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   by omaranto 14y ago

   I think your "language is defined by usage" is a reasonable position to take, but in my experience this stuff about O really is a misunderstanding: the programmer's I've talked too that use O as Theta when asked what they mean by O will quo
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   by omaranto 14y ago

   Perl 6 even comes with hygienic macros, I believe. That should be much nicer than source filters in Perl 5.
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   by omaranto 14y ago

   I think you're complaining too much about this momentarily being the top story on HN: (it feels to me as if) usually the top story is gossip about how much money some startup raised or an Apple vs Android piece. I find this to be an improve
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   by omaranto 14y ago

   I haven't looked at the source for either but shouldn't PyPy's interpreter be easier to mess around with because it's written in Python (with some hints for the JIT)? Probably the thing that turns the interpreter into a JIT compiler is more
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   by omaranto 14y ago

   Thanks for the explanation, skeletonjelly. I think the reason I misunderstood is that I don't hang out on the Internet enough: a friend explained to me that "This." and "this times a thousand" are Internet slang that mean "I agree" (the sec
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   by omaranto 14y ago

   "This times a thousand" would be an improvement by a factor of 10000. The improvement should definitely not be that large.
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   by omaranto 14y ago

   Yes, it is pretty new, or at least I hadn't noticed it until a few months ago. And, as far as I know, you are right that to specify what to download you pick a rectangle on a map view, making it awkward to pick a whole country without gett
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   by omaranto 14y ago

   I'm not familiar with Nokia Maps at all. How is its offline feature better than Google Maps On Android's offline feature? (You call it "proper" suggesting to me that you consider better than the way Google Maps on Android does it.) I don't
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   by omaranto 14y ago

   I don't know. I'm not a techie but a math student and most of my searches are math related, not technology related. When I took the Bing challenge Google beat Bing 5-0.
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    by omaranto 14y ago

    Apparently Chrome on Android 4.1 is 1211 days old...
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    by omaranto 14y ago

    I'd vote for slide to the middle. Bottome-aligned in portrait, centered in landscape sounds good to me. I know that sounds "ugly" but it's probably pretty practical.
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    by omaranto 14y ago

    I haven't used iOS in a while, but a couple of years ago the web app was faster (!) and had more features (like liking on comments, not just on status updates) than the native app (presumably because the browser used a JIT for JavaScript an
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    by omaranto 14y ago

    This link was already posted in this thread. And as I mentioned there, it wasn't Gowers but Martin Weissman who wrote the first answer. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4503359
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    by omaranto 14y ago

    That explanation was not written by Gowers at all (his name appears on it now that the answer was marked community wiki, becuase he is the most recent person to edit it, to fix a typo), and indeed although Gowers is certainly brilliant, thi
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    by omaranto 14y ago

    I got Google 5 - Bing 0. I did 3 math related searches, 1 math graduate student by name and 1 search about a python math library. Looks like I'll only switch to Bing if I leave math, which is not very likely. ;)
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    by omaranto 14y ago

    I like silent updates when they're not likely to be huge user-visible improvements, mostly performance enhancements and bug fixes. In the case of Firefox or Chrome, for example, I'm perfectly happy with the current feature set and just want
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    by omaranto 14y ago

    Of course it's an improvement. You know what I used to do when new versions of my browser came out? Update manually. Now to get the same result I do nothing. You know what my parents used to when new versions of the browser came out? Nothin
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    by omaranto 14y ago

    Debian is so wordy, switch to Arch: pacman -S youtube-dl :)
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    by omaranto 14y ago

    Textbooks are a great source for what little knowledge has been digested well enough and is popular enough to warrant a textbook. If your interests are a little more technical, you often don't have a choice but to read academic papers. On a
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    by omaranto 14y ago

    Honestly, I don't think I would have even noticed my tablet didn't have Flash. I don't have Flash on my Linux laptop (I use Chromium there) and haven't missed it --its nothing ideological: if I ever need Flash I'll install it right away. On
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    by omaranto 14y ago

    The description of the arXiv is a little off, it says "Cornell's library of published academic research papers", while really the arXiv is mainly for preprints, i.e., papers that have not yet been published. It is true, however, that in som
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    by omaranto 14y ago

    Actually, "delirium" sounds boring and pretentious, but "_delirium" (I pronounce it as "subdelirium") sounds whimsical and fun. I'd say your username definitely benefits from the leading underscore. :)
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    by omaranto 14y ago

    I second your observation about Chrome randomly choosing text sizes for each paragraph on HN and Reddit, it is horrible enough I decided to get apps for those two on the Nexus 7 while on my android phone I preferred visiting the websites in
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    by omaranto 14y ago

    The magnifier pops up only when you click on a spot that's very close to two links, you then disambiguate on the magnified links. It's perfect, I love it.
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    by omaranto 14y ago

    I mentioned MathOverflow [1] on that post and only one person upvoted it (I wouldn't be too surprised if it were someone I know or at least have heard of, now that I think about it). [1] http://mathoverflow.net
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    by omaranto 14y ago

    How do you prove something is not encrypted?
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    by omaranto 14y ago

    Is it worth installing .NET 3.5 to run the ISE? I use Powershell but only have .NET 4 which runs it just fine. I'm a little surprised that ISE requires 3.5.
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    by omaranto 14y ago

    For people who may not have heard about what happened to Microsoft's experimental Monad shell, you might want to mention it turned into an actual product called Powershell that comes with Windows 7. It's very nice, nice enough I wish there
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    by omaranto 14y ago

    The title is misleading, the piece seems to be about how Facebook is killing Silicon Valley (according to the author), not about why they're doing it. :)
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    by omaranto 14y ago

    My favorite book about incompleteness is Raymond Smullyan's Godel's Incompleteness Theorems .