mr_luc

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by mr_luc 17y ago
Let me pull something completely out of my butt: Each word is an element; the transition rules are simple substitution with synonyms; multiway system; at each step, it examines to see if the pattern has resolved into a pattern it knows how
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by mr_luc 17y ago
See, there's yer problem. Err, I mean, my problem. Le double sigh.
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by mr_luc 17y ago
That last paragraph is probably what I most needed to read. I did give The Haskell School of Expression a good whirl -- heh, I brought it down to south america with me, and hacked through a little of it each morning for a couple of months
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by mr_luc 17y ago
... Heh, no, yield isn't the same as a continuation. Yield, for iterators at least, is basically just calling a function that you've passed in. In Ruby (and now C#) and many other languages, there's what appears to be syntactic sugar around
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by mr_luc 17y ago
There was also a port of an interpreted scheme written in Java that someone brought to C# -- I think it was floating around as ".NET Lisp" or "Lisp.NET"; NOT the 'example' Lisp 1 that someone wrote in the earliest days of the CLR, but a str
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by mr_luc 17y ago
No, that's how Tweety pronounces the word treat .
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by mr_luc 17y ago
That's pretty cool! Thanks for the informative response. Yeah, when I looked at the definition of the problem, it sort of made sense. Le sigh ... dammit, I should give Haskell more of my attention. I just hate camel casing and type errors :
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by mr_luc 17y ago
I have a question about the CPU column: > 0% 0% 0% 100% This was a Quad Core CPU, so my first impulse is to ask, does that mean it was running on only one core?
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by mr_luc 17y ago
The Russians planned that, at one point! I remember reading, back when I was in junior high school, that the Russians had some plan involving multi-hundred-megaton nukes on or near the ocean floor off the pacific coast. Supposedly it would
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by mr_luc 17y ago
Before looking at the schedule, I thought: you know, really ambitious schedules are impossible. I've had periods in my life where I've had a very ambitious daily schedule. "I'm the Complete Man! There are 168 hours in every week! I'll get
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by mr_luc 17y ago
No clothes + fan. No matter how hot, you'll start needing a sheet to keep the surface of your skin warm. It works for me in an AC-less shack on the equator!
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by mr_luc 17y ago
Oy, vey! Use fatwallet.com next time -- netbooks are popular on there, and as the linux ones are cheaper, they're often mentioned. It still (probably) won't come with your favorite distro, but at least it comes without the windows price gou
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by mr_luc 17y ago
I live in Ecuador 9 months out of the year. If you plan on swinging through Manta, shoot me an email.
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by mr_luc 17y ago
I think it would be fun to go head-to-head with earlyvangelists (I love that!) and try to beat them to the punch by attacking the buzzword when it's still being born -- or even to force labor early, and attack it as a premie.
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by mr_luc 17y ago
Aha! Trenchant observation, old fizgig! To be fair, I've read a couple of articles like that and (to me, at least) they've been interesting because they'll sometimes explain the approach they had to take to support state in something as int
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by mr_luc 17y ago
I agree that it's difficult to out-train a bad diet. But 1) Remember, we're counting the difference between what you need to eat and what you do eat. So although crazily irresponsible people doubtless are regularly eating 5000+ calorie
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by mr_luc 17y ago
Bloops -- changed to "a few". At a leisurely 10 minutes per mile, that's 1.3.. hours of running. Well, overeating by a thousand calories is a lot. But even assuming you burned 0 other calories, still, the argument holds. You can, indeed, ge
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by mr_luc 17y ago
Well-said. Why try to convince the most frugal people on the planet to spend still-unearned money on workshops instead of working? Maybe because they're highly motivated to procrastinate ...
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by mr_luc 17y ago
The article itself it insightful. But, brother hackers, can we allow an article whose title is a blatant lie to be voted to the top of Hacker News? Running is exercise. Running 1600 meters, on average, burns 124 calories for a man. ("En
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by mr_luc 17y ago
We've been noticing http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=748880 this trend for a while. Some suggested fixes http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=748933 like a Hacker News Canon are good ideas that could be implemented much like searchyc.
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by mr_luc 17y ago
... Okay, you linked to Arduino. (I like Arduino - I use Arduino when I want to start messing around with a new bit of hardware, because it's practically like programming from the console; dead simple and as 'rapid' as hardware prototyping
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by mr_luc 17y ago
Have you read the book "Dreadnought"? I think you'd really enjoy it; it's by RKM and it's subtitled: "England, Germany and the coming of the Great War." It's one of the most entertaining books I've ever read. What is interesting to me, thou
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by mr_luc 17y ago
I don't understand the downvotes here. I mean, obviously, you're correct. But the NYT just said that entrepreneurship means caring more about your dreams than a house for your family. Really? That's the decision people have to make to start
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by mr_luc 17y ago
The end of the article is overdoing it: > "Was it worth it? It comes down to deciding what horrifies you more: the possibility of waking up one day and realizing you never took a shot at your dream or the possibility of losing your hous
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by mr_luc 17y ago
From another poster's comment, it appears that I just didn't understand the article -- that it's always been possible to deduct for losses, but the question was, who's an ACTIVE investor. So I guess in MY hypothetical, I'd have gotten taxed
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by mr_luc 17y ago
Well. I just looked through Glow, and ... Yeah. Anyway, to salvage something from this: all I want out of these "frameworks" are ways to do DOM work based on CSS selectors. jQuery, prototype, dojo ... all I want is $(..) Anyhow, I was in th
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by mr_luc 17y ago
I can't believe it wasn't possible to do this all along! I mean, what the hell. Are you telling me that if I earn $50k at one job, but lose $25k with my LLC, the IRS wanted to tax me on the full $50k? Was, up until this ruling? What the
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by mr_luc 17y ago
http://www.google.com/unclesam?q=wtf
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by mr_luc 17y ago
Ideally, we'd all devote consistently high-quality attention to both reading and writing on hacker news. I don't always do that, in part because of 'forum training,' and in part because I hardly ever respond to comments unless I'm procrasti
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by mr_luc 17y ago
I took that test once when I was 14, at a party, and I was INTJ as well. But the reaction I got from other people was a little weird. I sense they may have been judging me because of the J. Which stands for Judging. So the successive times

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