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by pfedor 17y ago
I think Perl's bad reputation comes mostly from its expressive power. People directly perceive and compare the difficulty of reading and understanding a few consecutive lines or blocks of code. Understanding 20 lines of Perl is on average
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by pfedor 17y ago
He was? That's news to me but you well may be right. I could have confused the details it's been a while. I remember there was a game in that match which was interrupted till the next day (they used to do it after I believe 40 moves) at
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I have to say, I didn't think I'll ever see airlines given as a positive example of great customer service in comparison with anything.
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I used to play chess a little as a kid and what I know is in more agreement with the article than with what you say. Prior to the Soviet chess explosion there used to be great Russian players (Chigorin, Petrov) but also many great players
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Google Lets You Tell Them Which URL Parameters To Ignore(searchengineland.com)
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Actually, the primary documentation for glibc is available in the info format (preferred by the gnu project.) You can check it out by typing "info libc" on Linux (or by googling [info libc]), and I really encourage you to do it, because yo
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Meet Randall & Help Build an xkcd School(auction-bot.appspot.com)
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OTOH if software developers had to work like architects, you would need to have a degree and several years of experience making coffee for more senior engineers before you were even allowed near a text editor. After that, you could write y
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by pfedor 17y ago
So a few years back I wrote my M.Sc. thesis as a part of which I implemented an engine for Polish interactive fiction (a.k.a. text adventure) games (which is a very different problem from English interactive fiction because of inflection an
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by pfedor 17y ago
Good reading: http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/06/self-discipline/
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http://research.swtch.com/
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It is not true that R2-D2 can't handle stairs. You can see him walk the stairs in Episode 2.
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by pfedor 17y ago
I, for one, have never seen a decent quality desktop application written in Java. I hear eclipse is pretty decent.
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by pfedor 17y ago
"poverty is sometimes the result of outside details, but one can overcome them, so it's more a personal disorder." Isn't it true in the most literal sense? I read somewhere that the #1 reason for the homelessness in the US phenomenon is
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by pfedor 17y ago
I am not a native speaker so please forgive me for a silly question. Can the word "whore" not be used in English when referring to a male prostitute? What word would you suggest instead which would convey the same meaning without the miso
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by pfedor 17y ago
Not just you. I seems much more natural to me to think of an integral as "continuous sum." You can often describe the exact same thing using a discrete sum or an integral, e.g., in a classical mechanics class you first consider a system of
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by pfedor 17y ago
I am not an expert and it's been a while, so please feel free to correct me. There are two contexts the string theory is talked about. First, it is by most considered the most promising theory of fundamental interactions (a.k.a. the theory
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by pfedor 17y ago
This is a very idealistic approach. There are industries which have not produced a dime of revenue for many years and keep existing and employing a lot of people for political reasons. Even in sectors actually governed by the free market,
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by pfedor 17y ago
It doesn't have to be about distrusting a person as much as distrusting that the person is security aware. E.g., most non-technical people I know have no problem with logging into their Gmail from internet cafes. You may be 100% that your
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by pfedor 17y ago
Haven't read the full paper, but this caught my eye: The world economy, which now doubles in 15 years, would soon double in a week to a month According to the book "The Birth of Plenty" by William J. Bernstein, the world's wealth has been
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by pfedor 17y ago
In my experience if you plan to keep the car, leasing is a horrible option financially at least. My girlfriend recently bought out a 2006 Honda CRV after a three years lease, and she ended up paying more than $10k above the nominal price.
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by pfedor 17y ago
I'm assuming you use a debit card, because I imagine it's very difficult to live on cash only (you need something with a number to buy stuff online, for one thing.) I used to have a debit card only, but it's a bit scary: whoever steals you
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Much more importantly (since nature doesn't care much about unsuccessful individuals) it's a survival mechanism for the pack I am not a biologist, but according to (what I understood of) "The Selfish Gene" and the like, the natural select
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by pfedor 17y ago
It's more likely a joke. The guy has a mathematics degree from Harvard. http://www.okcupid.com/about-us/
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I don't have any advice specific to the situation described, but I'll make one general statement: you should not adjust your investments in any way based on news about recent political and economic events. You learned that the government i
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And let's not overlook that it's 4% before taxes. So in reality, closer to 3%
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Large-scale graph computing at Google(googleresearch.blogspot.com)
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I heard Jeffrey Sachs saying the same thing you say: tax at the point of mining, not at the point of emission. He then went on to explain that the current focus on emissions comes from the fact that some laws or proposals regarding CO2 (ca
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When the velocities are low you will probably observe non-relativistic two-body Coulomb scattering, which is mathematically no different from the Newtonian interaction between a planetoid and the Sun. Dude, what does that mean? Dude, goog
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by pfedor 17y ago
Ah OK then yes, QED is relativistic and in the classical limit it should become classical electrodynamics.

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