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by draven 14y ago
You may find what you're looking for on either the ALU wiki ( http://wiki.alu.org/ ) or the CLiki ( http://cliki.net/ )
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by draven 14y ago
There are precedents, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kittinger for other crazy skydives
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by draven 14y ago
I just use a blood pressure cuff. I was wondering what kind of cuff. The electronic ones or the old-school ones? (My original question was too vague, sorry about that.) As for the wake up temperature, measure your temperature as soon as y
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by draven 14y ago
Cool experiment! Have you thought about measuring your waking body temperature as well (as an indication of your basal metabolic rate) ? What are you using to measure your blood pressure?
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by draven 14y ago
For the dismissive minds, the State of Flux online exhibition ( http://climate.nasa.gov/sof/ ) can have a great impact.
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by draven 14y ago
Or the unwind-protect faciliy from Common Lisp, that is "cleanup stuff before it goes out of scope"
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by draven 14y ago
The python mechanism is more general, you can use the /with/ construct with locks for example.
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by draven 14y ago
It's less fraught than exceptions in the sense that it offers more options for recovery. With "regular" exceptions by the time your handler executes the stack's been unwound and the context of the error vanished; you only have what informat
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by draven 14y ago
The movies about Dick Proenneke are amazing. He filmed himself building his "house" and then proceeded to film and document his surroundings. When watching him build the house in "Alone in the wilderness" I thought that was what "flow" mus
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by draven 14y ago
Arch does not maintain a complete copy of all python scripts, the packages just include a post install step that uses sed to replace python with python2 in the shebang lines. For example see the PKGBUILD for Django: https://projects.archli
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by draven 14y ago
Letting the caller do the handling and giving it access to the dynamic environment where the condition was signaled is a feature. This paper by Pitman helps to understand the design choices www.nhplace.com/kent/Papers/Condition-Handling-200
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by draven 14y ago
I think the problem with saying that Go can be used as a C++ replacement is that the statement is too vague. The problem space in which Go is a great tool and the one in which C++ is a great solution have a big overlap. But that does not me
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by draven 14y ago
Go does not have generics per se but that container looks pretty generic to me. What's your definition of generic programming BTW? I'm looking at several definition right now and cannot find out if, for example, a generic list container
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by draven 14y ago
Go has interfaces, which can be used to write generic code. Go performance is not on par with optimized C++ but for me it's fast enough and the performance / dev_time ratio is higher.
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by draven 14y ago
Why Zawinski? Do you mean Brendan Eich?
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by draven 14y ago
That's the first thing that came to mind as I read the article. More info: http://genius.cat-v.org/erik-naggum/xml-sgml-nml-lisp
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by draven 14y ago
The introduction would be nice, especially since it contains a "note for non UK readers", a group I'm part of. Still, I'm thinking about going freelance, the book is reasonably priced and the table of contents looks interesting.
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by draven 14y ago
Same here, I changed my phone provider and the details on how to activate my new subscription were sent to my gmail account. When I connected to my GMail account the session had timed out. This was some kind of cyclic dependency: I needed m
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by draven 14y ago
Care to elaborate? I'm about to build myself a small lisp related library, starting with the Art of the MOP and LiSP, so I'd love to know more about the books in this list.
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by draven 14y ago
I'm also starting to learn Android. Being an Emacs user I tried android-mode, then Intellij IDEA and Eclipse. At the end I decided to settle on Intellij IDEA (Java is way more bearable with a good IDE.) Is there any drawback to not using th
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by draven 14y ago
BeOS (and Haiku) do not have a Unix core.
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by draven 14y ago
In this case (open source projects using C99) they can use mingw.
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by draven 14y ago
I stumbled upon it a while ago. The whole package looked very nice but it seems to be closed source. Being proprietary is fine but some people here tend to dig into libraries to see what they are doing. I don't know if you plan on offering
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by draven 14y ago
I don't but one of my colleague's job is to port existing data analysis algorithms to GPUs. It seems other research centers like ours also have personnel dedicated to this task. Even if I'm more of a python guy right now, I'm still very int
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by draven 14y ago
Another anecdotal data point: I managed to make my back pain disappear with a combination of deadlifts, squats with good form and stretching of hip flexors. It also fixed some knee issue (side effect of strengthening the legs I guess.) Havi
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by draven 14y ago
After a few tries one of the gists was empty; I wanted to vote for it (because the best code is no code) and got an Internal Server Error.
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by draven 14y ago
FR layout is great for this (and writing lisp is easier when the parenthesis are easily typed) but the []{} characters are horrible to type!
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by draven 14y ago
Anecdotal data point: I've just had a look at Street View to plan a short trip to a part of town I've never been before. I use it to look at complex crossroads where I need to take a turn so it will look familiar when I get there. I do not
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by draven 14y ago
That's just like saying you should pay for car repairs when a faulty design of the cruise control made you loose control of it and crash into something.
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by draven 14y ago
I remember reading about it in an article by Olin Shivers (the history of T, at http://www.paulgraham.com/thist.html ). After reading the wikipedia page about it, it doesn't seem to be available for any common platform. How would it perf

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