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by likpok 18y ago
The same could be said about C++. C is a weakly typed language and was designed to be so, so it's type system cannot really be said to be 'bad'.
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by likpok 18y ago
Issues with this that I see (aside from the obvious lack of statistical rigor) are that he gives the rats repeated input. Effectively, he is selecting for the rats who best memorize tracks 1-600.
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by likpok 18y ago
I am reminded of a story about a young Armour (of the meats). He bought a cow for $20, raised it and butchered it. He sold the meat for $20, and the hide for $2. This is the concept that led to Armour Meats being so huge. Since they did all
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by likpok 18y ago
Pattern Insight does this, IIRC. They found at least one bug in Linux as a result of copypasta. http://www.patterninsight.com/products/pattern-miner.html I saw a demo, and it was pretty slick. I have never used it on an actual project tho
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by likpok 18y ago
From what I hear, git has won the technical challenge. That is, I do not hear anyone claiming that their VCS is better than git in any significant manner.
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by likpok 18y ago
Furthermore, a formal understanding of computation will give you a good intuition of what things are "good" or "bad" techniques (algorithmically), what kinds of things are computable/not, etc. This can be advantageous (you know things like
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by likpok 18y ago
I wonder what the variance on those numbers is. It can be important. For example, the average salary of the 1984 class anthropology* majors from UNC: Chapel Hill is several million . This is because Michael Jordan was in that class. * not
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by likpok 18y ago
Yes, but I am not aware of any program running in it. c.f. XMonad. It seems that the style is for complied code (and thus low-profile) with dynamic recompilation. This is effectively a REPL, but you technically do recompile. So more of a
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by likpok 18y ago
From what I've heard from people who've used it, it is much better than viper mode/vile, so for Vi people looking for something a little more configurable, it looks pretty good.
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by likpok 18y ago
If I recall correctly, Haskell is compiled, and Yi probably is (an interpreter does exist, but there is not much of a point). It probably has a system like XMonad, where the code is compiled, but you can hot-recompile, which is effectivel
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by likpok 18y ago
As a reasoning for the defensiveness: Each side is basically marginalizing the other. The anticollege people suggest that college is worthless and (occasionally) the people who go there are similar. The procollege people suggest that people
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by likpok 18y ago
In the states, college <=> university. Elsewhere, I believe college is below university.
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by likpok 18y ago
No. Patents are required for certain kinds of development. Places where there are extremely high costs of R&D, and easy reverse engineering. Take pharmaceuticals. It costs several hundred million dollars for the studies to prove tha
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by likpok 18y ago
"objects in the mirror may be closer than they appear" If you think about it, it is a concave mirror giving wider field of vision. Concave mirrors give virtual smaller images.
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by likpok 18y ago
"Voluntary data are worthless" c.f. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=491723 Especially when the polls lack any sort of attempt to prevent double (or more) voting, and are generally viewed as a joke.
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by likpok 18y ago
Although some of those ghost streets were simply city projects gone wrong (ran out of money/support), so only some errors on maps are traps. There is one (somewhat) famous example of a trap, in the placement of two fictitious towns in Michi
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by likpok 18y ago
It doesn't work if javascript is disabled. In addition, NoScript doesn't like it (even with javascript enabled).
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by likpok 18y ago
This has been around. I remember discovering this when I wanted to share pictures found on facebook with others. A simple "View image location" and copy/paste and they could see it.
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by likpok 18y ago
The bigger issue with kernels is that they are, as you say, close to the hardware. That makes them harder to do in higher level languages (you need something to run on...). However, it is possible to do, for example Singularity. Personally,
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by likpok 18y ago
Actually, (I was looking this up earlier), it applies in the case that a signatory goes to war and the other side either a) is a signatory, or b) follow the Geneva conventions. Not that this changes the nature of the comment. It is a good p
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by likpok 18y ago
Even though this was done by MSR, there still probably is an implementation. Chris Grier (one of the co-authors) previously worked on OP, a similarly heavily secured browser. OP has an implementation and works (if the performance is pretty
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by likpok 18y ago
Indeed. If there exists some speech that is unprotected, you can always argue that the fringes are also unprotected. Using this inductive reasoning, you can cover the rest of speech. Unless, of course, the citizenry fights back. The public
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by likpok 18y ago
If someone is searching for porn or xxx or whatever is flagged, then they certainly can get it elsewhere on the internet. Justin.tv is not directing them to it, they would have already found out how to find it.
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by likpok 18y ago
Justification: if I can take your things without paying, why will I pay you? If you have to invest in security to make sure people don't steal your things, you are not investing in your business, which will retard growth.
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by likpok 18y ago
Furthermore, the overtone series for a nontonal instrument exists; you can tell which of two blocks is higher pitched. But, the overtone series is not the regular one we expect from (half)?open pipes. So it is not treated in the brain as a
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by likpok 18y ago
Sounds useful for college, where often there aren't plates where there is pizza. Other places, I think it loses some utility.
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by likpok 18y ago
64-bit -> more registers (8!) -> fewer memory accesses, so it might even out a bit.
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by likpok 18y ago
Indeed. On my system (2GB), I use Vim in urxvt with zsh. From top: .1 + .4 + .2= .7% of my ram. I could add in Postgres or sqlite and Apache (or even a lighter weight webserver) if I really needed it, and still probably not use my swap.
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by likpok 18y ago
Free is weird for people. It causes them to make bad decisions as to the value of things that they looking at. So people do mind paying for things that they see a value in if there is a free alternative. Even if the free alternative is no
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by likpok 18y ago
If you want a reasonable release cycle, without the drool-proofing of ubuntu, try Debian sid. It's the unstable branch, and gets rolling updates and the like. It is also reasonably stable.

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