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by fh 18y ago
Oh, thanks for explaining. For a moment I got confused and thought it referenced the 1955 novel that the movie is based on.
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by fh 18y ago
> Correlation does not imply causation ... "Correlation does not imply causation" does not imply that correlations are meaningless or uninteresting. Certainly, you can use strong correlations to predict a likely future even if you don't
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by fh 18y ago
I tried it three times and won twice. Are my word choices too obscure for this simple-minded program? This is funny because I'm not a native English speaker, so my vocabulary is limited. (For the record, I won with "cryptology" and "xenopho
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by fh 18y ago
Turing completeness may not be that important in everyday programming, but it's at the heart of CS just like (to pick a lame example) conservation of energy is at the heart of physics. What still baffles me about Turing completeness is how
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by fh 18y ago
Note how you haven't used the keyword `this` inside the closure. What you've written is functionally equivalent to the technique I described, assigning the `this` object to a temporary variable. The only difference is that you bind it with
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by fh 18y ago
Not having extensively used either jQuery or Prototype, I found this comparison interesting. But the entire discussion about jQuery "stealing" `this` is somewhat misinformed. Javascript closures don't caputure the value of `this`; instead,
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by fh 18y ago
> All you need is someone to police them [...] If I'm right, this does bust the paradox. You completely misunderstand the nature of the paradox. Yes, if you have an authority (the "police") compute and enforce the social optimum, then m
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by fh 18y ago
> The Greens, pro-business Free Democrats and socialist Left party members oppose the laws, fearing they endanger civil liberties. Germany has a five-party democracy. It's always interesting when parties from diametrically opposite wing
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by fh 18y ago
For one thing, the quoted paragraph doesn't explain what they changed in R6.
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by fh 18y ago
Is this maybe targeted more at novice programmers? A web IDE doesn't make that much sense if you already have local source control, there's an "Absolute Beginner's Guide to Programming" ( http://appjet.com/learn-to-program/lessons/intro ) l
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by fh 18y ago
nullptr vs NULL I'm not sure if the author knows this, but the fact that nullptr is even needed is a design flaw of C++. That is, int foo = NULL; is illegal C, but legal C++. So much for C++ being more typesafe!
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by fh 18y ago
I seriously wonder what's wrong with people.