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by minopret 14y ago
I wonder. Here's a relevant one-year-old item from The Red and Black newspaper (more about The Red and Black at Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_and_Black ): http://www.redandblack.com/news/professor-deals-with-elabora...
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by minopret 14y ago
So, at how many RPM does Che turn in his grave?
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by minopret 14y ago
Taiwan includes Foxconn. I for one was not sufficiently inquisitive to learn that until now.
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by minopret 14y ago
Good point. I heard of Tsingtao a long time ago, possibly before any other Chinese brand.
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by minopret 14y ago
Besides Lenovo? I had seen Alibaba.com come up in my searches for electronic knick knacks. It's impressively huge. Baidu Baike comes up in discussions of what could compare to Wikipedia, although I'll admit I wasn't able to spell it without
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by minopret 14y ago
Indeed, Gregory Chaitin uses a Lisp without parentheses. It just requires that every function must have a predetermined and fixed arity.
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by minopret 14y ago
Yeah, good gracious, how many better Clojures do we need?
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by minopret 14y ago
Exactly, that's what a "fixed point" is. Fun fact about fixed points #1: Put a sheet of paper on a desk. Notice the precise area of the desk's surface that it covers. Now ball up the sheet of paper however you wish, without tearing it. Put
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by minopret 14y ago
Maybe we cannot. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v361/n6407/abs/361040a0...
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by minopret 14y ago
or "petty dictators" if you prefer (I do).
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by minopret 14y ago
Just my testimonial for the book The Now Habit. I found it on the library shelf at work. Was skeptical but interested. Borrowed it. Loved it. Told people. Endured their jokes about how long I would take to finish reading it, if ever. Starte
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by minopret 14y ago
Can you insert "tee" into a running pipeline? Can you insert an additional writer to a running "tee" process? I think not. Like you I imagine there's an old way to do these things, but I think that "tee" is not quite it. Maybe you could wri
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by minopret 14y ago
Fun. Only two deaths at motels? Good start. Also, searching for "John" provides fast results on a single page. OK, but searching for "e" is not as quick. There is a usual degree of data inconsistency, for example for "Titanic".
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by minopret 14y ago
I like the question. Until and unless the person who chose it wishes to answer, here's my attempt at a more-than-complete answer. I guess orange may be chosen as a rather eye-catching color. A reddish orange may be chosen to be a bit more t
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by minopret 14y ago
Thanks for explaining. I did not know that only an inside joke is appropriate to the spirit of HN. OK.
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by minopret 14y ago
Based on this exploit if not on general principle, it seems advisable to wrap a sandboxing runtime in additional protections. For example codepad.org says: "When your app is remote code execution, you have to expect security problems. Rathe
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by minopret 14y ago
It's a Monty Python sort of joke? Interviewer: (sings) Good night, ring-ding-dingy. (shouts) Five, four, three, two, one! Candidate: (cackles like a chicken) Interviewer: (writing) Good! Very good, indeed!
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by minopret 14y ago
Perfect! My four-year-old has begun to ask me sometimes at bedtime why people have to die. Now instead of merely saying prayers with him, I can tell him, y'know, your cells count down their telomeres because otherwise cancer would be even m
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by minopret 14y ago
I am neither, so I cite sources and add acknowledgments. And apologies. (Sorry to go off topic.)
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by minopret 14y ago
Cole's law. (is mostly shredded cabbage)
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by minopret 14y ago
I haven't actually learned monads yet, but am I correct that the end of this article leaves readers a hair's breadth away from an introduction to monads (and without another round of distracting analogies)? And that reminds me, lately I hav
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by minopret 14y ago
Yes, we can refer to Dave Eggers's younger brother in a HN headline. And in a comment we can link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem (= http://en.wikipedia.org/?oldid=536692814 )
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by minopret 14y ago
What about the materials and structure of a train car - can they sustain instantaneous force required to stop a speeding train? RRRIP! Oops, maybe not.
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by minopret 14y ago
Merely humorous comments detract from the true comedic function of Hacker News, to satirize Reddit. I'm kidding?! As to the community, it seems to support our gracious host's objection, not to jokes as such, but to jokes based in meanness o
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by minopret 14y ago
I suppose nearly all of those reading Hacker News (and the majority of the people in USA) are in the global 2% or so, at least if we measure similarly as here: http://www.globalrichlist.com/
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by minopret 14y ago
Service is widely considered a key measure of excellence for academics, along with research and teaching. I value my SO rep because it accords approximately with how much (whether in quality or quantity) I have served the site's readership.
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by minopret 14y ago
"A few years ago, Google Scholar started displaying inbound citation counts for papers... . Scientists have started to see these inbound citation counts as a way to demonstrate the impact of their work..." Let's note that article citation c
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by minopret 14y ago
On the subject of a piece of chalk, although both are fine, I enjoy T. H. Huxley more than G. K. Chesterton. If Mr. Taleb disdains me, he need not seek my company.
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by minopret 14y ago
I'm curious how quickly someone will post a parser to run this interpreter, perhaps using javaparser (LGPL on the web http://code.google.com/p/javaparser/ and in Maven: com.google.code.javaparser:javaparser:1.0.8).
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by minopret 14y ago
The PDF's metadata and the Internet Archive Wayback Machine say that this item (available via http://www.sirc.org/publik/flirt.html ) originated thirteen years ago. Surely we readers of Hacker News don't fit the "awkward geek" stereotype t

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