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by colomon 11y ago
Lazy lists, anyway. As far as I know there's no built-in support for lazy scalar evaluation.
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by colomon 11y ago
Ugh, now imagining trying to debug a really sneaky bug that costs $100 million every time it triggers...
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by colomon 11y ago
Isn't this totally the wrong way of looking at this? Music written in 2015 is not necessarily better than music written in the 18th century, sure. But the musical world of 2015 is incomparably richer than that of the 18th century, be
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by colomon 11y ago
I'm curious. This is phrased as a ruling on CDs. But doesn't the logic used suggest that if I buy an album on MP3, I cannot copy those files to my server and phone? It would be really weird if (US prices here, maybe UK is diffe
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by colomon 11y ago
Is that blank recordable CDs or actual music CDs?
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by colomon 11y ago
The basic clock app on my Android phone takes 33MB of memory. That is completely and utterly insane. Except for playing MP3 alarms, everything on it could be done on a 64K Commodore 64 without breaking a sweat. And of course, the actual
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by colomon 11y ago
My six-year-old identified it as reminding him of "Let It Go" with no prompting from me other than "What does this make you think of?" (He also said "It's great!" about four times before that.)
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by colomon 11y ago
My problem is my son looks at the sets and says, "Dad! Dad! There's a brick I don't have in that set! You need to buy me the set!" But yeah, he builds a set by the instructions once, lets it stay together maybe a month
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by colomon 11y ago
Okay, I'm a CAD software developer instead of an actual CAD engineer, so my perspective may be a bit biased. But this CSG (constructive solid geometry) idea is not in any way new. The reason it's kind of obscure now is that spli
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by colomon 11y ago
I'm wondering how common the "mistake" of storing UTF-16 values in wchar_t on Unix-like systems? I know I thought I had my code carefully basing whether it was UTF-16 or UTF-32 based on the size of wchar_t, only to discover
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by colomon 11y ago
"Sonny Liston Takes the Fall": http://www.apex-magazine.com/sonny-liston-takes-the-fall/ (fantasy)
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by colomon 11y ago
I have to admit I'm kind of puzzled by this article and its countering article "Fantasy cannot build its imaginary worlds in short fiction." Look. There is great fantasy fiction being written in every length. And that&#x
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by colomon 11y ago
Ooo, I can do that in Perl 6 too. #!/usr/bin/env perl6 sub MAIN(*@filename) { for @filename -> $file { my $bag = $file.IO.slurp.words.Bag; say "$file: { [+] $bag.values } wor
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by colomon 11y ago
Yeah, here's a Perl 6 version: #!/usr/bin/env perl6 sub MAIN(*@filename) { for @filename -> $file { say "$file: { +$file.IO.slurp.words } words"; CATCH { defaul
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by colomon 11y ago
Is it supposed to end in the middle of a quoted sentence? (I mean, I can imagine it ending that way, but it does seem kind of abrupt.)
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by colomon 11y ago
The team that beat us was doing more Q: What is the capital of (BUZZ) Lithuania? A: Vilnius.
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by colomon 11y ago
Ack, we ran up against a "celebrity" reader in the final rounds of a Quizbowl tournament who didn't stop reading reliably when the other team buzzed in. I don't know how, but the other team was really good at taking adv
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by colomon 11y ago
I wonder if the "drop dead age" is getting older? I'm 44, and I cut my teeth on the first 8-bit home computers in junior high school. Most programmers ten or more years older presumably got their start on mainframes, likely
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by colomon 11y ago
(Apologies, I'm really replying to your post deeper in this thread -- HM isn't giving me a reply there.) On learning music, I'm wondering if you ever tried to learn to play by ear? If someone beats out a rhythm, can you repe
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by colomon 11y ago
Hmmm? I'm not sure what you mean by "books and book packages", but as a small developer I've certainly bought development tools priced under $100. That's a sort of dividing line for me, though -- I don't thin
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by colomon 11y ago
"In the United States, Hispanics die at slower rates than non-Hispanic whites. This is true even before accounting for differences in incomes and health-care access, which put Hispanics at a disadvantage."
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by colomon 11y ago
Your second case there is still relatively easy to test! Consider the problem of intersecting two arbitrary 3D surfaces to get a curve. There are an infinite number of possible inputs. Except for rare simple cases, for each pair of inputs
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by colomon 11y ago
Hmm, as I recall, about half of my programming classes required me to write programs to run on MTS. 'Course, we studied IBM mainframe assembly language in one class...
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by colomon 11y ago
Well, to be fair, there aren't good C++ operators to use for dot and cross product. (Funny, looking at my own C++ vector op file, I see in addition to the usual +, -, *, / I've added function definitions Dot, Normalize, Cros
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by colomon 12y ago
Dang, I had no idea "Thunderbolt hub" was even a product category. I've been lamenting the fact the only way to get that sort of functionality was a $1000 monitor...
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by colomon 12y ago
For what it's worth, when I lost weight I was exercising for 90 minutes a day 6 days a week (half of that hard exercise, half more casual) AND carefully watching everything I ate. The idea that this is "easy" is completely c
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by colomon 12y ago
Violet Jacobs, from Hallowe'en: But gin the auld fowks' tales are richt An ghaists come hame on Hallow nicht, O freend o' freends! what wad I gie To feel ye rax yer hand to me Atween the dark an' c
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by colomon 12y ago
Inspiring bold John Barleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi' tippenny, we fear nae evil; Wi' usquabae, we'll face the devil!
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by colomon 12y ago
"If thou hast nature in thee, bear it not. Let not the royal bed of Denmark be a couch for luxury and damned incest."
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by colomon 12y ago
There may not be a cliff, but if you look at http://www.advancedfertility.com/ivf-age.htm you can see that the IVF success rate is halved going from 30 years old to 40, and then halves twice more by age 44. If you are goin

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