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catechu
16y ago
I agree -- I see no problem other than their potentially clogging the main page. (I voted in support.)
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catechu
16y ago
In addition to the mutable records mentioned in the post, arrays and references are also mutable in OCaml. Aside from objects, I consider this impurity to be the biggest difference in practice. Mutability allows simple OCaml solutions to pr
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catechu
16y ago
Unity looks nice, but its improvements over GNOME seem to be mainly cosmetic -- not compelling enough to pull me away from the simplicity of dwm ( http://dwm.suckless.org/ ), at least not yet.
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catechu
16y ago
Students who've taken systems programming classes (e.g. Operating Systems) would be your best bet -- in my experience, most low-level programming is shafted to those classes, except in the cases where a professor arbitrarily requires C, whi
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catechu
16y ago
That's a great point -- currently, I'm in the process of scraping specs from other sites, and I really like your idea of putting a layer of understanding over that to simplify the display for the user. Kind of like Google Squared, but easie
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catechu
16y ago
I'd like to check it out, but it doesn't seem to be up.
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Doctors Conduct First-Ever All-Robotic Surgery and Anesthesia
(sciencedaily.com)
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I wanted to be able to see products on Amazon side-by-side with their pros and cons: http://silvos.com . I need to add more products, product specs, and fix the way the pros/cons work, but I'm already using it to start thinking about which
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catechu
16y ago
Ouch. In retrospect, "Falling Sky Entertainment" was a good name choice for the production company.
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catechu
16y ago
I'm not familiar with Arc's internals or the effect that this would have in the context of GC, but as a hack, perhaps you could assign multiple people to a single interpreter instance, prepend prefixes to symbols to avoid collisions before
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catechu
16y ago
Interesting premise! Trying the description itself: "Enter a paragraph of text. We'll run it through our highly sophisticated algorithms* and output a lovely, totally original piece of text." rather amusingly yields: "come in a piece of wri