canhascodez

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by canhascodez 8y ago
Assembly is one of the roots of computing, but so is lambda calculus. One might also argue for gates or boolean logic as fundamental concepts. Higher levels of abstraction are much, much more productive, but it's hard to compare like w
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by canhascodez 8y ago
I'm not sure why you're skeptical. Scientists get a lot of flack for publishing "doom and gloom" results, even when those are accurate, and no scientist is particularly interested in overstating this effect. Also, "
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by canhascodez 8y ago
Perhaps you could do me the favor of answering my question.
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by canhascodez 8y ago
Would that be easier with rake than with make?
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by canhascodez 8y ago
I think that JavaScript is a really interesting and unique language. I would rather have had Perl in the browser. JS seems more appropriate as a relatively obscure academic language. Note that I tend to view trying to enforce types or use c
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by canhascodez 8y ago
The machine being used is completely incidental to programming. Dijkstra used a fountain pen. Which is more fundamental, the machine, or its mathematical abstraction? Why should people learn C, and not Lisp?
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by canhascodez 8y ago
This seems a bit too mainstream-political for Hacker News, and the commentary thus far is pretty low-SNR.
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by canhascodez 8y ago
I can see how this might be a convenient belief, but I'm having a hard time imagining a more foul lie.
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by canhascodez 8y ago
Classifying Vancouver as an "actual city" makes me wonder about that qualification. I think that in many ways it's simply a suburb of Portland. The climate isn't that bad, but it's a lot closer to Seattle than Los A
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by canhascodez 8y ago
There's not a lot of "there" there, in my experience. What do you think you'd like about the place?
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by canhascodez 8y ago
The only way to "save" WordPress is to destroy it. The core was not written before PHP had classes, but the project chose to maintain backwards compatibility with a project that was. It's the worst popular codebase, and as th
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by canhascodez 8y ago
Experimental political blog? What an interesting euphemism.
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by canhascodez 8y ago
The world came pretty close to large-scale nuclear war, actually. I'm not sure why you think that's no longer possible.
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by canhascodez 8y ago
Would you say gold priced at, or above its level of utility to industry?
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by canhascodez 8y ago
Microsoft's approach to updates has always been a criminal waste of their users resources, particularly their time.
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by canhascodez 8y ago
I may not be a "good employee", but I tend to consider my enthusiasm as not being for sale or barter. I offer the value of my labor in exchange for money, and it would be nice if there were some coincidence of wants between myself
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by canhascodez 8y ago
I believe studies of note-taking suggest a link between retention and the physical act of writing. My habit is to imitate writing the person's name on my palm several times after an important introduction. In general though, my brain i
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by canhascodez 8y ago
You seem to be making some sort of negative judgment about that particular issue. Perhaps you'd care to give us the benefit of your reasoning.
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by canhascodez 8y ago
BSD has a great firewall, it's usually more integrated than Linux (for certain definitions of "integrated"), and some argue that it's more secure/stable. Some argue that the BSD license is superior. Hardware support
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by canhascodez 8y ago
"Approximately 50% of computers are in On mode for 4 to 5 hours or less." https://ees.lbl.gov/sites/all/files/computers_lbnl_report_v4.pdf I wouldn't have guessed.
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by canhascodez 8y ago
Well, do you think that BT might have the potential to reduce bandwidth costs? And what difference might that make to the overall cost of doing business?
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by canhascodez 8y ago
The autonomous truck will trigger an alert when it's forced to make an emergency stop, and continually record its surroundings and broadcast its position. A watchdog process will note that the vehicle has failed to reach the next waypo
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by canhascodez 8y ago
Thanks: I'm sure I would have gone a long ways before discovering anything more about the context of that statement. However, I note that Stephenson does seem to have described this as a loose translation. Is the German word used as an
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by canhascodez 8y ago
It's certainly easier to be patronizing when you are being obscure, but if you suggest that my perspective is flawed without explanation, I really have no alternative but to dismiss that opinion.
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by canhascodez 8y ago
Reading the parent's comment history, I would characterize them as a physics crank.
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by canhascodez 8y ago
Cannabis flower is similar to beer in the sense that you discuss, but there are also oils, hash, and edibles. Vaporizer oil is offered in a wide variety of artificial flavors, and strains vary considerably in natural flavor, from the putrid
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by canhascodez 8y ago
Is music composition difficult? Are most five-year-olds asked or encouraged to write music? Is this something that most adults have attempted and failed to do? Do you think that you could write a piece of music if you had time and inclinati
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by canhascodez 8y ago
That's probably a better term, but I kinda miss when that was known as "slashdotting" or the "Slashdot Effect".
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by canhascodez 8y ago
Well, if this is Philosophy 201, then clearly everything is abstract, and something something Plato's cave. However, the default position is that (surprise!) objective reality exists. Things that are observable and measurable are not a
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by canhascodez 8y ago
I've never used ESC in vim. I learned ^[ first, and it's less travel.

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