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by lmkg 10y ago
I thought it was strange that they started with "walking" because the aliens don't walk the same way humans do! Numbers are probably not a good starting point, because they're surprisingly abstract . For example, there&
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by lmkg 10y ago
> Not if you sign it. Not always. The law can override contracts. Some states (especially California) put limitations on employment agreements. There are specific rights you have, where if you voluntarily sign a contract that explicitly
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by lmkg 10y ago
> Also, does google offer an audio captcha every single > time? Even for very high risk profiles? It might be a legal requirement from the ADA.
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by lmkg 10y ago
> "Turing completeness" doesn't mean "I can run a program written in X in Y's runtime." It's not the definition of Turing Complete, but it is a provable property of Turing-Completeness. If Y is Turing-C
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by lmkg 10y ago
The Levenshtein distance from duodenocholecystostomy to cholecystoduodenostomy is actually pretty high: 14. Transposing two contiguous chunks of letters has a high edit distance if both chunks are long. A "good" anagram doesn&#x27
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by lmkg 10y ago
I assume the implication is that the only way to obtain fresh toilet paper was to "recycle" it.
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by lmkg 10y ago
Agree. Even in the best environments with good processes, everyone with a few years' experience will absolutely encounter a case of "something was more difficult than we expected." Being in a good environment just means tha
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by lmkg 10y ago
I'm not sure that those lines of study were actually considered separate at the time. A century earlier than Newton's time, math and geometry were considered subfields of astronomy; and astronomy was considered the observation of
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by lmkg 10y ago
That was stated in the article: Organic shift through curriculum redesign and change in teaching methods. Staffing probably also played a part, although that wasn't mentioned in the article beyond Klawe. Note that students at Harvey Mu
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by lmkg 10y ago
It actually is a Christmas movie. More specifically, it's a re-telling of the Nativity story.
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by lmkg 10y ago
Let me voice a dissenting opinion: I don't mind this nearly as much as other people do. Entities invested in intellectual property have tried, and largely succeeded, to influence what terms people use to describe intellectual property.
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by lmkg 10y ago
Just to build on this: I heard tell of a USB hard drive, back in the day, that would install its driver when plugged in. It did this by claiming to the attached device that it was a keyboard instead of a hard drive, and then sending keystro
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by lmkg 10y ago
Unless you make it "your thing." Take for example the Alamo Drafthouse, a chain of movies theaters that are aggressive in removing patrons that disrupt other viewers' experience. In the few times that people have tried to com
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by lmkg 10y ago
You can never be 100% sure, but you can be as arbitrarily close to sure as you are willing to spend resources for. If you have a random algorithm with 0% false positives and 50% false negatives, and repeated trials are independent, then tec
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by lmkg 10y ago
The term "functional programming" is overloaded, but I think there's a sensible way to split the term into two halves. "Purely functional programming" is writing programs to resemble mathematical functions, with ref
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by lmkg 10y ago
The term I've heard is "upwards management." It is (unfortunately?) a valuable skill.
857.
by lmkg 10y ago
That's what OP is saying: programming has plenty of holy wars that predate JavaScript.
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by lmkg 10y ago
The practice of formal methods has progressed by acknowledging and accepting those limitations. It now attempts to prove useful properties of your code, rather than stamping it "correct" or "incorrect." FTA: “We’re not c
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by lmkg 10y ago
The incompleteness theorem effectively states that some statements will require an infinite amount of time for this bootstrapping approach to work. The only deity involved is the finite-ness of the natural world.
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by lmkg 10y ago
This approach can only describe formal systems that are finite combinations of such provers.
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by lmkg 10y ago
Bing Travel had predictions for fare fluctuations for air tickets back in 2009. It was pretty awesome back when I flied a lot, but they apparently killed the feature in 2014. Now Google's bringing it back, two years later. I don't
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by lmkg 10y ago
If this was an algorithmic decision, it was probably the flame-war detector.
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by lmkg 10y ago
IMHO, Prolog is the leading example of a language you learn for the brain-twisting, and not for actual usage. Even moreso than Lisp. Full-blown end-to-end Prolog programs in production are vanishingly rare, and for good reason. But much mor
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by lmkg 10y ago
Geocentrism and Heliocentrism are not just calculation frameworks for making observations of the sky. They are also an attempt to create a model of the fundamental rules that govern the heavens, and then to create observable predictions bas
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by lmkg 10y ago
The Ptolemic model was not better at the time, but it wasn't really worse. The Copernican model provided roughly the same observational accuracy, and was very slightly simpler. Occam's razor would probably prefer the Copernican
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by lmkg 10y ago
Access to supermarkets and big-box stores isn't as necessary when if streets are lined with small grocery stores and other retailers. Assuming the zoning allows it, I would think the increased pedestrian traffic makes those types of st
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by lmkg 10y ago
> One of its best qualities used to be that you could > have absolutely no idea what you're doing, read a few > bad tutorials somewhere on the web, mash your head > onto the keyboard and end up with something
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by lmkg 10y ago
A quick Wikipedia search says the whole Bay Area accounts for about 2% of the population of the US, and Silicon Valley itself a little over 1% (7.65MM & 3.5-4MM total, out of 324MM).
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by lmkg 10y ago
You always land in "your" cycle, because you start with the box with your name on it. All sequences of box-opening that use the method described must eventually cycle, because both box-to-name mappings are 1-to-1. Because it&#x2
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by lmkg 10y ago
And that variance is also considered "a lot."

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