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by gngeal 13y ago
Go is probably less controlled by Google than either C# by MS, or Java by Oracle.
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by gngeal 13y ago
or where you should be taking your career long-term Obviously, you have to learn Common Lisp if you're thinking long-term - the one language that people will still be using when all the ones you've named will be history!
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by gngeal 13y ago
Isn't it possible to separate the trafic? I'm not versed in the GSM standard, but there must be some form of authentication. It might be possible to recognize to whom the signal belongs. (In the worst case, cooperation of the cell
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by gngeal 13y ago
200 tonnes of radioactive water There is a (long) trillion of tons of radioactive water in all the world's oceans. C14, see? "Radioactive water" is a meaningless term.
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by gngeal 13y ago
So if jammers are out of the question, what about detectors?
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by gngeal 13y ago
I happen to get sun-induced headaches. They're not very nice either, and they're not a good motivational factor for sunbathing.
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by gngeal 13y ago
Fighting cancer and curing it are hugely different. Does it actually matter? It's not like you can clean your body completely of pathogenic viruses and bacteria either.
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by gngeal 13y ago
While 18 is the minimum age for killing people and getting killed in war. Sounds about right!
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by gngeal 13y ago
Sound almost like A. C. Clarke's CORA ( http://www.e-book2u.org/sf/Clarke08/30298.html ): "THIS IS A CORA ALERT. WILL ANYONE WITHIN RANGE OF MY VOICE PLEASE COME IMMEDIATELY. THIS IS A CORA ALERT. WILL AN
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by gngeal 13y ago
The former. Pascal isn't someone to be trifled with!
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by gngeal 13y ago
Eg, I can start putting <haiku> tags in my HTML if I want. The issue is whether anyone else will expect this tag or code and do anything meaningful with it. You mean like this? https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webcomponen
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by gngeal 13y ago
OR, he's not allowed to, and he's doing it anyway.
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by gngeal 13y ago
The numbers don't make sense to me. "It depends on how strong the sun is but it's more or less 40 to 60 watts." <- I hope that's for the whole roof we see in the picture, not for a single bottle. What's the
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by gngeal 13y ago
When was this a non-religious issue? But I believe the problem is following: Either the type system is incomplete (there are programs out there that you might want to run but won't be able to), or it's unsound (some programs will
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by gngeal 13y ago
I believe there's a nice book called Foundations of Object Oriented Languages which dissects the problem in depth.
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by gngeal 13y ago
I see you've ordered it in the order of exponentially increasing difficulty.
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by gngeal 13y ago
Does anyone know why functional programming languages are so much favored by research teams over other types of PL ? That's like asking why algebra is preferred among mathematicians over randomly pushing operators and parentheses aro
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by gngeal 13y ago
Amazing! This is hands down this year's most important development in the Web technologies field!
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by gngeal 13y ago
Of course it still exists. They're doing this now because they don't want to be steamrolled by the raging success that is the OpenSPARC project.
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by gngeal 13y ago
Having the Sun shine on your plastic gadget for an extended period of time? Sounds like a wonderful idea! Why not simply have a lightweight detachable solar panel instead?
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by gngeal 13y ago
Observing the behavior of plasma around the Sun is probably one of the indicators. Also, the Zeeman effect in the Sun's spectrum measures the absolute intensity quite directly; I'd assume that the zero transition could be observab
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by gngeal 13y ago
Yes, but can Go actually use anything else? Finely-grained concurrency after the CSP fashion, after all, is the whole driving force behind it, and it's in the language spec.
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by gngeal 13y ago
I wonder, how is this different from the venerable VM/CMS approach?
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by gngeal 13y ago
It just occurred to me... The title, "Contents", was set in very heavy type which happened to be an unexpected edge case in the classifier and it matched the "o" with the "e" and "n" and output &quot
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by gngeal 13y ago
Actually, that doesn't matter all that much. You ought to scan it into a TIFF file and then process it the way you want it. If you want a good JBIG2 compressor according to your liking, you have to write it yourself anyway, I don'
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by gngeal 13y ago
How would one handle the case with the tiny boxes? It seems to me that these ought to be treated more like line drawings and not unify them as symbols at all if you can't properly decompose them into lines of Latin alphabet glyphs. JBI
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by gngeal 13y ago
"CSA is quite honestly the most insane and awful aspect of Western society bar none." Certaintly you meant the world population. It's not like this is exclusive to us Westerners.
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by gngeal 13y ago
Agree, sad reality of most CS courses taught at school, the hw problems do not resemble real world professional problems. Google doesn't use exceptions at all, at least in C++ code ( http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com&
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by gngeal 13y ago
Ok, so make it a straight male mathematician and a lesbian engineer.
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by gngeal 13y ago
This one sounds almost like peephole optimization of sorts. How exactly is that "clever"?

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