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901.
by omaranto 14y ago
"iPads still fail pretty hard at being useful during math class." I know a couple of people who take notes on their iPads during math talks, they use what Gabe called an ?eraser tip? capacitive touch stylus and an app that shows you your ac
902.
by omaranto 14y ago
They did remove the link, what are you talking about?
903.
by omaranto 14y ago
"book-like" seemed spot on, maybe it's also correlated with how much time you've spent holding print books in your hand?
904.
by omaranto 14y ago
I'm not sure what the rules are: Google gives me permission to install Chrome, and then, presumably I have permission to delete everything but the PDF viewer plugin, right? Maybe the Chrome EULA disallows this, but, to be honest, I didn't r
905.
by omaranto 14y ago
Wait, are you comparing the ages of Django and Java? Wouldn't it be fairer to compare the ages of Python and Java? Python is about four years older than Java.
906.
by omaranto 14y ago
Is your comment aimed at people who didn't read the linked article?
907.
by omaranto 14y ago
The PDF viewer in Chrome is available to Chromium users (just copying the libpdf.so or libpdf.DLL file into the appropriate directory works); it's just not open source.
908.
by omaranto 14y ago
I don't think that's right: I use Chromium on Arch Linux and it does not seem to have a PDF viewer. It always offers to download PDFs and open them with a separate program, often warning me first that PDFs from unknown sources can be danger
909.
by omaranto 14y ago
'appropriate', 'apt', or 'fitting' would have been better than 'isomorphic'.
910.
by omaranto 14y ago
It uses Sympy and SAGE under the hood, you'd probably prefer their syntaxes.
911.
by omaranto 14y ago
"hack this"?
912.
by omaranto 14y ago
Why is it a pet peeve of yours? Do you have a reason you could explain our does it just rub you the wrong way?
913.
by omaranto 14y ago
Are you really suggesting Bellard is the collective pseudonym of a group of people and not a single person?
914.
by omaranto 14y ago
Another application of arbitrary-length sequences is storing sparse multivariable polynomials as maps from monomials to coefficients.
915.
by omaranto 14y ago
Just to be clear: you are not explaining how car54whereareu's code solves the problem of using arbitrary length sequences as keys, but rather explaining a different solution, right? car54whereareu's code, which uses structs as keys doesn't
916.
by omaranto 14y ago
Sorry if I'm being stupid, but how does this solve the problem of using arbitrary/variable length sequences of, say, numbers as map keys?
917.
by omaranto 14y ago
I was lazy when I complained about not be able to use slices as keys, I guess I really meant to complain that there is no arbitrary-length immutable sequence type that I can use as keys to a map (other than strings, which are sequences of c
918.
by omaranto 14y ago
The fact that slices cannot be used as keys in maps was, for me, a fairly big turn off.
919.
by omaranto 14y ago
From what I've seen people don't use it as a "lap"top, but rather a "table"top or "desk"top, though. It does have an on screen keyboard.
920.
by omaranto 14y ago
Well, maybe. At the moment, the 'screenshot' on the website is a blank Mac OS window with the title 'Hacky (24)' and a never-ending spinner in the upper right corner.
921.
by omaranto 14y ago
Doesn't Apple's quality control only apply to hardware? I hear people complain about bugs and just shear ugliness of their software pretty often.
922.
by omaranto 14y ago
Americans do that too, if you count New Englanders. :) I find it funny that Bostonians pronounce "Korea" and "career" close to swapped from the way I do.
923.
by omaranto 14y ago
Well, you know who does mention Sir-mix-a-lot? Jonathan Coulton: he does explicitly state his song is a cover. He wrote a new melody, which the Glee people used but did not acknowledge. I'm not sure what Glee's position is, maybe they claim
924.
by omaranto 14y ago
I think he or she meant no one reads books printed on paper anymore. I certainly see lots and lots of Kindles and such in the subway in Boston, probably more than printed books now.
925.
by omaranto 14y ago
A quick search revealed it was Hacker News user JSig. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2298369
926.
by omaranto 14y ago
6.3 and 6.4 read funny one after the other: put references to the paper in the comments, but change all the notation from the paper.
927.
by omaranto 14y ago
Previous submissions: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4562609 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4679933
928.
by omaranto 14y ago
Could you state explicitly what conclusion you think mathbabe draws, the one you're not sure follows?
929.
by omaranto 14y ago
It would probably be much easier to port to Perl or Python than to C. I think both Perl and Python are already installed on enough computers that no-one would have commented on the issue, unlike what happened with Ruby.
930.
by omaranto 14y ago
Just to be clear, this is off topic because here the intention probably was to link to the entire blog (all of which is about the bot in the submission title), right?

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