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by metaobject 9y ago
I was wondering about the spatial variability of radon gas emissions. Is it possible/likely for one house to report normal levels while an adjacent house might report high/significant levels? In other words, if your neighbor gets
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by metaobject 9y ago
> The biggest drawback is that there is no easy way to automatically record readings, so I do it manually. Sounds like an opportunity for a fun project. Set up a webcam (or laptop with a cam?) and take screenshots/snapshots of the
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by metaobject 9y ago
I used Bigloo years ago to build Scheme bindings to a few of our C applications and libraries. It's so much more fun to script your applications - similar to how your can/could script The Gimp with SIOD (Scheme in one Defun) Sche
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by metaobject 9y ago
I agree. He is 100% wrong when he says: "This is the main difference between public and private variables. We can’t direct access or set a new value out of our class." He should just start off by saying that there are no private
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by metaobject 9y ago
Looking at the ID on the one bar, I'm kind of surprised that they'd allow 8s and Bs to be valid characters. Seems dangerous if two rods get mixed up or misidentified.
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by metaobject 9y ago
It's much more enjoyable to use, though. Perhaps it's the dark theme, or the analog-looking EQ but when I listen to music from iTunes, it just feels like I'm launching songs from an MS Office application or something. I also
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by metaobject 9y ago
My kids still have daily recess and PE.
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by metaobject 9y ago
I believe IPO applications are also handled there.
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by metaobject 9y ago
While there may be fewer companies, are there also fewer stock transactions, etc? This system tracks a lot of different types of transactions involving public companies.
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by metaobject 9y ago
Don't they practically have a monopoly on ticket sales, though?
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by metaobject 9y ago
Long time emacs user here with a .emacs which is highly customized and is updated by me frequently. I recently added (not sure what took me so long) code to automatically install packages which are missing (for instance, if I'm starti
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by metaobject 9y ago
Maybe it's just me, but the capitalization of the commands is really annoying.
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by metaobject 9y ago
Or, the language designer thinking he's saving programmers work by jus returning the value in cases where there is a list of length one. However, he's really making it worse because now all return values from that function have to
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by metaobject 9y ago
Perhaps you could write up the process you followed, in the form of blog post or something, so that you can pass on the knowledge. I, for one, would love a guided tour through those implementations to see which parts are worth studying to
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by metaobject 9y ago
Paul Graham and Robert Morris built one of the first web applications (that's a PG claim, btw) that allowed users to build their own, separate websites that had shopping carts, custom UI, etc. They wrote the app in Common Lisp and clai
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by metaobject 9y ago
As a contractor, building 3D simulations for the military. It was for man-in-the-loop simulators where we simulated various kinds of ground vehicles and an assortment of sensors (IR, visual, I^2) and our simulation entity had to interact w
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by metaobject 9y ago
Writing code for tests, on paper, has been a thing in CS for quite awhile. While writing lisp for tests, I used to sometimes write the code with no parens (using indentation to denote nesting). Then I'd go back and add parens where a
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by metaobject 9y ago
If the candidate isn't familiar with your particular language(s)/libraries/frameworks/etc, there may be a way where you can isolate a part of your process and provide a sample data set to the candidate and give them an o
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by metaobject 9y ago
Much of the work I do that could be considered "data science" involves trying to write generic visualization tools that allows us to plot various datasets and the results from models we've built (a lot of 2D/3D/4D w
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by metaobject 9y ago
I'm not sure I'd call ~$500 million a trivial benefit.
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by metaobject 9y ago
I never understood how it was legal for these officers to carry drugs around (in their pockets? trunk?) for the purposes of planting evidence. Shouldn't they face possession charges? Unless they are transporting newly acquired evidenc
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by metaobject 9y ago
We used Bigloo for a while (with a considerable amount of in-house developed code/libraries). That project has since ended, but it was fun while it lasted.
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by metaobject 9y ago
Is anyone aware of any languages targeting the Racket VM? Any thoughts on whether the Racket VM would be a more pleasant VM target than, say, the JVM or the .Net CLR?
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by metaobject 9y ago
People with homosexual tendencies pose a danger to other people?
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by metaobject 9y ago
If someone gets off work and wants to get loaded to forget about their problems, are they more likely to get a 12-pack of beer or a pack of cigarettes?
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by metaobject 9y ago
"I've noticed there are two opposing schools of thought on issues of "insane code" like this; on one side there's "use the language to the fullest if it makes sense to", and on the other is "avoid any
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by metaobject 9y ago
That's interesting. How will these cars deal with cases where someone is directing traffic? It's not like these folks use some sort of universal gesture to allow traffic to proceed or to tell them to stop. Sometimes you have pol
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by metaobject 9y ago
For me, at least, understanding math was all about understanding how to translate symbols to concepts. Seeing an integral sign and understanding what it means, for example, can help simplify seemingly complicated mathematical expressions an
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by metaobject 9y ago
Well, N2 molecules have very strong bonds that aren't easily broken so they ddon't tend to react with much of anything inside our bodies.
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by metaobject 9y ago
Will ET resume a session where I'm remotely running "emacs -nw"? This runs emacs in a non-GUI, curses-like mode.

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