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by chancho 17y ago
cf. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/l...
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by chancho 17y ago
How do you propose to get the lawn mowers and crew to/from Google HQ?
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by chancho 17y ago
This is poignant. On Firefox/32bit/Linux/Flash10 I see only the word "Specter" wandering aimlessly on a barren white background. Poor guy.
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by chancho 17y ago
This is a strange mixture of paranoia and naiveté. On the one hand you suppose that the government's goal is to snoop on everyone, but on the other you ignore that they have already been caught doing that with the willing participation of p
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by chancho 17y ago
Engineers will solve these problems. Politicians will define them.
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by chancho 18y ago
http://puredata.info/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_Data I'm sure there's more out there. It's a pretty common paradigm for audio/interactive software. cf. Max/MSP, Reaktor, Audiomulch.
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by chancho 18y ago
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/318942 Note that the fix is simple enough, just not for your grandma. The HP Mini 1000's are selling well (because they are awesome) so this is kind of a big bug.
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by chancho 18y ago
Maybe you should organize or something...nah why would you do that with such a fantastic personal healthcare market and rock-solid 401K performance? I kid...partly. But the answer to all your questions is "organized labor."
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by chancho 18y ago
Can someone with knowledge of the underlying OS mechanisms answer this for me: What is the deal with file access on Windows? In Linux (on the Mac too, I think) I can move, copy and delete files freely, regardless of what applications curren
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by chancho 18y ago
Would an electrical engineer please explain why the number of cores is prime?
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by chancho 18y ago
> You are clearly not a graphic designer Which immediately follows from the presumption that I'm stealing fonts from webpages.
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by chancho 18y ago
http://potrace.sourceforge.net/ but we weren't talking about bitmaps. I have no doubt that a trained typographer can identify fonts at 100 paces in a hurricane, but if he sees his font in printed material, contacts the publisher and says
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by chancho 18y ago
You can take the font from a web page, use it in Illustrator for printed material (still the bread and butter of foundries), stretch it just a bit so that its no longer in exactly the same proportions, and it becomes very hard to prove wher
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by chancho 18y ago
Interesting that "proper" is different from "faster/better/more directly" I know what you mean, its just kind of sad that this is the case.
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by chancho 18y ago
"In addition, while the spies were able to download sizable amounts of data related to the jet-fighter, they weren't able to access the most sensitive material, which is stored on computers not connected to the Internet. I hope this practic
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by chancho 18y ago
Oh Ok I see. It appears (from the dearth of quoted text on the linked article) that they are running both a tracker _and_ a seed. The seeder is for their customers only, because then they don't have to pay for upstream access. The p2p conne
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by chancho 18y ago
Maybe they are relying on the (now invalid?) assumption that tracking is always legal while seeding is not.
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by chancho 18y ago
A former boss of mine, an old-school metallurgist and a viciously patriotic Republican hard-ass from the midwest, mentioned this to me http://www.resourceinvestor.com/pebble.asp?relid=16620 Not that website in particular, but the general
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by chancho 18y ago
You've mixed together a lot of stuff here. your Foo data type is recursive. I can achieve something similar in C++ without infinite template recursion, but I have to use pointers to do it. (Your Haskell has pointers too, they're just hidden
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by chancho 18y ago
I don't see how Haskell typeclass methods are any different from C++ overloaded functions in this regard. In both languages you refer to a concrete function by its signature rather than its name. Eg in Haskell you'd have "(+) :: Int ->
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by chancho 18y ago
Well I think you're conflating the simple operator syntax with broader issues of static typing. There's no reason you couldn't have Haskell-style operators in a Python-like language, where the definition of each operator is given by a metho
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by chancho 18y ago
Haskell has a neat solution for dealing with operators/infix. - Anyone can define their own operators and set their precedence. - Any operator can be made into a normal prefix function by putting parens around it. x + y = (+) x y - Any func
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by chancho 18y ago
You're inferring things based on your own bias. Nowhere on that page did I get the impression that they even believe, much less claim that those data are representative of true language popularity. They claim its impossible to measure. What
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by chancho 18y ago
Perl is older than Java.
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by chancho 18y ago
http://langpop.com/timeline.html
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by chancho 18y ago
The actual data being shown is very clearly explained. They aren't drawing any conclusions so I don't see what your problem is. There is a 'Normalized Comparison' graph but the weights are right there for anyone to adjust. The authors are v
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by chancho 18y ago
"In addition, the Canadian system is biased in favor of skilled workers. The vast majority of American immigrants are unskilled laborers allowed in through the 'family reunification' program. Canada does have a similar program, but the majo
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by chancho 18y ago
Not quite public television, but public airwaves. Well to be honest I don't quite know where the CBC fits in that spectrum. Regardless, broadcasters are just licensing the public airwaves, they don't own them. There is not slippery slope he
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by chancho 18y ago
Both of them?
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by chancho 18y ago
Well you have to admit its kind of a shit situation, that this benevolent 3rd party has to step up to bring C# to the world outside of Microsoft. Imagine if Sun never released Java for anything other than Solaris. Linux in the server room i

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