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by devinj 16y ago
It's not uncommon, I've seen it more than once. Usually he gets upvoted back into the black though.
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by devinj 16y ago
Really? I thought it was thought-provoking, even if I'm not entirely sure that I agree with the author. Certainly more intellectually stimulating than the usual "Company X did Thing Y" items. But then, I've never really been clear on the to
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by devinj 16y ago
No, they can run on quantum computers, but to properly simulate a quantum computer, you may need exponential space/time. Googling for supporting data brought up http://alumni.imsa.edu/~matth/quant/433/shor-par/node19.html which discusses
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by devinj 16y ago
Then why does Bill Gates live in a relatively high-tax nation like the US, instead of Qatar? I think that the super-rich are willing to ignore a few percentage points in their income, for the sake of other concerns. They're so rich, that th
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by devinj 16y ago
Read the entire article.
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by devinj 16y ago
Well, "is" in Python is a specific notion of object identity, and Python happens to sometimes decide it's not worth creating new objects. Not really confusing, it's just completely different from '==' (except by coincidence basically).
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by devinj 16y ago
Nope; that's a common misconception. >>> "1"*1000 is "1"*1000 False >>> 2**31 is 2**31 False The fact is that the only thing guaranteed by "is" is that if you have "a = b", then "a is b". Whether or
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by devinj 16y ago
Right, the memcpy() API is leaky because it leaves some things unspecified. You can deduce the implementation by providing various inputs to it that have "undefined behavior". This is a common problem in C, and there are usually functions t
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by devinj 16y ago
I guess I'm not with the times anymore. Thanks for sharing.
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by devinj 16y ago
Valve did that, the FBI was just the tool that was used for the job. I'm struck by the similarity in some respects of the two cases. I would guess that the same people that got really upset about Valve doing that would be a bit saddened by
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by devinj 16y ago
Most people dev off of trunk when they're starting out, actually. If you're doing that, 1.3 doesn't offer anything exciting.
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by devinj 16y ago
Actually, it's statistically indistinguishable, according to Google.
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by devinj 16y ago
Of course it shouldn't. No facts should be surprising, but they are. So what do you do about it? You either fix peoples' expectations to match reality, or you fix reality to match peoples' expectations. Considering that the expectations her
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by devinj 16y ago
I don't think that it was Python had anything to do with it. It's sort of like me calling my new programming language made for sysadmin work and bioinformatics "Pearl". It's just a confusing name considering that there's another programming
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by devinj 16y ago
Isn't your reply there the only reply on that thread? And doesn't it just link here? Are you a bot or something?
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by devinj 16y ago
I would share my desktop. I figure that the idea that somebody could be watching would be very motivating. And since the chances of someone actually watching are so slim, I wouldn't feel too embarrassed.
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by devinj 16y ago
Not really. Unfortunately, while the Nazi doctors did a lot of stuff , it was almost all useless to the scientific community because they didn't really apply the scientific method. There are only a few citable results, in particular the Da
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by devinj 16y ago
My friends in the natural language field tell me Python and NLTK are more common than Java. Then again, this is at a sort-of Python-centric university (Toronto).
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by devinj 16y ago
GIL isn't really relevant for blocking IO-bound code, because the lock is released (and not contended) when blocking. For nonblocking single-threaded code such as Tornado's event loop, the GIL also doesn't matter. Not to mention that the re
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by devinj 16y ago
> Is bcrypt not the best possible security, or reasonably close to it? Reasonably close to it, yes, but scrypt is better. scrypt makes the KDF expensive not just in time, but in memory as well. http://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt.html " W
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by devinj 16y ago
The geometry section looks like something I could have passed after taking high school geometry. i.e. an American or Canadian 14-15 year-old could probably do it easily.
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by devinj 16y ago
It doesn't.
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by devinj 16y ago
How is saying that non-autistic people have autistic traits any different than saying non-sociopaths have sociopathic traits? You're being hypocritical. Certainly there are traits that are well established as being "autistic" and "sociopath
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by devinj 16y ago
I didn't say he was autistic. I said the described behaviour is autistic. Which it is. Sociopathic is what it isn't.
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by devinj 16y ago
This is more autistic than sociopathic. It's quite possible that he won't burn out, simply because he really isn't interested in socialization.
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by devinj 16y ago
Every installer I've used that had any user-friendly implicit settings, also had an "advanced" mode where you could override them, in addition to the button that just installed the software with default settings. Why can't it be put there?
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by devinj 16y ago
Why is it that this post is not dead, but the author's description comment is?
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by devinj 16y ago
Schizophrenia is, to my understanding, sort of a catch-all phrase for several different problems with similar symptoms but different effective treatments. Even in the study, they found only 49% of people with schizophrenia were infected.
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by devinj 16y ago
I've given friends directions to my building by showing it to them on Street View. It isn't devoid of upsides.
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by devinj 16y ago
Seeing as plenty of people often use a computer that much or longer on a regular basis (not counting breaks to eat or go to the bathroom, obviously), I'm not really convinced it's just the how long you use a monitor. I'd suggest talking to

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