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When do you really have a permission to fail?(whiteboardmag.com)
1 points by nathell 14y ago|0 comments
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by nathell 14y ago
There's another one in Warsaw, Poland, in the city's arguably most slumsiest estate comprised of three low-standard blocks of flats with no infrastructure: http://free.art.pl/zmiana_organizacji_ruchu/Watts.html
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by nathell 14y ago
Been doing something similar for Clojure: https://github.com/nathell/lithium http://blog.danieljanus.pl/blog/2012/05/14/lithium/
844.
by nathell 14y ago
> I would argue that the additional syntax isn't necessary, which is my biggest beef with it - since you can convey the semantics of a vector or a map without altering the syntax at all, there's no reason to complicate the syntax any mo
845.
by nathell 14y ago
> Clojure adds syntax, which breaks some of the inherent symmetry of Lisp slightly[0]. In what way does this break the symmetry? Lisp source code is a Lisp data structure (or becomes one when read by the reader). In Common Lisp and Sche
846.
by nathell 14y ago
> If it is a function, where it is defined and when? Call it "callable" if you prefer. Much the same way as in C++ objects that define operator() are callable; only cleaner.
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by nathell 14y ago
Whenever you have the chance of being in Central Europe -- Budapest, Prague or Warsaw -- don't miss the Invisible Exhibition. http://invisibleexhibition.com/ I've been there, and it's been one of the most deeply touching experiences I've
848.
by nathell 14y ago
Nice! Like Edi Weitz's "The Regex Coach", but Web-based. It might be worth looking at TRC's way of illustration of the regex matching a specific string.
849.
by nathell 14y ago
I had the very same problem, only in the opposite direction, living in Poland for the first 27 years of my life and moving to the UK just over a year ago. Just bear in mind that 6ft is approximately 180 cm, anything above is above, and anyt
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by nathell 14y ago
Theorem: All natural numbers are boring. Proof (by contradiction): Assume the set of non-boring natural numbers is nonempty, so it must have a smallest element. Call it x. So what? yawn QED
851.
by nathell 14y ago
Little known is the fact that Butts actually did some manual fine-tuning of the frequencies he obtained from NYTimes. E.g., he decreased the number of S's to four in order to mitigate its affixability to almost every singular noun and enhan
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It's "locking" if it's blocking(yosefk.com)
57 points by nathell 14y ago|26 comments
853.
by nathell 14y ago
For kernel-based methods in particular, Shawe-Taylor and Cristianini's "Kernel Methods for Pattern Analysis" ( http://www.kernel-methods.net ) is the textbook to use.
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New journal of computational linguistics appears, encourages CC-licensed content(nlp.ipipan.waw.pl)
29 points by nathell 14y ago|2 comments
855.
by nathell 14y ago
This is slippery. It does read coherent, but blaming oneself for everything is an excellent fodder for depression. BTDT.
856.
by nathell 14y ago
The domain name seems slightly TL;DR.
857.
by nathell 14y ago
Now add support for recurring lines/patterns, not just rhymes. Like, vilanellas, rondels, rondeaus, etc.
858.
by nathell 14y ago
Not so mesmerising as outright sexist.
859.
by nathell 14y ago
Quickly scanning the configuration, looks like it does. I've tried temporarily disabling the proxy in Control Panel, but no luck; I'm not sure this is the correct way to override proxy settings for Light Table, though. Where does it pick it
860.
by nathell 14y ago
Nope, I tried removing HOME/.lighttable with LT turned off, it got regenerated back upon restart and I'm getting the same error. I'm behind a proxy; not sure if it makes a difference.
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by nathell 14y ago
On Windows 7, I'm getting: CreateProcessW: The system cannot find the file specified. after C-k instarepl -> Start a local client.
862.
by nathell 14y ago
Fabrice Bellard is one of the guys I dream of one day achieving the level of productivity of.
863.
by nathell 14y ago
This is nothing new. Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, also known as Witkacy, was painting portraits of himself and friends under influence of drugs in mid-War Poland. He was actually making a living of it through his Portrayal Company (while at
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by nathell 14y ago
Subversion has no github because subversion can’t have a github. Actually, it does have a github. It's called "github" and is available at http://github.com . See https://github.com/blog/966-improved-subversion-client-suppo...
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by nathell 14y ago
I used a utility program developed at SAFE to extract strings of text from binary files. man strings # strings, man!
866.
by nathell 14y ago
"'"GOTO Considered Harmful" Considered Harmful' Considered Harmful?", anyone?
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by nathell 14y ago
This reminds me of the fingerable Coke vending machine of 1982 ( http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~coke/history_long.txt ).
868.
by nathell 14y ago
This responds to a very real and ubiquitous need. And fills its niche very nicely. It doesn't just make you a passive watcher: it immerses you in the very centre of action. Splendidly executed -- I definitely will be using it. Kudos!
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by nathell 14y ago
This paper provides really valuable insights about Make's /modus operandi/ and desired usage: http://miller.emu.id.au/pmiller/books/rmch/
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by nathell 14y ago
I made a mental typo when reading the name and omitted the "f."

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