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   by njs12345 15y ago

   Of course, most forms of wealth people have aren't inflationary anyway - the very wealthy tend to have little in terms of actual liquid currency and more stock and property. It has been argued ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation_tax )
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   by njs12345 15y ago

   It'd be interesting to see a JavaScript-like language with syntactic support for monads (do and friends) - seems like it would enable better abstractions for a lot of this type of thing. There's LambdaScript ( https://github.com/valderman/l
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   by njs12345 15y ago

   My friend's written a small Chrome extension which implements MRU tab order - let me know if you're interested, I'll get him to share :)
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   by njs12345 15y ago

   You have to have the computing power to beat 50% of the network - given the current size of the bitcoin network that's certainly not trivial.
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   by njs12345 15y ago

   That does look pretty similiar to what we did. I've emailed Plamen about it - hopefully we can integrate all this stuff to give CM users full control over what apps do with their personal data :) TaintDroid is pretty awesome as well: http:
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   by njs12345 15y ago

   I did something quite similiar last summer - we got it published ( http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~arb33/papers/BeresfordAREtAl-MockDr... ) but we never looked at getting it into CM. I guess they're more receptive to the idea than I expected them
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   by njs12345 15y ago

   I'd say handling interrupts, paging/the memory subsystem, filesystems and scheduling were all pretty worthwhile. It's important mostly not to worry about the finer details/getting things perfect - you almost certainly won't be able to make
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   by njs12345 15y ago

   I like this series; it covers getting a bare metal kernel running on ARM QEmu: http://balau82.wordpress.com/2010/02/28/hello-world-for-bare... ARM is generally a lot more sane than x86 when it comes to writing close to the metal, although
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   by njs12345 15y ago

   You'd expect better from Google really, even if they are at the behest of the film companies here..
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    by njs12345 15y ago

    Have a look into bitcoin and you'll see it's useful for things that conventional currencies aren't well suited for..
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    by njs12345 15y ago

    I think he just sent Hardy letters - Hardy hadn't seen his notebooks until Ramanujan arrived in Cambridge.
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    Agile Borat(twitter.com)

    5 points by njs12345 15y ago|1 comments
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    by njs12345 15y ago

    It looks like it could do with some polish but I've not tried it yet..
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    by njs12345 15y ago

    I don't think that's true. Clients just need the latest block (and a few blocks after) to verify that a transaction has gone through, only nodes (which are meant to be quite computationally powerful) need the whole block chain.
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    Online SVG figures with Haskell(pnyf.inf.elte.hu)

    56 points by njs12345 15y ago|10 comments
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    by njs12345 15y ago

    What's in Berkshire of relevance to hardware companies?
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    by njs12345 15y ago

    My friend is earning £40k pro-rata for a 10 week internship at one of the big IBs in London, so I'd guess starting salaries would be quite a bit above that..
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    by njs12345 15y ago

    'I do not really have a resume and even the one I have put together just consists of the companies I have owned over the years basically.' Sounds like a resume to me..
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    by njs12345 16y ago

    There's also gdb-mode for emacs, if you're so inclined: http://emacs-fu.blogspot.com/2009/02/fancy-debugging-with-gd...
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    by njs12345 16y ago

    JSoup ( http://jsoup.org ) gives Java similiar capabilities :)
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    by njs12345 16y ago

    It's a joke, look at the person asking the question :)
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    by njs12345 16y ago

    Not quite true: http://jszip.stuartk.co.uk/
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    by njs12345 16y ago

    I found that what made them click was writing them by hand. Writing a few simple programs using the Maybe, Reader, State and List monads and then implementing them by yourself from first principles clearly demonstrated for me that there was
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    by njs12345 16y ago

    What's not functional about Linux for music and web browsing? There are certainly areas where it's not quite there for some things, but I wouldn't say those two had ever been pain points for me..
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    by njs12345 16y ago

    Minor nitpick - JavaScript is dynamically typed rather than untyped :)
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    by njs12345 16y ago

    Did they succeed? I vaguely remember a lecture last year where the lecturer told us that type checking in SML was exponential in the worst case ..
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    by njs12345 16y ago

    Reddit's always there if it's not too low brow for you: http://www.reddit.com/r/economics
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    by njs12345 16y ago

    Here's an interesting paper which outlines a similar kind of approach to what you're talking about in this post: http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/132859/popularityISeveryt...
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    by njs12345 16y ago

    That is true, but one can certainly envisage such measures harming the state in the long run - increased bureaucracy might prevent some companies from starting which would succeed and therefore deprive the state of tax revenue. One Google w
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    by njs12345 16y ago

    I don't see any causative link here between the welfare state and excessive bureaucracy starting a company - would you mind explaining your thinking?