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Academic Torrents(academictorrents.com)
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by mietek 13y ago
Oh wow. You've just made my week. Thanks!
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Note he's about to launch: http://launch.keyboard.io/
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How have you been dealing with the existence of man pages thus far?
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Assume the universe is not just computable [1], but actually computed , that is, running as a virtual machine under a hypervisor. How do we detect the presence of the hypervisor and break out of virtualisation? [2] Bonus: What is the name
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Well, there was the Star Trek project... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_project
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It's not just for research purposes, as it's sold by Amarisoft as Amari LTE 100: http://www.amarisoft.com/?p=amarilte It's also not "they", as it's been developed by a single programmer. Certa
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Do you have a timeframe for these speed issues? darcs has been considerably sped up over the past years.
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by mietek 13y ago
Are you aware of Fabrice Bellard's 4G LTE software base station? http://bellard.org/lte/
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> ...apparently SGI destroyed Cray’s old software archives before spinning them off again in the late 90′s. Why would anyone do this?
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Squatting is not the problem. Vandalism, or criminal damage, is the problem.
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I do the same thing: I have a sleep alarm, instead of a wake alarm. When the alarm goes off, I take 1mg melatonin. [1] About an hour later, I naturally want to sleep. Otherwise, I'll end up phase-shifting once again. [1]: http:&#x2
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As I understand, Server Sent Events are plain old HTTP, unlike Web Sockets.
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Have you looked into accepting Server Sent Events instead of long polling?
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I haven't decided yet. I'm looking at using just the necessary parts of Backbone. Spine was also promising, but seems abandoned.
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I've just gone through a similar process of reviewing and discarding a number of JavaScript frameworks. I've settled on React, and I can't recommend it enough! React handles mostly the V in MVC, and does an admirable job of
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One can, and one should. We should build this system, keeping in mind the lessons of Project Xanadu. http://mesh.is/draft
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Better quality direct from the comic author: http://web.archive.org/web/20110411085435/http://www.recombi... Removed from his website on request of Neil Postman estate: http://www.stuartmcmill
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"Modern methods of production have given us the possibility of ease and security for all; we have chosen, instead, to have overwork for some and starvation for others. Hitherto we have continued to be as energetic as we were before the
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This article is from 2010. There have been significant changes in the GHC runtime system since then. Most importantly, in February 2013, the parallel I/O manager was replaced with a new design. http://www.haskell.org/
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In the age of System 6 and early System 7, before Open Transport, there was MacTCP, an add-on TCP stack, originally sold by Apple for $2500. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacTCP http://tidbits.com/iskm&#
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It's easy to switch from pixel-doubled to full-resolution. http://www.quickresapp.com/
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The Chinese Room argument is unconvincing. The man in the room may not understand Chinese, but he is using a dictionary, which to a casual observer appears suspiciously thick. Just how thick would the dictionary need to be in order to provi
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I completely agree with the expressed sentiments, both regarding TBBT and Community, which is a fantastic show.
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I'm sure Knuth will be glad to know any customer can purchase TAoCP from Pearson/InformIT in any electronic format that he wants so long as it is PDF. Additionally, Pearson/InformIT have chosen to enhance the layout of each p
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As I understand, stream fusion is still subject of active research. A paper showing generalised stream fusion in Haskell was submitted to this year's ICFP. There is also no benevolent dictator in charge of Haskell. http://
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If anyone is being disingenuous here, it's you. The first version [1] is simple and slow. The second version [2] is complex and fast. The third, fast version [3] is identical to the first , simple version, with list processing functi
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by mietek 13y ago
Please do go on about Belorussian. This is quite interesting.
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> Hey, lawn mowers can't dodge about in 3 dimensions at insane speeds. Hard to weaponize a lawnmower. Actually... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rJnXZsrMjU
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A language perfect for almost every kind of server would not allow a single connection handler disrupt every other connection handler. A single goroutine can corrupt the heap shared by every other goroutine.

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