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by fhars 15y ago
By making predictions that can be checked with the next generation of telescopes. That's how science works: look at what you have, figure out what you still want to know and design an experiment that can discriminate between different alter
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by fhars 15y ago
Because anything we might start now would be overtaken before it is one tenth there by anything we might start five hundred years from now. And if we won't be able to start anything faster by then, there would be no technological civilizati
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by fhars 15y ago
The PhD was usually for anything exept the higher faculties theology, medicine, and law, which had the Th.D., M.D. and LL.D. instead.
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by fhars 15y ago
Only the first two mean the same thing, and that is not syntactic sugar, but syntax error: error: identifier expected but '(' found. What you probably meant is that a b c and a.b(c) are the same thing. And admire the ef
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by fhars 15y ago
And neither am I a member of the Fibonacci Association http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/fibonacci/ http://www.fq.math.ca/ [Edit:] But there are some interesting data structures based on them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_heap
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by fhars 15y ago
But the jury is still out on the question of whether concrete examples are usefull in maths education: http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/mathed.htm
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by fhars 15y ago
Because it is the correct measure for the question at hand. In a steady state population, life expectancy at birth times the rate of births gives you the number of people alive, and equally number of people alive divided by average length o
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by fhars 15y ago
The hacker movement grew out of the MIT model railroad club, so model railroads are by definition on topic :-)
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by fhars 15y ago
There are enough people who are willing to stand in a queue for two hours to see it: http://www.miniatur-wunderland.com/visit/waiting-time/histor... (And for those who like it recursive: they have a model of the model railroad as part of
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by fhars 15y ago
You are not the first one to think about that: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/Papers...
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by fhars 16y ago
The real breakthrough wasn't github, but patch by Larry Wall, http://groups.google.com/group/mod.sources/browse_thread/thr... together with UUCP. In the grand picture, github is just a nice frontend to patch that also replaces UUCP with s
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by fhars 16y ago
You were the one who said he liked the new feature that comment scores are hidden because it means that your snarky comments get more upvotes. This is exactly the attitude the article complains about, so that you got banned from his project
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by fhars 16y ago
The only issue I can see right now is that it is seen as a copyright violation in most jurisdictions. You cannot just reuse other peoples photos just because you think you need them (they might for example be part of a premium advertising s
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by fhars 16y ago
That is what the SPL instruction is for: the program copies its preferably short code to some random location and then splits its execution to continue with both. You are only dead once your last execution pointer hits an illegal instructio
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by fhars 16y ago
But all the evidence presented in the article seems to point in the direction that glucose is mostly harmless (see the discussion of the Japanese diet that contained mostly rice). So Davis' recommanedation cannot be justified along these li
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by fhars 16y ago
Somebody on one of the blogs mentioned about 5 degrees, make that 3.6 degrees, which is a hundredth of the full circle or 0.06 rad, and since for such values x is approximately tan(x), it would be about 4 billion times 0.06 or 240 million l
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by fhars 16y ago
You could store the key in a TPM, which would at least require carefully applied stong acids and an electron microscope to dump them.
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by fhars 16y ago
Some people are incredibly stupid when choosing project names, playing on cute third or fourth meanings of common words that have almost nothing to do with their projects or choosing names used by similar but unrelated projects, making it a
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by fhars 16y ago
But to become a fully erudite member of modern society, you might want to also study zipWith :: (a-> b -> c) -> [a] -> [b] -> [c] :-)
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by fhars 16y ago
The JVM is quite a bad choice for languages like ocaml as it doesn't support full tail call elimination, which is a fundamental aspect for the predominant style of writing ocaml. So you would either have to simulate the ocaml stack on the j
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by fhars 16y ago
But "amortized" is irrelevant in the context of quicksort, as it is not an amortized algorithm. You may hit an unlucky streak and get the worst case of O(n^2) behaviour on every call. An amortized algorithm on the other had would guarantee
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by fhars 16y ago
Most mainstream OO languages with a type system to speak of actually get in the way of correctly classifying data by confusing the separate issues of reusing implementation artefacts (aka subclassing) and classifying data into a hierarchy o
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by fhars 16y ago
Yeah, but who will then take care of repairing our bicycles?
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by fhars 16y ago
The trick is called a version control system.
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by fhars 16y ago
They were probably calculating the mean of a Likert scale, which is often coonsidered an analysis error.
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by fhars 16y ago
If you are writing frequent updates to your MyISAM tables, you should switch to a database backend that allows concurrent updates. MyISAM is only useful for read-mostly or single writer scenarios. See also http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.
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by fhars 16y ago
If you had read the article you would have noticed that using generics the way they were intended to solve this problem was what he was called out for by his manager.
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by fhars 16y ago
In another comment in this thread our deletionist actually mentioned being behind the ACM paywall as a relevant criterion for notability.
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by fhars 16y ago
The problem is that intustrial installations of the type stuxnet targets usually cannot be patched at all because changing anything important in a system like that requires a full reevaluation of compliancee with all current security and o
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by fhars 16y ago
You should very much care about that, because if your tool stores text as UCS-2, it means that it doesn't support unicode at all , UCS-2 stopped being a valid encoding a long time ago.

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