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by kd0amg 8y ago
Well, when I'm riding the bus for the first time or at night, it's quite easy to miss when I should request a stop. I always thought it odd that MBTA buses announce the stop they're currently passing (too late to ask the dr
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by kd0amg 8y ago
I don’t imagine such a language would be well liked by the APL/J/K purists (“You’re missing the point!”) Meh. I'm not interested in code golf. I find it mostly disappointing that discussions of APL and its descendants rarel
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by kd0amg 8y ago
Do you think this new condo building helped them have affordable housing? On its own, the new building probably has not moved housing prices enough to help them more than that $450k they just sold for.
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by kd0amg 8y ago
But if one millionaire will pay (rent or mortage) more for a mansion on a hill than all the potential poor occupants of entire apartment building on that hill could pay, then the developers will build just that mansion, even freed from NIM
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by kd0amg 8y ago
What sort of regulation do you have in mind? Directly restricting price won't make room for all the people who want to live here. It just changes how the (currently too rare) living space gets allocated.
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by kd0amg 9y ago
Not sure I would say Harvard itself is "leading" this. The university was found to have been interfering with the unionization process.
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by kd0amg 9y ago
It looks to me like GP only implies failure-proneness for regulatory systems controlled primarily by people who aren't deeply familiar with the subject matter being regulated.
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by kd0amg 9y ago
FWIW, I've already got git-for-homework, git-for-academic-articles, git-for-slide-decks, git-for-lesson-planning, and probably a few other things. I'd be curious to see what passes for version control in fields other than software
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by kd0amg 9y ago
The landing page is a bit disappointing in that regard. I'd rather see example programs for listening on a socket or setting up a piped parent/child pair than computing Fibonacci numbers. I guess the fib_loop example at least demo
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by kd0amg 9y ago
How on earth does the system ever work at all? By promising a schedule that doesn't assume nothing goes wrong. Time padding means the inevitable minor delays can be absorbed quickly, and infrequent longer delays are recoverable. Also
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by kd0amg 9y ago
It gives that as an upper bound on the size of the search space of boolean functions with n-bit input, representing technical strategies that consider the last n market movements. It goes on to claim that if there is a historically winning
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by kd0amg 9y ago
There's a proof that if markets are efficient then P = NP. The only "proof" of this I've seen asserts that there are 2^n boolean-valued functions on n-bit vectors.
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by kd0amg 9y ago
Is there evidence that this explanation is more true now than in the past? It's probably worth at least examining whether they have become more capable of acting out that preference.
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by kd0amg 9y ago
Did the story of that startup make it into your blog? Building a business to sell a new language always looked to me like too much of an uphill battle in a world where programmers generally expect the tools of their craft to be available fo
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by kd0amg 9y ago
i suspect that, to capture the full value of J, one needs to already know the array-oriented paradigm (or at least have a strong motivation to learn the two in parallel) Yes, that's the power that's specific to J. Having a libra
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by kd0amg 9y ago
Abstract interpretation is entirely about the semantics of programs and has nothing to do with their surface syntax.
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by kd0amg 9y ago
What systems have you been using where reading involves a more than superficial understanding of the program? Normally, a reader doesn't even know how many arguments ought to be given to each function or syntactic form, nor does it kno
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by kd0amg 9y ago
In the latter case the copyright holder would still monetize of of, say, ads hosted on their website. I'd have an easier time with this reasoning if I saw more legal argument directly addressing why "exclusive right to their res
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by kd0amg 9y ago
False; the syntax before expanding macros is an AST, so is the one after. It's an AST-AST transformation. In context, this is about producing an AST in a "base" language without all the language extensions the actual user p
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by kd0amg 9y ago
Before anyone gets too excited about the headline, the "music ability" test they apply is strictly listening (no playing). It's disappointing that they don't appear to measure/estimate how much of subjects' pra
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by kd0amg 9y ago
It's sort of a weird position and a good example for illustrating the distinction between social and economic standing. Grad school often feels like an extended exercise in class-passing.
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by kd0amg 9y ago
high quality finishing hops are in heavy demand GP's "incredibly bitter IPAs" probably don't have a profile driven by their finishing hops.
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by kd0amg 9y ago
All Comcast has to do is not whitelist any of your peers.
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by kd0amg 9y ago
How much of that load is carried by Comcast-approved hosts?
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by kd0amg 9y ago
If I can't make rent doing this, I am unlikely to keep at it.
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by kd0amg 9y ago
One can exist without the other and most statically typed languages either forbid or strongly discourage dynamic typing. It never seemed like that much of a prohibition to me. Dynamic types take one grand universe of "values" an
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by kd0amg 9y ago
The central claim isn't that innovation won't happen. It's that they won't go mainstream because nobody has both the means and motive for good tech transfer work.
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by kd0amg 9y ago
At a glance, choice seems obvious because every nonempty set has an element, so taking one element from each set in a collection looks like a perfectly reasonable thing to do. For well-ordering, it asserts a property that people are typical
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by kd0amg 9y ago
Academia's politics Does this refer to political attitudes typically associated with faculty? academia And this to decisions made by university administrators? If so, then no, I don't expect one to apply to the other.
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by kd0amg 9y ago
Underline seems like a perfectly sensible thing to me. I've run into problems like his "same Γ, different x and τ" example many times. In PLT Redex, I have to either make sure the thing I intend to be non-subscripted is alrea

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