geoka9

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by geoka9 14y ago
Wait, isn't easy access to Java libraries one of the premises of Clojure? In that case Java's dependency issues still apply?
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by geoka9 14y ago
Not to hijack the thread; please see this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4551907
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by geoka9 14y ago
In this case no, I don't think so. He was a great scientist, one of the greatest the UK has produced. If his contribution is not worthy of commemorating on a UK banknote, I don't know whose is.
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by geoka9 14y ago
I would have upvoted your post if you paid more attention to whose posts you're replying to: When @ntumlin says "it's just a bunch of ones and zeroes" ntumlin did not say any such thing.
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by geoka9 14y ago
Porn is controlled by criminals?
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by geoka9 14y ago
I'm not sure what automatic differentiation has to do with solving diff. equations but... I assume that all those automatic methods you mention are passed down from above in some sort of holy scriptures that we're supposed to blindly believ
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by geoka9 14y ago
How about solving differential equations numerically. Such programs are used all over the place in mathematical modeling, with applications ranging from economics to electronics. And you can't just "write a computer program that tries diffe
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by geoka9 14y ago
Another happy ThinkPad user here :) I agree with all your points. The bricks are pretty much universally interchangeable, except for W models (powerful workstation series, they have a large heavy brick with a higher current rating, which y
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by geoka9 14y ago
It's probably not slick enough to blend into an office with a glamorous interior design. http://www.eurotech.cz/image/file/361/x60_2.jpg But when I see this, I get an urge to touch the keyboard, run the shell, fire up the editor... No oth
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by geoka9 14y ago
They still can deny entry, can't they? As I understand it, the visa grants you the right to be considered for entry at the border. The final decision is with the border officer.
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by geoka9 14y ago
Now if you are the type of person who thinks a racist joke is a "bad" joke, then I guess you also hate South Park and love to bathe in politically-correct self-righteousness. I don't know much about South Park. Not sure about self-righteo
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by geoka9 14y ago
> It's the girl you're on a date with who seems more enamored with your race's stereotypes than you. I liked your post, but this point I don't think I can relate to. Do you include cultural attributes in the stereotypes definition? For
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by geoka9 14y ago
There's another reason, I think. Making a site look fashionable (and web design is really like the clothes industry in that sense) will require the authors to revisit it avery year or so, whenever the design fad du jour changes. While black
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by geoka9 14y ago
Because they contain documentation and have to be fast and readable. While modern web-design, it seems, is bent on creating slow sites with barely readable gray letters on off-white backgrounds.
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by geoka9 14y ago
and association. PayPal just doesn't want their name associated with stuff like that. Yeah, I suspect this is the real reason.
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by geoka9 14y ago
Frankly, I don't believe Andre here. You can't be the best in the world at something over a long period of time (8 Grand Slam titles, gold Olympic medal, etc. etc.) hating it the way he asserts in his book.
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by geoka9 14y ago
> Yet many runners (not I) get a high from the process I think it's within the grasp of anybody. You just have to learn to enjoy the pain running (or any other workout) brings. It sounds perverted but it does help to approach exercise w
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by geoka9 14y ago
Is processing payments for porn sites so much different that companies that specialize in it exclusively are needed? Why can't a company like Paypal or Stripe support those merchant account classes and procedures?
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by geoka9 14y ago
Just as "adult" content is, right? I wonder why a blanket ban of pornography - is it because of the upstream providers or a policy of Stripe?
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by geoka9 14y ago
I don't think software patents in the US will be abolished any time soon. The affected parties that have the most clout with the lawmakers (large software companies) chose to hoard up billions in patent portfolios for themselves, instead of
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by geoka9 14y ago
Incidentally, $120 for a frame from Warby Parker (which is only "a couple of pieces of plastic and metal") is still too high IMO.
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by geoka9 14y ago
Lesson 0: make the text on your blog/site darker than the current fad du jour says it should be. It's a pain to read this on the common computer display.
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by geoka9 14y ago
Yeah, I'm starting to come to the conclusion that modern design == hard to read websites. Incidentally, they are also usually slow.
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by geoka9 14y ago
¨... emacs users probably shouldn't bother applying." Is this a joke?
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by geoka9 14y ago
You mean a smartphone, right? Why does it have to be an iphone? And why even that? A laptop I could understand, but phone?
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by geoka9 14y ago
> C compile times suck Can I ask you what you're comparing with? I can compare with C++, Scala and Go. The first two are horrible in that department when compared with C. Go's compiles are blazingly fast.
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by geoka9 14y ago
There's also CINT (a C interpreter), which can be used as a REPL: http://root.cern.ch/drupal/content/cint
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by geoka9 14y ago
I'd think Windows would be more up their alley due to the similar lack of customization options. Oh, right. I forgot the hip factor. Windows is too uncool now, after all those Mac/PC commercials.
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by geoka9 14y ago
I saw it in a movie. I think it was called Total Recall :)
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by geoka9 14y ago
Oh no, we get so much of it here (Vancouver, BC), this site actually made me hurt reminding me of what's to come.

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