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by norswap 9y ago
Hahahahaha I might be going to downvote hell for this, but as a computer scientist writing papers for a living, every hour spent writing latex belies your comment. By the way, Context is a much saner alternative, although it still shares ma
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by norswap 9y ago
Location: Brussels, Belgium Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Maybe Technologies: Java, Kotlin, C, Ruby, Javascript Résumé: http://norswap.com/resume/ Github: https://github.com/norswap/ Email: nor
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by norswap 9y ago
It's always been possible, and it's also always been relevant. What happened after didn't exactly belie the article.
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by norswap 9y ago
> However, almost every short- and medium-term change planned runs counter to that long-term goal. I'm not sure the C++ commitee would agree with you. Every change adds to the language and hence, in a certain sense, makes things mor
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by norswap 9y ago
If it causes problems... run and never look back.
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by norswap 9y ago
How does what you say contradict the OP in any way, shape or form? He says ask to meet people to understand how everything works. It's not about impressing them, even if it shows proper respect as a side effect (and showing respect by
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by norswap 9y ago
Why, why, why? What's the point? Why do we want this? The technology may be marvelous, if you don't tell me why it's useful, I won't care one whit.
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by norswap 9y ago
Meh writing. There are nine causes of depressions? What are they? Which one is he going to focus on?
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by norswap 9y ago
While I love their philosophy, part of me can't shake the feeling they are rubbing it in our faces for marketing purposes.
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by norswap 9y ago
So you exchange a dollar for a coin worth a dollar. Great. What is the point? The crypto ledger? Does that really buy you something? Is there something else I'm missing?
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by norswap 9y ago
Well, I for one favors GRRM over Tolkien. Tolkien has perhaps the richer universe, but GRRM is all about the people. And to me, that's what truly fascinating. All the characters are interesting, and relatable in some way (even those th
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by norswap 9y ago
Does this support (a subset of) the standard Java libraries? Where can I find what is supported? (I just saw mentions that reflection wasn't)
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by norswap 9y ago
Slavoj Zizek: > In racism, the other is not simply an enemy. His figure is also usually invested with some specific perverse enjoyment, or maybe he his someone who tries to steal our enjoyment from us.
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by norswap 9y ago
From what I always heard, the Michelin Guide has very very particular demands on your service. It has to be so and so. It's not only how it tastes, but also the formality with which it is served. (This has to be checked though.) It&#x2
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by norswap 9y ago
In the past, people said the winners would fail. In the past, people also said that the losers would fail. There are many more losers than winners, that doesn't really mean anything.
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by norswap 9y ago
This pains me too. It's hard to believe that all the new "browser technology" is responsible for this bloat. On the other hand, I will trade memory use for many things. One thing that is infuriating to me is that despite the
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by norswap 9y ago
Just because someone is going to link it, I might as well do it first: https://xkcd.com/927/ But yeah, "Too many implementations of Markdown" is not an issue a new markup language is going to solve. "M
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by norswap 9y ago
I concur. Shameless self plug about something I wrote about the first issue (documentation): http://norswap.com/ruby-specification-problem/
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by norswap 9y ago
I was skeptical, but one month in, I have to admit the speed and stability gains are worth the lost addons. Fortunately for me, I only had to give up very small conveniences. I did lose a few hours over XMarks' inability to sync Firefo
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by norswap 9y ago
One thing that gets me in the US: the homeless. For some of them it feels like they are literally dying on the street (in a very non-metaphoric sense: I saw some injuries). Also entrepreneurial homeless people, actually trying to earn money
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by norswap 9y ago
Perhaps. Yet the other things he points out can't be explained away so easily, so the point stands.
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by norswap 9y ago
Might be early Xmas for you: http://www.pcgamer.com/this-is-how-blizzard-plans-to-finally...
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by norswap 9y ago
I'm not sure. Unlike the impression I might have given, I'm actually someone that puts a lot of stock in nuance and dislike simplifications that turn away from the truth. But when you are communicating, it is common sense to make
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by norswap 9y ago
Original title: The surprising factors driving murder rates: income inequality and respect (emphasis mine) Surprising, really?
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by norswap 9y ago
I was top 1% in school and I still dislike reading, because very often, it's unnecessary verbiage. As a senior PhD student, the advice I give my younger peers and master students regarding academic posters: you should be able to read i
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by norswap 9y ago
You assume GNU is a top-down organization that selects where to invest its efforts. In reality, individuals do that, only under the auspices of the GNU organization that does provide some benefits.
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by norswap 9y ago
I'm still skeptical about super-human-intelligence AI, now or within a few decades. There just doesn't seem to be any evidence for this kind of development. In fact the only differences to 10 or 20 years ago, when people weren&#x2
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by norswap 9y ago
They don't mean "x86" (the 32bit instruction set), but i386 aka Intel 80386, a processor introduced in 1985: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80386
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by norswap 9y ago
Simplicity, freedom to really migrate your data. Sure, you theoretically can migrate your notes from, say OneNote to Evernote (and vice-versa), but doing so is a great experience in frankensteining. I'm not even very confident there is
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by norswap 9y ago
The OP's position is naive. So is yours.

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