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by pc2g4d 12y ago
It seems they're trying to design a programming language based on usability studies in academic literature? These feels like a terrible idea. Language designer now equals literature reviewer. But who knows, maybe they'll come up w
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by pc2g4d 12y ago
Being driven to physical activity rather than drugs could be seen as a positive outcome here, as frustrating as it must have been to get those invalidating messages from doctors.
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by pc2g4d 12y ago
The article I read before this one was Paul Graham's "The Submarine"[0], so I too was highly suspicious. [0] http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by pc2g4d 12y ago
> Or is it to be able to "subtly add code" to existing repositories without being seen ? I don't think it's this---I understand it to be basically impossible to mess with git repository histories without people notici
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by pc2g4d 12y ago
It probably is too high a standard. But perhaps it is also an indication that our ability in proving causality needs to be enhanced. It's incredibly difficult---can it be made easier?
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by pc2g4d 12y ago
And don't forget the later "Causality" (2nd edition): http://www.amazon.com/Causality-Reasoning-Inference-Judea-Pe...
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by pc2g4d 12y ago
Quick impression from the article: CPython holds back the larger Python language from its potential. Maybe?
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by pc2g4d 12y ago
Does the `six` library not help with this?
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by pc2g4d 12y ago
Very cool map, frightening data. I wish the map could be filtered by race, gender, type of confrontation, etc.
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by pc2g4d 12y ago
> if a nation claims to maintain a separation of church and state, religious reasons can not dictate law. But religious people can exercise their right to give input in the formulation of law---the same right all citizens share regardles
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by pc2g4d 12y ago
You seem to be judging the worth of an argument by the "strangeness" of its implications. That's a curious standard.
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by pc2g4d 12y ago
I use my MacBook Pro for work, where I am always connected to power, video, and a USB keyboard and trackball. With USB-C compatible hubs at $79 it doesn't sound very appealing to me. The latest MacBook sounds like it is largely good fo
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by pc2g4d 12y ago
My point was that banks are still useful because they get federal deposit insurance, while Silicon Valley startups apparently don't.
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by pc2g4d 12y ago
I think an important point Snowden makes is that the words used in the passphrase should be unlikely to be in a dictionary. In other words, the phrase should be one to which a language model[1] would assign low probability, as there are hug
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by pc2g4d 12y ago
> Also, the reason given for this is so hilarious. China is using the supercomputers to "research nuclear explosions". China is doing WHAT?! Stop the presses! China is going to have a nuke! The ability to computationally model
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by pc2g4d 12y ago
> Do we even need monolithic financial entities in this day and age? Four letters: F.D.I.C.
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by pc2g4d 12y ago
Does anybody know whether the original was destroyed by the NYPD? If so it's a real shame.
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by pc2g4d 12y ago
This is my first exposure to "user-select: none" and it strikes me as a copy control mechanism. Is that the only reason for this, or are their other use cases?
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by pc2g4d 12y ago
You're right about equations---but you're far from convincing me that no religion in existence could be helpful to the OP. I'm not saying I know the right path for this person, but claiming that such a vast and varied body of
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by pc2g4d 12y ago
"No religions have any helpful teachings when it comes to enlightening yourself." So you've studied them all and know with certainty that none could possibly be useful to the poster? Blithe anti-religious sentiment like this
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by pc2g4d 12y ago
Thus we see the moral trainwreck that is Social Darwinism.
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by pc2g4d 12y ago
Fremont (in Seattle) might be a good home for this. It already hosts that crazy Lenin statue!
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by pc2g4d 12y ago
For me it made the costs of electronics manufacture more concrete. Yes, it could have been better reported, but the article has value.
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by pc2g4d 12y ago
My first response to the emergence of any new syndrome/disorder is, "Who benefits?" Drumming up public consciousness of things that are supposedly wrong with them (rather than being seen as natural variations) seems like grea
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by pc2g4d 12y ago
The open-sourcing of Java could be considered to be a counterexample to the picture you're painting. In spite of being opened up years ago, Java has not been meaningfully fragmented as a software platform/development target. Of co
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by pc2g4d 12y ago
"Google and Mozilla have announced that their browsers will stop trusting all digital certificates issued by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), China’s main digital certificate authority." This seems to imply t
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by pc2g4d 12y ago
Subversion was called Subversion because it was subverting CVS, which it meant to replace. Not to mention the nice double meaning of sub-version.
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by pc2g4d 12y ago
For those of us who aren't aeronautical engineers, why is it called "double-bubble"?
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by pc2g4d 12y ago
This was a great presentation. It gave me some practical things to change to increase the security of my WP install. That said, seeing the ease with which WP can be hacked makes me once again question whether to switch to a simpler blog pla
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by pc2g4d 12y ago
I differ with your assessment of Python, implied by the following: "the more simplistic 'Python' language" "a real language like Ruby or Pearl" Plus there's the typo: *Pearl -> Perl Python is quite real

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