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by chancho 17y ago
A minute later, at 2:54 p.m., the news was in the Breaking News Twitter feed. Two minutes later, at 2:56 p.m., the New York Times had the news in its Twitter feed, and word of the result buzzed into my phone via the Breaking News app. Thre
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by chancho 17y ago
> f(x) = 1/3(x^3 + y^3) = 6xy Pesky algebraic geometry. Get out of my graph!
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by chancho 17y ago
Oh they get it alright: it's a threat. If you're watching it online you're not watching ads run by your local NBC affiliate. The network affiliate business model is a dying model, but it's not going down without a fight.
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by chancho 17y ago
Not sure I would call it "trivial." You just trade your segfault (or NullPointerException) for a pattern match error. Although that little bit of static typing would probably have dealt with the vast majority of expensive null-pointer bugs.
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by chancho 17y ago
Except for progress in metallurgy and materials science. That's real annealing.
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by chancho 17y ago
None of them are very satisfying. I've used Gtk2Hs a fair amount, and it is solid. Conceptually it's very similar to the wxHaskell bindings (directly inspired by, if I'm not mistaken.) Of the three major cross-platform toolkits, Gtk+ is the
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by chancho 17y ago
But you do own GM. (I'm assuming you're a US taxpayer.)
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by chancho 17y ago
Could they not find even one STEM professor to comment? A highly biased opinion from this bunch: "...it is not surprising that the tenure decision is freighted with anxiety. It takes anywhere from 10 to 20 years from entrance into graduate
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by chancho 17y ago
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Ut2djuT8OYk/S4VFQBDlAnI/AAAAAAAAOi...
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by chancho 17y ago
> that can outperform equivalent C Isn't that a bit like saying that it "can outperform equivalent assembly"? And why can you not prove the equivalent C correct? After all, you're doing that proof by hand either way. A Haskell compiler
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by chancho 17y ago
Just say it in your head with a Mexican accent.
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by chancho 17y ago
This sounds like a reasonable explanation for why filibustering is more common, but I don't know that the old way is better. The willingness of our representatives to stay out on the floor past their bedtime and let their voices get hoarse
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by chancho 17y ago
"Dumbly applying the nearest pop-psych explanation..." If describing this tragedy as "someone going postal" isn't dumbly applying pop-psych, then I don't know what is.
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by chancho 17y ago
Girls don't "need" anything except food, water and shelter, but a man who gives her only that won't last very long. A blanket statement like "I would never buy you a diamond" implies "I will vet all your purchases." It's the most un-romanti
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by chancho 17y ago
Mode faces: http://dkpresents.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/2ur9h61.jpg
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by chancho 17y ago
This is really a great way to keep parents out of the loop, which is great for the kid players and the game, because if I found out my son was spending $3/week on virtual dog food I'd turn off our internet.
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by chancho 17y ago
64-bit flash was bumpy at first on Firefox/Linux but it's been stable for at least a year now. I gather it's still in beta? Either way, "apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree" works as you'd expect.
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by chancho 17y ago
Yes this is a great way to weed out all those stodgy kids-movie-and-video-game animation studios.
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by chancho 17y ago
> If you value the superficial affectation of politeness over the essential point of what someone is saying, you can shove it. Surely, in situations like these, even you can understand the value of politeness. You engineered politeness
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by chancho 17y ago
Reposting awesome comment from Astro Zombie on the Metafilter thread about this: "This experiment was already attempted by the daughter of Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley, who downed a handful of sleeping pills in a suicide attempt in Dece
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by chancho 17y ago
And it's getting better. http://www.wired.com/medtech/drugs/magazine/17-09/ff_placebo...
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by chancho 17y ago
I know this post is about Parrilo but I would just like to point out that Jesus De Loera (co-author of linked paper) is awesome. Favorite paper: minimal tetrahedralization of a convex polyhedron is NP-hard. http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/math
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by chancho 17y ago
Poor Linux distros. They try so hard. Nobody ever makes installers for Linux software (they don't even provide binaries unless it costs $1000+.) So the distros do their best to compile, test and maintain neat, orderly package repositories t
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by chancho 17y ago
Waste of bits. The article, the comments, all of it. You owe me $0.003 of electricity, ilamont.
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by chancho 17y ago
But this is just for things like W2s and 1099s. When the party providing you income (employer, bank, etc.) sends one to the IRS they also send a copy to you. Only idiots try to cheat the IRS by lying about what these forms say. This isn't t
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by chancho 17y ago
Although I mostly agree with you, what are some examples of economies that suffered as a result of overpopulation? China and India seem to be doing fine. I mean, it seems obvious that the wave has to break but I just don't think we've seen
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by chancho 17y ago
I've not debugged Lua but I am familiar with it's integration into C. I imagine debugging Lua+C is no harder than debugging Matlab+C. You load up the REPL in GDB and set your C breakpoints in GDB and your Lua breakpoints in Lua. After contr
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by chancho 17y ago
> Dvorak favours the right hand by 14% (QWERTY favours left by 15%). Dvorak has more uniform finger usage and makes greater use of the pinky (18% vs QWERTY's 10%). I find that writing code, my right pinky is by far the most overworked f
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by chancho 17y ago
> Lua gives you raw C numeric types Standard Lua (the one from PUC-Rio) doesn't really, it uses boxed numeric values, as I imagine ruby (and almost every other dynamic language) does as well. "Boxed" meaning that each number is stored o
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by chancho 17y ago
...well, almost everything.

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