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by chalst 16y ago
There's no good reason to follow any of these, and as Trimble argues, good reason to break each of them if you care more about effective writing than wagging fingers.
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by chalst 16y ago
Yes, which is the name of the book, which is on my to read list, and a website proposal, which I've studied. He documents the linear-algebraic calculations used by Chinese mathematicians in C4th. He's written some Perl scripts that implem
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by chalst 16y ago
Two titles: "$SOURCE invests where others fear to tread", where SOURCE="Russia’s DST" in yesterday's ft.com story (linked to), and SOURCE="Y Combinator" in today's print edition. By Richard Waters in the FT's Inside Business column, ft.com
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{Y Combinator,Russia's DST} invests where others fear to tread(ft.com)
1 points by chalst 16y ago|1 comments
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by chalst 16y ago
wingo's contribution here, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1962959 , reminded me of this old favourite: Shivers, Acknowledgements to Scsh Reference Manual , http://www.scsh.net/docu/html/man.html
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CS grad students: their talk will drift to automatic weapons(ccs.neu.edu)
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by chalst 16y ago
Key datapoint: Apple dominate profitability per handset at around $260; third most profitable manufacturer is Android-centric HTC, at around $65 per unit (RIM is in 2nd place, ~$75).
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by chalst 16y ago
The question is currently the joint most highly voted on unanswered qn on Stack Overflow, having had one bounty expire unawarded. I've offered a second bounty of 200 rep. Surely there are Lua hackers who care about capability-based securit
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by chalst 16y ago
Roger Hart (Historian at U. Texas, wrote something on the history of linear algebra I liked) has a lean summary of the book at http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rhart/courses/materials/papers/tri... Hart misses my favourite list, the Seven Nevers
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by chalst 16y ago
Indeed, and badly written. I read "That’s why we’ve decided to aggressively pursue licensing Ibis Reader in 2011" three times, and gave up on trying to determine whether they were licensing something from someone else, or looking to sell l
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[SO qn] Capabilities for Lua: what experience is there?(stackoverflow.com)
2 points by chalst 16y ago|1 comments
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by chalst 16y ago
To scrape, wouldn't Microsoft need to be following up to the followed clicks by sending a search query to Google? If that was happening, I'm pretty sure that Google would have said so.