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by danking00 15y ago
Although I agree with your argument, I think it actually is algorithmically hard to do this. Isn't this the travelling salesman problem? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelling_salesman_problem Of course, a non-optimal, but good enough
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by danking00 15y ago
Interactive SCSH Shell. That's what I'm waiting for.
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by danking00 15y ago
I think this exactly the problem with most arguments about God. People rarely state a definition of what constitutes a God. As far as I am personally concerned, a God who is not omniscient and omnipotent is no God at all; it's just a much m
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by danking00 15y ago
It's reasonable to assume he reasoned out the existence of God as taught to him by his Catholic parents because he realized some of the typical actions taken by this God don't jive with his understanding of Physics.
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by danking00 15y ago
I don't think the debate is between xmonad and some WM. The debate is between Ubuntu's Gnome set-up before Unity and Ubuntu's set-up with Unity. Ubuntu's Gnome set-up was never been like xmonad or even a tiling window manager and neither is
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by danking00 15y ago
Thirded, Geeks are coding away at some application feature, managing servers, updating designs, watching some TV show, browsing the web, discussing project goals over skype with team members and other mundane things – all this on a slow da
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by danking00 15y ago
Did you miss the very last line of his comment? "Knowing that they exist can help us make better decisions." He's making this admission with the expressed desire of changing, not trying to justify or excuse it.
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by danking00 15y ago
An exception is simply a change in control flow and, if I'm not mistaken, this can be modeled easily in a purely functional system. I imagine a real system like Scheme, Racket, etc. would use call/cc, but I can best explain this with Contin
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by danking00 15y ago
It is my opinion that the article does not suggest that "it's so terrible that I'd rather watch, say, a deep-sea fisherman risk his life than try deep-sea fishing myself." It actually directly chastises, in the following quote, the people w
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by danking00 15y ago
Agreed. I'd like to see the energy industry fumble around with maps trying to locate oil deposits because this new fangled GPS-thing doesn't quite work right.
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by danking00 15y ago
I know little of the way medical schools operate, why and to what degree does Harvard Med require disproportionately large funding from the endowment? The cost of attendance for all of Northeastern's undergraduate students for one year is 1
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by danking00 15y ago
What about the value of actual projects? I have a high GPA, but I'd be pretty disappointed if a company didn't stop to look at any of my github projects before they considered me. Those repos show off my creativity and my desire to build in
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by danking00 15y ago
I agree wholeheartedly. I've got 2 semesters worth of school left and I'm scrambling to fit in all these non-major classes. It's a real pain to be at a university without free (as in beer) overloading. I had an enlightenment about a year ag
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by danking00 15y ago
Many of the rich ones have the same policy Consider Harvard, MIT's, and NU's endowments. I attend Northeastern, where the CS college is excellent, particularly the opportunities to do research with programming language rockstars like Matt
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by danking00 15y ago
Are the more significant inabilities you are _actually_ complaining about here? I don't have any idea how Windows 7's (or Vista, or OS X, etc. hell, I vaguely remember how to do this on my *nix box) networking software works, but I guarante
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by danking00 15y ago
I find it quite easy, but my requirements are vastly different than yours. I don't eat meat, so that takes out a huge array of easy meals (burgers, kielbasa, beef stew, etc. [for tips on this stuff, I suggest on-line recipe sites. search fo
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by danking00 15y ago
In the "Macro Basics" section, he seems to completely glaze over the _other_ problem with unhygenic macros.[1] Consider: (defmacro square (x) `(* ,x ,x)) (let ((* my-vector-dot-product)) ... (square (* bar baz))) He se
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by danking00 15y ago
American (USA) here, much prefer the white lights. White seems to be easier to read under than the yellow.
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by danking00 15y ago
Yes, but the habital zone scales with star size, so a radial position less than the habital zone would indeed be warmer than desirable for Earth-like life.
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by danking00 15y ago
Can you cite a source for your 50% false positive rate? I found a source[1] that argues for a ten percent false positive rate. What do you mean to "confirm" that the stars have planets? I could imagine, directly imaging them is confirmation
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by danking00 15y ago
It looks like the planet actually slides closer in to the star, thus the issue would be keeping the environment cool enough.
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by danking00 15y ago
The audacity to make that comment using a Von Neumann machine.
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by danking00 15y ago
My first thought, after reading my parent, was Native Americans (really, indigenous peoples worldwide) and European colonists. Is my parent referring to other cases as well?
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by danking00 15y ago
I've been back and forth about how to respond to your comment. My initial reaction was "'func()' is a call and therefore returns an expression." Having thought about it, I don't really remember what my neophyte reaction would have been.
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by danking00 15y ago
Your insight into performance is obviously good, but I'd rather see the students focus on writing code which is obvious to them and have the compiler/interpreter realize there's a ton of redone work. I think you can do this with flow analys
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by danking00 15y ago
The approach of WeScheme is very different, but they provide syntax highlighting and saving code files. It'd be great if this guy can borrow some of their work. http://www.wescheme.org/
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by danking00 15y ago
Forgive me for I am a student of HtDP and not SICP, but when this author was attending MIT wasn't 6.001 still in place? The Scheme REPL, which I imagine was introduced to students of 6.001, encourages an iterative approach to problem solvin
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by danking00 15y ago
Could you elaborate on these dozen or more structural forces?
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by danking00 15y ago
This isn't a fair comparison. The cultures of the United States and the PRC are quite different on many levels. Copyright law is one of many variables. Furthermore, there actually are some good mainland musical acts. I'd like a more detail
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by danking00 15y ago
I think the hashes instead of objects paradigm contributed to my frustration. I ended up turning parts of the hashes into objects and parts into parameters. You and your sibling post provide some decent guidelines and approaches to default

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