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by dj-wonk 12y ago
Is there a US-based not-for-profit that sends money to LibreSSL? (Yes, this is a little round-about, but a tax benefit is nice.)
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
I think shot glasses are optimized to be put into various configurations, such as matrices and triangular matrices: http://www.likecool.com/Home/Accessories/Billiards%20Shot%20...
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
Since no one has said it yet -- (maybe it is too obvious?) -- thanks to anyone who takes the time to improve old crufty code that most of us rely on. (Yes, even if you weaponize Comic Sans.)
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
I may be reading this wrong, but I think this means that a shot glass is mathematically perfect.
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
Well, I can't be sure, but I think colloborative technology for rearranging threads on-the-fly might be slightly less complicated than monopoly-busting or time-travel.
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
I do respect the "this is the vision, take it or leave it" way of thinking, but there is a middle ground. Perhaps give one edit per 100 characters (or something configurable). Put another way -- you don't have to make somethi
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
How can we organize after threads have already been started?
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
I can appreciate the depth of research behind the article. The many-valued notions of logic are quite helpful. Here's are two ways that I would distill the message for different audiences. 1. A computer science audience: Not all senten
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
This isn't as hard as some people make it out to be. If God has to obey logic and/or other laws, then of course, there are some limitations to his power. Could a dictator decide to set up a Constitution and limit his own powers? O
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
In my experience, I have found that in some key Buddhist works that the apparent contradiction is a literary device for learning. I don't think that contradictions are intended to persist and represent a "finished" philosophy
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
Do you have personal, real-world examples of fuzzy logic being useful to you? I find Bayesian statistics useful regularly; fuzzy logic not so much. What am I missing?
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
How? Please refute this claim: "Transients have very little, if anything, to do with types." Why would I claim this? Transients are about the internal nature of a function but have nothing to do with the return value or type. See
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
There would still be a contradiction if the sentence did not say "This sentence is 50% true."
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
NBC News, you might want to reassign your headline writer to the celebrity gossip section. Headlines seem to be getting worse, or maybe I just have less patience for them. This headline says the plane "fries" the computers, (1) le
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
How can we use data science to filter out articles like this? There are some hapless people that read this kind of thing and believe it. But seriously, we need to make an effort to promote a more accurate view. Who are the journalists that
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by dj-wonk 13y ago
But when you see a possible fit for Haskell (I would hesitate to make 'obvious' be the bar), have you tried to persuade or demonstrate the advantages? Why not find customers/areas that would be open to using Haskell? To some
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by dj-wonk 13y ago
Unless an article compares various studies using a meta-analysis methodology (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-analysis ), I'm probably not going to give it much attention. To summarize one key problem: journ
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by dj-wonk 13y ago
How about "NotDatJS" (short for the "Not Datomic" JS Database)?
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by dj-wonk 13y ago
How about another rename? DatomicScript was clearly a bad idea and possibly infringing. "DataScript" is just misleading. Using "_____Script" creates the appearance that is a scripting language. Perhaps "_____DB&quot
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by dj-wonk 13y ago
HN moderators: can you please rename the post, since the project has been renamed to DataScript: https://github.com/tonsky/datascript/commit/5beb53d7db03bd27...
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Portland dumps 38m gallons of water after urination(bbc.com)
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by dj-wonk 13y ago
The rest will follow! I see what you did there.
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by dj-wonk 13y ago
Even if Brendan Eich has private views that I disagree with, I don't see a big problem here, because they are his private views, not those of Mozilla. Furthermore, people have a right to their own opinions, and I don't want corpor
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Clojure's Leiningen does not support MS-DOS(github.com)
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by dj-wonk 13y ago
The “with enough data, the numbers speak for themselves” statement has several meanings. In one sense, if you can observe real phenomena, you don't have to guess at what is happening. For businesses that collect troves of it, they may
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by dj-wonk 13y ago
Some people are constrained to O(WTF) methods and have no idea about O. So everything is Big Data.
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by dj-wonk 13y ago
This links to the home page of Elastic Path, not to a blog post.
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Toggl, please eradicate your annoying pop-up messages(djwonk.tumblr.com)
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by dj-wonk 13y ago
Like many people on the mailing list, I've been using the Clojure 1.6 betas and release candidates. Don't expect dazzling new features; rather, 1.6 is a nice solid step forward.
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by dj-wonk 13y ago
Yes, JSON is "understood" in the sense that it is easy to parse, yes. That doesn't mean actually working with the results is any easier. (1) Without a schema, doing so can actually be harder. (2) JSON leaves out many useful d

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