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by lou1306 8y ago
That's a gross oversimplification of the history and structural problems of the Italian Republic. 1. "just because it had Cristiana in the name" that was not the only reason... It was more of a complex clientelism-based syste
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by lou1306 8y ago
Ew, the entry for The Dark Side of the Moon [0] is totally ruined by that "original master recording" label. [0]: https://lpcover.wordpress.com/2014/04/19/the-dark-side-of-th...
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by lou1306 8y ago
I suggest you give Xenophon a try next. Anabasis is a great adventure book, with a crystal-clear style (possibly even more so than Erodotus').
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by lou1306 8y ago
Moreover, staying confined here has not prevented us from forming nations and waging wars... With the added drawback that all our eggs are currently in the same planetary basket. I'm not even sure that "space wars" will be th
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by lou1306 8y ago
I'm not able to do an 'elevator pitch' because I don't actually work with fuzzy logic, but the fact is... the concept itself is just not the same as propability. Compare these two statements: 1. The color of this apple i
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by lou1306 8y ago
It seems to be fairly new. The bibliography includes lots of papers published last year.
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Ivy [1] is another research language built around Z3. Slides from a recent presentation of the language are also available [2]. The concept of exploiting modularity to obtain decidable verification conditions is quite interesting. Plus, it
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by lou1306 8y ago
We have an even smaller one (still 4 bastions) in my hometown. This one was designed as a bastion fort from day one, though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forte_Spagnolo,_L%27Aquila https://it.wikipedia.org&
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by lou1306 8y ago
I agree this may be true today, but the example I have cited come from the 60s and the 70s. For contex, divorce became allowed in 1970 (a 1974 referendum unsuccessfully tried to repeal that law); abortion was a crime until 1978 (again, a 19
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by lou1306 8y ago
I would like to add that Italians tend to borrow English words a lot . (In the 19th century it was the same, but with French; ancient Romans were similarly fascinated by Greek). There may be multiple reasons for that. In IT, English terms
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by lou1306 8y ago
Italy is (was?) quite religious too, what with Vatican City and a very long Christian-Democratic dominance in national politics, but it is also the birthplace of commedia sexy [1], and erotic comics artists such as Milo Manara and Guido Cre
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by lou1306 8y ago
I know HP takes a lot of flak for their consumer laptops, but some of their Pavilion x360 are good in an almost unreasonable way, if you want them to be. I got a 13'' one, with an i5, at a Cyber monday sale and used the extra mone
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by lou1306 8y ago
Personal experience: I made the switch soon after starting my PhD and never looked back. Also, their Connector plugin for Firefox is a life saver. 90% of the time I only have to lookup the title of a paper on DBLP, then export it as BibTeX
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by lou1306 8y ago
For context, here's a great post on Licklider from The Digital Antiquarian: https://www.filfre.net/2012/01/the-roots-of-infocom/
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by lou1306 8y ago
A relative of mine works at a not-so-small place (some 100s of terminals) that used to run AS400s. Years have passed, but It's still green screens galore. He explained me that most of the personnel have memorized the menu so well that
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by lou1306 8y ago
> American accents I always find very easy, though. That might possibly be due to the hegemony of the American movie/television industry? In my case, I know that a majority of the English-spoken entertainment I consume is American-m
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by lou1306 8y ago
IMO lambdas are useful because they reduce mental overhead by allowing the developer not to give names to trivial functions [1]. Compare these two equivalent pieces of code: youngest_person = min(people, key=lambda x: x.age) def
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by lou1306 8y ago
Just a quick FYI, but in vanilla Python 3 [1] you can already do a head/tail split on any iterable: >>> hd, *tl = range(5) >>> hd 0 >>> tl [1, 2, 3, 4] [1] Tested on 3.6.5, don't
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by lou1306 8y ago
Currently reading The Sun Also Rises . I have already read my fair share of Hemingway and I knew TSAR is regarded as one of his finest works, but still I didn't expect to be struck so hard by Book One.
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by lou1306 8y ago
List, Dict can be enriched with the type of objects they contain: e.g. List[int] or Dict[str, str]. Mapping is a type hint for any object that implements the __getitem__ magic method (i.e. you can do `foo[bar]`).
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by lou1306 8y ago
> And what's wrong with that argument? It is like saying "I can lift at most 100 pounds; Bob can lift at most 50 pounds: therefore, there's nothing we can do to lift that 104-pound rock".
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by lou1306 8y ago
Whenever CSP comes around on Hacker News, I feel the need to suggest people look a bit into Milner's CCS as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus_of_communicating_syst... The end goals of both languages are
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by lou1306 8y ago
The title is about "organs", but the article apparently refers to tissue transplants? No small feat, don't get me wrong, but isn't it a little misleading?
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> you can do a lot of stuff just with goto and if statements You can do all stuff with goto and if, but then again, why should you? Initially it sounds simple, but as the complexity grows it becomes unmaintainable (especially when got
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by lou1306 8y ago
> If you need to do stringy things to the data later don’t advertise genericity. [...] People will start using your function and then you’ll have to make a new method because they own the contract now. I agree that my point doesn't
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by lou1306 8y ago
On the other hand, from my limited experience in F# (but I guess OCaml would be similar) I found that, when you let the type inference algorithm do its thing, it can help you realize that your function is more general than you thought. For
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by lou1306 8y ago
Actually "Time, Clocks..." is a paper from the late 70s. Maybe you were thinking of the Paxos paper, "The Part-Time Parliament" (1998)?
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by lou1306 8y ago
> the UX was a stuttering mess. Is that a good metric to judge a developer, though? Good UX requires either formal training in the field, or a very gifted individual. In my opinion it has very little to do with the quality of either the
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by lou1306 8y ago
Since nobody has cited it yet, see Christopher's Alexander "A city is not a tree" [0] for an architect's take on "natural" vs. plannes cities. [0]: http://worrydream.com/refs/Alexander%20-%
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by lou1306 8y ago
In Italy (and other countries) we have both co-ed and inter-ed associations. "Inter-ed" meaning that there is a single association with separate troops for boys and girls, but chiefs can plan activities together as they deem fit.

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