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by derriz 9y ago
But I'll ignore the tone and rhetorical nature of your question and try to explain. The UK decided to leave the EU which means leaving the single market. I'm guessing you do not appreciate the vast difference between being part o
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by derriz 9y ago
I'm sad because the opportunity to study and learn from a unique human culture and society is being lost and that officials representing the Brazilian government seemed to actively block attempts at further study - which was the point
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by derriz 9y ago
I'm curious, why is it shameful for liking their research?
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by derriz 9y ago
At about 44 minutes, it states that they are being taught to count? Or do you mean something else? I found it sad because their previous life/existence was fascinating; it seemed to be an example of a successful (as measured by happin
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by derriz 9y ago
I'm assuming the author is the son of Daniel Everett? The depressing end to the documentary about the nativist argument with Chomisky - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcOuBggle4Y - suggests that the Pirahã - one of th
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by derriz 9y ago
If you pipe your file through "while read f1 f2 f3 ; do echo field2 is $f2 ; done" for example you can pick out fields. Re-ordering them is just of a special case of any sort of bash manipulation you can do in the loop body. Adm
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by derriz 9y ago
I hadn't spotted that in the hasCode() implementation. Thanks, that makes sense. Regarding .equals(), indeed that shortcut exists but it didn't help my benchmark because it spent nearly all it's time comparing Strings which
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by derriz 9y ago
I'm not suggesting that .equals() should be implemented by 2 inter() operations followed by a reference comparison. But that the implementation check whether the pair of Strings happened to be already .intern()ed, and then use the sho
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by derriz 9y ago
This is really an unscientific claim but I ran a hand crafted/hacked benchmark just to get a feeling for the numbers. For 5 to 35 character Strings, == is 20 to 40 times faster than String.equals(). Given that s1.equals(s2) if and onl
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by derriz 9y ago
Being introduced to Miranda was a revelation to me back in the day. I still prefer aspects of Miranda syntax over Haskell. For example, the formatting of guards in Miranda: gcd a b = gcd (a-b) b, if a>b = gcd a (b-a), if
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by derriz 10y ago
Small point of information: the European Court of Human Rights is not an EU institution and so will remain available to UK citizens after Brexit.
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by derriz 10y ago
I'm curious why do you find it bizarre? The positive versus negative results emphasize the contrast? "When asked if the voting age should be lowered the majority said no." BUT "When asked if 16 and 17-year-olds should ha
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by derriz 10y ago
Also using big O notation here makes no sense surely? The claim that the switch version is (in contrast) O(1) is not even wrong.
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by derriz 10y ago
I'm unconvinced by this article for a number of reasons. The significance placed on trade deficits always struck me as somewhat misguided so the author's uncritical focus on this crude metric is off putting. In aggregate, inward
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by derriz 10y ago
Note it's very difficult for a non-EU job applicant to get a permit to work in Switzerland. Many HR depts will not even attempt it as it requires a lot of paperwork to apply to the canton and approval is subject to very restrictive qu
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by derriz 10y ago
This aspect is acknowledged in the article. I.e. that criticism of Chomsky's linguistic theories are seen as an attack on this political views. But that's hardly a justification for attacking Everett who has never expressed an op
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by derriz 10y ago
It was unsound from the first version with respect to arrays. If B is a subtype of A, then Java allows you to pass as an argument (or return) an array of B where an array of A is specified in the type signature. To see why this is broken,
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by derriz 10y ago
Where do you imagine the saved money goes? In a modern economy "savings" equals investment. Even using a bank deposit account transforms one persons savings into another's business loan or mortgage. This seems to be a widely
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by derriz 10y ago
The headline is supported by a single claim that Orwell would oppose being ruled by an unelected bureaucracy. Such a claim is disengenious. Of course nobody likes "being ruled" - so on an emotional level the EU must be a bad thing
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by derriz 10y ago
You know that English only became a lingua franca in the 20th century? Before that, hardly anything of scientific significance was expressed or published in English? The seminal works in physics, chemistry, mathematics, biology were writ
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by derriz 10y ago
Maybe we should all program C on Windows - and only teach it - because any alternative that is not "dominant" has no value or importance?
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by derriz 10y ago
Indeed. And why have multiple OSes - imagine the utilitarian value of having every computer in the world run Windows. The claim that different computer languages are easier to learn than different human languages betrays an incredible lack
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by derriz 10y ago
not quite. The term "lingua Franca" originally referred to a Mediterranean trading language - certainly a Romance language but not French. Yes for a while French was a lingua Franca in the modern sense but the term doesn't c
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by derriz 10y ago
> The problem is that the EU should have remained the Common Market, instead of growing into a largely unaccountable, largely undemocratic, largely technocratic, ungainly nightmare. Sure if you want to sell coal and steel to each other,
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by derriz 10y ago
Agreed. I've also used (pre-ribbon) Excel effectively for this purpose by drawing the UI using cell background colors and border effects on multiple sheets. Occasionally breaking out some controls and bits of VBA if necessary.
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by derriz 10y ago
The qualification "hand-written" is surely superfluous? It would be like saying "world's oldest non-ballpoint writing instrument found".
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by derriz 11y ago
It's gotten to stage where I go straight to the comments on HN rather than to the story when I see that the source is the Gaurdian. You know it's going to be some ill informed opinion piece rather than any actual journalism. Like
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by derriz 11y ago
"Short sighted" is the common term for myopia in other (non-US) English speaking countries. I would describe myself as short sighted if someone asked why I needed to wear glasses.
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by derriz 11y ago
How could a "slight" financial transaction tax raise 250 billion in revenue? The profits of the entire banking sector in Switzerland is only 20 billion a year. The entire economy of Switzerland (GDP) is only about 800 billion. Si
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by derriz 11y ago
How does this make sense? Greece accounts for less than 1% of German exports. Germany gave Greece 80B to protect 4B worth of exports?

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