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   by chancho 17y ago

   I think it's more likely that the imbalance between the sexes will correct itself through any of the myriad feedback mechanisms before it has a significant effect on Chinese evolution. For example, parental preference could shift back to gi
2. 182.▲
   by chancho 17y ago

   This is a goldmine. "Assuming any real number can be represented using base 10 (this is of course false, since it is not possible to represent all real numbers in any given radix system)" So that bit in parens pretty much refutes his whol
3. 183.▲
   by chancho 17y ago

   I'm going to upvote them all to make them feel welcome.
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   by chancho 17y ago

   Google code search needs a "submit bug report to all" function.
5. 185.▲
   by chancho 17y ago

   instance Num (MONEY -> Currency) where ... Any hack with type "Money -> Currency" fits firmly in the "horrific" column.
6. 186.▲
   by chancho 17y ago

   I haven't been to siggraph, but for $1,175 ( http://www.siggraph.org/s2010/for_attendees/registration ) there's surely a potential for a contract between you and the ACM via your conference registration. Also, copyright holders don't need
7. 187.▲
   by chancho 17y ago

   Right but the ACM is the ultimate source of the data. They own the conference, the paper selection processes and hence the list of papers. It's hard to argue that this list was compiled without _ever_ looking at the ACM's list. It's a grey
8. 188.▲
   by chancho 17y ago

   This is crap. 'Thou' is part of a whole class of pronouns (2nd person informal) that are completely absent from all modern speech and writing. 'Whom' is the objective form of 'who'. I/me, he/him, she/her, we/us, they/them, who/whom. It's no
9. 189.▲
   by chancho 17y ago

   I think you overestimate how closely "the masses" pay attention to fonts. (Unless you're talking about "the masses" of programmers and designers, which actually is still a healthy chunk of Ubuntu's potential market at this point.) Yeah ok t
10. 190.▲
    by chancho 17y ago

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation-passing_style
11. 191.▲
    by chancho 17y ago

    This logo was chosen by a vote of the community. Here are the other choices. http://www.haskell.org/logos/poll.html Multiple people came up with this same design independently, because its meaningful: a combination of a lambda and the bin
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    by chancho 17y ago

    Which trackball? Logitech Marble Mouse works great for me because it puts my hand in a position that most resembles a hand-shake (relative to other mice and trackballs.) I noticed immediate benefits and thought "Hey trackballs are great!" b
13. 193.▲
    by chancho 17y ago

    Just one language? Of course not that's selling yourself short. Surely, with great effort and many years, you can master many languages, and use them masterfully in concert like many do with C and Python. And if you can do that then you can
14. 194.▲
    by chancho 17y ago

    So is this how "appeal to authority" works in language pissing contests? The "authority" is money? "I make money using this language so blah blah blah QED."
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    by chancho 17y ago

    what use are generic and meta programming without a sane range of 'regular' programming capabilities? C++ contains C. How can it not contain a sane range of 'regular' programming capabilities? (Of course in this context, 'regular programm
16. 196.▲
    by chancho 17y ago

    How, on a site like HN that champions pragmatic entrepreneurialism, can you possibly claim that the success of C++, a language that has been deployed probably more than any other except C, is controversial ? It's a matter of fact. C++ won
17. 197.▲
    by chancho 17y ago

    C++1x and Haskell'' are going to differ only in syntax.
18. 198.▲
    by chancho 17y ago

    Fame and Infamy have subtle differences.
19. 199.▲
    by chancho 17y ago

    I think it's just an optimized combination of pre-existing control methods. Keys with aftertouch, breath control and some touch surfaces. Evolutionary, not revolutionary. what we needed was a way to control the gamut of sounds that can be
20. 200.▲
    by chancho 17y ago

    I didn't know Rob Hubbard scored the Bourne trilogy.
21. 201.▲
    by chancho 17y ago

    US cable TV has never been viewable outside of North America+, and that you pay for. Why is it all of a sudden a problem that you can't watch your shows when you're traveling? (+unless a provider in another country happens to carry the same
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    by chancho 17y ago

    But having to position them manually is just tedium. Let me choose which palettes to display and which side of the window to display them on, and then let the application take care of the rest. If I'm running at fullscreen then I don't want
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    by chancho 17y ago

    I took my wife and I FOREVER to find a motorized baby swing that didn't take a buttload of C or D batteries, just plugged into the wall. Wires are highly underrated. OTOH, we just recently moved the computer to the TV's spot, bought a tuner
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    by chancho 17y ago

    Were it not for prior art, I'm sure the design for a bridge could be patented. And then someone would invent a truss bridge, a covered bridge, an arch bridge, a cable stayed bridge, etc. each getting a patent because each improves on the st
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    by chancho 17y ago

    I have no doubt that Dvorak works better for you, but I wonder if it's not so much the layout that makes a difference, but rather learning to type all over again while paying close attention to your hands allowed you to break bad habits. I
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    by chancho 17y ago

    It sounds like you are describing linear types or uniqueness types, not Haskell's monad solution to mutable state. (Haskell supports neither linear nor uniqueness types.) The aerial view of Haskell mutable state is that every function that
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    by chancho 17y ago

    The longer a movie's been out, the more likely it is that you've already seen it. The global production rate of quality movies is much less than 3 per week. Once you've exhausted* the catalogue then you're either stuck waiting for new relea
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    by chancho 17y ago

    > To accommodate peak demand, Netflix would have to do what Blockbuster does: order a metric truckload of Wolverine, then either let it suck up shelf space or dispose of it somehow after the spike was over Or just burn more copies. The
29. 209.▲
    by chancho 17y ago

    OS X: Put the following in ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBindings.dict { "^w" = "deleteWordBackward:"; } GTK: echo 'gtk-key-theme-name = "Emacs"' >>~/.gtkrc-2.0 gconftool -t string --set /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_key_theme Emac
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    by chancho 17y ago

    Parenthesis omission.