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by deong 12y ago
I haven't used it, but if it's good enough at aping Snow Leopard, I'll happily give you Yosemite for it.
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by deong 12y ago
My iMac's automated backup has been broken since Yosemite because Apple removed the ability to set environment variables that all processes started from launchd could use. It appears that "run a python program as root on a schedul
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by deong 12y ago
Until computers are as generally intelligent as humans, the algorithms aren't going to be the overlords -- they're going to have overlords. The algorithm isn't processing your loan application because it runs a bank; it&#x2
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by deong 12y ago
To be fair, it's not as though the government treats the wealth of data as equally important and the media just fixates on one measure. The government wants to tout that low unemployment rate as well, and they make sure to do so whenev
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by deong 12y ago
My first impression looking at the questions was that they were intended to take the knowledge they had gained during the course and apply it to what may have been an unfamiliar circumstance. Done correctly, that's a completely fair ex
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by deong 12y ago
Because it becomes a definition that's excruciatingly precise, but useless to almost everyone in the world. I'm probably not the programmer responsible for fixing a bug in my OS; hardly any of us are. But we're all at the mer
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by deong 12y ago
Given the typical lead-time for an article to appear after the vendor is notified, the news begins to spread, publications take notice, assign someone to write a story, and the story appears, then you're arguing that the term "zer
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by deong 12y ago
I don't have any references for it, but evolving correct syntax should be doable I think, at least for smallish scale problems. Others have mentioned that people have evolved "Hello world" in Brainfuck, so it's definitel
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by deong 12y ago
Number of syntax errors is extremely weakly predictive of program correctness, and figuring out correctness of arbitrary source code is extremely difficult. This is why the bread-and-butter of GP is in symbolic regression. Rather than deal
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by deong 12y ago
It's a pretty well known field of research (though not specifically for toy walking problems). Genetic algorithms are a member of the class of problems called "metaheuristics", so your "meta" prefix is sort of alrea
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by deong 12y ago
There are branches of evolutionary computation that aim to evolve programs. The best known examples are Genetic Programming (GP) and Evolutionary Programming (EP). GP is by far the most popular today, and involves evolving source code, gene
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by deong 12y ago
Exactly. It sounds to me like Google was possibly interested in purchasing the company, put out feelers, got a way-too-high asking price, and then lost interest. I'm not sure I buy the whole "faked identities" thing, but even
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by deong 12y ago
> That would only be impossible if the depositors had so much money invested in the banks that there wasn't enough to cover them. Was that the case? Well, you're probably right in that I think there would have been enough money
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by deong 12y ago
30 seconds clearly has to be an embellishment, but what tends to happen is that people make a decision pretty early on, and then conduct the rest of the interview in such a way as to make that decision into the correct one. The same answe
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by deong 12y ago
> You seem to be assuming that it's impossible to bail out the bank's clients and let the bank itself fail, but that is not, in fact, impossible. It probably was impossible. Banks don't just function as holding pens for
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by deong 12y ago
Well, the banks are fine now, but we still can't pass even the tiniest bit of legislation curtailing the worst of their activities. You're right; we did have to bail out the banks. The decision to absolve them of any responsibilit
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by deong 12y ago
I already have that tool on my system under the name /bin/false.
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by deong 12y ago
Several years ago, I wrote the iPhone app for a US retail company I worked for, and we had an internal beta test list. Users had no hope of being able to do the complicated dance of getting me their UDID and installing the resulting beta ap
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by deong 12y ago
The current X-series keyboards are probably better described as "infamous" than "legendary". Not that they're necessarily bad, but no one who would ever use the phrase "legendary Thinkpad keyboard" was hap
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by deong 12y ago
In UI terms, it's any sort of visual clue for the user to do something. A button might be drawn as a "raised" thing inviting you to press it down; a window corner that has larger and visually obvious "drag handles"
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by deong 12y ago
I do get why some people dislike the sandwich thesis. From the standpoint of providing evidence that you deserve the PhD, it's fine. We judge research performance by published papers, so publish two or three good ones, print them out,
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by deong 12y ago
Everyone I know with a PhD has a 10-page journal article they recommend you read instead of the thesis. For whatever reason, this is the way PhD theses tend to work these days.
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by deong 12y ago
I don't think there's any vast conspiracy to understand or try to prevent. sysvinit has actual problems, and systemd solves many of them. I'm one of the ones who finds it ugly/inelegant/gross aesthetically, but it d
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by deong 12y ago
To argue the other side, if you don't like something in OS X or Windows, you can type "vim my_os.cpp" and start implementing your own version from scratch. If three years from now, everything from Firefox to GNU tar depends o
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by deong 12y ago
If adopting systemd actually broke everything, then of course they'd be doing something else instead. The anti-systemd crowd looks at this issue the way you might look at someone who took a working piece of software, and then did a com
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by deong 12y ago
I opened it on my desktop, and I for one thought the 720 point font was a lovely and refreshing departure from the standard web-presented text so many sites seem to lazily impose on us. :/
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by deong 12y ago
Because a simple walk down an average street nearly anywhere in the country strongly indicates otherwise. In science, we like to imagine that we'll begrudgingly discard our theories in the face of a single contradictory fact. Economist
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by deong 12y ago
You don't have to single out Wal-Mart specifically. Just put in sensible inheritance taxes, raise the marginal tax rates on high-income brackets across the board, and raise the capital gains rate.
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by deong 12y ago
I could still run it. I have a .gnus file that works with my current accounts (all Gmail/Apps accounts). The problem with Gnus is that nnimap is unbearably slow and quirky in its own ways, and nnmaildir, which you'd ideally use wi
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by deong 12y ago
notmuch-inject? I hadn't heard of this, and google is turning up nothing. Care to elaborate for a line or two?

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