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721.
by lgas 10y ago
It's "operating system".
722.
by lgas 10y ago
Crawling.
723.
by lgas 10y ago
I haven't met a formidable Cones of Dunshire computer player, AI or otherwise yet, so for now I remain unconvinced :)
724.
by lgas 10y ago
There's always some way to get around this kind of thing. If nothing else you could start a C corp and sell off the "profitable division" of the PBC to the C corp, etc.
725.
by lgas 10y ago
A counter example would be the easiest way to disprove it.
726.
by lgas 10y ago
He delegates to his other paper with "A long discussion of the issues can be found in my submission to MASPEGHI 2013 [1]". That paper can be found here: http://www.cs.jyu.fi/maspeghi2013/papers.html specific
727.
by lgas 10y ago
It has risen.
728.
by lgas 10y ago
I think this really depends on what your background is and what your personal expansion of "understand" is. Assuming a cold start (which would never actually be case), with your approach it would take seven years to get through e
729.
by lgas 10y ago
Is there any reason the compiler can't just emit optimized code for both the string and int cases?
730.
by lgas 10y ago
Literally everyone starts out young.
731.
by lgas 10y ago
I don't think he's being pedantic, it's the opposite of the general usage. The bus factor is the number of people that have to be hit by a bus to cause real problems for your project. Higher is better.
732.
by lgas 10y ago
It is not for me.
733.
by lgas 10y ago
It's best to understand that language evolves over time and despite the fact that "real-time" has had a specific meaning in the context of software for quite some time, it now has another meaning, under which all of the above
734.
by lgas 10y ago
All of your error handling code re-writes functions in live code to replace failing function calls with calls to function that would succeed?
735.
by lgas 10y ago
aduffy is Andrew Duffy, who at least on twitter, presents as male. Sometimes people do know other people's gender.
736.
by lgas 10y ago
...but is hidden behind a login.
737.
by lgas 10y ago
Your function doesn't do the same thing his does -- his skips comparing some of the lines because he's selectively incrementing the loop counter.
738.
by lgas 10y ago
Something like Clojure's spec would allow you to fix the meaning of symbols across one or more cooperating processes without requiring them to actually be global. With an appropriate mechanism for coercions you could even have three c
739.
by lgas 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God's_algorithm
740.
by lgas 10y ago
Well, except "inflammable" means "flammable", so the "un" is the only negative, and it has exactly the impact on the meaning of the word that it always does.
741.
by lgas 10y ago
No one cares if people prefer this writing, they only care if it's effective or not.
742.
by lgas 10y ago
There are GUI versions of emacs too, some on platforms where they are not expected to respond to Ctrl-Z.
743.
by lgas 10y ago
How so?
744.
by lgas 10y ago
You don't have a device in your pocket that will vend you an endless stream of cheese wedges 24 hours a day though... That gives me an idea for a startup.
745.
by lgas 10y ago
NTP is more analogous to an SMTP server, HTTP server or any of the other myriad servers anyone can run on the internet with absolutely no vetting. The CA system is something different entirely. If you're confident that an NTP server
746.
by lgas 10y ago
I've been served more ads from Google than from Facebook and I've never clicked on one of those either... but somehow Google has managed to turn a profit during that same time.
747.
by lgas 10y ago
Because most social graphs are of "users" not "people".
748.
by lgas 10y ago
That's just because your brain has seen it so many time it's been rewired to be bored of it.
749.
by lgas 10y ago
Steal their credit cards. Just kidding, don't really do this. (Do it).
750.
by lgas 10y ago
Yes.

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