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by macmac 12y ago
5 and counting.
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by macmac 12y ago
Since both Opportunity and Curiosity are on the surface of Mars how can their present distance from Earth differ by 6+ mio. km? And even with Mars Express in orbit it doesn't appear right that it should be 20+ mio km closer to Earth. I
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by macmac 12y ago
Remarkable consensus regarding Iain M. Banks and Vinge being top choices. Vinge I would have expected due to his background in Computer Science, but M. Banks is a very positive surprise.
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by macmac 12y ago
Caveat regarding note to Hollywood: Please only allow Nolan to direct, otherwise we are not interested.
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by macmac 12y ago
I couldn't agree more. "The Player of Games" also only improved for me with time and depth of context provided by the subsequent Culture novels.
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by macmac 12y ago
Anything by Iain M. Banks. Start with "The Player of Games" and "Consider Phlebas". Anything by Vernor S. Vinge especially "Zones of Thought" series. "Daemon", "Freedom(tm)", "Kill Deci
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by macmac 12y ago
And if you favour open source IDEs the Eclipse based Counterclockwise http://doc.ccw-ide.org/ will provide the same debugging experience for Clojure.
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by macmac 12y ago
Happy to explain via PM.
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by macmac 12y ago
You could try, and Engadget would probably not, if they hire a good law firm, use copyright to try to stop you. They could however potentially use other parts of the law including, depending on the jurisdiction, rules on unfair competition,
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by macmac 12y ago
If you factor in the carve outs, notice requirements and the calculation model, it's not that bad :-)
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by macmac 12y ago
Firstly: The idea of open sourcing docs like this is great. Secondly: 4 columns of approx 25 characters - that has to be the most annoying layout ever applied to any legal document. Thirdly: The document could be significantly improved. If
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by macmac 12y ago
SEDNA = MCS for the Web?
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by macmac 12y ago
Not all written works are copyrightable. Even in the US which is fairly lax about granting copyright, a work must fulfill certain criteria to be copyrightable, cf here for a good overview https://www.lib.purdue.edu/uco/
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by macmac 12y ago
Godwin's law in action right there.
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by macmac 12y ago
If you find container shipping interesting, and perhaps Maersk specifically, Markus Völter did an episode [1] on the topic on his Omega Tau podcast a while back. The episode also goes into some depth about how optimisation is applied to so
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by macmac 12y ago
Would be interesting to get Y Combinator's take on this.
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by macmac 12y ago
Staying with the Star Wars theme here is a great quote: On Mutation and Programming: Assignment leads to mutation. Mutation leads to pointers. Pointers lead to suffering! - Anton van Straaten
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Lisp and the Jedi Masters(tagide.com)
12 points by macmac 12y ago|1 comments
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by macmac 12y ago
Too bad that it did not work on a national level.
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by macmac 12y ago
Clearly a joke.
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by macmac 12y ago
Don't attempt this quiz unless you want to feel utterly ignorant.
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Leisure: purely functional language incl. literate web IDE(github.com)
2 points by macmac 12y ago|0 comments
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by macmac 12y ago
Talk titles include: “Dynamic Organisms in Céu” “Shadershop” “Lamdu - towards a next generation IDE” “Two-way Dataflow” “Moonchild” “Traveling through Time and Code: Omniscient Debugging and Beyond” “CodeHint: Dynamic and Interactive Synthe
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Videos from the Future Programming Workshop 2014(future-programming.org)
2 points by macmac 12y ago|1 comments
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by macmac 12y ago
The to-do MVC demo is quite convincing, but it is not clear to me what the flow restrictions outlined in the presentation would mean for a more complex app.
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Two-way Dataflow in Subtext(vimeo.com)
4 points by macmac 12y ago|1 comments
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by macmac 12y ago
Instead of reading I would suggest: Watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt5Qv9tUObI then begin to meditate.
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by macmac 12y ago
The title appears to indicate that the book would be available for download (free), but this does not appear to be the case. Am I overinterpreting or missing something?
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by macmac 12y ago
This is a very interesting question. The only person I know of who has done this is David Pollak of Scala Lift fame http://blog.goodstuff.im/about
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by macmac 12y ago
As a local I can completely vouch for the programme outlined in the article/video, but one could have added a few classic locations instead of the very hip(ster) places found in the tour.

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