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by mkehrt 10y ago
Ah, reasonable.
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by mkehrt 10y ago
There was that time Apple bought 1.25 billion dollars worth of flash [1]. And it's later made similar payments for similar things [2,3]. 220 billion in the bank is pretty excessive, but 1.5 billion is way too low for the sorts of thi
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by mkehrt 11y ago
I disagree. This is an interesting article explaining what is happening to Intel and why. But you're not the target audience if you know this already; every piece of information in this article would be novel and interesting to someo
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by mkehrt 11y ago
Take a look at vim-surround, which adds mappings for a lot of things like this.
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by mkehrt 11y ago
Probably because that's the direction the rocket is going: out over the Atlantic.
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by mkehrt 11y ago
In MLs, you can often replace what would be a typeclass in haskell with idiomatic uses of functors (parameterized modules). It gets kind of hairy if you do it a lot, though.
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by mkehrt 11y ago
English and Spanish hold their positions as popular languages based on the fact they were both spoken in world spanning empires in the past, not because they are particularly simple. English, in particular, is known for being difficult to l
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by mkehrt 11y ago
That's kind of the point of the names in that book! They increase the dreamlike atmosphere.
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by mkehrt 11y ago
I wasn't a user for a long time, but now that I am, I have to say that Instagram is really pleasant to use. It's just photographs, which gives it a pleasant simplicity other social networks lack. It's nice to occasionally c
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by mkehrt 11y ago
This seems incredibly unlikely. Anyone with a good machine shop and some fissile material can build a fission bomb in their garage (ok, it's not that easy). But fusion bombs are another beast altogether. Fusion bombs work by settin
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by mkehrt 11y ago
I have heard the claim that this style dates to the introduction of typewriters, which required an ordering of the characters. Beforehand, it was customary to print the quotation marks over the period,which can be done on a printing pres
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by mkehrt 11y ago
In SF, the Loma Prieta earthquake destroyed the Embarcadero highway. It was never rebuilt, but that didn't really cause problems.
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by mkehrt 11y ago
There's no phonetics there; just orthography.
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by mkehrt 11y ago
Kissinger?!
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by mkehrt 11y ago
Relatedly: http://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2011/10/03/140815154/di...
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by mkehrt 11y ago
Maybe randomly pick an auction length from like 0.5 to 1.5 seconds each time, so you don't know what batch you're in?
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by mkehrt 11y ago
The parent probably meant "parametric polymorphism", i.e., generics, and not "subtyping polymorphism", i.e. inheritance.
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by mkehrt 11y ago
No, there aren't such times. The suspension of habeas corpus by Lincoln was Constitutional: > Article I, Section 9: The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the
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by mkehrt 11y ago
Not in CS, but there is a strong tradition of hosting copies on personal websites. The ACM is generally pretty lax on that, but technically they own the copyright.
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by mkehrt 11y ago
I am confused by this. In CS, at least, on publication the ACM generally receives the copyright to the paper, so I don't understand how any faculty or students could actually change the terms of the license.
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by mkehrt 11y ago
This is the clearest explanation I have ever seen of this; thanks.
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by mkehrt 11y ago
That's, uh, pretty weird actually. It means you have to know whether your RSU'd employees are accredited investors to know whether you have to go public?
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by mkehrt 11y ago
You missed the one they got really right, because it looks so natural: flat-screen tv.
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by mkehrt 11y ago
New York is one of the safest cities in the world.
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by mkehrt 11y ago
The An Lushan rebellion probably did not wipe out 15% of the world's population. This number comes from comparing before and after census numbers, which is hard because (a) the census was vastly disrupted by the war, and (b) the siz
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by mkehrt 11y ago
Why why why is the help menu bound to the mouse scroll? Bind it to 'h' or '?', or better yet, don't make it disappear. I had to reload the page to get it back.
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by mkehrt 11y ago
Possibly this could be gotten around with by having the good site serve its own idea of what the hash should be. This would be much smaller than the actual resource.
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by mkehrt 11y ago
As snowwresteler says ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10297136 ) downthread: > Prism in general was mischaracterized by the early reports. It was first reported as a persistent backdoor into servers, but it was ac
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by mkehrt 11y ago
As someone who has done a lot of work with ML and the lambda calculus, having to put parentheses around my arguments in most programming languages drives me crazy. It feels so heavyweight. Function argument parens are particularly weird wh
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by mkehrt 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_Patent_Act_of_1930

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