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by jakub_h 10y ago
It's not code that she wrote (up to ~350 people worked on the code at one time) but it's not "computer manuals" either.
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by jakub_h 10y ago
"Standardized"...and without the legibility of symbolic notation and the option to use intermediate named relvars?
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by jakub_h 10y ago
Or maybe describing the problem in the explicit way you mentioned instead of the oblique way would have ruined the joke?
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by jakub_h 10y ago
Certainly different revisions (for different missions). Also remember that surface missions required two different versions of the code: One for the CM and one for the LM.
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by jakub_h 10y ago
I think the primary reason may have been that before the advent of stored-program digital computers, vast arrays of people with mechanical calculators were used for computational tasks. When the first digital computers came, the job was sti
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by jakub_h 10y ago
There was a whole conference dealing with the same topic at about the same time, organized by the military ( http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/brian.randell/NATO/NATOReports... ) and attended by dozens of people from ma
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by jakub_h 10y ago
Actually, it was his wife who asked him (as a joke).
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by jakub_h 10y ago
Isn't it? You don't have secret ballot in your country's elections?
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by jakub_h 10y ago
I have to wonder why a relation algebra language isn't actually algebraic. What about projections in the form of something like c := a x b etc? Nooo, they had to make it look like COBOL.
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by jakub_h 10y ago
You only pay 32% of average income tax if your income is approaching infinity. So your post-tax income is approaching infinity as well, you have more money than you could ever need, and so does everyone else, because your taxes sponsor othe
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by jakub_h 10y ago
On a related note, I wonder how well an Arc implementation on top of (the newly freed) Chez Scheme would work.
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by jakub_h 10y ago
Maybe it's also about what it buys you? Also, https://www.nordisketax.net/main.asp?url=files/suo/eng/i07.a... claims it's at worst 31.75%, not 60%, and that's not even the average. Plus if you&
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by jakub_h 10y ago
The one thing the web should have had from the beginning: flexibility of what happens to the contents on the client. Somehow this "feels right", given the original Alan Kay's vision of what should be happening on a personal d
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by jakub_h 10y ago
Is there a reason not to have the mobile version slightly different from the desktop one? You could keep happy both populations.
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by jakub_h 10y ago
I assume that complete non-elasticity of something would violate the (presumed) light speed limit on causality.
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by jakub_h 10y ago
What two autopilot deaths? I thought there was only one (courtesy of a formerly certified Darwin Award nominee to boot).
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by jakub_h 10y ago
Regulations don't prevent you from inventing new things, only from inflicting them onto the whole of the society. But they didn't invent anything useful in the first place, so arguing that regulations were what stopped them is sil
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by jakub_h 10y ago
Depends on what you consider innovation. It's not straight invention when you put useful pieces together, but then again, that describes a lot of useful engineering these days. The inventive parts are already coming, though.
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by jakub_h 10y ago
Nobody is. That's why you go to school when you decide to be a physician/programmer/actor. You're not born any of those things.
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by jakub_h 10y ago
Perhaps if you reinvented the web well enough , it would become the Internet. Everything would be just some communicating components, only some of them would be graphical, for example.
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by jakub_h 10y ago
"tsunamifury is absolutely right that the relatively static, document-centric model of the web is an extension of Western academic culture. TBL's project was originally shaped by the need for researchers to share papers." Was
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by jakub_h 10y ago
If you can migrate, you don't have to be anything in particular. Otherwise, the place of birth is perhaps the strongest "macroscopic" predictor of your income.
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by jakub_h 10y ago
They got communism? I don't see the classless, stateless society in Venezuela.
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by jakub_h 10y ago
Because phones are ubiquitous? Likewise, I can imagine people using this with an embedded Raspberry Pi.
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by jakub_h 10y ago
> What? That's one hell of a strawman if I ever saw one. Richard M. Strawman, to be precise.
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by jakub_h 10y ago
e is irrational, e+ei can't be irrational because it isn't real (all irrationals are reals).
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by jakub_h 10y ago
Then again, is a system that works 99.5% of the time and delegates stuff to humans 0.5% of the time more or less reliable than a system that relies 100% on humans, with their microsleeps, inattention, mistakes etc.? Has air travel, e.g., be
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by jakub_h 10y ago
I mostly meant the fact that if you can decode a message that you have with a key and algorithm that you have, you can do it later again, with the same result. Of course, HDCP is an also example of this, since you still have the message and
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by jakub_h 10y ago
However, this sounds like wishing to violate the known laws of physics (specifically, their time invariance). Unless some of the information available at the time T is unavailable at some time T'>T, how could you delete something al
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by jakub_h 11y ago
> and showed the world that you could make a fast ARM. My memory may be a bit hazy, but wasn't one of the demonstrations of the original ARM a program in interpreted BASIC that did in twenty seconds something for which a compiled C

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