kmcgivney

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by kmcgivney 17y ago
Relatively popular on the border of Nunavut and Manitoba though.
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by kmcgivney 17y ago
Towards the end of the article, he reaches a conclusion about the importance of regional self-sufficiency which I don't understand at all. Firstly, because it has seemingly no connection to anything he was writing about. Secondly, because i
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by kmcgivney 17y ago
This reminds me somewhat of the tours they give around Belfast, showcasing the murals in the Catholic and Protestant neighborhoods.
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by kmcgivney 17y ago
This book is a little controversial among lispers. There was a discussion about it recently on c.l.l. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/browse_frm/thr... I'm thinking about reading it. Some people don't like the editing, since
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by kmcgivney 17y ago
I suppose someone out there disagrees with you.
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by kmcgivney 17y ago
In this case, that would be "DH3" according to the article. Contradiction with no supporting evidence.
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by kmcgivney 17y ago
A bit of a nitpick, but no stealth bomber has ever been shot down. That was a stealth fighter.
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by kmcgivney 17y ago
Nice troll. Isn't Hacker News written in lisp? EDIT: HN is written in Arc. You're saying that there's "little you can usefully do with LISP" on a site which was written in lisp.
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by kmcgivney 17y ago
I didn't like the butnth. I get an allergic reaction to append. Blame Ken Tilton. (defun shuffle-in-place (l) (cond ((null l) nil) (t (rotatef (nth 0 l) (nth (random (length l)) l)) (shuf
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by kmcgivney 17y ago
You are right. The Sabermetrics used in baseball by teams like the A's gave them an advantage over their competitors in 2000, but it would be crazy to think Theo Epstein and Brian Cashman haven't read Bill James. However, I think your examp
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by kmcgivney 17y ago
In the article, the most staggering bias was white women's preference for white men, but also the general preference of women towards white men. Given that these stats are coming from the USA, I think our culture - television, movies, etc -
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by kmcgivney 17y ago
Too late. MLB.com, the only site I cared about using Silverlight, dropped it last year in favor of Flash.
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by kmcgivney 17y ago
I am particularly amused by this guy's ranting about hygiene and macros. I have written quite a bit of lisp, and debugged plenty of macros, and once you have some experience with gensyms you really don't look back and wish there was a hygie
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by kmcgivney 17y ago
The OP was a followup to the article you cited. Is that what you meant to say?
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by kmcgivney 17y ago
I've noticed this with chess pieces. Play on a cheap unweighted plastic set, it feels a lot different than playing on a heavily weighted one.
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by kmcgivney 17y ago
That's the kind of password an idiot would have on his luggage!
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by kmcgivney 17y ago
How about those AT-ATs the empire used on Hoth? All you need is some rope and they fall over?
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by kmcgivney 17y ago
That's a really good article.
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by kmcgivney 17y ago
That conclusion is a weakly implied by the research (at least the way it was explained), which was based on "a computer model of how a crowd of people move across a confined space". They did not clarify how it applied to car-traffic. For in
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by kmcgivney 17y ago
Maybe he is concerned about the relative popularity of HN in Kyrgyzstan?
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by kmcgivney 17y ago
While you are correct that the population of the USA is around 300 million, the population of the UK is roughly 60 million. Of course both numbers are presumably more than the "target" you are talking about, but I think it's safe to say tha
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by kmcgivney 17y ago
OK, so I'm wondering how fast would the quarter have to travel to actually shrink to the size of a dime, based on special relativity?
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by kmcgivney 17y ago
I think it's simpler to go this route: If S is the sum of f(i)10^(-(i+1)), then you could break up that sum into two other sums (using the fibonacci relationship), express them in terms of S, and solve. I get S = (1/100)S + (1/10)S + .01