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by dpkendal 15y ago
On the other hand, this is a very public issue, and (as of writing) at least 32 people want to know his opinion. So, by community decision, I'd say that this post is appropriate.
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by dpkendal 15y ago
Aside: I think it would be better were the animals the other way around: sheep aren't very smart (they have a tendency to start following one another for no real reason and this can quickly build up into a stampede) but goats are intelligen
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Jonathan Coulton on MegaUpload and piracy(jonathancoulton.com)
202 points by dpkendal 15y ago|56 comments
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The next SOPA(marco.org)
558 points by dpkendal 15y ago|165 comments
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by dpkendal 15y ago
Incidentally: for those wondering about the name and logo: “Three measures of Gordon’s, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it’s ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of lemon peel.” http://en.wikipedia.or
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by dpkendal 15y ago
Looking for: contract work in London until late May/early June. Briefly: skilled with Ruby (Sinatra, limited Rails), Scheme, PHP, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and CoffeeScript (latter two only limited experience); previous experience mainly at h
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by dpkendal 15y ago
I'm fairly sure that GitHub counts languages by projects, not by files. So a few JavaScript files inside a Ruby project would not affect the ranking.
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by dpkendal 15y ago
Because there's already a Stripe. Doesn't mean you couldn't start a company to do what Stripe does, but it'd be hard, since people would probably be saying, "Isn't that what Stripe does?"
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Ask HN: Please send in examples of trolls' comments
3 points by dpkendal 15y ago|5 comments
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by dpkendal 15y ago
Only in the US. We’re pretty powerless in other countries, except for signing that White House petition.
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by dpkendal 15y ago
"Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Lehrer#Departure_from_the_m...
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by dpkendal 15y ago
> the guy who actually said and then did get bin Laden I'm fairly sure that Obama himself didn't "get" bin Laden. The army worked to get information on his whereabouts, and the opportunity presented itself to the President. I'm fairly
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by dpkendal 15y ago
A Nobel Peace Prize winner? The man who promised to close down Guantanamo Bay and has still yet to manage to do so? Whose election campaign promised "Change" yet whose only significant move in that way so far, in office for 3 years, is the
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by dpkendal 15y ago
I don't believe that's true. It's dated October 17, 2011. (I agree about the gender of the author, though.)
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by dpkendal 15y ago
To an extent, you're right. But SICP already covers most of the concepts of these languages -- it just chooses to cover them all in Scheme, with a functional bias. I don't see why differing syntax should affect the teaching of the concept
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by dpkendal 15y ago
If Cambridge made a textbook of this, and did it right, it could be a very effective replacement for the great, but ageing, SICP.
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by dpkendal 15y ago
I'm fairly sure that most of that 48x difference will come from the fact that you're using C++. I tested it in Scheme, a much slower language. (Actually, it was in Arc, which compiles to Scheme, but is still even slower.)
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by dpkendal 15y ago
I'm quite sure Dr. Tarver has been spying on me and reading my mind. This is me, every sentence.
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by dpkendal 15y ago
Plan isn't done yet. You can see the preliminary Ruby implementation at http://github.com/dpkendal/Plan , but I'm now working on a "final" version in RPython to be compiled by PyPy. The download and docs links are there to show what the we
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by dpkendal 15y ago
Thanks! However, I'm not quite convinced. I ran the given Scheme implementation with k=10000 and it correctly reported all the numbers at http://www.kobepharma-u.ac.jp/~math/notes/note02.html less than 4294967087 as composite. (4294967087
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The Lehmann primality test.(davidkendal.net)
44 points by dpkendal 15y ago|30 comments
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by dpkendal 15y ago
This is not the first dev centre outside of California. The team that originally developed iCal was apparently based in France. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICal
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by dpkendal 15y ago
Might Perl 6 suffer the same problems? Or will it be saved by virtue of its compatibility mode for Perl 5 code?
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by dpkendal 15y ago
I don't see the problem. They're only blocking the terms from suggestions and requiring you to hit return to finish your search for these. As long as you can still get the same results, I'm happy. This post should probably be retitled to "G
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by dpkendal 15y ago
This doesn't seem likely, since Scribd is a YC startup.
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by dpkendal 15y ago
In general, I think students from better schools get fewer GCSEs. I went to a selective state grammar school and I only got the usual ten.
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Impressive for your age. (How teenagers will make a difference in the future.)(davidkendal.net)
1 points by dpkendal 15y ago|0 comments
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Stress... and how to deal with it. (by loving your work)(davidkendal.net)
1 points by dpkendal 15y ago|0 comments
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The art of the five-paragraph essay.(davidkendal.net)
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Steve Jobs, Dennis Ritchie, John McCarthy: A memorial.(davidkendal.net)
1 points by dpkendal 15y ago|0 comments

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