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by cynwoody 13y ago
I've written plenty of Python but only played a little with Haskell (just in GHCI, to see what the excitement is about). Yet, looking at his two scripts, the Haskell was so transparent as to not need running, whereas the Python was opa
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by cynwoody 13y ago
Sometimes it helps to use the Search tools | Verbatim option to keep Google from drawing unwarranted conclusions about a page's relevance. They used to allow you to mark required terms with a +-sign, but unfortunately they took that fe
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On the contrary, Orszag agrees with you. The exact quote is: It’s hard to believe this is because the skill required to drive a taxi has risen substantially since 1970. If anything, GPS technology may have had the opposite eff
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by cynwoody 13y ago
My favorite has to be ⌘+Space. It brings up Spotlight Search. I use it instead of the Dock to launch applications. It quickly adapts to your preferences. For instance, after a few tries, it will learn that you want Digital Color Meter when
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by cynwoody 13y ago
The main benefit of a true REPL over the Go playground is that a REPL allows you to interact with the state of a partially-run program. By contrast, the Go playground is one-shot. Your code runs quickly, but completely, and you see the resu
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by cynwoody 13y ago
I agree. I would like an option to have unused imports and variables ignored during development. But I would also like them gone in the final code, because they are noise inhibiting future human understanding of the code. It might also be u
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by cynwoody 13y ago
I find Amazon's best at reminding that I've got third-party cookies enabled. E.g., I research the Hitler teapot† on Amazon. Then, suddenly, I'm seeing teapot ads everywhere. † http://blogs.scientificamerican.com&#x2
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Yeah, at least some good theories on how a yottabyte storage system (10^24 bytes, or a trillion of your stinkin' external Time Machine drive) might actually be implemented would be welcome (particularly within the physical confines of
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by cynwoody 13y ago
Top secret, special intelligence, originator-controlled, no foreigners. A somewhat redacted, 158-page manual describing how to code these markings: http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/intel/capco_imp.pdf A cheat sheet from 2008, by Julian Ass
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LOL! Caroline Glick is the best!
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by cynwoody 13y ago
> [REDACTED: several hundred words, presumably describing it.] How to build the Super using a conventional initiator?
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by cynwoody 13y ago
So, host a known-safe copy of the code somewhere in the cloud with https access (e.g., one of your appspot apps). Then you'll know where to find it whenever you need to regenerate a password. Of course, you'll still need to trust that the m
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by cynwoody 13y ago
So, just for fun, I googled "event table planning". No paid ad for his app appeared. However, a quick scan through the first page shows he did get at least three freebies: two of the four image results are screen shots from his homepage, an
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And then there's Eve, the evil one, the eavesdropper, the susceptible one in Genesis.
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> They find the idea of mutating a variable to be completely counter-intuitive! The notion of mutation is implicit in the definition of "variable."
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ts; dr Need to unlearn the font-size attribute!
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No. However, if you pass an object or an array, the called function can change a field in the object or an element in the array (the difference between those two is an optimization), and the change will be visible to the caller. Go, however
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Thanks for turning me on to Taleb. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=e... Having watched the first few minutes of the above, I think he means his "antifragility" to be an attribute of economic and political system
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by cynwoody 13y ago
I had the same reaction to the link. But, since I've been checking out the Go language, I decided to whip up a little simulation[1] to prove the claimed probability. And indeed, it is true: choosing the moderator's offer wins 2/3 of the tim
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by cynwoody 13y ago
Or just surf to the Wikipedia if you are too lazy to go the library. Example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosively_formed_penetrator Of course, perusing the above link, it would seem the main limitation on proliferation is chemical sy
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by cynwoody 13y ago
I found it on a certain .nz domain[1], the owner of which (who, oddly enough, renamed himself after the TLD you mention) is currently thumbing his nose at the USG[2]. [1] https://mega.co.nz/#!JplQVDDQ!Qi8kflIn8kMZl0hK96YW1h7RIc9vz2... [2]
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by cynwoody 13y ago
I have a print subscription (needed to use up expiring airline miles), and my copy does not contain the hotspot.
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Because, typically, you are behind a NAT router, and you are after your WAN address, not the LAN address you were assigned by the router. Depending on the router, it might be simpler and more reliable to interrogate the router. Also, some r
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I was just trying to measure the latency to the server, an important characteristic for this service. Previous ones I've used in the past (e.g., to update a dynamic DNS server) have suffered from excessive (multi-second) latency or would si
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You can also just google 'my ip'. But the Akamai service is obviously much easier to use from a script.
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From a Verizon FiOS connection in the Boston area: --- a1524.g.akamai.net ping statistics --- 29 packets transmitted, 29 packets received, 0.0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 20.872/22.326/26.220/1.058 ms For c
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by cynwoody 14y ago
According to Google, 1 gallon is 3.78541178 cubic decimeters[1]. [1] https://www.google.com/search?q=1+gallon+in+cubic+decimeters
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by cynwoody 14y ago
"Terrorism" means more than just doing very bad things. Terrorism is violence against innocent people in order to further a cause. Both Adam Lanza and the Beslan terrorists[1] killed lots of kids. But only the Beslan killers were terrorists
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LOL! Sometimes it's wise not to assume we know what's on the clipboard. That link is to a pile of computer-rendered lesbian porn images!
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> Lot of things mentioned here are not that easy. To legally bring citizens of other countries in American justice system and have them fair trial you need to have respect various treaties - many of which may simply require sending them

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