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by ek 13y ago
Mechanical keyboards are actually quite a broad market. Of course Cherry are the most famous, aside of vintage models like the Model M, and Model M users often actually discount modern mechanical keyboards since they think Cherry is represe
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by ek 13y ago
You must not be from the Bay Area. San Francisco is "The City", "San Francisco", or "SF" to anyone who lives or has ever lived in the Bay Area.
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by ek 13y ago
Regarding the latter part of your comment, it's actually interesting to compare GE to Google for several reasons. When GE was founded, it was a new kind of company for the time, and in the same way, Google is a new kind of company for
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by ek 13y ago
It looks like your comment has been "moderated" off the blog. Such a disappointment.
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▯♥△ - A platformer with genetic level design(xn--80hi74c.anism.org)
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by ek 13y ago
Regardless of what IEEE or IBM are doing, in academia those who know what open access actually is support it, and those who don't have mostly been disregarding closed-access rules made by publishers. Tools like CiteSeerX can help you f
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by ek 13y ago
Is academia really becoming more stagnated? What do you mean by that? From where I'm standing it seems like we're moving pretty quickly.
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by ek 13y ago
I skipped many of my undergrad classes to do more important stuff, and I'd go back and do it again. I showed up for the important stuff, and attended lectures that actually taught me things, but quickly figured out that just because a
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by ek 13y ago
I have signed NDAs in which I have agreed not to disclose interview questions I was asked, and I think NDAs are a fair solution to this problem. The only potential problem for an organization like Airbnb is that it can require a lot of infr
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by ek 13y ago
MythTV: http://www.mythtv.org/
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by ek 13y ago
Sure. These are basically simple contracts. Contracts are implemented in Racket: http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/contracts.html
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by ek 13y ago
Newlines are not a fine separator; what if you have a definition that you intend to span multiple lines? In any case, the pipes go all the way back to EBNF, since what you are really doing when you specify an ADT is specifying a grammar o
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by ek 13y ago
Like it or not, universities have started to move away from teaching Scheme to introductory CS students. You may remember that much was made of MIT and Berkeley switching away from Scheme for Python. I think Pyret comes out of a precedent o
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by ek 13y ago
I would encourage you to view the syntax as "Python, but repaired", for the following reasons: 1. Pyret comes out of Shriram's group's expertise with pinning down exactly what Python and other dynamic scripting languages
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by ek 13y ago
Hah! That even happens with fairly modern games, like the PC port of Grand Theft Auto IV. The game could not fathom that I have 3GB of VRAM. You would think game developers might have wised up by now and added a few extra bits to whichever
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Open letter complaint to Air France goes viral(stream.aljazeera.com)
2 points by ek 13y ago|1 comments
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by ek 13y ago
To be fair, Apple popularized the buttonless trackpad trend and is reasonably good at executing it; originally I was skeptical of it but Apple's clicky trackpads are very nice to use. That said, Lenovo made the decision to integrate a
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Two Solitudes(slideshare.net)
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by ek 13y ago
I really, really dislike how much hate there is in this thread. I feel like someone always ends up making similar comments every time there's a new launch from Apple/Microsoft/Google/whomever, and there is never any chan
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by ek 13y ago
I see we are converging on "where do you live in the Bay Area", which is what I was disappointed the original poll was not.
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by ek 13y ago
> Spoiler alert: to solve this problem, you need to know how to enumerate the rationals. This problem was addressed nicely in this functional pearl by Jeremy Gibbons, et al.: http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/jeremy.gibbons/pub
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by ek 13y ago
Lua at present has full lexical scoping. Lexical scope is not "weird"; it's correct. All mainstream languages with higher-order functionality that aren't Python use lexical scope, and for good reason. It can be difficult
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by ek 13y ago
In the US, at least, consenting adults are free to do what they like within reasonable limits, of course with a concession for obscenity while in public. There's nothing particularly obscene about doing a body shot in good company. Had
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by ek 13y ago
They are spherical, so orientation doesn't matter. I do have a slight astigmatism, which orientation-sensitive contacts correct for, but it's minor enough that it's prescribed in my glasses and not my contacts. My brand is Ai
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by ek 13y ago
Honestly, basically all of the upsides that he lists can be gained from using contact lenses, which are amazing. Also, with plain old American vision insurance (VSP), I get a year's worth of contacts for free, every year. As a longtime
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by ek 13y ago
It's also fun that they found the M7, considering that the initial teardown left iFixit with the impression that it was just some marketing buzzword for a part of the A7. As has been mentioned in the thread, it is still an off-the-shel
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by ek 13y ago
This is potentially a bit of a loaded question, since compare the following similar question: "Does Apple use any components which are best-in-class and unavailable to competitors?" The answer there is "yes", at least ac
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by ek 13y ago
Monaco actually ships as the default in iTerm (although Terminal.app has been Menlo for a while), and I always switch it to Menlo.
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by ek 13y ago
To be fair, this is a community of mostly non-mathematicians, most of whom will probably have no use for this work. But yeah, certainly that's the real "big deal" here.
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by ek 13y ago
Yup, trance and house for me, definitely. Trance and house are like productivity crack. I listen to trance when I'm working and house when I'm working out.

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