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by newt0311 18y ago
Same question here. I didn't realize that they didn't. regular expression NFA and DFA algorithms are in every compiler book out there. I find it hard to believe that guido et al. didn't know about these algorithms.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Or not: http://www.johannorberg.net/?page=articles&articleid=45
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by newt0311 18y ago
Say... I decide to write a word processor in ASM (think... ultra fast etc...). I manage to waste 3 months in the process and get nothing useful. At the end of this ordeal, should I 1) Blame ASM and use something more convenient like pytho
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by newt0311 18y ago
emacs vs. vim.
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by newt0311 18y ago
regardless of the process, the implication seems to be the same.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Nice move.
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by newt0311 18y ago
No problem. Physics goes through a major revision every ~100 years. Last revision brought us relativity and QM the latter of which may result in computers which are exponentially faster than the ones we currently have. The next one is aroun
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by newt0311 18y ago
Because clearly these banks made the government take on more debt!!! Be a little more careful when it comes to agency. It makes a big difference. Also, with the level of regulation that banks have, they are not really private entities any
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by newt0311 18y ago
Nope. Look more carefully at the video (it gets most things wrong but not this). If you look in the second part, for any deposit, the bank can lend 90% of it.
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by newt0311 18y ago
"Nothing grows geometrically forever." No, not in the empirical sense but the universe is large and, as far as we know, ours for the taking. By "'stopped' being clearly applicable", you mean completely irrelevant and flat out wrong. Also, &
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by newt0311 18y ago
Wouldn't windows have to have a usable shell first?
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by newt0311 18y ago
Stupid doesn't quite do it justice. The first fallacy is the Malthusian fallacy: namely that humans cannot grow indefinitely. If anything, history has shown as that we can. People have been predicting the coming scarcity apocalypse every fe
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by newt0311 18y ago
Too bad that the tactics that served the French so well in Algiers can not be applied in Iraq.
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by newt0311 18y ago
"isn't that what all governments like to do, because it gives them an excuse to spend large?" Well, if you are talking about irresponsible governments full of bureaucratic self-serving idiots (which would be most modern governments), then y
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by newt0311 18y ago
Interested parties should also check out pyrex, Python2C, and pysco.
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by newt0311 18y ago
OT: This is why I keep wishing that languages would grow up when it came to strings and use better optimized big-O data structures like ropes instead and save everybody a lot of headache.
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by newt0311 18y ago
To those, I would add this: MODERN WARFARE A French View of Counterinsurgency by Roger Trinquier
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Stimulus Update 2: Whats inside.(online.wsj.com)
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Stimulus Update: $0.9T and counting.(online.wsj.com)
1 points by newt0311 18y ago|1 comments
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by newt0311 18y ago
My mistake. I should look up some statistics on this. US census or some other dept. should have statistics on this.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Brilliant writing.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Look again at how your pension fund is invested. Most americans have an interest in the stock market (Exxon, GE, Walmart, and index funds are particularly polular among large pension funds like CALPERS). Furthermore, all Americans are capit
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by newt0311 18y ago
See I-expressions.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Another classic fallacy: trade is not zero-sum. Will we have a lot of new Americans? Probably. Is that necessarily a bad thing? Probably not. More Americans means more workers to produce and thus, more to go around. Also, adjusting the H1B
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by newt0311 18y ago
"But America has an obligation to protect American workers" Classic make-work fallacy. American interests are best served when corporations (Microsoft in this case) are as efficient as possible. If that means immigrant workers, then so be i
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by newt0311 18y ago
Well, a macro but yes. Still, if you have to write a macro for something as trivial as that, that in itself is a problem. Especially when other people start reading your code.
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by newt0311 18y ago
small (anal) correction: use enumerate for the line numbers.
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by newt0311 18y ago
I think thats the same patch.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Yes but lisp is not a functional language and (to my incomplete knowledge of CL) setf is the only way to modify the hash table. Thus, people have to use that form if they want to use hash tables.
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by newt0311 18y ago
The problem is not the complexity of the api but how verbose it is. Having to type (setf (gethash "foo" *hash*) "OH HAI") just for something as trivial as " hash ['foo'] = "OH HAI"" is really too much work and a significant disince

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