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   by cema 15y ago

   Perhaps values themselves can be bullshit. The word sounds more like cursing than terminology, so when someone says that something is bullshit, it is not clear if the meaning is "something is a lie" or "something is incorrect" or something
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   by cema 15y ago

   I would strongly suspect that just as math and CS ability are correlated, so would math and chemistry. I am not sure about that. In my experience, mathematics and chemistry were not noticeably correlated (either way). On the
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   by cema 15y ago

   Have not been to Chicago in a while, from my older (several years old) recollections it is not drastically different from Baltimore. However: Moscow is definitely cheaper than its usual "top 5" ranking. For a middle class visitor or city dw
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   by cema 15y ago

   I think general advice would be not to put too much heart into it. Brain, yes. (But spare the sarcasm.)
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   by cema 15y ago

   Saying that a violin has survived the oil embargo would not make any sense. Saying that this brittle musical instrument has survived a brutal war does make sense. Especially in contrast with its (allegedly) not having survived a legal dispu
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   by cema 15y ago

   except the drones and robots won't attack on their own Not for a while, anyway.
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   by cema 15y ago

   I concur. This is how I have been structuring function bodies for a while now, and coworkers tend to easily follow the logic of both the whole function body and the "actual" work.
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   by cema 15y ago

   I keep what is essentially a lab logbook next my work desk. The natural chronological order works mostly well: (1) notes on related topics are often close in time (the temporal locality, in a way) and (2) it helps to find "stuff I was wor
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   by cema 15y ago

   It is widely speculated in the Russian part of the Internets [...] Not at all. This is the first time I see it proposed seriously, and I monitor the Russian internets quite closely.
10. 580.▲
    by cema 15y ago

    At least having a reasonably universal library for generating and using syntax trees would be very helpful in closing the gap with modern IDEs.
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    by cema 15y ago

    dd
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    by cema 15y ago

    Get back to work. Time to hack, time to sharpen the ax. It's weekend now, so sharpen it is.
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    by cema 15y ago

    Frankly, apropos is only the first step. But yes, the traditional self-referential nature of lisp functions, variables and other entities helps a lot.
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    by cema 15y ago

    Thank you. EnglishRussia is not only a blogspam site but also full of stupid porn links.
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    by cema 15y ago

    What a great story! Thanks!
16. 586.▲
    by cema 15y ago

    Incorrect, irrelevant, and close-minded.
17. 587.▲
    by cema 15y ago

    Newton and Godel are first world heroes. Pythagoras lived long ago, so the concept of first/third worlds is moot here.
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    by cema 15y ago

    "Willing to put up with", but also ready to create and maintain.
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    by cema 15y ago

    Well, you can enjoy getting busy with Clojure...
20. 590.▲
    by cema 15y ago

    I assume NE in the above stands for North East (of the US), not Nebraska?
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    by cema 15y ago

    eliminating childhood malnutrition can improve IQ significantly I suspect it can improve the marshmallow-related behavior as well. But I could just be excited about the elimination of malnutrition.
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    by cema 15y ago

    -1 means it still can be seen and read (and upvoted, if people feel so). A double posting is, at best, an error.
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    by cema 15y ago

    That was the point, I think.
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    by cema 15y ago

    Let's just drop the word "socialist". There is nothing socialist about free exchange of ideas without an overseeing authority.
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    by cema 15y ago

    After 24 centuries, Google puts the Dead Sea Scrolls online for the world to see Not 24 but 21 or 22. Not Google but the Museum of Israel. Other than that, the title is not too far off.
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    by cema 15y ago

    Or, if you want an eink reader, you could get a PocketBook (probably model 902 or 903; see http://www.pocketbook-int.com ). From the site: formats: PDF, RTF, FB2, Docx, TXT, HTML, DJVU, CHM, PRC, EPUB, DOC, TCR, including DRM .ep
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    by cema 15y ago

    Great insight into the character, thanks! "Anything important will come twice," Minsky said. Next time it may be more important -- bills have a tendency to grow.
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    by cema 15y ago

    Influential on scientists and engineers. Not sufficiently influential on bureaucrats and managers.
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    by cema 15y ago

    Just like it should be. Of all the "mainstream" publications, the financial (and business-oriented) newspapers are the ones I distrust less, because in my experience they tend to understand it is their interest to work with the facts and re
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    by cema 15y ago

    I think the crucial idea here is that teaching computer programming is important not just to future computer programmers but also computer users. Not everyone will be a computer programmer, but almost everyone will be a computer user. The r