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by esfandia 9y ago
Why doesn't this exist already? Sounds very feasible. Your "friends" are people in a given mailing-list, and even a minute action such as "like" could also just be an email sent to that mailing-list, with some prope
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by esfandia 9y ago
The Apple Newton had handwriting recognition in the early 90's.
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by esfandia 9y ago
This is a problem for profs too!
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by esfandia 9y ago
With every re-design, their services get worse. Yahoo Sports used to have easy access to boxscores and game recaps. My Yahoo's RSS content fetching has been broken for a while. Problem is, there are no real alternatives either.
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by esfandia 9y ago
Thanks for a very useful and clear checklist! Would you say decentralized DNS checks all those boxes (Namecoin is a thing, after all)? Why would a DNS require the notion of transaction? I'm aware of sites that tell you whether you need
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by esfandia 9y ago
I wonder if university libraries around the world could federate their efforts and take on the burden of publishing and hosting articles. The money they currently spend on subscriptions should more than cover the expenses.
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by esfandia 9y ago
Reminds me of GridBagLayout in Java Swing. Can anyone here who has experience with both confirm this?
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by esfandia 9y ago
They could then also force people to eat healthy (i.e., at Whole Foods) or else lose their health coverage! ;)
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by esfandia 9y ago
Yes, to use the terms of the article, it would be about turning the "telic" into an "atelic".
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by esfandia 9y ago
I don't really care either way about the colors and the fonts. I care more about functionality, and the current version still has a very annoying bug, where there's a type of spam email that Thunderbird will choke on when trying t
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by esfandia 9y ago
Couple of questions/comments/nitpicks about the article: - does the turnstile example in the article actually need a state machine? When you insert a coin it unlocks, when you push it locks. No need to remember the state you are i
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by esfandia 9y ago
Interesting. It's like the Refactoring phase of TDD. So basically during the day you experience new observations ("tests" if you will), you address/process them however you can on the spot ("green bar"), then d
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by esfandia 9y ago
What's the current state of object-oriented databases? Any progress since good old Gemstone? Why was Gemstone unsuccessful? Cost? Performance? Tie-in with Smalltalk? Is there any promising OODB being used these days? Because now that w
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by esfandia 9y ago
It seems to me, based to some extent on my own experience, that a paper has a harder time getting cited when it's a bit off the beaten track (and might in fact be more original, trail-blazing and interesting), because by definition it&
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by esfandia 9y ago
I agree, it seems disingenuous to describe IPFS as the only way to implement a decentralized web. For example in our group we've explored the idea of essentially a decentralized Merkle tree where the document id's are resolved via
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by esfandia 9y ago
What simulators, if any, do these self-driving car companies use for testing and development? Is any of these simulators available to the general public (I'm guessing probably not)? I read about something called Carcraft in Waymo'
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by esfandia 9y ago
Regarding the conciseness of lambdas and collections, why doesn't Java offer methods such as map(), filter() etc directly in AbstractCollection? The implementations would then delegate to stream internally, so no need for the programme
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by esfandia 9y ago
McCarthy, as one of the founders (+ Lisp!) should probably be there.
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by esfandia 9y ago
I did this exact thing (even the part where I displayed the results using Graphviz) to come up with a partial ordering of General Managers of Major League Baseball teams. The partial order was simply: GM_of_Team A > GM_of_Team B iff (end
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by esfandia 9y ago
> Edit: Heck, NGINX was an asynchronous, event driven web engine released in 2004 and written in C: In the interview, he mentions himself that Node was inspired by Nginx.
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by esfandia 9y ago
Antonioni's movies are like that. Contemplative pace, not much dialogue or plotline, beautiful pictures and actors/actresses, ennui, some philosophical thematic. Yet it's all highly engrossing.
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by esfandia 9y ago
I agree. Maybe tension/release are better terms to use then than "conflict". In both the structures presented in the blog you see tension followed by release. It's also pervasive in Western music (don't know enough
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The End of Summer and Musings on Nostalgia in an Age of Abundance(scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org)
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by esfandia 9y ago
They have a link at the bottom of the page where you can send them an email to get a pdf. You might receive more than just the pdf...
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by esfandia 9y ago
I started frequenting online forums precisely to help we practice expressing my thoughts in English. I try not to get into arguments though. :)
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by esfandia 9y ago
The problem with links is that you don't know where they are going to take you. When I have such a nice piece of text to read I don't want to click and potentially land in a completely different site, have to click "back&quot
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by esfandia 9y ago
Your explanations were excellent. I especially liked the way you introduced hash tables using a simple array where the indices had special meaning. The diagrams are clear and helpful. Only nitpick: not sure how somebody who is supposed to l
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by esfandia 9y ago
In early Java versions, functions were not objects, and therefore could not be passed as parameters. So you needed patterns such as Command or Observer. In Javascript, for example, you wouldn't need them. More recent versions of Java,
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by esfandia 9y ago
Calling the discipline Software "Engineering" was the worst thing that could be done, at least given the current state of the art. Because of that, people thought you should write software the way you build a bridge or a car. The
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by esfandia 9y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if infrastructure costs and delays were going up everywhere though, including France. Would be nice to have actual data. I think it comes down to new non-functional requirements: safety, environmental concerns,

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