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by fjh 13y ago
> we're not dealing with "anti-gay", but with "anti-gay marriage" Which is a distinction without a difference.
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by fjh 13y ago
Also, GHC got new, heavily optimised IO manager in version 7.0, which was released later that year[1]. This is probably the more relevant change, as there hasn't been a GHC release that includes Mio yet. [1] http://johantibe
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by fjh 13y ago
> Is it possible to write about a newly announced iPhone without lifting data from Apple PR events or releases? No, but writing about the newly announced iPhone shouldn't really be called journalism.
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by fjh 13y ago
If someone has access to your email, it is almost certainly trivial for them to access your account for the service holding the message.
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by fjh 14y ago
I've read SICP, and while it is a brilliant book, I think it is a really bad suggestion here, given what the op seems to be interested in. SICP is a great introduction to programming topics like recursion, abstraction, and implementation of
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by fjh 14y ago
I strongly disagree. They never claimed they had a result, they had a measurement that they could not explain, which they made public. I think it was an example of how science should be done, being open instead of being afraid of being wron
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by fjh 14y ago
And what lesson would that be?
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by fjh 14y ago
Calling them private is certainly technically correct (the best kind of correct), but the term is sufficiently overloaded that I thought it would be worth pointing out that they don't seem to contain personal information (e.g. people talkin
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by fjh 14y ago
> and it's a bit low to go after the other side's private emails. I think that calling them "private" is a bit misleading here. As far as I can see, they all seem to be about Scientology business / logistics. That by itself obviously do
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by fjh 14y ago
> (in German, of course) That's what I would have assumed, but many of them are actually written in (mostly hilariously bad) English for some reason. They also seem to be using quite a lot of jargon, which seems to consist entirely of E
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by fjh 14y ago
But using >> for division is still a bad idea. If you want integer division, use //.
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by fjh 15y ago
It's not pedantic, because I think you are misrepresenting the author. You're edited "quote" is not actually what he said , but you justify not reading the article using your misreading of the sentence you quoted.
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by fjh 15y ago
But they have patented "a linked list". They haven't patented all linked lists and they haven't patented the standard trivial singly-linked list, but "a linked list" is what they seem to have a patent on.
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by fjh 15y ago
I took the GP to mean "make it a guy, because singling out a women because of her sex in a mostly male environment is not cool". I may be wrong, but principle of charity and all that. I'm definitely not trying to defend homophobia, totally
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by fjh 15y ago
I believe that you have misread the GP and the "for extra weird and creepy" refers only to the part after "make it a guy".
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by fjh 15y ago
I'm sorry, I can't help but read this as "men cannot have abortions, therefore they should not be expected to have to raise their children." I am sure that that is not what you are trying to say. Could you maybe explain why it is that man c
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by fjh 15y ago
Minor point, but if you are using factual questions to filter out stupid people, asking for the "right" number of continents is probably not ideal. You (and I) might disagree with someone counting Eurasia (or North and South America) as a s
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by fjh 15y ago
> I'll place the first brick here and proudly declare that I hate organic food and the whole "bio" movement, since it is not scalable and mostly used for class signaling (ala overcomingbias) And "hating" organic food (really?) is not si
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by fjh 15y ago
The Samsung Series 9 is pretty similar. I've got a MacBook Air and I've played around with the Samsung. Build-quality and hardware-wise the Samsung is, in my opinion, at least as nice as the air, but I've heard that it's currently a bit of
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by fjh 15y ago
Spoken like someone who has never seen a HN discussion about apple before ;)
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by fjh 15y ago
Have a look at the precedence table for Java: http://introcs.cs.princeton.edu/11precedence/ The cast has higher precedence than multiplication, so the scaling doesn't help at all, unless you use parenthesis to force the right order of eva
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by fjh 15y ago
That's more or less what the rules for any Pen&Paper RPG and lots of different sports (e.g. soccer) say.
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by fjh 15y ago
Well, you still have a self-selecting group. Unless he randomly accepts some of the applicants and compares them to the other applicants, it would still be a flawed experiment (assuming he wants it to be a proper experiment, which I don't
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by fjh 15y ago
> Why do you say that? I can't think of many that don't lend itself to that. Programming? Math? Chess? Plumbing? Carpentry? Tax accountant? Table tennis? Nurse? Golf probably has the advantage that it is easier to measure or judge someo
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by fjh 15y ago
Sometimes I wonder if the existence of a "geek-culture" is not a bit problematic. I have read (and liked) so many of the books in this list that I worry whether a subculture / industry where everyone consumes the same books / movies / memes
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by fjh 16y ago
Gorilla arm would prevent people from using that kind of system to replace mouse and keyboard, but I don't see why it could not work for some applications. I can think of several use cases where I would like a UI that does not require me to
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by fjh 16y ago
> You are using the above as buzzwords. I agree that my reply to you was not very articulate. I originally started explaining why your points were not relevant to the question whether his behaviour was morally acceptable, but then I rea
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by fjh 16y ago
Allow me to point you to these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_herring Not to mention that you are making an awful lot of unwarranted assumptions about
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by fjh 16y ago
It seems like no-one disputed their authenticity, so they probably would not bother verifying them.
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by fjh 16y ago
Oh, that was not what I meant to say. My point was just that, because skype and its protocol are closed, Linux users are stuck with their horrible implementation. If it was open, there would at least be the possibility of a compatible, dece

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