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by chancho 16y ago
15 minutes? Are you kidding? It takes that long to get your oil changed and most people can't even be bothered to do that every 3 months / 3000 miles.
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by chancho 16y ago
Pascal uses the "param : type" syntax, although I'm not sure it's the first language to do so. I believe it's older than ML. It's funny to "see this more frequently lately" as it's a really old convention. What's old is new again, I guess..
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by chancho 16y ago
So awesome that the first image on that page is of a marquee for a band from Shitsville McNowhere (i.e. Sacramento.) Makes me so proud. Just kidding. The heart of rock and roll (and r&b and techno and hip hop, etc) is in ... yadda yadda
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by chancho 16y ago
I don't understand why the computer vision community is so locked in to matlab. Sure it's a great tool, but it's only marginally better than what the python community has to offer (that margin being the network effect I'm about to rage agai
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by chancho 16y ago
So ... you've come full circle back to prescriptivism then? Great, now you just have to get on the faculty at Oxford and you can foist your opinions regarding correct usage of the English language on the world. Or failing that, you can work
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by chancho 16y ago
Thankfully the Mexicans don't get as upset about our appropriation of the term "United States", as they have just as much claim to it. ( Estados Unidos Mexicanos ) Otherwise, we from The Land Between Mexico And Canada would have nothing to
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by chancho 16y ago
"Founded by ... the startup is disruptive in the sense that the tutoring space up until now has been monopolized by..." Tech journalism bingo in one sentence!
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by chancho 16y ago
What's an example of "more fine grained control"? I've used C++ more than Java or C#, but it's not apparent to me how removing a language feature gives you more fine grained control. A const reference in C++ is like an interface that doesn'
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by chancho 16y ago
Are there any other such data structures besides arrays and hash tables? (That's only half-rhetorical. I'd love to hear about one.) If so, are you seriously suggesting that when an array fits the bill, we should stop and think "hmm... maybe
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by chancho 16y ago
Hmm, that's kind of strange. There's so many important socio-political dilemmas for young people to grapple with these days, why would the author fault them for not being ambivalent toward nukes and armed conflict? Shouldn't young people be
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by chancho 16y ago
It's a quote from the page, the last bullet in the list of features.
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by chancho 16y ago
Push your children to succeed. Don't let them give up at the first impasse, because kids really can be lazy if you let them get away with it. Take that sentiment and mix it with some freedom: Instead of making them play the violin/piano and
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by chancho 16y ago
Selection bias. The author is published because she ended up a professor at the top law school in the country. Plenty of Chinese mothers raise mediocre children, and they don't get to write opinion pieces in Murdoch rags. (Or did you take
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by chancho 16y ago
If it were that easy, the eyebrows and lips would be sunken inward because they are darker then the surroundings. More like (I'm guessing) it uses the change in reflected intensity with respect to the change in light position to estimate a
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by chancho 16y ago
People can disagree on the precise definition of terminology, which is why, in any serious discourse, you have to define things before you begin discussion. The great thing about Haskell (or any programing language) is that you really have
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by chancho 16y ago
Its mission: to use a variety of intelligence-gathering efforts to help the government attribute hacking incidents. And whether that massive data gathering violates privacy? The organization says it never looks at personally identifying
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by chancho 16y ago
I think Fred's point was that it's an entirely new market opening up. As you say, a middle-class value-conscious market. It will be a huge market, so businesses need to get out in front of it. But replicatorblog's point (as I understand it)
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by chancho 16y ago
For every one of you there is another who dropped out of a PhD program to start a company that eventually went bust and now they are in the same position as you, but without the PhD. Everyone tosses the dice. Everyone has regrets. Don't bea
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by chancho 16y ago
Any users with small children care to share your experiences? Is it even worth the bother, given that huge uncontrollable variable in your sleep habits?
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by chancho 16y ago
Do you need to pass C++0x to graduate or something? If it's too difficult, don't learn it. There are plenty of non-C++ jobs.
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by chancho 16y ago
On what distributions do you find ancient versions of boost but recent versions of GCC? If the standardization process moved faster you'd still have to wait.
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by chancho 16y ago
Wait 13 years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran#FORTRAN_77 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran#Fortran_90
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by chancho 16y ago
I hope Chrome OS has an option to swap ctrl and search.
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by chancho 16y ago
I used this library a while back, and it was nice at first, until I noticed that his quicksort always picked the first element as the pivot, which makes it O(n^2) on already-sorted input. Then I started second guessing everything, and when
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by chancho 16y ago
This is an interesting read. One part jumped out at me (sorry for the long quote) The purpose of the technical problem was to assess more directly candidates ability to write Haskell programs that can be used to solve real world problems,
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by chancho 16y ago
This is a great comment and I appreciate the links. But the caveman explanation for health and nutrition always leaves me cold. Yeah ok we can pretty much gauge what proto-humans ate and why it was good for them, but what if it made them mi
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by chancho 16y ago
And just like a year ago, there's nearly 100 comments about whether or not the syntax is ugly, whether or not you find it readable because you can't break out of your Algol mindset, whether or not anything can truly be "faster than C", whet
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by chancho 16y ago
"The statutory copyright penalties were clearly written with commercial-type infringement in mind" The whole "these bits are worth $X each" scenario becomes meta-absurd when you consider commercial infringement. At $60K/song, The Pirate Bay
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by chancho 16y ago
Probably has more to do with the visceral pleasure of accelleration (cf. amusement parks) than the risk of death. Otherwise Russian Roulette would be a more popular extreme sport. It sure is more accesible.
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by chancho 16y ago
Ctrl-c and ctrl-[ are not the same. There are times when latter completes the insert session (same as esc) while the former aborts it, e.g. visual block insertion with (ctrl-v jjjj I) Also, the happy haacking keyboard already puts control i

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