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by devinj 16y ago
Yeah, there's an EBNF syntax description. I must have missed the part where the GP thought that's all that was necessary for a "real spec". I guess I just disagree. Java specifies the semantics of Java and the JVM remarkably fully. Python,
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by devinj 16y ago
Java has a real spec. Python has documentation, but it isn't really sufficient for a spec, and for the most part alternative implementations copy down to the last implementation detail (gc details notwithstanding). A test suite is probably
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by devinj 16y ago
As a software developer, I would have figured contributing to major open source projects to be equivalent or better than this. Still has the same element of demonstrating your skills, but also shows that you can work in a team, do things li
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by devinj 16y ago
Nobody can say who inspired them but themselves. I like that Frank Lloyd Wright made it on there. Love that guy's work.
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by devinj 16y ago
There is. That is the assault law. Unless you're suggesting that grabbing someone's breasts is never sexual assault... Force means something a bit looser than you probably think it does. A light tap can be considered assault, let alone gr
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by devinj 16y ago
No, you'd take a ceramic knife most likely. Much sharper, and still wouldn't be detected. I suspect the test is more for guns than knives.
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by devinj 16y ago
You quoted the first paragraph of the section on assault. The definition of "consent" as used in the first paragraph is given in the third paragraph. It also covers the case of false pretenses: (3) For the purposes of this section, no cons
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by devinj 16y ago
Maybe the first question is whether it's assault. It's assault in Canada, at least, because the doctor was abusing his authority in order to touch you. This removes any possibility of consent.
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by devinj 16y ago
Huh? Why wouldn't someone believe that? Being an unproductive member of society living on welfare sucks money from the state, which could otherwise do things like offer more support (healthcare), improve infrastructure, fund medical researc
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by devinj 16y ago
Not particularly. What's odd about it? It's slightly more complex than desirable for good writing, but it's certainly well within normal bounds for size, especially for news articles. News articles do that sort of thing a lot.
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by devinj 16y ago
This is more of an interesting concern, especially considering how much money Canada spends getting students in. I don't know the numbers for emigration, though. Have any figures? It's possible that they still stay here, but don't start com
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by devinj 16y ago
I'm a UofT student, and it's the same here. There's nothing particularly bothersome about having a lot of students from Korea and China. There's not even really much to get used to. Yeah, there are asians. So what? The parents in the articl
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by devinj 16y ago
V8 JIT-compiles regular expressions. I don't know what C/C++ do -- I'd assume they run the state machine directly, but maybe they do compile it further like V8 does. http://blog.chromium.org/2009/02/irregexp-google-chromes-new...
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by devinj 16y ago
I want to like this, but it's too unrealistic. Traveling at near-light-speeds looks very different from that. It's missing at least massive redshift and distorted visuals.
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by devinj 16y ago
What is this, a cheatsheet for creating an HTML5 blacklist? Why would you ever do such a thing?
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by devinj 16y ago
You mean "incorrect". Also, I did post detailed timing results above.
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by devinj 16y ago
Point 3 is weakened by the fact that map can indeed be faster. http://codepad.org/SzXcubXy -- in fact, point 2 and point 3 are in conflict, because map() does use a C-loop, whereas list comprehensions do not. As it turns out, point 2 wa
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by devinj 16y ago
Yes. But not quite for that reason. A gun next to your head will make it stressful, and stress in general improves memory (even more than other emotions, thanks to the amygdala's dual role in memory and stress responses). But maybe instead
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by devinj 16y ago
Beats this stuff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Noodles I had some really interesting (and expensive) ramen called sapporo ichiban, it was delicious. Then I discovered it had about the caloric content of a big mac, but without any rede
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by devinj 16y ago
Huh? To what degree? Hiding empty boxes isn't much of a coverup. It's just a small thing that adds an air of awesome, and at the same time means that if any reporter has the balls to quickly run over and unsheathe the boxes, nothing sensiti
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by devinj 16y ago
Code. My projects need more documentation, always, but I keep writing new things and not adding new documentation until after I've stopped working on it for 3 months, try to get back in, and entirely forget what I was going for in the desig
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by devinj 16y ago
No, he probably wouldn't. Look, I understand that this site has a lot of startups, but don't let the echo chamber go to your head. Funding startups is expensive-- we're talking hundreds of thousands of dollars minimum, I expect, for a start
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Getting Started with NoSQL and Data Scalability(refcardz.dzone.com)
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by devinj 16y ago
http://wiki.python.org/moin/Python2orPython3 was created recently to answer just such a question, quite recently in fact (some people were asking similar questions and the issue of the quality of the stock answers was raised in comp.lang.
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by devinj 16y ago
Okiedoke. I wasn't doing anything except throwing an interesting tidbit out there. Personally, I find the whale/dolphin distinction (or lack thereof) fairly interesting. So I shared it. Your comment added more interesting information to the
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by devinj 16y ago
Humans and dolphins. None of the "whales" mentioned (orcas and pilot whales) are actually whales, they're both dolphins.
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by devinj 16y ago
Am I the only person actually scared by what he went through? "Zombie" seems quite apt. I don't want to be an automaton.
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by devinj 16y ago
I sent an email to my MP (Bob Rae). Never got a response, but I hope it was read. I really like how James Moore is willing to talk with his opposition-- even though his opposition, in this case, is not a constituent.
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by devinj 16y ago
I'd been wondering. EA claimed they were cleaning stuff up, if I remember right, but I never really heard much follow-up on whether the game industry (and EA in particular) had improved. Thanks for telling.
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by devinj 16y ago
Er, that's not a complete misunderstanding of recursion. Recursion is recursion regardless of implementation-- he misunderstood one way of implementing recursion.

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