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by fferen 14y ago
To elaborate, this is because of D's Uniform Function Call Syntax ( http://www.drdobbs.com/blogs/cpp/232700394 ) - any function that takes an object as first argument can be called as though it were a method of that object; "map" and "filte
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by fferen 14y ago
Personally I think I'll wait for the movie adaptation.
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by fferen 15y ago
I've only been using C++ for a few months, but it's my opinion that all function parameters should have been "const &" by default (except for maybe primitive types). Const correctness has helped me spot some nasty bugs, and it's too eas
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by fferen 15y ago
Wolfram Alpha also seems to bail out when a mathematical expression exceeds a certain complexity, which makes it fairly useless for the only thing I want to use it for - evaluating hairy integrals and other long expressions. Or worse, it ju
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by fferen 15y ago
Longtime Dvorak user here. Some comments: - I almost always use my ring finger for 'L', including when typing 'ls', which is fairly comfortable. I only use pinky when coming from a letter that needs the ring finger. - 'F' is indeed in a ter
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by fferen 15y ago
Yeah, I thought it was going to be an actual bug in Google. Turns out someone just posted some funny unicode in a Youtube comment? Rather disappointed that this is on the front page.
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by fferen 15y ago
What I find more interesting than repressing memory is enhancing it: 'If the genetic expression of PKMzeta is amped up—by, say, genetically engineering rats to overproduce the stuff—they become mnemonic freaks, able to convert even the most
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by fferen 15y ago
I personally play a few rounds of web boggle ( http://www.wordsplay.net/ ). (not affiliated)
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by fferen 15y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the cardinality of the two sets you describe are equal, as there exists a bijective mapping between them, meaning there are an equal "number" of real numbers in both.
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by fferen 15y ago
Hey, this is something I wanted to build for a while, but never really got around to until this weekend. Please let me know if you find any bugs or if I'm handling a license improperly (IANAL).
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Show HN: Python script to easily add a software license to an existing project(github.com)
1 points by fferen 15y ago|1 comments
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by fferen 15y ago
L, M, and H are also very useful for vertical movement. My general procedure for navigating (when I don't have anything particular to find), from general to specific, is: Ctrl-f/Ctrl-b, L/M/H, j/k).
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by fferen 15y ago
I see absolutely no difference at all. I'm using OS X 10.6, Chrome 16.0.912.77, and Firefox 10.0.
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by fferen 15y ago
The two centuries mentioned are the 20th and 21st.
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by fferen 15y ago
Well, presumably ads are fairly effective for the majority of the populace as candidates are willing to spend a lot of money on them. On a side note, I personally see a Ron Paul ad every other Youtube video on the occasions when I have AdBl
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Against Intellectual Property(mises.org)
3 points by fferen 15y ago|0 comments
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by fferen 15y ago
Also see http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/ , an automatic CS paper generator. One of their papers was accepted to a conference, and they gave some hilarious speeches (also in link).
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by fferen 15y ago
Keep in mind that this was in 2008.
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by fferen 15y ago
I think it comes down to being relatively worse off versus absolutely worse off. Although people today are not worse off absolutely, what normally counts when one determines problems in life is one's relative situation.
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by fferen 15y ago
Also, essay length is directly correlated to score. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/04/education/04education.html
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by fferen 15y ago
Wikipedia strongly reminded me of WikiWikiWeb, http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WelcomeVisitors . I actually kind of prefer this sparser look, at least for things that don't have a strong visual aspect.
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by fferen 15y ago
Yes, it does poorly on many Flash videos, especially twitch.tv and other streaming sites.
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by fferen 15y ago
Plus, Chrome basically comes with Firebug by default. I feel that Chrome is similar to Apple products in that it feels restrictive when you first use it (especially with regards to its extension system), but that eventually you realize that
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by fferen 15y ago
The two advantages of using Python for me are being able to use utilities I've already written, and the comprehensive standard library. For example, I wrote a macro to split long Python function calls into multiple lines, and I could access
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by fferen 15y ago
I dunno, I think the Python interface is adequate. Not great, but gets the job done. I write almost all my Vim scripts in Python.
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by fferen 15y ago
I made a game in high school and sold it in the android app store along with a free trial version. The trial version got about 300 downloads and the paid version sold a whopping 3 copies. Ah well, it was a learning experience. It now no lon
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by fferen 15y ago
I think this ties into the idea of MMORPGs. I used to play them a lot until I realized they were not fun, just addictive; they make you feel like you're accomplishing something by leveling and gaining skills, when really it's only your char
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by fferen 15y ago
Yes, I meant that after combining two, treat them as a new slice, and repeat until there is only one slice.
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by fferen 15y ago
Isn't this extremely obvious? Couldn't you just take the first slice, calculate the total color difference between its right edge pixels and the corresponding left edge pixels of each of the other slices, and stick it next to the one with l
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by fferen 15y ago
I love how the three repeated images of him on top are links, but the GIANT one underneath isn't.

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