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by chancho 16y ago
I think ruang was referring to Kleinberger, who applied the idea directly to web pages, as opposed to scientific journals or economies. He did it only short while before Page and Brin, and they even cited him. As to why he didn't make a sea
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by chancho 16y ago
Someone else (in some other similar thread that I've forgotten) pointed out the similarity to "the olden days" when everybody knew everybody else's business. To which the reply was: Yeah, but you knew exactly _who_ knew your business. This
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by chancho 16y ago
Aggressive Hindley-Milner inference is old but getting it to mesh well with the OO concepts that developed independently of it (subtyping/inheritance, run-time polymorphism, virtual functions, etc.) is seriously tricky and is an area of cut
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by chancho 16y ago
That is almost exactly the Dust theme which is now default in ubuntu, with green icons instead of orange.
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by chancho 16y ago
The gratuitous eye-candy of the XP/Vista look-and-feel was already cliché when it first debuted. Hopefully Ubuntu will leapfrog it. Note that the black "Dust" ubuntu theme seen here was created by a user, not by a designer at Canonical. Com
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by chancho 16y ago
So? A $2500 computer will be obsolete in a few years. A $1400 desk will (hopefully) last at least a decade.
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by chancho 16y ago
How can you not capitalize a name like JERKER?
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by chancho 16y ago
That's exactly what I was thinking of. Thanks. (Of course, at >$3000 I'm not actually going to buy one. Just geek out over it.)
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by chancho 16y ago
Wanted: midi keyboard controller with a 1-axis touch control surface on every key. I will be your first pre-order.
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by chancho 16y ago
Curse the vending machine lobby. I want a perfectly square $50.
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by chancho 16y ago
Starving startups of cash makes them easier to buy.
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by chancho 17y ago
Yeah of course, but languages which compile to C also have (huge, IMO) drawbacks, especially with regards to debugging and profiling, things that have a profound effect on the end user experience. I'm not trying to defend the restriction or
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by chancho 17y ago
So it's impossible to write an innovative tool or framework in C, Objective-C, C++ or Javascript?
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by chancho 17y ago
Without some kind of encryption on the file being shared, what we be the basis for the assurance that the file is securely erased? A promise?
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by chancho 17y ago
You are not subsidizing their ability to receive mail from you. You are paying for your ability to send mail to them . It's the same rationale as the universal service fund for phones. A network like the phone or mail network reaches it'
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by chancho 17y ago
> Anybody who says they are good at C++ is either delusional or has spent years writing, linking, debugging it. This strikes me as a completely reasonable and not deprecating thing to say about any powerful language (such as C) or any a
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by chancho 17y ago
It does compete with Java, as both are garbage collected. C, C++ and Fortran are in their own category because they don't have to deal with the indirection of boxed heap objects. The mythical "sufficiently smart complier" can remove these i
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by chancho 17y ago
Ah, I wasn't aware. (Shows what I know about this bill.) While catastrophic insurance is a good deal for young unmarried people, part of me thinks it's not how health insurance is supposed to work. If you're not spreading the cost of caring
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by chancho 17y ago
$750/year is about the cost of so-called "catastrophic" insurance: high deductible, low monthly. Worthless for the kind of chronic ailments that old people suffer, invaluable for things like car accidents or leukemia. Only an idiot would ra
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by chancho 17y ago
FWIW, he only gave 27 names, so it's safe to assume that the other 13 were names like Brooks, Sage and DeBenedictis (the overall winner.) Here is the list of finalists: http://apps.societyforscience.org/sts/69sts/finalists.asp So not all
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by chancho 17y ago
Don't you mean Africa?
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by chancho 17y ago
Except that sputnik was a proxy for a nuclear weapon. "Look what we can put up above your heads, and there's not a thing you can do about it." High-speed rail doesn't have the same overtones. Also, connecting 1.5 billion to 700 million is a
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by chancho 17y ago
Performance. Until someone rewrites the entire Haskell standard library to use unboxed primitives and that stream fusion voodoo then C++ sits alone at the intersection of performance, abstraction and usability.
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by chancho 17y ago
Carrey's site broke my monitor (I was compelled to punch it.)
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by chancho 17y ago
Yes exactly, he will be drafted into the Russian army because he will still be a Russian citizen. (Not sure what you're WTFing. Did you think he meant drafted into the US army?)
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by chancho 17y ago
In the meantime before clang fully supports C++ I would appreciate a flag for GCC that just gives me abbreviated error info: file.cpp:65: error: please have a look at this line and see if anything jumps out at you. as that is basic
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by chancho 17y ago
Not to pile on, but I think you really are missing the point. The point of the current deficit spending (taking out loans) is not to invest in something that will create wealth later, it's to prevent the destruction of wealth now. That's wh
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by chancho 17y ago
'Probabilistic' doesn't have to mean 'nondeterministic'. Hash tables are deterministic and probabilistic. You could probably do the same with a skip list: hash the key to see what level of the skip list it gets promoted to.
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by chancho 17y ago
It doesn't have to be a linked list though. There are other purely functional sequence data structures which support O(log n) insertion and deletion, e.g. Haskell's Data.Sequence, which is a finger tree of some sort. If you could find a way
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by chancho 17y ago
local state, you will not like what concurrent threads do to it... For every nice argument there is a counter.

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