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by nnq 10y ago
Your thinking is correct and precise, but I hope you never take a job of documentation writer for any project I will ever have to work with :) My example of documenting re.findall all would be smth like this: Signature: re.fin
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by nnq 10y ago
> he kind of technical documentation I love to read: precise Nothing precise about it. Method signatures don't even include a clear description of what they can f return! I have to go and fish this infos from the text blob below.
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by nnq 10y ago
So where can I sign up for having my stomach replaced with a matter-antimater reactor or whatever it is this gadget that actually gives me access to this energy?
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by nnq 10y ago
Hope this Zika thing scares enough people in the developed world to finally start a world-wide program for completely eradicating all disease bearing mosquitoes. And hopefully skip the damn talks about "the consequences of removi
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by nnq 10y ago
Ha! Same for me. Even hated the news of them buying Fireworks... good insight as they eventually killed it. But once you learn the keyboard shortcuts and start to think in terms of "what group of things would I want to manipulate &#
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by nnq 10y ago
Or maybe 'cause the countries with rhinos are generally poor, while China is relatively filthy rich? (at least if you divide the wealth by the number of people with power, not by the "entire total"). When you have malaria, AI
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by nnq 10y ago
also, this indirectly reminded me of what I thought to be one of DC's greatest talks: Monads and Gonads ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0EF0VTs9Dc )
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by nnq 10y ago
Side note on the API of the PHP lib implementing this: could we please stop using the fluent/query-builder pattern with closures? It's the most disgraceful code style I've seen, and misleading: makes you mind think smth. asyn
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by nnq 10y ago
Isn't it quite obvious that in any "coldwar type" scenario it's advantageous to ban civilian research on anything you don't want you enemies to also get their hands on? At least if: (a) you're arrogant enough
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by nnq 10y ago
> C's type system has some safety issues, but it's still safer than Python's. Uhm. An error in Python code code can lead to a runtime crash with an exception or a bad result ...most of the time. An error in C can lead to
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by nnq 10y ago
Water is abundant. Plenty of it on this planet. Should be extremely cheap... if you think of "water in general". But start to divide it based on what composition it has, where it is, how much it costs to transform quality Q
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by nnq 10y ago
Purely anecdotical, but most of the women with a STEM education or interest I've heard from had a strong visceral dislike for calculus and strong attraction towards algebra . And not in the US. And also including mathematics graduat
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by nnq 10y ago
> The truth of the matter is that ideas are cheap They are cheap because we let them be cheap. There should be markets for ideas just as they are for goods! We're at at a very "socialist paleolitic" stage when it comes t
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by nnq 10y ago
> company B is liable for A's costs to develop the new system No, just for the difference between the cost of developing system A' that could have been developed instead of A had it not been for the requirement for going around
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by nnq 10y ago
ok, thanks. if this is your goal, then it seems like the right tool. monadic syntactic sugar helps too, so... ir fits.
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by nnq 10y ago
I still don't quite get it though... Is being impractical actually a virtue for a strictly typed functional language nowadays? Like "if it hurts more, you'll learn more" or something? Why would you drive a beginner towar
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by nnq 10y ago
Was a strain of Aspergilus Niger - http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/05/0506_050506_... . Same kind of mold you find in your kitchen on forgotten fruit, but probably this strain was different enough
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by nnq 10y ago
> This is a fundamental hole in security with no logical workaround. There is no hole in anything. You're not violating anyone's privacy or stealing anything from anyone. Even the bandwith is given to you for free. It's ho
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by nnq 10y ago
Not supporting war crimes or anything, but a more "heavy-handed or not-at-all" american involvement in foreign conflicts would be much better. Like: 1. if you decide to invade Iraq, do a f proper large scale invasion, sweep the wh
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by nnq 10y ago
Don't follow american politics that much, but hats off to Peter Thiel for having the courage to support Trump! Even if a person seems horrible as a human being, if some of his/her ideas make sense and align with your ideas, than
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by nnq 10y ago
And... > That makes it really hard to render into ascii, which is one of the many reasons I think it's a bad idea. ...this is one idea that I really dislike. We have touchscreens everywhere, soon 3D glasses everywhere, a whole ple
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by nnq 10y ago
> The whole point of the triangle notation is that it's two-dimensional. Nope. I'm arguing that what the OP calls "triangle notation" is just a particular representation of a cool idea. The idea actually happens to
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by nnq 10y ago
Nope... The triangle notation is actually awesome because it does NOT put all the focus on the fact that EXP, SQRT an LOG are functions , and it actually promotes thinking at a higher level than first order functions: it's about a
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by nnq 10y ago
Is this based on real world examples (like, Lisp projects that you know have failed because the code has turned into an unmaintainable mess), or just using your intuition to extrapolate along the lines of "uh, this language is very fle
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by nnq 10y ago
So, can I use the ones with faces of people in them if they don't have a Model Release Form... ?
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by nnq 10y ago
May the gods have mercy on the soul of who'll maintain code using these... "techniques". (I know because back in the days I've written things like this myself :) ..probably the curses whispered by those who've had t
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by nnq 10y ago
This also makes sense if you think the evolutionary biology of it: if after a small number of top runners separate from the pack (even if they happen to be the "top" runners of a race by pure luck, and even if their relative order
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by nnq 10y ago
Let's have at least some faith in humanity and not go that far, ok? :) 'cause if you're talking about what using bio engineering for war would mean (and what you're talking is in that category: a country damaged by such
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by nnq 10y ago
> Why is it imperative for consumers to know the types of poisons to which a plant was given resistance? Because this is the specific case in which the economical incentives of producers are massively unaligned with the health interes
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by nnq 10y ago
How about stopping to use stupid and confusing terms like "G.M.O."?! Manufacturers should be forced to label their plants explicitly with one of a set of standard labels like: - "engineered to be tolerant to spececific

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