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by cgrubb 12y ago
You might check out these: http://www.w3.org/Tools/HTML-XML-utils/ However, I just use a Ruby script which loads the Nokogiri library: https://github.com/clarkgrubb/data-tools/blob/m
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by cgrubb 12y ago
C-b M-2 to rotate the panes into a horizontal split. C-b M-1 to rotate the panes back into a vertical split.
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by cgrubb 12y ago
> Providing a separate %.d rule would fix this issue Yes. The following is an example of how to handle C header dependencies. It could be adapted to build css from less and would be an improvement on the blog post technique. sour
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by cgrubb 12y ago
LaTeX is ASCII, so no need to enter unusual characters. But LaTeX notation seems like a convenient way to enter mathematical characters even when not creating a LaTeX document. There are LaTeX input methods for Mac OS X, Emacs, and X Wind
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by cgrubb 12y ago
I think the post is correct that we can define a language which makes the algorithmic complexity of a given string zero. This doesn't contradict the invariance theorem, as far as I can tell. The constant c in the invariance theorem
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by cgrubb 12y ago
There are tools like ocamlbuild and cabal, which are implemented in Ocaml and Haskell, and used to build Ocaml and Haskell. But ocamlbuild doesn't have a build file. It just knows how to build Ocaml. And build Ocaml is about all it c
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by cgrubb 12y ago
Your build system has types? Is that so you can catch errors at compile time instead of run time? Who builds the build tool?
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by cgrubb 13y ago
Isn't there a false dilemma fallacy? Who invented all these fallacies? They seem to be unavoidable.
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by cgrubb 13y ago
Early in the book: The first few years will enable 20ton payloads without humans [radiation tolerance an issue for the two week trip]... From Finding 7-5: Radiation is not a problem for tether climbers, as the designers w
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by cgrubb 13y ago
It doesn't look like there are fewer craters at the north pole: http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2011/09/lunar...
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by cgrubb 13y ago
To put some meat on the discussion, what would be an example of a logic error which would be introduced by a refactoring?
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Mozilla plans to sell ads in Firefox browser(reuters.com)
23 points by cgrubb 13y ago|13 comments
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by cgrubb 13y ago
Having read up more on this, it looks like there are 2 active uranium mines in AZ, and one in each of NE, UT, WY. Industry people seem to think leaching is the cleanest way to mine uranium. Older techniques created radioactive dust.
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by cgrubb 13y ago
I think this is the mine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_Ranch-Highland This is the process: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-situ_leaching#Uranium Hard to evaluate how serious the problem is
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by cgrubb 13y ago
Wherein the author makes the suspect claim that newspapers discussing the stock market always define standard deviation using the definition for mean deviation.
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by cgrubb 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
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by cgrubb 13y ago
Sorry, I didn't think it was hard to find these: 13 open_source = tokenize.open # pylint: disable=E1101 27 # from coverage.py: 30 # In Py 2.x, the builtins were in __builtin__ 33 # In Py 3.x, they&
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by cgrubb 13y ago
As of 2 months ago Ned doesn't follow his own advice: https://github.com/nedbat/byterun/blob/master/byterun/execfi...
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by cgrubb 13y ago
When I search for "javascript programming" on Google I get 77M hits, but when I search for "transact-sql programming" I get 937k hits. Which seems real. The relative TIOBE rankings of the two languages does not. EDIT:
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by cgrubb 13y ago
I haven't seen any proof from the hackers. The emails in the pastbin from @1775Sec are old. They are in this pastebin from a month ago: http://pastebin.com/64PAAV1c
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by cgrubb 13y ago
An interesting claim in the article is that Amazon isn't doing its fair share of helping people discover books. The primary source of the research doesn't appear to be public. An excerpt from a July 2013 Salon article: Acc
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by cgrubb 13y ago
Nice tools. I see some stuff I might add to my own personal repo: https://github.com/clarkgrubb/data-tools Would be nice if some of these tools became standard at the command line. I don't know about "sampl
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by cgrubb 13y ago
I'm with John Carmack that really it is just better having everything in the cloud: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1sjRD7NSec#t=3m57s So ebooks only growing at 5% with 25% market share surprises me. At that rate it w
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by cgrubb 13y ago
It's not the corn subsidies; it's the tariff on sugar imports. The US cannot produce much cane sugar domestically. Corn subsidies are only about $2B a year, and 75% of corn is used for animal feed or ethanol. http:/&#x
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by cgrubb 13y ago
> I would love to read a similar run down on what amount of money, intelligence and human resources the US has pured so far in the Venezuelan opposition. How much money is given to Venezuela is public. http://gbk.eads.usaidall
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by cgrubb 13y ago
You might double check your source. Lawn fertilizer is a $5B industry, but it is usually priced at a dollar a pound, and a 50 lb bag might have 5-10 lb of N and 5-10 lb of P. USDA numbers for fertilizer use by crop are available, and base
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by cgrubb 14y ago
I went ahead and asked him and here is what he said: @clarkgrubb I use the #erlang Prolog system github.com/rvirding/erlog from @rvirding and swipl.
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by cgrubb 14y ago
Which implementation of Prolog does Joe use I wonder?
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by cgrubb 14y ago
I've been doing Google searches every now and then to try to assess the relative popularity of Git vs Mercurial. Two years ago it seemed to be 2:1 in favor of Git. A year ago it seemed to be 3:1 in favor of Git. Now I think it is about 5
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by cgrubb 14y ago
Features of BCPL (Martin Richards, 1967): * used { } instead of BEGIN and END keywords * single type called WORD * declared variables with LET * used // style comments like C++ Features of B (Ken Thompson, 1969): * used = i

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