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by gngeal 13y ago
It isn't well defined? Have you seen Oberon?
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by gngeal 13y ago
Did he drive too fast, or do you just have a lot of idiotic drivers around?
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by gngeal 13y ago
Have you considered using an electric scooter?
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by gngeal 13y ago
Imagine a die-hard abstinent (religious or otherwise) getting this. A Mormon version of hell on Earth?
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by gngeal 13y ago
You never laid your Android tablet on your desk? :)
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by gngeal 13y ago
Well, their Catholics are apparently less hypocritical than Duquesne's Catholics. I'm not sure, doesn't this simply reinforce what I was trying to say?
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by gngeal 13y ago
Duquesne has claimed that the unionization of adjuncts like Margaret Mary would somehow interfere with its mission to inculcate Catholic values among its students. I see. So treating old people in this way and leaving them in trouble afte
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by gngeal 13y ago
Do you also blame people who keep the banknote they randomly find on the sidewalk for keeping it, or would you rather have them jailed outright? You must be a blast at parties. Also, there are hundreds of thousands of people who earn their
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by gngeal 13y ago
It's relevant. It's a major part of an engineer's job to impart efficiency gains to whatever he's working on. And miles per dollar is definitely a valid efficiency metrics.
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by gngeal 13y ago
That is exactly the kind of thing that happens when one model is replaced with a deeper one. Relevant quote: "Point of view is worth 80 IQ points." (Alan Kay)
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by gngeal 13y ago
At least since the 1980's, see AIM-953.
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by gngeal 13y ago
So calling an idiot an idiot is not an option in Canada?
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by gngeal 13y ago
hateful speech is not protected in Canada How do they prove that a speech is hateful instead of merely being ordinarily contemptuous?
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by gngeal 13y ago
and has even said that there is an inherent risk that every government is corrupt Well, here's one student that learned the right lesson in his Government class. :)
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by gngeal 13y ago
"They complicate referring to a physical instant, because you can refer to it in several timezones, rather than the unique representation of a unix timestamp." I thought it's supposed to be an external format. I'd alwa
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by gngeal 13y ago
You could follow the list of attacks at http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/index.html#Attacks , look up more information for the individual attacks, and filter out the adults. But as far as I'm aware, nobody's doing
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by gngeal 13y ago
Who said he was a "worthless schmuck"? You've implied that what he's in charge of right now are "toys". Does that qualify?
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by gngeal 13y ago
CL people are not very tolerant of functional nazis. (Probably because functional nazis are usually static type system junkies who scoff at macros and incomplete-impure-but-working solutions to problems which are often associated with CL.)
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by gngeal 13y ago
I never talk about it, though, because it sounded very much like pseudoscience (until recently, I guess?). Changing the gut bacteria doesn't, but trying to do it through diet probably does.
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by gngeal 13y ago
Common Lisp is addictive. You can create a whole web app in one CL file from scratch and it will have everything including API and DB management layer and be secure and fully functioning. And it will work on all servers and on all operating
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by gngeal 13y ago
I don't see how branch prediction and caches could dominate performance of logically concatenating a huge amount of text instead of doing it physically.
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by gngeal 13y ago
String concatenation? Are we living in the 1980's? What about string trees? These problems can be solved simply using a proper data structure. Concatenation, insertion, deletion etc. should be almost constant-time operations.
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by gngeal 13y ago
but to have mechanisms to ensure that (thus verify) Actually, that's not a mechanism to ensure anything, that's a mechanism to remediate the consequences of failure. Actually ensuring the compliance would, again, require for y
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by gngeal 13y ago
No, that's the number one trait of a great employee - and the sign of a leader. Exercising self-control is being the leader of one person.
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by gngeal 13y ago
Dianne knew it wasn't the most elegant solution, but she also knew that anything much more complex would be beyond her current skills. Since when are complex solutions elegant? I always thought the simple ones were the ones deserving
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by gngeal 13y ago
I have yet to sign a contract that would mandate that I be watched by cameras at all times.
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by gngeal 13y ago
variables aren't declared; when you use a name, the interpreter just travels up the call stack looking for somewhere that variable is defined. You could have just said "the variables are dynamically scoped" and be done with
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by gngeal 13y ago
Interestingly, my native language is Czech, and it makes it rather easy to learn English and Spanish, because the only sound that's missing is English 'th' in three or think, which people here pronounce like 't' or
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by gngeal 13y ago
I'm sure that compared to modern napalm, the original manufacturing process must have been pretty Byzantine.
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by gngeal 13y ago
who fasts every day of Ramadan every year Muslims calling Ramadan "a fasting month" is a serious devaluation of the word "fasting". It's not actual fasting if you only eat at night. It's fasting if you don&#x

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