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by jballanc 11y ago
[citation needed] ...but seriously, on what are you basing the power-law distribution claim? And what exactly does "success" mean anyway? Market share? Revenue? Profitability? I know a number of small, yet very profitable software
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What does liquidity mean in terms of drivers and riders? I'm familiar with liquid vs illiquid assets, but how does that relate to something like customers or staff? If a competitor enters the market and offers a better deal for drivers
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I've heard this multiple times with no real evidence to back it up. Why? Why is it winner-takes-all? Natural barriers to entry? Nope, all you need is a half-way decent mobile app and some people with cars. Yes, the bigger your fleet th
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Hmm...wonder what this means about the status of the Quad-color bitmapped arena mark-n-sweep collector Mike was planning for LuaJIT 3.0 ( http://wiki.luajit.org/New-Garbage-Collector )? I remember reading what he had research
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Olive oil's smoke point is highly dependent on the variety. Refined olive oil is just as useful for high-heat frying as just about any other. Extra virgin, on the other hand, is not something you want to cook with. In Turkey we have a
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The same can be said for Clojure, but I haven't met anyone that would claim Clojure is not a "full-fledged" language. Interop has always been one feature, of many, that languages do or don't have (e.g. C++ interop with C
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You need to check your facts. Both Iran's president and supreme leader condemned 9/11 and many Iranians held candlelight vigils for the victims: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactions_to_the_September_11_...
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Well, it's not as if the CIA participated in the coup in Iran, had a change of heart, and decided to change its ways. Quite the opposite! The CIA has shown a continued willingness to intervene and overthrow regimes that don't toe
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Furthermore, as most of the student leaders and politicians opposed to the Shah were leftists, the US continued to undermine efforts for them to organize (lest they side with the USSR). So that, when a popular uprising finally did occur,
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Are you ignorant? or being willingly obtuse? Between the US and Iran, one of these countries supported a successful overthrow of the other country's democratically elected government. I'll let you figure out which country was the
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Considering that the author's primary source of income (to the best of my knowledge) is a video series on tips and tricks for Ruby development, I wouldn't chalk this up to "backlash" so much as "call to arms".
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I'll echo the Computer History Museum suggestion. If you're in the Bay Area and haven't paid it a visit, it's well worth your time. Books are nice and all, but sometimes seeing the physical artifacts give things a nice p
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by jballanc 11y ago
"Processing documents with transducers" is probably one of the more interesting, yet still simple enough to be understandable, examples of transducers: ( http://blog.juxt.pro/posts/xpath-in-transducers.html )
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I'd be willing to place a bet on what sort of database technology they weren't using. Hint: it has three letters, starts with an S, and ends with an L. ;-)
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For better or worse, most scientific journals still operate on a business model dependent on physical subscriptions. Since this sets something of a limit on how much can be published, and since scientists tend to prefer paying for positive
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The issue is that rocket physics (essentially Newton's laws of motion) are for the most part first- and second- order, linear, ordinary differential equations with exact solutions. The plumbing, on the other hand, is governed by fluid
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The issue is there is "failed" and then there is "failed". Yes, many times you have to repeat an experiment because of bad reagents, broken machines, little tweaks are needed to some obscure parameter, or someone left th
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On the "very-opinionated" point, I'm particularly fond of Alan Kay's quote: > I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijk
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Right, thanks for clarifying that bit. An individual run still has a much higher error rate, but the ability to do exponentially more runs results in a higher accuracy per "experiment". This is not that dissimilar from the directi
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I'd argue that the discovery of Denisovans might be bigger than Neanderthal genes, but they're in the same ballpark. Modern sequencing technology has led to an explosion in discoveries about early human (and other organisms')
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The advantage of the ISO layout is the "~" on the bottom row, instead of waaaay up to the left of the "1".
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There's a radical, yet likely very workable solution to this catch-22... A couple of years back when there was talk of introducing congestion pricing in Manhattan, there was a bridge toll increase around the same time. Someone figured
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Concept and implementation are not the same thing. The concept of LISP hasn't changed in 50+ years, but the implementations have been constantly improving the whole time.
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I completely agree. Some languages are written to adhere to an ideal (everything is lists), and make sacrifices in order to stick to that ideal. Some are written to be close to the metal, or to be as abstract and flowery as possible, and ma
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As the grandson of a plumber and son of a plumbing engineer, just have to jump in here and defend plumbing...it's damn interesting! It's also responsible for a larger chunk of recent increases in longevity than probably anything o
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From what I've heard, it has less to do with just the size of the DPRK military, and more to do with the geography of South Korea. For better or worse, the Seoul metro area contains half of South Korea's entire population and is w
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Just a note, you can simplify your workflow even further by using `hub pull-request` . If your PR consists of a single commit, it'll even pre-populate the PR description for you (if not, it helpfully lists the commits included in the P
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Well, C is essentially "portable assembly", so it's to be expected...
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I think it would be much more likely that new architectures would be added as cross-compilation targets than to work back through a v1.4 bootstrap.
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Right, but if someone surreptitiously deleted all Go compiler binaries from the world, then we'd have to go back to compiling the C source of 1.4... Of course, that's the nature of bootstrapping! If someone managed to erase all th

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