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by ohyes 15y ago
But it isn't a monopoly. There is no single entity controlling all of the public schools. There is no Gates or Rockefeller of education. Each school is controlled by the state and local government, which is in turn controlled by elected off
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by ohyes 15y ago
How did this article hit the front page? What is insightful or interesting about it? "This attitude is a natural outgrowth of our decision to operate education as a monopoly." This is blatantly not true, in the US we do not operate educatio
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by ohyes 15y ago
Ideally yes, but I believe (and note that I am not a patent lawyer), that you can also have patents for 'methods of doing business'. Methods of doing business are closer to 'buying something with one click,' as they aren't tied to a physica
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by ohyes 15y ago
"But that means that I can’t really talk to my friends about the stuff I do for my classes, which is frustrating. Sometimes, there’s a really cool idea presented in class, but it’s only cool if you already know the background information to
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by ohyes 15y ago
Trespass still wouldn't be a federal offense, it would be a state issue. He isn't being charged with trespass.
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by ohyes 15y ago
"I follow Danny on Google Plus, and filed him away in the appropriate circle." He's doing it wrong. You don't file people by their interests, you file people based on how interested you are in them. I have family, close friends, acquaintanc
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by ohyes 15y ago
>I don't think anyone is denying that Swartz committed a (possible series of) minor crimes. If you read through the charges, it isn't cut and dry clear that he did actually commit any federal crimes. He didn't do anything special to get
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by ohyes 15y ago
They are not using solar panels, they are creating a giant heat pump. They are therefore relying on there being a heat differential between the top and bottom of the tower. Greenhouse gets hot, creates a pressure difference between inside t
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by ohyes 15y ago
Only 150 dollars and an invasive background check to be treated as I should be, and as I would have been as little as 10 years ago.
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by ohyes 15y ago
And actually, the problem described in the article doesn't exist. If i press the home button while on one of the pages of icons i am brought back to the first...
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by ohyes 15y ago
Counterpoint: I have fat fingers, I mis-click apps a lot. Sometimes I just graze safari or something when I am scrolling. Current functionality takes me back to the place where I left off. I easily click the app that i actually wanted. Ima
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by ohyes 15y ago
Yes, this is correct.
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by ohyes 15y ago
The part that struck true with me about this article was 'telling different lies to different circles of people'. That really is what people do in real life.
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by ohyes 15y ago
Good call, I think you are right. My intended point was that the OP was dismissive of the idea of Incremental/AOT compilation as a possibility. I was not terribly clear and may have misread him. The idea for LLVM is that you can target the
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by ohyes 15y ago
Yes, circles could horribly magnify the ever embarrassing 'your mother rehashing the details of your childbirth in a Facebook post' problem.
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by ohyes 15y ago
No, JIT is a specific type of dynamic compilation. It is not every type of dynamic compilation. Maybe I mean 'incremental compilation.' I am not describing JITs, I am describing VM based languages, which have the ability to incrementally st
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by ohyes 15y ago
This is not a JIT. http://paste.lisp.org/+2N29
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by ohyes 15y ago
Absolutely, improving garbage collection is definitely more interesting/important than code that runs 'faster' for arbitrary benchmarks.
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by ohyes 15y ago
My point is that you do not have to go full static compilation to achieve the benefits of using machine code and static compilation techniques. Compiled Common Lisp (without any annotations) is much faster than interpreted python, simply be
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by ohyes 15y ago
> Do you have sources for a static compiler for Smalltalk > Considering how dynamic that language is I have some trouble imagining such a thing. Smalltalk always uses a virtual machine, it does not always use a JIT. I said a static
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by ohyes 15y ago
You can not write a static compiler for python, because python does not have static typing, and it is a dynamic language. So that part is a tautology. I suspect the author is trying to say that you can not write a compiler to machine code f
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by ohyes 15y ago
Iterating, heavy editing, and rewriting should be taught before you get to college. Really they are the most important part of any sort of English composition. Getting words on paper is easy, getting the right words on paper is hard. As soo
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by ohyes 15y ago
In terms of programming language difficulty, 'hard' and PITA are the same thing. The real 'difficulty' in programming comes from learning the domain that you are working in well enough to express it to the idiot computer. That said, I find
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by ohyes 15y ago
I find programming in C++ harder than other languages. (Clojure, Common Lisp, Python, Ruby, Erlang, Haskell).
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by ohyes 15y ago
There are plenty of examples of 'flat' companies. Having good leaders is important, but it is unrelated to having a more democratic company structure.
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by ohyes 15y ago
If you increase the atmospheric pressure, you can raise the boiling point of water well beyond 100°C. Of course, that has little to do with brewing coffee. So you bring the water to a boil, and then let it sit for a minute, then pour it ove
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by ohyes 15y ago
It was hot enough to melt her genitals and cause serious disfigurement. If she had spilled it anywhere, she would have been seriously injured... The coffee was scalding hot. The temperature of the coffee was from a corporate order intended
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by ohyes 15y ago
You don't have a multi-course meal with matched wines every night. Sometimes (most of the time unless you have a really deep bank account) you just have to feed yourself. When you just have to feed yourself, eat something healthy. Exercise
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by ohyes 15y ago
And halfway through, some guy says 'oh hey, I didn't want a sudoku, I wanted a crossword.' And you can't do anything about it. So you shoehorn your beautifully sculpted sudoku (which was perfect and simple to understand!) and try to force i
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by ohyes 15y ago
As a beardo, I have to say, this makes programming far more complicated than it needs to be. It is like solving a sudoku, except you get to write the sudoku. So it is possible to make the sudoku really easy, if you think about what a really

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