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A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem?(stackoverflow.com)
2 points by gphilip 12y ago|1 comments
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by gphilip 12y ago
Fixed, thanks.
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Google Play Store: Browsing with Firefox is no longer supported on Android
448 points by gphilip 12y ago|230 comments
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by gphilip 12y ago
ELL [+] is perhaps a better fit for this question? [+] http://ell.stackexchange.com/ "English Language Learners Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for speakers of other languages learning English."
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by gphilip 12y ago
Rough translation of the Preface on page 4 by the person who scanned the book. The preface is written (mostly) in Malayalam [1], the language of the state of Kerala [2] in India: I bought this book in 1986 for 50 Rupees [3]. Since it was a
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Facebook, Apple pay to freeze employees' eggs(money.cnn.com)
1 points by gphilip 12y ago|0 comments
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by gphilip 12y ago
Off topic: It may be a good idea to prepend an "Ask HN:" to the title to get more visibility.
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by gphilip 12y ago
"Project XOS or eXperimental Operating System is a platform to develop a toy operating system. It is an instructional tool for students to learn and implement OS data structures and functionalities on a simulated machine called XSM (eX
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XOS: Build your own operating system(xosnitc.github.io)
144 points by gphilip 12y ago|38 comments
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Why can't I access your service through the Tor network by default?(nearlyfreespeech.net)
2 points by gphilip 12y ago|0 comments
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by gphilip 12y ago
DDG works as intended for me: http://imgur.com/dJGt3NV
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by gphilip 12y ago
"It asked for my ... online banking password." My bank tries to drill it into me that I should NEVER, EVER give my password to any third party, including employees of the bank. This behaviour from Datacoup certainly seems like a
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by gphilip 12y ago
The website says that it is both free ("We don't charge fees when you convert funds to or from bitcoin with a linked bank account, when you store your bitcoin, or for bitcoin transactions.") AND insured ("All of the mone
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by gphilip 12y ago
"Starting today, people can onboard into a Circle account and begin using digital money..." That sounds weird to me. I am not a native speaker of English, though. Is this normal usage? Googling for "onboard into" gives
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by gphilip 12y ago
Eight months back, three scientists from ISRO did an AMA on /r/india where they answered a lot of interesting questions and provided good insights into the good, the bad, the hopes and the struggles at ISRO and of being a scientis
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by gphilip 12y ago
"Don't waste time where it matters!" This sounds odd to me (not a native speaker). Waste time where it doesn't matter, instead?
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by gphilip 12y ago
let's meet at 2pm tomorrow - automatically adds a calendar event. How does that pan out when 2pm is not good for the other person? "Hey Greg, let's meet at 2pm tomorrow." "Sure, great. Wait, I have that code revie
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I want to do research but I'm too old for a PHD(academia.stackexchange.com)
1 points by gphilip 12y ago|0 comments
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by gphilip 12y ago
All of them. return "lifts" a "plain" value so that it becomes a "monadic" thing. As far as I can see, this has nothing at all to do with returning a value from a function.
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by gphilip 12y ago
Somewhat related, and somewhat more surprising: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/434/is-it-true-than...
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by gphilip 12y ago
Perhaps relevant: http://seeyourfolks.com/
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by gphilip 12y ago
"There are currently more than 235,000 films on IMDb, and ... not a single qualified movie besides “Gunday” rates worse than 1.8." "The next lowest-rated movie on IMDb — 1.8 stars overall ..." I am not sure what the writ
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by gphilip 12y ago
And the email address to which Costco sent the email is also visible.
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by gphilip 12y ago
To add to what sillysaurus3 says, and copying from my comment from an old thread: As far as I know (IANAL) there is no law or precedent which takes the value of stolen bitcoins into consideration while sentencing. There is also no history
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by gphilip 12y ago
> There's risk associated with every investment As things are now (and as GP points out) speculation is probably the right word, not investment . From Wikipedia [1]: Speculation is the practice of engaging in risky financial tra
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by gphilip 12y ago
"der Rest" is German, and so is "ordinär".
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New York Police Department disbands unit that spied on Muslims(edition.cnn.com)
1 points by gphilip 12y ago|0 comments
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by gphilip 13y ago
What is PaX?
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by gphilip 13y ago
The old form was: "Andy giveth, Bill taketh away." Referring to Andy Grove [1] of Intel and Bill Gates [2] of Microsoft. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Grove [2] No link required
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by gphilip 13y ago
From reading that blog post it is not clear to me if their wrapping code existed prior to the discovery of the heartbleed bug: The post summary says: Akamai patched the announced Heartbleed vulnerability prior to its public announcement.

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