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by piokuc 12y ago
Brilliant. Andy Warhol recorded 8 hours long movie of his friend sleeping. In the youtube era he would make even greater fame than he managed in his time.
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by piokuc 12y ago
Here is Wikipedia page on PLATO: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_(computer_system)
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FireChat Brings Its Anonymous Offline Chat Network To Android(techcrunch.com)
6 points by piokuc 12y ago|1 comments
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Mesh networks chat apps to the rescue(bbc.co.uk)
4 points by piokuc 12y ago|1 comments
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by piokuc 12y ago
I work for an inter-governmental organisation in the environmental services sector; ~300 people, ~40 programmers (but many others - scientists - do some coding, too). Most people have private offices, there are also 2 or 3 persons offices.
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by piokuc 12y ago
The value I see in my LinkedIn profile is, first of all, the ability to keep in touch with colleagues from my previous jobs. Also, I find some of the LinkedIn groups pretty good. Gone are the good old days of Usenet, unfortunately, and ther
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by piokuc 12y ago
I have found on this page: http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/user/install.html following quote: "Various NumPy modules use FORTRAN 77 libraries, so you’ll also need a FORTRAN 77 compiler installed." A
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São Paulo: Ozone levels drop 20 percent after switch from ethanol to gasoline(brightsurf.com)
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Solar Power Prices Dropping Faster Than Ever(rameznaam.com)
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by piokuc 12y ago
Does it prove anything? Google has offices in many countries and employees of many nationalities.
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Apps for attacks: Software to combat anxiety disorders(bbc.co.uk)
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Why do people take ayahuasca? (bbc.co.uk)
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Sending rats into deep space makes them stupid(wired.co.uk)
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Researchers Track Isolated Amazonian Tribe With Google Earth(popsci.com)
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by piokuc 12y ago
I have a feeling that the attention would be much more modest if they happened not to be on Google payroll when they designed the language. Anyway, whether it's because of Ken or Rob, or Google brand, it doesn't change the point I
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by piokuc 12y ago
Well, CLOS became part of ANSI Common Lisp standard 24 years ago...
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by piokuc 12y ago
I think people gave Go a lot of credit just because it was designed at Google. People have high respect for Google engineers and so they assume what Googlers have designed must be flawless. So they take for granted ideas like lack of except
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by piokuc 12y ago
Not sure what you mean by "not part of core language" - CLOS is part of ANSI Common Lisp standard.
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Game developers use entertainment to boost cancer therapy(newscientist.com)
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NASA Clarifies Its Role in Civilization-Collapse Study(space.com)
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by piokuc 12y ago
It's also worth noting that the Stanford parser is a Java software, so using it from within NLTK involves calling Java from Python.
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by piokuc 12y ago
Thanks for the clarification and link, I missed that post and comments.
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by piokuc 12y ago
But why would a moderator like to silence/censor this particular story? What was wrong with it? I thought it was rather interesting and important.
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by piokuc 12y ago
This story went to the HN top and then dissapeared, after few minutes. Earlier something very similar happened to at least one of the posts you listed. I wonder why?
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by piokuc 12y ago
I feel assessing if a question is novice, intermediate or advanced is too subjective to be practical, but it would be interesting to see if it works, anyway.
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The Internet is just a CIA project, Vladimir Putin says of online communities(ww2.nationalpost.com)
3 points by piokuc 12y ago|1 comments
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OPeNDAP: Open-source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol(opendap.org)
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SpaceX Files Protest Against Air Force Over National Security Launches(forbes.com)
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by piokuc 12y ago
That's why I said "not always". Here is an example which will print different result if you define #define union struct Here you go: #include <stdio.h> union U { char a; char b; }; int main() { U u;
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Elon Musk's SpaceX Sues Government to Protest Military Launch Monopoly(nbcnews.com)
8 points by piokuc 12y ago|0 comments

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