ago|0 comments
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by candu 16y ago
And if you want to write neat Python templates, I hacked together https://github.com/candu/xhpy a while back ;)
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XHPy: XHP for Python(github.com)
3 points by candu 16y ago|0 comments