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by markc 11y ago
My high-school chemistry teacher had a tradition of announcing "Automatic A" challenges at the start of the term. One challenge was balancing a large chemical equation. I recall it required solving something like 6 equations with
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by markc 11y ago
Where? Much of this stuff you describe was true in the mid-60s where I lived (suburban MN), but not in 75. >Woodstock was Snoopys friend. And a famous '69 music festival. In 75 my parents had credit cards (as did all of their friend
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by markc 11y ago
I first encountered Jimbo back in the 80's when he ran the Moderated Discussion of Objectivist Philosophy (MDOP), an Objectivist mailing list that featured brilliant philosophical discussions among the stars of the Objectivist communit
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I'd imagine that increasing friendliness in such a situation could easily be interpreted as mocking or patronizing (no matter how sincere you are) and in that case the hostile reaction isn't to the friendliness it's to the mi
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by markc 11y ago
Are "Test-case Reducers" different than "shrinking" in Haskell QuickCheck or Clojure test.check? I.e. are those libs useful for Fuzzing as described in the article?
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Sia launches decentralized blockchain based storage platform(bitcoinmagazine.com)
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I'm not a power user, but use Org every day. My init.el even drops me into my org todo list. Top uses: Engineering notebook. Key combo calls org-journal-entry which I found on the web. It brings up a time-stamped narrowed buffer. I use
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by markc 11y ago
Have you read "Why Functional Programming Matters"? https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/dat/miranda/whyfp90.p...
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by markc 11y ago
Apologies in advance for a near useless comment, but this typo? made me smile: "When Bob "sumbits" this form, another HTTP request will be sent" It took a moment to decide that it probably wasn't intentional :)
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by markc 11y ago
https://github.com/clojure/test.check
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The quote: "A customer is almost certainly violating the license agreement by using a tool that does static analysis (which operates against source code)" It's a stretch to interpret this as an admission that it's only a
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by markc 11y ago
There's also http://ecmendenhall.github.io/sicpclojure/pages/contents.htm... which is an actual translation of the book into Clojure, currently up to chapter 2.1.4. And the ill-fated sicpinclojure.com site, w
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by markc 11y ago
You and lawnchair are exactly right! Somehow this CSO is unaware of binary static analysis, ala Veracode. You can still get plenty of false positives from binary SAST, but it's NOT de-compilation. My question would be whether binary SA
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by markc 11y ago
>In 1968, Sen. Strom Thurmond found himself stopped by a police officer in Greenville, South Carolina. His suspicious activity? Jogging. Funny. Happened to my dad too. He started jogging in 1970 and continued (almost) every day for 40 ye
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by markc 11y ago
Nice. Or you can use the procedural representation. E.g. in Clojure: (defn pcons [x y] (fn [m] (m x y))) (defn pcar [z] (z (fn [p q] p))) (defn pcdr [z] (z (fn [p q] q))) (pcar (pcons 2 3)) ==> 2 (pcdr (pcons 2 3))
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by markc 11y ago
The book "Fixing My Gaze" by Susan Barry details her journey to to gaining stereo vision for the first time at age 50.
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by markc 11y ago
Nicely said. I always take note when I see libertarians and left-liberals in agreement (e.g. on the war machine, or surveillance/privacy) and wonder if there might be some more substantial basis for a coalition there.
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by markc 11y ago
>TAKE IT Seconded. I went midweek around noon and it was pretty quiet so I got a personal 90 minute tour by an NSA retiree. He was very knowledgeable about crypto history, esp. as used in the cold war and WWII. They had Turing's &qu
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by markc 11y ago
Actually the learning curve is very gentle, and you can gradually expand from basic features into the more advanced stuff when ready. Many of the Clojure features that have sophisticated underlying design principles (like transducers) can b
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by markc 11y ago
>When computers entered rural schools, for instance, guess who held the mouse? Upper-caste boys. Technology wasn’t an intrinsic leveler.. Of course it's not an intrinsic leveler. Who claims that? But wasn't it "technolog
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by markc 11y ago
>Clojure is an attempt at re-Flubbing Lisp. And it's a successful attempt - unless you require top tier adoption to qualify. >Where is Flub being used as a secret weapon, in the way described by Paul Graham? Why aren't its p
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by markc 11y ago
Very cool! Nice UI touches too, e.g. maintaining js/history and show/hide editors. I notice the app state is captured in the URL which lets you save a favorite shape. Neat. What does the throttling do? And what happens without it?
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>also outside Silicon Valley you can have tremendous wage insecurity Oh, puleeez. I doubt you meant it so broadly, but this comes across as having a very insular view of the tech landscape. There's really no "wage insecurity&qu
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Thanks for this. I was unclear on this point. So looking at the discrete log problem vs a trapdoor function: Discrete log: for f(x) = y - Easy: given f and x find y. - Hard: given f and y find x. Trapdoor: for f(x) = y
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The Cloudflare ECC introduction is well written and very accessible - however I notice that it omits a very crucial bit of explanation. In the billards example it's stated that for a given player starting at point A: "It is easy f
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>the city takes the right-most car lane, draws a bike sign on it, and tell cars and bicyclists to "get along" I bike commute daily in Somerville and Cambridge MA. My routes have dedicated bike lanes for about 1/2 the dista
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by markc 11y ago
I'm assuming this is snark, and you know full well that body acceptance is not the same thing as body dysmorphic disorder. Not nice.
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by markc 11y ago
You don't even have to be a thrill-seeker to ride all year in semi-harsh climates. I did it in Boston this year without a ton of gear - just a warm coat, gloves and skull cap (under the helmet) for the cold, and rain jacket/pants
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by markc 12y ago
Nice. I think this meets an important need in the Clojure tutorial space, focusing on the many dimensions of a typical problem-solving workflow rather than the tool setup or language itself. This sort of "how do you get stuff done&quot
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by markc 12y ago
>But never have I experienced this kind of mental strain/obsession as I do now with lisp. That's why it's so valuable as a right of passage. If you've spent your career writing simple iterative imperative loops, sudde

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