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by chancho 17y ago
Don't miss the article on shitting dick nipples.
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by chancho 17y ago
To paraphrase Kissinger, "FP language pissing contests are so vicious precisely because the stakes are so small." (Also, why is this guy's blog written in first person plural?)
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by chancho 17y ago
From that wikipedia page: "The untyped lambda calculus is Turing-complete, but many typed lambda calculi, including System F, are not." Anyone have any details about System F not being turing complete? Is it not straightfoward to implement
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by chancho 17y ago
But spending on r&d, in absolute terms, increased in the US as well as everywhere else, which is a win-win-win for everybody. It just happened to increase the most in China, but the US lead over China (why pick on China anyway?) is stil
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by chancho 17y ago
And at home you must be certain that you don't have anything non safe for wife.
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by chancho 17y ago
Fuck Yes! quixotic relational databases (usually SQLite) EAV graph query metalanguage depressing W3C salted the earth RDF twin loadstones XML tree serialization SemWeb wankery SPARQL EAV graph databases NoSQL hype-wave AppEngine's BigTable-
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by chancho 17y ago
Yet he couldn't get concepts into upcoming standard. Far short of a dictator. There's also the significant fragmentation of the market (GCC vs. MSVC++) and the fact that both of these compilers pick and choose what to implement and when to
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by chancho 17y ago
" Let [Country X] achieve a certain status, then we can talk about relaxing the system." Who is to say that any country has reached such an enlightened state. Your argument stands against any instance of democracy.
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by chancho 17y ago
And a Protoss probe factory. And a place Malcolm McDowell really wants to get to.
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by chancho 17y ago
Computer Person.
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by chancho 17y ago
I got my PhD without one dime of debt, and I think most of my classmates did as well. There is a lot of funding for grad students if you are flexible about what you want to work on. And if you absolutely MUST write your thesis on optimizing
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by chancho 17y ago
I'm just as upset with the state of math education in the US as anybody, but if UW is anything like my alma mater, then "Atmospheric Science 101" is a class that liberal arts majors take to satisfy their math & science general education
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by chancho 17y ago
It's very easy to criticize a paper's execution while at the same time supporting it's line of inquiry. Just bookend the review with stuff like "This is a very important topic that deserves rigorous scrutiny" and "I fear the authors' failur
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by chancho 17y ago
What are some kinds (examples?) of code that you find ICC to compile better than GCC? Like, what's a typical loop that ICC can vectorize but GCC can't? I always have the damnedest time pinpointing when and where these optimizations fire and
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by chancho 17y ago
Just buy one. Ubuntu is very slim to begin with (~4gb) and it's very easy to configure the filesystem to keep core files on the SSD and other stuff on a magnetic disk, e.g., symlink /home/kristianp/Music to /media/bighdd/Music or even just
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by chancho 17y ago
I don't know what the average parental leave duration is, but only 12 weeks are guaranteed and that is unpaid. Seems like kind of a short amount of time to make such a significant dent in your career earnings. How many promotions do you mis
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by chancho 17y ago
No, neither of us are lawyers (let's keep this http://mattmaroon.com/2009/05/01/hacker-news-disease/ in mind) but since you've cited case law at me, then who am I to ruin an IP law speculation-fest. Perhaps "it's illegal" is too bold a st
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by chancho 17y ago
It sounds as though the issue is whether or not the site responds promptly to takedown requests. Any torrent site that did would not be popular for long. They probably don't bother sending those requests to Google because Google doesn't hos
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by chancho 17y ago
> I'm slightly queasy about calling "torrenting whole seasons worth of shows I paid for" "time-shifting"; That's because it's illegal. You haven't actually paid for the shows. You've paid for access to the stream of content, but that do
170.
by chancho 17y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csj7vMKy4EI
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by chancho 17y ago
Because then you need a motor and a battery, adding weight and cost to an already heavy and expensive item.
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by chancho 17y ago
So if a part on your bike breaks then you're gonna cast a new one out of raw metal? Machine it yourself? How is this different than any other part you have to replace? It's an electric motor, a battery and a cellphone in a red plastic shell
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by chancho 17y ago
"You can use your phone to unlock and lock your bike, change gears and select how much the motor assists you." I'm guessing that "changing gears" is something that people in Copenhagen do rarely, perhaps using a wrench, like when you first
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by chancho 17y ago
Thanks for sharing your account of student life in Taiwan. It's always nice to hear firsthand about life in other cultures so that we don't hang onto our misconceptions. On that note, let me suggest that your caricature of American student
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by chancho 17y ago
But Avatars shaped like ourselves are still a few decades off, and needlessly complicated to execute. Avatars of our cars have worked out well.
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by chancho 17y ago
While I don't agree that the US is "full" by any means, population density is a horrible statistic for comparison. Check this out: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=population+density+of+e... http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=popul
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by chancho 17y ago
So you haven't seen the movie and you don't know much about Cameron, Arrington or his site, and of those four things the one you are most interested in learning more about is TechCrunch?
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by chancho 17y ago
> and because it should make the use of massively parallel computations easier. I concede that there are currently few implementations of massively parallel, functional code (MapReduce and possibly Data Parallel Haskell come to mind) No
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by chancho 17y ago
Jack van Wijk gave the keynote at IEEE visualization a few years back and spent an inordinate amount of time talking about how to pronounce his name, the best part of which was when he told how Greg Nielson remarked that his last name looke
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by chancho 17y ago
> If you need to get somewhere fast, use rapid transit. I have a hard time believing anyone in the US (except maybe New York) could say this with a straight face. Where do you live that rapid transit is so rapid?

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