d0mine

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   by d0mine 18y ago

   I know that "Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog: you understand it better, but the frog dies in the process." </quote>, but could you elaborate what are you talking about?
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   The 2008 Essential Facts About the Computer and Video Game Industry [pdf](theesa.com)

   1 points by d0mine 18y ago|0 comments
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   by d0mine 18y ago

   Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug dealers, kidnappers, and child pornographers. Seems like you can scare any public into allowing the government to do anything with those four. </quote> http
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   by d0mine 18y ago

   My conclusion: If the profit is your the only goal then sometimes (as Starbucks demonstrates) you can (and should actually (to reduce operational costs)) undercut basic customer service.
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   by d0mine 18y ago

   Showing relevant images is hard http://sampullara.appspot.com/yuil/search?q=cuil
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   DarcsEvaluation - GHC - Trac(hackage.haskell.org)

   2 points by d0mine 18y ago|0 comments
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   by d0mine 18y ago

   Lomborg on TED http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/bjorn_lomborg_sets_global... [video] 15 min.
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   by d0mine 18y ago

   It could be a Greasemonkey script which would attach available summaries to links on HN, reddit. Summaries could be picked up from your blog or from comments with special tag "Summary: " EDIT: I mean m/^Summary:\n\n/m
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   by d0mine 18y ago

   Is the goal to represent news in the twitter format?
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    by d0mine 18y ago

    http://www.cuil.com/search?q=bill+gates see 2nd column
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    by d0mine 18y ago

    My understanding of the post is: The title is misleading. If many people doesn't use your code then it is a waste of time to write it. No minute lost comes ever back again Take heed and see ye nothing do in vain </quote> If you
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    by d0mine 18y ago

    I know. The intention was to up-vote the link. The links are identical.
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    by d0mine 18y ago

    It is an interesting idea from science fiction point of view. The aim of this paper is not to discuss the plausibility of warp drive, the questions associated with violation of the null energy condition, or issues regarding causality. T
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    by d0mine 18y ago

    Additionaly, def increment(key): with lock(self.lock): value = self.counter_table.get(key) if not value: self.counter_table.add(key, 1) value = 1 Should be replace by: def inc
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    by d0mine 18y ago

    I am appreciating the joke. $ echo get it write | perl -pe"s/write/right/" get it right The semicolon is not required.
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    by d0mine 18y ago

    There are "big ideas" which look interesting and fresh for a general public, but they are boring and plain wrong for any professional in the field. I'm sure you can find such things in your area of expertise. All that glisters is not gold.
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    by d0mine 18y ago

    s/get it write/get it right/
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    by d0mine 18y ago

    $2,519.01 (red arrow) is not a large sum of money. Compound that with the time period indicated by the blue arrow. Elsewhere in the site founders explain that they charge a 3% transaction fee. In other words they pulled in $75.57 over 4 mo
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    by d0mine 18y ago

    I like the greenhouse question (page 17). I can not imagine that the authors does not know that correlation does not imply causation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_caus...
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    by d0mine 18y ago

    No, he has not. http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/blog/archives/001505.htm...
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    by d0mine 18y ago

    1. I agree on your point about classification. Moreover the whole topic of language capabilities is overrated. There are many many decisions one should make during a work on software project and the choice of language is just one of them (m
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    PISA 2006: Science Competencies for Tomorrow’s World Executive Summary [pdf](oecd.org)

    2 points by d0mine 18y ago|1 comments
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    by d0mine 18y ago

    Read A Mathematician’s Lament ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=256176 ). It does a pretty good job (among other things) on explaining what the math is all about.
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    by d0mine 18y ago

    I've just summarized the article. Language Snobs stress the superiority of one programming language over others. Some languages are extremely guilty of this (Lisp, SmallTalk, Python, Ruby, Scala, Haskell, etc) while others aren’t (Java, C#
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    by d0mine 18y ago

    The message: * BASIC (LSL, Java, C#, VB, PHP, Perl, etc) programmers win when it comes down to getting projects finished (versus Lisp, SmallTalk, Python, Ruby, Scala, Haskell, etc). * using inferior tools has a cost associated with it, so d
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    CL-Unicode - A portable Unicode library for Common Lisp(weitz.de)

    1 points by d0mine 18y ago|0 comments
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    by d0mine 18y ago

    Python(x,y) has five main features: * collecting scientific-oriented Python libraries and development environment tools (e.g. Eclipse plugins) ; * collecting almost all free related documentation ; * providing a quick guide to get st
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    by d0mine 18y ago

    A selection of python libraries for scientific computing. All-in-one installer for Windows.
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    Python(x,y) - Python for Scientists(pythonxy.com)

    15 points by d0mine 18y ago|5 comments
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    by d0mine 18y ago

    The benchmark is faulty but nonetheless informative.