nandemo

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by nandemo 15y ago
I disagree. Mathematicians care much more about notation than do musicians. Mathematical notation should be precise, concise and consistent. The hard parts of maths are the abstraction and the formalization of stuff we take for granted. In
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by nandemo 15y ago
Whatever project you choose, please fix bugs. :-) Also, if I had a business that benefited from open-source software, I'd consider donating money to one of the foundations (GNU Project, Mozilla, etc, or even Wikimedia).
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by nandemo 15y ago
From the paper "RRB-Trees: Efficient Immutable Vectors" I ended up reading about finger trees. This blog post is a very nice intro: http://apfelmus.nfshost.com/articles/monoid-fingertree.html
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by nandemo 15y ago
Forth Haiku, linked in the comments, is also interesting: http://forthsalon.appspot.com/
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by nandemo 15y ago
If I was buying a ladle on amazon, I'd maybe check the reviews (by force of habit if nothing else). But I'd feel silly asking about pros and cons of ladles at the store.
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by nandemo 15y ago
Walking to work instead of taking a bus is hard. Facing arrest for breaking an immoral law is hard. Protesting and risking arrest (or much worse) by a thuggish police is hard. Please don't tell me that changing your hosting is comparable. B
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by nandemo 15y ago
I think you're overthinking it. I'm pretty sure other people in NZ are buying the same book, the marginal impact of shipping one copy must be very close to zero. I've got a Kindle but I wouldn't trade my hardcover GEB for an electronic vers
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by nandemo 15y ago
I don't understand reddit_clone's specific example (are there bathrooms with 2 sinks?), but I think the article does mix ideas that are wins with others that are dubious. Pens, chargers and AC adapters, toilet paper are cheap; running out o
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by nandemo 15y ago
> No, activism is effective (see: GoDaddy, Arab Spring, Montgomery Bus Boycott), but it's hard and takes real work. One of these things is not like the others.
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by nandemo 15y ago
Well, he did say this: > Nothing will change without emphasis on science, and this is true all across Latin America – actually, Chile is even in better shape than other Latin American countries. Do you know how many Brazilians have rece
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by nandemo 15y ago
Yeah, but only technically . His parents were foreign-born, he was a British citizen, his university-level education happened in Oxford and apparently he never worked in Brazil. But Chile's two Nobel Prizes are for Literature, which is coo
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by nandemo 15y ago
> It's a bunch of talk and bluster with some useless numbers thrown in that never answer the crucial question of, if Japan really is doing better, how real standards of living have increased for the Japanese. We could start by comparing
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by nandemo 15y ago
It's bizarre. Soon people will start listing whoever is connected to companies that haven't switched from GoDaddy. Makes me wish we had an intervention by pg, like the Great Erlang Flood of 2009.
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by nandemo 15y ago
I think this could be a really interesting discussion. My first reaction to georgieporgie's comment was the same as omaranto's. But in practice, like you say, we do end up doing a lot of code re-writing. Suppose we are to explain omaranto's
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by nandemo 15y ago
Grandparent comment is asking for textbooks. The Art of Computer Programming is not considered a textbook, it's a treatise.
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by nandemo 15y ago
Yes. I also like Papadimitriou's textbooks: Elements of the Theory of Computation and Computational Complexity .
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by nandemo 15y ago
From McCarthy's paper: > When a free register is wanted, and there is none left on the free-storage list, a reclamation (7) cycle starts. > (...) > (7) We already called this process "garbage collection", but I guess I chickene
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by nandemo 15y ago
The reddit poster claimed they didn't have GPS on their camera. What happened is problaby (3) above: http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/nkktm/facebook_is_reall...
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by nandemo 15y ago
> It's not 'bipolar disorder', specifically. Indee it's not about actual bipolar disorder (a.k.a. maniac-depression) at all. It's just a figure of speech. It's describing more a combination of cronic procrastination, unwillingness to do
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by nandemo 15y ago
Wait, is 5-6 hours a night considered insomnia? Or am I misreading you, and you used to sleep less and have improved?
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by nandemo 15y ago
That's why the author writes " How often do you expect...". Of course you can choose a different wording if you want to be clearer. Also, note that this happens in a face-to-face conversation, so you can always gauge the reaction of the in
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by nandemo 15y ago
That was my first thought. But it doesn't necessarily shed doubt on Zynga either. What happened here is not that the IPO failed, it's "only" that the price went down from the initial offer. Predicting a "good" initial price is hard. I think
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by nandemo 15y ago
I don't think stories can get voted down (at least for me no down-arrow is displayed). In any case, I disagree with the "the people have spoken" argument. It boils down to "if you don't like it, then leave". It should be the other way round
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by nandemo 15y ago
Counterpoint: I find it refreshing. In my opinion many otherwise interesting virtual communities degrade due to lack of some form of moderation. I don't see it as artificially restricting questions. They're enforcing the rules that preserve
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by nandemo 15y ago
> When she arrived, 33% of the student body was female, but only 10% of computer science majors were female. Today, 42% of the student body is female, and 40% major in computer science. Is that a typo? As it is, I read the last phrase
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by nandemo 15y ago
For what is worth: I'd move to the US, and in principle I'm not opposed to working at a startup. However, the H1-B visa says I that if I lose my job, I need to get another within 1 month or leave the country. So, while I'm not so risk-avers
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by nandemo 15y ago
Well, all sufficiently strong programming languages are equivalent in the Turing sense, and Turing machines are equivalent to lambda calculus in computational power. That said, lambda calculus is rather different from standard procedural pr
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by nandemo 15y ago
It's not at all obvious to me that one line is always faster (but then I only have a master's degree :-)). It might be faster in some situations, maybe slower in others. In particular, the one-line system might significantly increase the av
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by nandemo 15y ago
Another option: "never got any stock or stock options". I'm not talking about vesting. I mean not getting even unvested options. Rather common in Japan, unfortunately.
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by nandemo 15y ago
Well, it is annoying corporate-speak, but I can understand it: "this development program is now closed to the general public. It will be open only to partners that can help us making money."

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