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by paulajohnson 10y ago
Don't know about Swift, but in Haskell you substitute parallel versions of map and filter that are guaranteed to mean the same thing.
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by paulajohnson 10y ago
Growing up, Barnes Wallis was my hero. Paul Brickhill's book describes how he had to battle unimaginative Whitehall bureaucrats one day, and cutting edge engineering problems the next, to get the thing built.
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by paulajohnson 10y ago
I wouldn't want to see lazy IO disappear altogether because if you are just processing a file line by line then its a quick and dirty solution that will work fine in practice. However I agree it should come with health warnings and poi
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by paulajohnson 10y ago
Also http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37847647
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by paulajohnson 10y ago
Its all very well getting hot under the collar about the influence peddling of a charmed circle, but I have yet to see a plausible alternative organisation. Every system of government comes down to Dunbar's Number (the size of a group
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by paulajohnson 10y ago
Looks like our survival as a species depends on a race between our ingenuity and our ingenuity.
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by paulajohnson 10y ago
OTOH demonstrating that none of the John Smiths in the state are the one named in the paperwork might be more difficult.
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by paulajohnson 10y ago
Thats because a rule like this is "secondary" legislation that hangs off some piece of "primary" legislation. Primary is created by Congress, secondary is created by government agencies as specified by the primary legisl
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by paulajohnson 10y ago
In 1900 it was literally impossible to buy flour that did not contain significant amounts of chalk dust and other adulterants. In Hong Kong there are entire streets given over to baby formula shops because the Chinese from the mainland don&
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by paulajohnson 10y ago
fifteenforty buries one of the biggest potential issues in his 4th para, so I'm going to highlight it: its not clear if this correlation was found post-hoc or not. If you measure 10 factors and 10 outcomes then you have a potential 100
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by paulajohnson 10y ago
There is also a ... "business model" ... for technical books which goes like this. Get someone with a PhD to write a book on something. Around the world there are about 300 libraries of record which are legally required to hold a
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by paulajohnson 10y ago
Alternative source for the paper: http://axel22.github.io/resources/docs/reactors.pdf
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by paulajohnson 10y ago
While I agree with the sentiment, I see it as being too easy to evade. If you can't accept regular employment with BigGunCorp then become a contractor who accepts a lucrative contract from a consultancy working under contract from BigG
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by paulajohnson 10y ago
The point is that at the semantic level these statements are random noise. Sure you can see a signal in it if you look hard enough, but what you are actually doing is over-fitting. Some of these statements look like they might be meaningful
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by paulajohnson 11y ago
The real point of Bitcoin isn't that its anonymous, its that the Government can't stop you using it or seize your money.
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by paulajohnson 11y ago
Hence Bitcoin
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by paulajohnson 11y ago
I wondered about that, but Bitcoin mining is increasingly dominated by a small number of big players, and they also have the hardware to do exhaustive searches on hash codes to find inputs that give the answer they want. I'm not saying
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by paulajohnson 11y ago
Over here in the UK we have a comedy news quiz called "Have I Got News For You". Each episode features a "guest publication" which is always along the lines of "Air Quality Professional" or "Snail Breeders
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by paulajohnson 11y ago
I followed this expecting an analysis of the "whistleblower protection" that some people think Snowdon could have availed himself of. Instead I got "Hey, look, I hope you're not being distracted by this big media distrac
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by paulajohnson 11y ago
Very intriguing, but I think I want to see some replication. Some blind tests with amputees where the EM field is turned on and off at random should be fairly easy to set up. In the past tests with "allergic to EM" people have alw
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by paulajohnson 11y ago
Now that is what I call industrial archaeology!
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by paulajohnson 11y ago
This paper doesn't just describe the waterfall, it explains why it doesn't work and proposes a more iterative approach, albeit with only two iterations.
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by paulajohnson 11y ago
I haven't looked at this one in detail, but MonadFix and the recursive do syntax ( https://wiki.haskell.org/MonadFix ) will probably solve this problem by allowing forward references.
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by paulajohnson 11y ago
So in ten years time someone is going to kill someone and blame it on the lead he was poisoned with when he was a kid. What would the just result be in such a case?
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by paulajohnson 11y ago
Whenever this comes up in management theory I'm always reminded of this article. http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm The setting is radical feminism rather than tech management, but the drivers are the sam
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by paulajohnson 11y ago
What, again?
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by paulajohnson 11y ago
I think that you could make a good-faith effort to get rid of as many as possible, for instance by grepping the code tree for the word "Canonical" (with a capital C) and manually scanning all images. Then if Canonical find somethi
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by paulajohnson 11y ago
For a while in the 90s Japanese companies had NODs for exactly the same reason Olsen gives: they didn't want to admit that they were firing people. The form varied, but typical examples would be an assignment to guard a tree or wait in
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by paulajohnson 11y ago
Also see "Next Stop Execution" by Oleg Gordievsky, who was a KGB colonel secretly working for the UK at this time. The Soviet leadership was certain that the West was planning a pre-emptive nuclear strike and put pressure on the K
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by paulajohnson 11y ago
Actually the usual form for this kind of requirement would be "The system shall comply with <emission regulation>".

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