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by jlg23 8y ago
4. Few biologists have dived into automata theory. The divide in background theoretic knowledge and thus language is too great for biology to directly profit from advances in automata theory.
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by jlg23 8y ago
IMO every programming language definition should also define how documentation strings are associated to syntactical constructs and how they can be accessed programmatically.
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by jlg23 8y ago
TL;DR: OP is using a single stripe account for several, distinct businesses. One had a dispute rate so high that the overall dispute rate of this single stripe account went above some threshold imposed by stripe's upstream financial se
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by jlg23 8y ago
Most actually have a limit and even on those that don't you should not exceed 130km/h unless you know the road: the next speed limit will come and just afterwards a speed trap....
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by jlg23 8y ago
Arriving just 60 minutes before takeoff seems rather crazy in a lot of airports. For example in CMN and AGA that gives you 10 to 12 minutes per security check (assuming you check in online and have only cabin luggage).
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by jlg23 8y ago
The obsession with smartphones is understandable when one considers the situation in developing countries: Smartphones are ubiquitous, they provide phone, TV and radio to people who did not have any of this. I currently live in North Africa
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by jlg23 8y ago
I guess that's mostly because Latin and Ancient Greek fell out of fashion: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/catechism It definitely is still used a lot in its German form "Katechismus" by obedient Christ
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by jlg23 8y ago
In your proposed solution you are teaching the user how to work around the air gap. What makes you think they do this responsibly? Furthermore, your thread model is exaggerated. Yes, "they" have giant budgets. No, "they"
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by jlg23 8y ago
> These costs and power requirements are not obvious At the time of payment they are irrelevant. > Any comparison between cash and non-cash needs to be sure to count the complete lifecycle of and payment processing and not just the bi
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by jlg23 8y ago
I have never been to Japan myself but those of my friends who were all had nothing but praise for the train system. WRT the lack of English: In most parts of of South America you won't find anyone who speaks English. Same for North Afr
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by jlg23 8y ago
Yes, IIRC that is mentioned in PG's blog post: Beating the Averages.
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by jlg23 8y ago
> I'm from Germany and never fired let alone held a gun. I don't know anyone who did. Only police. The German association of shooters has more than a million members and is one of the largest sports associations in Germany[0].
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by jlg23 8y ago
Scheme is a classical example for a lisp-1. CL is a lisp-2. > Parenthesis is probably the only thing they have in common. Besides separation of namespaces in a lisp-2 and full, native support for continuations in scheme, which difference
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by jlg23 8y ago
In the specific case of webmail[1], I would offer hosted instances. OTOH, a need to commercialize a FOSS-project is always a latent conflict of interest and I personally only reluctantly make such software part of my stack: I might end up w
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by jlg23 8y ago
> we had a few [TV repair shops] in the village Oh grandpa, is this dementia? Everybody knows that electronics cannot be repaired but must be replaced every two years! ;)
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by jlg23 8y ago
How fitting, this friend of mine could have been the tambourine man... Thanks for the pointer!
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by jlg23 8y ago
A friend once gave a talk at the chaos congress whose title, IMHO, captures the essence of those laws: If you want to live outside of the law, you have to be honest. To this day, words I live by and they never failed me.
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by jlg23 8y ago
If not malice, it is incredibly bad engineering. Every IP address on a foreign, public network has to be considered as "in use".
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by jlg23 8y ago
Besides the actual topic of the post, there is one gem that, IMHO, every manager should realize: > As engineering managers, it’s our job to provide the space and support needed to help our engineers deliver great software. The best manag
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by jlg23 9y ago
PDFs are hell to process, pretty much like all formats developed by Adobe that evolved through multiple versions... Edit: I wrote parsers for PDF and PSD in CL years ago and still cringe when remembering that ordeal.
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by jlg23 9y ago
Bread and butter for developers who have to handle them ;)
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by jlg23 9y ago
> While most people concentrate on memorizing as much as openings the possibly can, I do recommend to learn more end-game variants. That cannot be emphasized enough. I've even had players offer me a draw in a classical king vs king+
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by jlg23 9y ago
I agree, just did not consider it worth anyone's time to go into details the OP does not even touch. The article compares rust with js and ruby....
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by jlg23 9y ago
I only know one person who studied theology and she experienced her first religious service 2.5 years into her studies. Yes, even things we believe to be true we have to put evidence for on the table in scientific discourse.
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by jlg23 9y ago
Because a lot of "CS persons", those who are called hackers[1], enjoy figuring things out. I too cannot ~"readily consume" it, but I now have a few more tabs open in my browser from which I will learn a lot. [1] in the o
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by jlg23 9y ago
This is not at all specific to rust: OP is just grateful for the compiler to find lots of problems one would have to write tests for in dynamic languages.
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by jlg23 9y ago
> I volunteer to charities and I provide business class high tech services at fractions of the prices of the competition because they're ripping small businesses off and I am attacking them directly. I would be willing to bet my con
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by jlg23 9y ago
Beware, he was using the term "bottom up" in a meaning that diverges from current mainstream usage of the term: the bottom is the language , not the architecture.
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by jlg23 9y ago
I have been working for a non-profit in the health sector for 12 years now and only occasionally do gigs in enterprisey environments for serious money. For me, going to bed each night, knowing lifes have been saved, has been enough reward.
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by jlg23 9y ago
> But the cops were wrong for the same things that cops are _ALWAYS_ wrong for. They're control freaks, they're selfish and self-centered, they diminish other people to empower themselves. The quoted obscenity in the headline i

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