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by crux_ 17y ago
Nitpicky correction: It doesn't do any garbage collection; it helps you figure out where you are leaking references.
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by crux_ 17y ago
A very closely related / similar idea: http://austin.vicarious.ly/
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by crux_ 17y ago
Sure it does, and it's actually easy to demonstrate. :) That's the power of limiting yourself to a regular language. I started typing out psuedo-code, but it's easier to be informal. Consider: - It's easy to prove that one terminal (charact
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by crux_ 17y ago
On my phone,so pardon the terseness. A) There's two issues here: whether the incident was racism, and whether the retelling you gave was, due to the assumptions it carried. I was addressing the latter. B) Of course you were being judgemen
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by crux_ 17y ago
The algorithm I used should work with anything that's a "Regular Hedge Grammar". An off-the-cuff understanding is that means a regular hedge grammer is a CFG written such that any recursion in the grammar is tail-recursion. (Hopefully that
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by crux_ 17y ago
Interesting fact: If you restrict yourself in certain ways (e.g. no backreferences), it's possible to write an automatic "subtype" checking system for regular expressions. (By this I mean you can prove, for two regexes, that if the first ma
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by crux_ 17y ago
> 'Sexist' is thrown about too much, imho. On the contrary, I don't think it's thrown around nearly often enough, at least in the tech/entrepreneurial community. In the name of rejecting political correctness, the cultural norm has swun
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by crux_ 17y ago
I don't know about any of that stuff, but I think you've successfully shown me a sexist.
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by crux_ 17y ago
Hiya Mitchell -- Sweet-looking project. What sort of effort would be required to use a Windows-based VM? (Would you even recommend using Vagrant with Windows VMs, or is there any alternative I should look at? I'd like to automate my current
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by crux_ 17y ago
# 16: Women are extremely rare and get to enjoy swimming against the current in a river of testosterone. :(
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by crux_ 17y ago
Without knowing how Redis works, maybe they were chosen because it's really quite easy to build a highly concurrent (lock-free) skip list?
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by crux_ 17y ago
An easy first guess as to efficiency would be O(n) for insertions and deletions, since that's what you need to maintain a sorted list (which is the lowest level of a skip-list).
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by crux_ 17y ago
It did require some imagination. I ended up putting in "vomit green" for one, and "mango" for another.
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by crux_ 17y ago
In that case, why not just accept a bulk-import of Freshmeat or download.com into Wikipedia? (Rationale: someone cared enough to write the description text on those sites, so it seems a safe assumption that they'd care enough to write the s
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by crux_ 17y ago
a) More importantly, they enforce a discipline on you: never treat data as code. b) I'm guessing there are plenty of databases that execute parametrized queries entirely differently than a plaintext ones, including the absence of an escapin
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by crux_ 17y ago
Ignore that other person saying to escape the quote -- do as the wikipedia article they linked says, and use parametrized queries. This does all the escaping for you, and unlike escaping, makes it much less likely that something will slip b
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by crux_ 17y ago
Why is it crazy? It's completely true when you take into account that he wasn't advocating a "means of production" that you rent (aka hosting) but one that you actually own.
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by crux_ 17y ago
Replying again since the parent is getting voted up, and I think it's misleading: If you compare the Bay Area to the Dallas/Ft Worth area , you will get 58% white vs. 70% white. If you compare the specific city of SF to the city of Dallas,
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by crux_ 17y ago
I believe (1) may be true for some, but is absolutely false for others. Also, I think it's safe to broaden (2) to mean "creative culture" -- as in not just restaurants, but galleries, plays, music, nightlife, and so on; along with the indir
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by crux_ 17y ago
> While you might look around and see the signs of diversity, how often do you have a conversation with someone who has totally different goals and aspirations to yourself? If you are interested in doing so, you have the opportunity. Yo
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by crux_ 17y ago
Fair enough. But when was the last time anyone called Dallas "vibrant"? Maybe it's just as much about perception of diversity. Edit to add: how about apples-to-apples comparison too, eh? You could have chosen: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by crux_ 17y ago
This bit caught my eye: > [...] it [Silicon Valley] has its peculiar jokes and rhythms and closely-held shadow beliefs which owe a bit more to repetition than they owe to empirical reality The problem is that those beliefs include a bro
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by crux_ 17y ago
Nope. Here's the anecdote, cut'n'pasted since I can't direct-link to it: > During the conference I was staying with my sister in Syracuse. I brought the paper home and said to her, "I can't understand these things that Le
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by crux_ 17y ago
I think it's important to recognize that the truly interesting and useful research papers are hard to understand, too. It's not supposed to be Harry Potter, and if you don't actually sit down and work through the steps on page two, you have
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by crux_ 17y ago
I'm guessing jrockaway was trying to refer to tiling window managers (e.g. xmonad) , only without being too obvious about it. ;)
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by crux_ 17y ago
I don't believe my point has changed at all; sorry if I haven't been clear enough, but I've been asserting from the beginning that there's no appreciable difference. ("analagous situations" from my first post.) Further, I wasn't asking for
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by crux_ 17y ago
> The claim, then, is that the skeptics are not doing science. That is easily refutable Phil Jones doesn't think it's so easily refutable, does he? It's the only non-conspiracy-theory explanation of the tone of the email leaks, and make
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by crux_ 17y ago
My point is this exactly: It does sound the same. That is to say, from the outside, the the back-and-forth, the actions and reactions, the allegations of blacklisting, etc., between these scientific communities and their external critics ar
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by crux_ 17y ago
> "discredited scientist lashes out at his critics (some of whom are poor journalists and/or political mouth-pieces)" with "scientists try to silence someone who doesn't tow the party line." But here's the rub: How do you know which is
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by crux_ 17y ago
> The skeptics may be wrong, and they may not have a point, but they are doing science. If they were really doing science, you'd think they could get something published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal instead of just blogging, wo

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