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by kwantam 15y ago
This is a toy I built in the last couple weeks to scratch an itch I'd had for a while. It's a Scheme-ish take on stack programming with purely postfix operations throughout. It's not hugely pretty, but I think it has some nifty concepts: un
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Lviv : a functional/stack hybrid programming language(github.com)
4 points by kwantam 15y ago|1 comments
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by kwantam 15y ago
I can tell you right now I'd never hire someone who wasn't able to compute the result of a linear differential equation without using a computer, because it's something that every person I hire needs to do very frequently while designing ci
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The Akiyama-Tanigawa algorithm for Bernoulli numbers(cs.uwaterloo.ca)
1 points by kwantam 15y ago|0 comments
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by kwantam 15y ago
It's fair to point out that classes that aren't widely taken are called by name because the numbers are less useful, and perhaps I should rephrase a bit: how about "such a distinction among well-known classes is usually a sign of respect".
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by kwantam 15y ago
How many hours a week do you need to spend for 4 courses? As you'd expect, it varies substantially person to person. Nominally, each course should take up 12 hours per week, including time spent in class ( n units means n hours per wee
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by kwantam 15y ago
Unified is one of the few classes known around MIT by name rather than number. Such a distinction is reserved only for classes with a reputation for being especially difficult and time consuming. The three that come to mind immediately are
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by kwantam 15y ago
My desktop's monitor is about 100 dpi and it looks fine. I have a laptop with a 125dpi screen and a netbook with a 150dpi screen, and it looks fine there, too. Just tried it under a Debian chroot on my phone (N900) and it was tiny but very
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by kwantam 15y ago
Several others here have suggested my favorite font already, the standard 6x13 "Fixed" bitmap font. Pretty much every Linux machine has a version of this, but most modern Debians (and probably others) that ship with fontconfig have bitmappe
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by kwantam 15y ago
Maybe, but not via requirements. If you don't take a course that teaches you to code, you're expected to pick it up on your own when you need it (most non-EECS engineering majors end up with lots of Matlab coding experience, for example, bu
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by kwantam 15y ago
Really? Some evidence for this claim would be very useful. How many people are boycotting the Kindle because the lending feature is broken? How fast would I get sued if I made a magical piece of software that allowed people to lend digita
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by kwantam 15y ago
Freedom is almost always lost in small steps. Sure, discontinuities happen in extreme cases (e.g., the WTC's destruction -> the PATRIOT Act), and when they do a lot of people notice. The more subtle losses in freedom that occur graduall
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by kwantam 15y ago
Oh, I completely agree that in theory there are solutions to this problem. In practice, it's going to be difficult to get a group of companies to rip off their steering wheels when the game of chicken starts. Perhaps a group of lawyers and
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by kwantam 15y ago
IBM may well have such a patent very soon. http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2007/0244837.html
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by kwantam 15y ago
This is a situation where the locally optimal solution is globally suboptimal. You're doomed to a death of a thousand cuts if you play along with patent trolls, even if each cut is comparatively small. Clearly "let's cooperate and put troll
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by kwantam 15y ago
The motive for fighting it is that by crossing the line from "robotic indexer of the web" to "provider of curated search data", Google assumes substantial responsibility for the content of websites outside their control. This is a nightmari
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by kwantam 15y ago
A few weeks ago I tried to register Google Apps on a domain I purchased, and found that it'd already been registered by someone else. I sent an email to the support team explaining that there was a previous account and that I was the new ow
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by kwantam 15y ago
If the interest rate they pay on the borrowed money is lower than the interest rate they get from sitting on their cash, spending the cash has marginal cost equal to the difference between the rates. It always makes sense to borrow if the r
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by kwantam 15y ago
A thought experiment: how quickly would this bill be killed if Facebook played hardball and threatened to kill all California accounts?
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by kwantam 15y ago
From your response it seems to me like you didn't read the article. The point of the article is to add a nonce to the standard salt+password scheme so that if you get the salt+password table, you still don't have enough info to brute force
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by kwantam 15y ago
This seems more complicated than it has to be. hash(salt + nonce + password) gets the same job done. If you don't trust your hash algorithm... pick a new one. EDIT: It occurs to me that this whole notional improvement (the one from the arti
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by kwantam 15y ago
If you're not using anyone P3k-incompatible libraries, and if you don't anticipate doing so in the future, and if you think you need something that is offered in 3.x that 2.7 doesn't offer, then it seems reasonable to go with 3.x. For examp
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by kwantam 15y ago
2) Apple will start to abandon their restrictive “Made for iPod”(TM) program and adopt the Arduino in some way for accessory development Phil's a cool, intelligent guy, but this statement pegs my meter somewhere between "excessive optimis
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by kwantam 15y ago
I own and have read this book, but I don't know how strongly I can recommend it to others. Before reading the book, I was already pretty well versed in Haskell, having developed a bunch of moderately-sized and somewhat useful projects in it
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David Beazley discusses the Python GIL(blip.tv)
4 points by kwantam 15y ago|1 comments
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by kwantam 15y ago
I sudo su very frequently because I'm almost always executing more than one command as root. Standard warnings apply, but my approach for being sure that I am who I think I am is to put my username in my prompt and color code it so that whe
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by kwantam 15y ago
A simpler explanation is that many Linux distributions discourage the use of su altogether in favor of sudo, which gives you finer grained control over this sort of thing than wheel ever did. In any case, if you really care, just enable pam
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by kwantam 15y ago
Could you expound upon this a bit please?
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by kwantam 15y ago
I don't think the idea is to indicate whether or not the username is correct. No matter what the user enters for the username, when you spit back "username or password incorrect," fill the username with what they typed. A brute force attack
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by kwantam 15y ago
You're absolutely right. The source for my original number was quoting a narrow band of wavelengths and making some additional assumptions about usability of energy flux. Thanks for the correction; I'm a bit less of a pessimist now :)

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