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by mietek 13y ago
Is there a usable handwriting recognizer which can deal with heavy math notation?
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by mietek 13y ago
Unfortunately, their pre-order link 404s.
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by mietek 13y ago
It's interesting to see you arrive at 'crash-only' error handling from C++. This method of error handling, usually known as 'let-it-crash', is arguably Erlang's greatest strength. Unfortunately, the designers
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by mietek 13y ago
Once again, Rob Pike speaks about generics and types in terms of C++ and Java, without acknowledging any other languages with static type systems, some of which are more expressive, less verbose, or both. Surely Rob Pike is not ignorant of
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by mietek 13y ago
> I personally use a clipboard app that I can "copy" a photo on the iOS device and on my Mac just "paste" it somewhere. That one works over ad-hoc WiFi so doesn't need a WiFi base. Others work over bluetooth. Thi
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by mietek 13y ago
> Shen sort of offers a richer system in very weird syntax, but the compiler just throws that info away and doesn't make it useful. While I share your belief in the importance of type systems, I don't understand this remark.
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by mietek 13y ago
Learning the tools is not the same as learning the skills. Of course, learning anything is easy — just practice for 10,000 hours and you're all set!
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by mietek 13y ago
gwern quotes medical studies. You don't.
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by mietek 13y ago
It's not you; it's a case of objectionably-oriented programming: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_code#Related_terms
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by mietek 13y ago
Do you have any references for the side effects and the dependence? According to gwern, the detriments are far from clear: http://www.gwern.net/Modafinil#side-effects http://www.gwern.net/Modafinil#tolerance
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by mietek 13y ago
> It did not 'nearly kill them all.' It killed five people, none of whom where in the cabinet although they were senior party members. The article you quote says 5 were killed and 31 were injured...
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by mietek 13y ago
Wouldn't visual feedback be easier to comprehend?
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by mietek 13y ago
> 1) Both this article and reference #3 make claims about not using or needing adders to avoid self modifying code, although both implement indexed addressing where you take a base address and a offset and er... um... argh... ADD them t
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by mietek 13y ago
It's not clear whether VP8 is patent-free, and it has other issues. http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/archives/377 Addendum C: Summary for the lazy VP8, as a spec, should be a bit better than H.264 Baseline Profile
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by mietek 13y ago
Do you have his address?
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by mietek 13y ago
When I move my mouse wheel, both scrollbars show up, if the window is horizontally scrollable at the moment. Horizontal scrolling with the mouse wheel is done by moving the mouse wheel with the shift key down. Note that just touching the tr
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by mietek 13y ago
If you hate that your scrollbar is hidden when not in use, you can go to System Preferences / General and change the "Show scroll bars" setting to "Always". If you hate that my scrollbar is hidden when not in us
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by mietek 13y ago
I was nodding along, when suddenly... > One alternative is to ignore iOS and OS X users. But that’s not very nice. There are many scrolling libraries available that you can use, such as NiceScroll. > Or you can just make your own i
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by mietek 13y ago
> Conpig threads still can only run on one core of a processor. This isn't true concurrency. Scaling to 20 million requests per second over 40 cores on a single machine is true concurrency.
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by mietek 13y ago
Thanks, I've looked around and have the necessary parts, but not the necessary knowledge. Time is also a rather limited commodity. Looking forward to any responses!
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by mietek 13y ago
Can you go into a little more detail, or point me to a more in-depth personal account of using Genera?
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by mietek 13y ago
> I used to think this too, but realised that it is not quantitatively different to me whether I spend the time getting something to compile, or spend the time getting it to execute correctly. When do you determine you've gotten i
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Smalltalk, Haskell and Lisp(storytotell.org)
2 points by mietek 13y ago|0 comments
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Things in Haskell which don't exist elsewhere at all(reddit.com)
170 points by mietek 13y ago|87 comments
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by mietek 13y ago
> Haskell doesn't count, since you need to turn on about a dozen GHC language extensions in order to incorporate the last 20 years of research. I don't follow. Turning on a language extension is as simple as adding a single
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by mietek 13y ago
Do you know what's the backstory?
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by mietek 13y ago
Here is this month's intro course by Conor McBride: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~ok259/agda-course-13/
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by mietek 13y ago
Thanks for sharing this. The machine looks like something out of an alternative future...
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by mietek 13y ago
Probably Amazon bot bidding wars: http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358
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by mietek 13y ago
A common trick to insert a EU-style plug into a UK-style socket is to temporarily insert something in the ground pin socket. An ordinary house key works well, and has the added bonus of shocking bystanders. Granted, UK-style plugs really ar

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