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by chancho 17y ago
Doesn't that excuse sound fishy to you? I assume (thought I don't know for a fact) that every gram of weapons-grade fissionable material in this country is accounted for. How did it end up in a nuclear test? (Other than through bureaucratic
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by chancho 17y ago
> If we assume that talent is evenly distributed throughout the planet... This is a terrible assumption. 71% of the planet's surface is practically devoid of talent.
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by chancho 17y ago
That's silly. Programmers are being brow-beaten into radically changing their programming style to accommodate a drastic 90-degree turn in the evolution of hardware, from general-purpose serial to parallel and SIMD. Look at this rasterizer,
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by chancho 17y ago
Hack yes.
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by chancho 17y ago
I just recently started watching Sesame Street with my son and I forgot how great it was. Especially the old stuff, which is all up at sesamestreet.org (I can't vouch for the new stuff as I'm at work at 10am.) The jokes were good, the music
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by chancho 17y ago
But we're not talking about ranking journals. We're talking about ranking authors. JIF if a reasonable metric for journals, the problem is that it's used to rate authors: what's the JIF of journals you publish in? The metric presented here
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by chancho 17y ago
Don't sell 8 O'clock short. http://shopping.yahoo.com/articles/yshoppingarticles/204/con... I have this sneaking suspicion that its harvested by third-world leukemia patients, or fertilized with aborted ponies or something else terrible,
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by chancho 17y ago
The ML family of languages is my favorite (second only to C++, natch.) but their brand of parametric polymorphism is equivalent in C++ to MyTemplate<T*> (or, if you like boost, MyTemplate<reference_wrapper<T> > would
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by chancho 17y ago
Have you subclassed any GObjects lately? Or otherwise implemented custom GTK widgets? If so, you might know why GTKmm exists (nevermind that PyGTK, GTK# etc are arguably the intended ways to use GTK.) There is a good reason everyone in the
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by chancho 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methicillin-resistant_Staphyloc... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necrotizing_fasciitis These are rare, but strep throat is pretty common.
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by chancho 17y ago
Can I vote no if I think they are completely unrelated yet want to see neither of them?
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by chancho 17y ago
I'm as disappointed by gdb's C++ support as anyone, but is it really fair to complain about its lack of support for STL containers? C doesn't have _any_ containers, so there's nothing there for gdb to lack. Either way you have to printf deb
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by chancho 17y ago
Juxtaposition in ML is function application: f x y = f(x,y) Although you're free to discount ML and its ilk (OCaml, Haskell) as non-mainstream.
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by chancho 17y ago
> revenue from property taxes, which would be a more stable / less cyclical funding source. Obviously not a resident of the central valley.
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by chancho 17y ago
I don't know about you, but I appreciate posters who copy article titles verbatim instead of editorializing. As for the article itself, it very clearly stated that increased energy intake was the culprit. The word "food" by itself does not
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by chancho 17y ago
"Promise Academy students who are performing below grade level spent twice as much time in school as other students in New York City. Students who are performing at grade level spend 50 percent more time in school." Yeah I don't really see
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by chancho 17y ago
I don't see where anyone got this confused.
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by chancho 17y ago
(In effort to continue the utter predictability of this thread:) Of course, to any rationally-thinking being, today is 2009-05-07, which is meaningless.
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by chancho 17y ago
Are those startups lobbying for higher H-1B quotas? This article, and the one in the thread you linked to, are talking about large corporations, not startups. There will always be a shortage at the high end. That's what makes it the high en
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by chancho 17y ago
"While you were busy in your ivory tower for 8 years, someone had to keep the world moving...You were obviously too busy in college to actually find out what really goes on in the real world...Poor baby. Get a job. Feed, clothe, and shelter
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by chancho 17y ago
The single most important element of this package is the cabal-install tool. "cabal install HDBC" or "cabal install hsql" etc. will download, compile and install any library on hackage. Previously you had to 'bootstrap' cabal-install yourse
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by chancho 17y ago
File under: blamecore.
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by chancho 17y ago
So is blamestorm a noun or a verb?
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by chancho 17y ago
Don't US companies source a lot of parts from overseas? Ford even has plants in Mexico. US and Japanese companies often share designs. The boundary between foreign and domestic is a lot blurrier than it used to be. This point here is mostly
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by chancho 17y ago
One good way to stave off a news site addiction is to enthusiastically participate in comment threads. After being drawn into 2 or 3 good flameouts you'll curse the whole medium.
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by chancho 17y ago
Well, yeah, but since Fortran stores things in column-major that's not really an issue. My broader point was that all of these details are hidden from programmers, so there's less for the programmer to screw up and more room for the compile
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by chancho 17y ago
Fortran's (alleged) dominance in scientific is probably attributable to tradition (they still teach it to undergrads in non-CS departments) but the native multidimensional arrays have a much bigger impact than aliasing. In Fortran you just
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by chancho 17y ago
GCC C vs Intel Fortran : http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?test=all... Intel C vs Intel Fortran : http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all... (I'm not even going to link to the GCC Fortran benchmark
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by chancho 17y ago
Fair enough. I won't argue with the fact that Haskell is not yet ready for TweedHeads.
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by chancho 17y ago
There are a number of SQL libraries. http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/pkg-list.html#ca... The complaint was that there aren't any mature libraries that go a step further, beyond feeding manually-constructed query strings to the

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