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by guygurari 15y ago
I would guess that the truncation of the ordinary zip is not because it is useful in that context, but because it makes the zip function total. I used to think the same way, but then I ran into a couple of cases where it was actually usef
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by guygurari 15y ago
This is interesting, but the two versions of zip you present are not equivalent. The standard version can handle lists of different lengths; it effectively truncates the longer list to the shorter one's length. Can you get this behavior in
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by guygurari 15y ago
Just the child.
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by guygurari 15y ago
Sure. The main goal of the program we're in is to teach the child how to fall asleep by themselves. You start by helping the child fall asleep in their bed with patting and soothing voices. Then you gradually push them toward independence u
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by guygurari 15y ago
We had a lot of sleep-related problems with our kid. We recently sought professional help and started a program that gives children good sleep habits. We are three weeks in, and the results so far are nothing short of amazing. To put it sim
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by guygurari 15y ago
Pay each user who signs up and uses your service $10. You'd still have $3.5 billion in change.
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by guygurari 15y ago
I love iTunes, both on Windows and on the Mac. It's reasonably fast on Windows (and very fast on Mac), it does a great job organizing my collection, it makes sharing and streaming between devices extremely easy (Mac, PC, Apple TV, iPhones e
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by guygurari 15y ago
Will existing devices benefit from the improved accuracy?
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by guygurari 15y ago
I used to have this problem on older devices, but the GPS on my iPhone 4 consistently gets a lock almost instantaneously. I guess YMMV.
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by guygurari 15y ago
I like Marco Arment's take on this [1]. He doesn't think Apple will release an HDTV, citing the following problems. 1. Consumers don't upgrade their TV as often as they do their laptops, cell phones, and other gadgets. 2. Apple can't make a
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by guygurari 16y ago
This, this, and again this.
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by guygurari 16y ago
If trees kept their leaves permanently they wouldn't have to grow new ones If leaves were kept indefinitely they'd also have to deal with damage, wear and tear and so on. Biological systems often seem to prefer replacing over repairing da
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by guygurari 16y ago
Care to elaborate? I haven't seen such calculations.
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by guygurari 16y ago
What does a clean ssh client do; not commit any protocol violations? Anyway, a lot of happy-sounding words for ... a program that decrypts text from the Internet and writes it to the screen. You're focusing on features. They're talking
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by guygurari 16y ago
Thanks for mentioning Cmd-Shift-~. It always annoyed me that pressing Cmd-~, releasing, then Cmd-~ again doesn't take you back to the first window (unlike Cmd-Tab). Now I can use this to go back.
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by guygurari 16y ago
No. The difference between passwords and this is.
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by guygurari 16y ago
I'd say an "easy-to-remember sentence" also has lower (actual) entropy than "an arcane sequence of letters, numbers, and symbols". If an attacker knows you're using this password-generation system, she will probably try brute-forcing your p
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by guygurari 16y ago
I guess I wasn't clear enough. What I mean is that the communication within the community, and the reputation of a researcher among her peers, does not rely on publications in reviewed journals. These are the things that can be compared wit
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by guygurari 16y ago
I'm a Ph.D. student working in theoretical high-energy physics. In this field we don't rely on peer-reviewed journals. Instead, when a researchers wants to "publish" a paper she uploads it to the arXiv, and the paper appears on the site wit
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by guygurari 16y ago
Many of the Mac shortcuts don't work. For instance, F9 - Tile or untile all open windows does nothing on my Snow Leopard. Perhaps he's referring to an older version of Mac OS X?
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by guygurari 16y ago
I use brookstream [1]. It's dark, somewhat low-contrast, with shades of blue and purple. [1] http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=619
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by guygurari 16y ago
The orange menu button. I find it distracting.
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by guygurari 16y ago
Then why did they release it to manufacturers like Motorola? Edit: To clarify, I think being open means that you either release to everyone or to no one. So arguing that it isn't ready became irrelevant once the xoom shipped.
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by guygurari 16y ago
There's more than one way to use GDP. I think that, for describing standard of living, median GDP would be better than average GDP (= GDP per capita). Averages are sensitive to outlier performance. This is important when the distribution f
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by guygurari 16y ago
Streaks has been pretty effective for me; I used it to get myself to meditate every day. There's a little detail that makes all the difference: The app shows a badge on its icon that tells you the length of your streak. Skipped a day? No ba
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by guygurari 16y ago
erlang is called out as being ugly purely from hearsay I have no preconceptions about Erlang. I've never seen the opinion that Erlang is ugly, and your code above is the first Erlang I've ever seen. I also know nothing about Haskell, but
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by guygurari 16y ago
Ugh. Thanks for convincing me not to learn Erlang.
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by guygurari 16y ago
Try LaTeX, if you haven't already.