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by duncanj 17y ago
This is the reply where I pick apart the French in the previous comment, and show that it doesn't say what the commenter wanted it to say.
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by duncanj 17y ago
Two things have happened in the last ten years that made tax filing harder for a large number of Americans. One was closing TeleTax. This telephone-based system was effective and had good customer satisfaction. The IRS closed it and force
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by duncanj 17y ago
Once, I had to evaluate for rewrite a program that was written in a naive "object-oriented" style. The program built up a large graph of objects, did a few transformations, and wrote its stuff out. It ran out of memory on small subsets of
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by duncanj 17y ago
Perhaps the BSA could give MS the same deal as everyone else: shut them down for 4 days to inspect their systems for any evidence of pirated software, or fine them something like 2% of revenues.
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by duncanj 17y ago
If this trend continues...
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by duncanj 17y ago
Robinson = Robertson = Duncan. Two ready-made pseudonyms!
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by duncanj 17y ago
Um, your first two definitions describe H1N1, the third is irrelevant. Besides, it's a settled question if the WHO calls it a pandemic. http://www.who.int/csr/disease/swineflu/en/
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by duncanj 17y ago
I just don't see how this doesn't have prior art. The PeoplePC, for example.
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by duncanj 17y ago
Yet, it is a pandemic. That fact does change the calculus of whether to recommend treatment. Do you say, "I don't have enough evidence yet to recommend it?" Or do you say, "Based on the evidence we have, it is a good idea?" There is no
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by duncanj 17y ago
Or at least one example.
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by duncanj 17y ago
Not all code is in fixed font. Most older Pascal and Algol texts put their code in variable width, sans-serif fonts to set them apart from the text. For many texts, just changing the font is the solution. URLs look bad in PowerPoint, but
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by duncanj 17y ago
Or Germany, for that matter. No joke.
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by duncanj 17y ago
Includes EFI support. Interesting.
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Climate Change: The Role of Flawed Science(realclimate.org)
2 points by duncanj 17y ago|0 comments
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by duncanj 17y ago
I imagine, "What's all this? Why not just write (dwim)?"
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by duncanj 17y ago
Also check out the author's site for picolisp: http://www.software-lab.de/down.html
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by duncanj 17y ago
I call it "true" mainly because it faithfully represents the code/data unification in lisp. In picolisp, there is no lambda, because the representation of a function is a list, and can be quoted directly.
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A site for Picolisp, a very true Lisp(picolisp.org)
59 points by duncanj 17y ago|33 comments
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by duncanj 17y ago
I think you've cherry-picked that belief. The discussion I have seen has convinced me that the "hockey-stick busted" thing is a red herring.
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by duncanj 17y ago
"Why not ... [submit] his own analysis of the public data ... explaining how it improves on existing analyses?" This is the meat of the matter. Scientists write letters to journals all the time saying that they think an author overstretche
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by duncanj 17y ago
I thought the discussion of computers from smoking households was interesting.
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Stepwise.com, a Cocoa development resource, closes(abandoninplace.squarespace.com)
1 points by duncanj 17y ago|0 comments
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by duncanj 17y ago
On the contrary, it is very relevant, as many of the links that rise on HN are similar to management/self-help guru type things.
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by duncanj 17y ago
I think you're doing the same thing as the "good" knuth algorithm which, as I read it, always exchanges the random card with the one at the decreasing index from the end of the deck.
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by duncanj 17y ago
I agree, except the seasonal "H1N1" flus are not "swine" flus per se. They don't tend to infect swine, and are best considered human flus. All type A flus are, originally, duck flus.
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by duncanj 17y ago
It moves too quickly for my tired eyes to read anything.
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by duncanj 17y ago
The HMO trend was based on the assumption that people were usually going to work for the same company for a long time. It made tons of sense, and still does in a union-provided health plan context, for example. Perhaps the trend will be fo
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by duncanj 17y ago
3.1 required you to do those things regardless of whether you upgraded or not :)
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by duncanj 17y ago
Note how the EPI shill is only allowed to make factual or neutral statements, while the Republican shill gets to discuss the only policy options in the piece.
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by duncanj 17y ago
The skepticism in the article about Abdussamatov's conclusions says to me that he has a long way to go before he can really show "solar, not human" cause. It's an alright article. I think it's interesting that it is dated a year and a half

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