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by newt0311 18y ago
You might also want (setq sentence-end-double-space nil) in your .emacs. Its a variable used for filling defined in paragraphs.el.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Its psychology. Interesting as the field is, do you seriously think that that conclusion has any scientific validity?
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by newt0311 18y ago
If only that were the case. If there is anything that the modern environmental movement has taught us, it is that religeon is a powerful force regerdless of whether it includes gods or targets academics. For a more nuanced (and defensible)
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by newt0311 18y ago
"This is the same with the environment only in this case I suspect that mostly the people on the other side of the equation are future generation who get a damaged planet but none of the instant pay-off from our wastage." The people on the
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by newt0311 18y ago
Cost-benifit analysis: If the green lobby knew the meaning of this phrase, they would realize how ludicrous 90+% of their proposals sound.
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Sea change: WSJ moves towards digital freedom(online.wsj.com)
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by newt0311 18y ago
SVN with webdav and apache would work.
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by newt0311 18y ago
"more than ~1 million rows." Grow up and use an actual database.
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by newt0311 18y ago
The government (most of them anyway) can do this almost immedeately as nearly all of them have some clause allowing action in the event of known criminal activity (whether they will after this goes through all the beaucracy is a different m
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by newt0311 18y ago
Not quite. What you are referring to is vigilantee justice and most countries are not very fond of it (for good reason).
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by newt0311 18y ago
Not quite. A ratio of 7 to 4 means that the number of heterosexual males is 7/4 times the number of heterosexual females. Since the ratio of men to women in the US is ~50-50 (as well as in most countries), If that statistic is correct, at l
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by newt0311 18y ago
True. It would be much nicer to have a now method in the datetime module so that we could just do import datetime; now = datetime.now()
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by newt0311 18y ago
Until you look at France et al. and find that they have > 8% unemployment in the good times .
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by newt0311 18y ago
Think about this for a moment. 17.5% means that ~ every 1 out of 5 is out of work. Look around you. Does that even seem possible. That number is like the numbers proclaiming that there are 3 million homeless in the US and that men on averag
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by newt0311 18y ago
Not quite. Some things like back-scrolling and multi-mode are still incredibly useful.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Probably similar to a bankruptcy case though the ins and outs of securities regulations would likely muddy the waters considerably.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Still a massive improvement over the SAT et al. At least we have some correlation.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Both. Sort of. OpenJDK is on mercurial but core java is still on SVN (I think...). Checkouts here: https://openjdk.dev.java.net/svn/openjdk/jdk/trunk
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The next big political fight: healthcare(online.wsj.com)
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by newt0311 18y ago
The trick is to slowly narrow the choices. After the narrowing, you can start making simplifying assumptions and see if these assumptions are self-consistent with the test. Like a sudoku, but not boring and trivial.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Frankly, lexing and parsing is boring. Custom tags can be easily accounted for by treating them as a symbol as is done in other programming languages.
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by newt0311 18y ago
~30 mins. Its really a game of organization and considering the possibilities. I think the SRAT should replace IQ tests and the SAT. Just have a set of these in increasing levels of difficulty and grade people by which ones they manage to s
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by newt0311 18y ago
Umm... They started talking about this a while ago. It was in the SVN builds. Its nice.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Tragedy of the commons. Simple solution: congestion prices. Singapore is an example. Any others?
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by newt0311 18y ago
This is fun. When you are done solving it. Try separating the answers into words. You should end up with an interesting sentence.
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by newt0311 18y ago
From the article: "I am not a compiler guy." It shows. Queryset performance is completely divorced from the performance of the template engine as querysets are coded natively in python and just called from the AST evaluator. Also, code gene
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by newt0311 18y ago
Not quite. The Y combinator does real work. Its not just an extra point attached at the end. Furthermore, getting rid of implicit recursion does not make one a better programmer (imho).
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by newt0311 18y ago
Agreed. Recursion and first-class functions are something that most CS students know way too little about.
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by newt0311 18y ago
agreed. GTK is much better.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Art of assembly. A google search should bring it up.

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