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gsanghera
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gsanghera
8y ago
> The ship's velocity can then be represented by a rotation of the axes; the rotation of the time axis is shown in Figure II. (Readers who find Figure II puzzling should recall that a diagram of an imaginary axis must, of course, it
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8y ago
The ancient humans would then also (eventually) develop patents because someone somewhere would have thought about it even back then - and with worldwide distribution - it would catch on. Effectively, what I'm saying is - when faced wi
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gsanghera
10y ago
Ok yes. An accuracy issue then as it's probably using a simple algo for the projection. Stand corrected.
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gsanghera
10y ago
I could be wrong, but I don't think that's how it works. You're comparing the true size of UK with the flatmap projection of US. To do what you want, you need to compare the true maps of both countries - with the cities.
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gsanghera
10y ago
Nice idea! If you do this, your defense to the banks could be that the government forced you to go public. You're covered.
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gsanghera
11y ago
You most definitely know a lot more about code than me. So I'm not challenging you at all. But my contention is that robustness is a function of resilience. C has a class of errors which are hard to spot for foot-soldiers, and sometime
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gsanghera
11y ago
Battle tested in the past != fit for future wars. The nature of systems has evolved. Attackers are more sophisticated, have better tools and probably understand C code better than most who still write it. So our tools need to evolve too. Ad
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gsanghera
11y ago
Thanks a lot, yes. All the best and look forward to this!
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11y ago
Thanks for replying! (a) and (b) make sense. (b) will depend on adoption as well, so your answer is fully understandable. Just a follow-up question on (c) - if you will allow me please. Are the data structures immutable like Clojure and Erl
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11y ago
This is brilliant. I work in finance (trading) - and have been trying to learn Clojure and Rust on my own over the last year (no CS background). For people like me - this is phenomenal - if it works. The ability to think logically doesn&#x