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US Govt. rescues Christmas.(online.wsj.com)
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by newt0311 18y ago
Those are easily understood if you consider F_n mod k. Ex. F_n mod 2: 1, 1, 0 (as 1+ 1 = 2 == 0 in mod 2), 1, 1, 0, ... So on and so forth.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Very awesome.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Actually, from a friend who actually specializes in COBOL: the number of lines of COBOL in production use are actually increasing due to regular maintainance.
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by newt0311 18y ago
The efforts of most environmentalists become a lot easier to comprehend if you think of environmentalism and global warming as a religion.
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Gas making bugs.(technologyreview.com)
1 points by newt0311 18y ago|0 comments
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by newt0311 18y ago
Thats why I like FVWM. I can tell it to get rid of all the tool-bars and window borders because I don't normally use a mouse and so all those things are utterly useless for me.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Wierd. Was I the only one who confused this with the Hotspot JVM's new garbage collector?
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by newt0311 18y ago
A lot of people already have. The fact that school voucher systems and charter schools exist in some areas is testament to their heroic effort. However, it is too little and maybe too late.
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by newt0311 18y ago
One point from the article: RDBMSs do not represent data in the same way as in the real world. This is a horrible misconception. In fact, CouchDB et al. store data like we do in the real world but they certainly do not represent data as i
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by newt0311 18y ago
Interesting article but I wish the author would be a little more concise. Rambling on about football picks when the topic was teaching was a bit annoying even though he tried to tie the two together.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Currently the biggest opponents of performance testing of teachers is the teachers union. Good luck getting rid of them.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Understand that unless the C/C++ code being compiled is actually targeted for gcc optimization, you won't get more than ~2-5% speedup in code even with -O3 or higher. Infact, go high enough like -O9 and you may even get incorrect code. The
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by newt0311 18y ago
One can hope...
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by newt0311 18y ago
And another stupid idea goes down in flames (I hope). We need more govt. failures like this. At least until politicians get tired of promoting idiotic politically expedient barely half-thought out ideas.
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by newt0311 18y ago
I wonder if google will ever open up the labs for outside contributors (or has google already done that and I have just been clueless for the past few weeks/months)?
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by newt0311 18y ago
At that point, we are venturing into LISP territory where the line between mini-language and library is truly thin (and sometimes non-existant like in the CL loop macro). My standard: Can a common JS interpreter (say firefox) execute the co
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Wikipedia vs. the Brittish govt. on Child Pornography.(theinquirer.net)
2 points by newt0311 18y ago|1 comments
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by newt0311 18y ago
Interesting article but I for one genuinely prefer libraries to syntactic language changes. We do not need another language among the thousands already there.
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VC investors short on Cash(online.wsj.com)
1 points by newt0311 18y ago|0 comments
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by newt0311 18y ago
But that is my point exactly. Why is making inroads into the non-geek circles such a high priority? Most of the cash comes from voluntary donations and some very rare instances of funding. Most of the work performed on Linux kernel and asso
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by newt0311 18y ago
"There are a lot of people who’d be a lot happier if they stopped worrying about other people’s 800 pound gorillas." I wonder how this sentiment would apply to linux DEs. Consider the design decisions which would be made if the designers of
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by newt0311 18y ago
On my computer: $ python -m timeit -s 'import re' '"".join(chr(i) for i in range(256) if re.match(r"\w", chr(i)))' 1000 loops, best of 3: 841 usec per loop $ python -m timeit -s 'import re' "''.join(sorted(c for c in map(chr, ra
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by newt0311 18y ago
It is possible to integrate encryption seamlessly with Linux using dm-crypt and OSX is basically BSD (darwin) below the UI so there should be something there as well. As for windows, I heard (somewhere, and with no substantiation) that MS w
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by newt0311 18y ago
Sorted is unnecessary: the range function generates them in the right order. The last ')' character is missing. Sorry about that. I have been spoiled by show-paren-mode. The DRY principle is great when applied to large swaths of code but in
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by newt0311 18y ago
Better python version: print ''.join(chr(i) for i in range(256) if re.match(r'\w', chr(i)) Learn to use list comprehension.
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by newt0311 18y ago
So... what happens when this guy finally learns of a well designed language like python? Does his head just explode?
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by newt0311 18y ago
You can still use ZFS on linux using fuse so unless you want to boot off of it, you should be able to use it for any file server needs when it becomes stable. A better option would be using freeBSD with ZFS. FreeBSD has much better support
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by newt0311 18y ago
Seconded. I am waiting for the day that linux has something comparable or gets over its license mania.
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Detroit gets minibailout.(online.wsj.com)
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