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by mc808 12y ago
There is almost certainly a penalty applied to imgur links. Either it was lifted in this case due to relevance or it just got that much momentum from votes.
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by mc808 12y ago
Any cosmic-level communication would probably either be so simple that it could be explained as natural phenomena (given that we can't go there and study the mechanism in detail) or so complex that we don't even recognize it as co
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by mc808 12y ago
- Or "national security" doesn't mean what normal English-speaking humans think it means. The hack was no threat to the reigning industrial/government structure or the dollar.
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by mc808 12y ago
Sounds good although at that point it's just programming, and there are tools that are cleaner and faster and more robust than piping semi-structured strings around from a command line. The one real benefit that can be argued is ubiqui
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It's pretty clear what it does. It's also C#, so building up to a less trivial task will be much less horrific than find . -type f -name '*.pgn' -print0 | xargs -0 -n4 -P4 mawk '/Result/ { split($0, a, &qu
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by mc808 12y ago
It suggests that despite its recent growth, Go still has such a low search volume that it barely registers against a language that has practically disappeared from the radar. Combine that with Google's small presence in China and whate
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by mc808 12y ago
It could be that 'golang' is not popular enough for statistical comparisons to be insightful. For a chuckle, look up 'golang' on Google Trends and then add the second term 'perl'.
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There are cases where it would help to have realistic simulations instead of real humans. E.g. artificial companions, negotiations, public relations, or experimentation that would be unethical on living humans (unless we end up with a theor
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by mc808 12y ago
It can be done, at least if you're allowed to flip one of the 'L' pieces into a 'J'. 1112 1322 3324 3554 6554 6664
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by mc808 12y ago
That's completely backwards when people break the laws with impunity and/or the threat to security is law enforcement and the rest of the legal system. At best, laws are a temporary stop-gap measure until the technology is capab
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Neither does searching for a local file in the documents folder. I was referring to the "fascination with search in general" which can be invaluable when you have a lot of data shoehorned into directories or other inappropriate st
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You should flesh that out and make a blog post "Anti-patterns considered harmful".
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If that's creepy, grep must be downright sinister.
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by mc808 12y ago
Forgetting the location of a file is one use case. Another is that it's just convenient to type 'som' and have somefile pop up. Or to extract 500 similarly-named files from some program's convoluted directory structure.
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by mc808 12y ago
Like many people I went through an "objectify all the things!" phase, but now I find myself moving more and more to stateless service layers, which ends up looking like old-fashioned procedural code coated with a sugary OOP shell.
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Other software companies. Lawyers.
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by mc808 12y ago
Valuation is descriptive, not really relevant to how much they need or raise. If you can raise $1 by selling 0.00000000222% of your company, then the company has a $45 billion valuation for the time being (if I counted 0s correctly).
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by mc808 12y ago
The liquid water requirement tells us a life-bearing planet can't be too hot, but finding life in the deepest parts of the ocean suggests that the water may not need to be on the surface. The nutrition raining down from the surface ult
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by mc808 12y ago
Arrays are always objects in JavaScript, and they can be extended like any other object or used as maps (barring key conflicts).
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> customers who are not qualified In other words, "If you have to ask, you can't afford it." That's fine and I will just assume it's true, even if it's not.
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by mc808 12y ago
Um, I think you're agreeing. "Instead, you [i.e., not the deserializer] should map task to an array of values."
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by mc808 12y ago
I think the CDN alternative would be: Site 1 sends <script src="/foo/jquery.js" hash="SHA3:12345...">. Your browser hasn't cached this file, so it downloads jquery.js, verifies the hash and caches th
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by mc808 12y ago
I don't think it fits cleanly into 1 or 2. Maybe people choose not to live in deeply nested simulations because of the degradation, but that still misses the possibility that simulated people do want to keep the process going but it
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by mc808 12y ago
The argument seems to be missing a proposition: 4. It is possible to create and live in a simulated world, but not with the level of fidelity/flexibility necessary for the infinite regress that would make #3 convincing.
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by mc808 12y ago
Indeed, it appears that the root problem is not that web advertising is in decline (which it isn't), but that there aren't enough M's in that very respectable RPM estimate. Probably due to the site being a cluttered, unfocuse
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by mc808 12y ago
> a new era of "share and share alike for the common good" is upon us. Bringing discoveries and inventions into the public domain for the good of society is the primary reason for having a patent system. To the extent that it
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I'm guessing they mean a shooting may not show up in the statistics as "shot dead" if someone dies from complications 6 months later, even if the shooting was responsible for the death.
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It's actually an array of choices that have to be made consistently every day for many years, and which vary in difficulty from person to person. The choices could include changing homes, jobs, friends, all depending on their influence
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Very much what I was going to suggest, as well. But I think that would mean the Earth formed in the outer solar system and migrated inward later. Not sure if there is any evidence compatible with or contradicting that.
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I was referring to the example of publishing a hash code for a torrent. So it's like saying "Someone told me that there is a drug dealer (haven't verified this myself) where if you add up the GPS coordinates of his house, div

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