lincolnq

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by lincolnq 16y ago
I got that, but I don't understand why it should gain the value 3 before a single execution of the loop.
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Why was this broken in the first place? (What abomination of semantics would cause this behaviour)?
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by lincolnq 16y ago
No, that's not me. I appreciate the link though!
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by lincolnq 16y ago
I don't know you, but I've been happy with the Kinesis Contoured keyboard. I'm comfortable making this recommendation based on the fact that we're both on Hacker News (and therefore probably have some other things in common). If I knew your
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Recommendation is really hard. It's not a matter of execution, it's a matter of research -- and that's a risky proposition, because the research may not pan out. I know because I tried it (recommending news, but the problem is similar). I h
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by lincolnq 16y ago
"Normal" git development (without rebasing) naturally creates a branching history when two people make changes based off a common root. As was explained above, rebasing causes this branching history to be rewritten into a linear one. The al
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by lincolnq 16y ago
When we get to the point where two tools have legitimate, reasonable tradeoffs, then I agree with you. However, your example isn't a good one because Subversion has serious deficiencies and Git works perfectly well in a centralized model. (
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by lincolnq 16y ago
The reason language and version control wars exist is because these are the mechanisms by which developers interoperate. It is worthwhile for me to convince you to use Git instead of Subversion, or Python instead of C++, because I might one
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Yeah. A lot of people misread words as other words. Sometimes they are mildly funny but rarely are they especially interesting.
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Interesting. Your comment about C++0x closures inspired me to look it up on Wikipedia. The verbosity of the fragment above is greatly reduced. You had to write 'sum' or 's' lots of extra times ('Summation(sum)', 'sum(s)', 'int& sum', an
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Analogously: Ick! So they are taking a chunk off the bottom of the window for a couple icons that could just as well have lived in the title bar? Seems needlessly complicated and cluttered; just put all the icons in one place.
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by lincolnq 16y ago
ahh, looks like it's fully booked now. I was really thinking of going to this. Oh well.
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by lincolnq 17y ago
Haskell's tools mostly have the same sort of power as forkjoin (scheduling work to be done on separate threads; creating the right number of threads based on the hardware; providing an easy-to-use set of functions that call for work to be d
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by lincolnq 17y ago
It is admirable that Microsoft has a research department and that they are willing to publish their work. Not many companies can say the same.
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by lincolnq 17y ago
Do you know about cut? You can replace awk here. cut -d ' ' -f 1
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by lincolnq 17y ago
I really admire Shuttleworth and the rest of the Ubuntu design team for being courageous about making basic changes to the desktop UI. Open source tends to produce a lot of design-by-committee or completely undesigned software, so having so
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by lincolnq 17y ago
I never saw the original post, but I am interested in the question you posed. Can you summarize the results?
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by lincolnq 17y ago
That doesn't seem obvious to me. Inventions can change many lives, but the scope of a person's social life is necessarily limited. Why do you say that?
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by lincolnq 17y ago
It was made several years ago, near the birth of Git, called cogito. http://git.or.cz/cogito/ . It's currently deprecated. It was how I learned Git actually; it made the UI very similar to mercurial's UI. It was actually a surprisingly go
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by lincolnq 17y ago
Your use of the words "intuitive" and "revert" in this context betray that your models are driven by how you expect centralized version control to work. While Git and Mercurial are nearly isomorphic in implementation, their UIs differ signi
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by lincolnq 17y ago
Because prestige is what they are selling, and prestige takes lots of time to produce. The greater the prestige, the more good professors want to teach and do research there, and the more good students want to learn there. This does influen
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by lincolnq 17y ago
sorry, then this is not the thread for you :(
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by lincolnq 17y ago
What's the point of having a state field at all? Isn't there a unique mapping between zip code and state? Redundancy. The postal service can usually deliver if you screw up one of city, state, and zip code. If you got rid of city/state th
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by lincolnq 17y ago
Awesome! Paypal's "original" (Confinity) business was to allow you to "beam" payments between mobile devices. This closes the loop nicely.
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by lincolnq 17y ago
Thanks very much. I will.
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by lincolnq 17y ago
If a site has an FAQ page, I'll read that first because it (perhaps oddly) usually gives me the best detailed overview of what the site is. I will just read the FAQ top-to-bottom. A recent example was for NearlyFreeSpeech.net -- somebody li
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by lincolnq 17y ago
Not actually a run-on, which refers to an ungrammatical sentence. The quoted sentence appears to be grammatically correct.
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by lincolnq 17y ago
Can someone summarize this book? I've heard about it a bunch of times, but I don't know what it is about.
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by lincolnq 17y ago
Worse: they could say yes, but poison the referral, ruining your chances with someone that (if you had gotten a different referral) would have invested. I don't suppose that this effect is large, but it might be noticeable. Don't think anyo
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by lincolnq 17y ago
Yeah, I used Firebug to disable that.

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