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by pkinsky 13y ago
>- All of our city streets look like logic-gates from a bird's eye view All you need is NAND gates. Plus if you tile the NAND icon it makes a fish skin pattern. Perfect for our heraldry.
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> a fucking loser dork with inconsequential ideas and a dumb life. >Sam Biddle of the Gawker site ValleyWag
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>With Scala you feel smart having just got something to work in a beautiful way but when you look around the room to tell your clojure colleague how clever you are, you notice he left 3 hours ago and there is a post-it saying use a Map I
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by pkinsky 13y ago
map != territory is the traditional phrasing.
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>Nowhere in the article does the author support this claim. In fact, the whole American system is built to prove the opposite. Space at the top is NOT limited. Total wealth is NOT limited. Anybody who works hard (and smart!) can get ther
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>These soldiers are facing a huge personal price for the part they played in this war. The psychological impact of "just following orders" is huge and could damage them for the rest of their lives. We should respect veterans be
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by pkinsky 13y ago
-Master Scala -build at least one full-stack project with Scala (most likely a twitter or vine clone) -AngularJS -Vim -Dvorak
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>the talentless ex-programers they hand paychecks to every other week will go find other things to do with their lives. Someone seems bitter. (I don't work at Google)
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by pkinsky 13y ago
Los Zetas have built a country-spanning network of radio repeaters using kidnapped engineers. They are clearly cognizant of information security. http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/11/zeta-radio/
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by pkinsky 13y ago
Scala uses the Future monad pretty widely to model concurrency. Does Haskell not use the Future monad? What does it use instead?
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Awesome, a C++ implementation of the Future monad. Personally I would prefer .flatMap to .then, as in Scala. That would also allow for a companion function .map that transforms the result of a Future using a function that does not return a
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by pkinsky 13y ago
There must be some level of correlation between election promises and policy for a country to be considered a republic in any meaningful way. Further, have the 'professionals' running our government shown good enough judgement to
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>- People won't keep their availabilities up to date. They won't like you asking them to keep their availabilities up to date either. They really won't like you asking them where they're working this week. StackOverfl
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by pkinsky 13y ago
Austerity isn't about government spending, it's about shifting government spending away from the poor and disenfranchised. Politicians preaching austerity rarely mention defense budgets, corporate tax loopholes, or the cost of inc
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by pkinsky 13y ago
This argument is a variant of the Yuppie Nuremberg Defense, courtesy of Thank You For Smoking. 1; You know what you're doing is wrong. 2; Everybody has a mortgage to pay. 1; Ah, the yuppie nuremberg defense.
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by pkinsky 13y ago
If we're very lucky the NSA will call the Post's bluff, and we'll get to see the source docs.
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You can still have your power company refuse service to potential competitors, or block their trucks from using your toll roads.
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by pkinsky 13y ago
You can use pattern matching with custom extractors to define partial functions only accepting positive numbers. object Positive { def unapply(x: Int): Option[Int] = if (x>0) Some(x) else None } val onlyPositive: PartialFunction[Int, S
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Isn't circumvention of terms-of-service a felony these days?
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>“The American Embassy also comments and rejects the reports as innuendo. They are stating the United States ‘are not kidnapping and torturing on principle.’ This is a daring claim. Only seven months ago a commission made up of Democrats
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by pkinsky 13y ago
Do you still do side work as a sysadmin for the Russian Mob? How did you escape from the fictional universe of Neal Stephenson's Reamde?
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>(H) Generator & CPU > The generator axis gets spinned I think you mean spun. Aside from that, very cool!
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by pkinsky 13y ago
Don't bring underscores into this, underscores scan quicker and are aesthetically pleasing! http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?tp=&arnumb...
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>- Looking over the examples from the blog post, those aren't really from 'first principles'. They are assuming cars and an internet and other huge innovations. I think the real message should be 'double check your as
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Food prep in a dusty old warehouse is, however.
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> The knee-jerk urge to paint big banks as shady criminals will only intensify, not mitigate, the regulatory pressure. This knee jerk urge is an excellent heuristic: big banks seem to act in shady, criminal ways whenever they think they
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by pkinsky 13y ago
Especially after Bittorrent started distributing malware with uTorrent updates.
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>Why so? Because there is no better political system—the constitution, separation of powers, civil society and citizens—than the United States today that can protect liberty and free speech. We may pass the low bar set by China and Russi
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Those are like advance copies of movies, distributed by media production houses to a select few before any public release.

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