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by judk 12y ago
This provides a clearly certified contact info and opening bid to streamline the random process.
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by judk 12y ago
What kind of person doesn't get hacked?
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by judk 12y ago
I know nothing about Korea, but one possibility is that a small phenomenal success generates an industry or makework that is effectively just siphoning off the value of the core success. Imagine a startup that generates a $billion in profit
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by judk 12y ago
Feynman actually found that the lectures kind of flopped as a semesters courses. It was too intense, IIRC.
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by judk 12y ago
> Books are clearly worse in virtually every context than one on one dialog with the author. This is what Feynman himself wrote in the preface to the books under discussion.
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by judk 12y ago
When your project gets larger than one super screenful, the story changes, though. You'll need to see how things relate in the Birds-eye view.
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by judk 12y ago
What is the signed value of 0-UINT_MAX? There is no way to handle this issue on machine types, unless part of the range is reserved for overflow and checked. But performance nuts intentionally discard safety for performance.
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by judk 12y ago
All of this is type-safe, if the operations check for out-or-range values and signal appropriately.
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by judk 12y ago
The USPS is only partially public. It is mostly a private company with a government influenced charter, which is the same basic structure as every corporation.
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by judk 12y ago
What standard? The US Post office scans the mail it handles.
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by judk 12y ago
There is a wide gulf between beautiful Haskell and Basic-in-Haskell. There ate more direct techniques to optimize recursive logic, including (as another commenter notes) waiting a few years for someone to improve the compiler itself.
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by judk 12y ago
Let's stop being silly. No substance is or is not a poison. You have to talk about concentration and mass relative to everyday exposure when you claim something is poison.
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by judk 12y ago
And my grandmother said dietary oil causes acne. Conventional wisdom isn't science. If it were, all science would ever do is confirm conventional wisdom.
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by judk 12y ago
Tolerating is not the same as agreeing. There is no meaningful alternative to allowing app deletion.
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by judk 12y ago
Married filing separately doesn't change tax rates, it just splits the tax into two paper trails.
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by judk 12y ago
Um, yes? It is bizarre how unaware some folks are of how human civilization has been organized for centuries.
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by judk 12y ago
Or the crime is on pike/pine because the densest area where the most people live, and poore people always live in smaller homes which means denser population. Or it's a conspiracy, I guess.
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by judk 12y ago
Let's end fuding for the massively more expensive wars of amusement before we fret over funding for health care.
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by judk 12y ago
Most trained biologists leave the field due to lack of job opportunities. Labs are not hard to scale horizontally, and likely aren't even at capacity now due to lack of funded researchers.
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by judk 12y ago
So perhaps it's best to, at his death, not destroy the principles he lived for.
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by judk 12y ago
HTML is a subset of lisp with a different syntax. The rest of your point holds without lashing out at HTML. In different environments, different syntaxes show strength. What happens if you misplace a ) vs misplacing an </tag> ?
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by judk 12y ago
Let's not humiliate him by dragging his past mistakes into the limelight
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by judk 12y ago
https://www.google.com/search?q=orientated How's the weather over there in America today? Arrogance is unbecoming. If you must be a jerk, you ought also be correct.
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by judk 12y ago
Informally, dynamically types languages are chosen when the programmer prefers to get something running before getting something running correctly. Why would we assume then that once a program is running, the programmer would "find rel
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by judk 12y ago
This is my reqctioe to every Mathematica blog post. They nerd to write posts that walk through how a beginner could learn to do this stuff without a 15-year career at Mathematica, or it's all sizzle and no steak.
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by judk 12y ago
Or it's just how amateurs write code before they no better.
447.
by judk 12y ago
One the IV lawyers gave my kid a stuffed toy. I felt dirty accepting it, once I learned the provenance.
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by judk 12y ago
Because he likes money, and likes what money buys, and likes what LOTS of money buys. It's not unusual by any means. Morally bankrupt, but not unusual.
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by judk 12y ago
If you are working hard to survive, you don't have time to think and experience existential dread. If you have time, you have the luxury Seneca talks about.
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by judk 12y ago
Why don't you? (This is an Open Source koan)

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