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871.
by plg 12y ago
are there demos somewhere that show the value added over sublime text or emacs or vim?
872.
by plg 12y ago
I read the title too quickly and I thought it said C for nimrod programmers
873.
by plg 13y ago
So now NY Times is in the business of publishing "teasers" to incite people to buy this guy's book? I hope he is giving them a royalty on future sales.
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by plg 13y ago
Where can one watch adventure time episodes online?
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by plg 13y ago
ummm ... stupid question, but why are we drinking alcoholic the first place if not for the usual effects? because alcohol _tastes_ good???? sort of like, how to smoke weed all night without getting high um why??
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by plg 13y ago
How would one even know that you wouldn't get squashed into a pulp when the wheel retracts back into the wheel well? Or where specifically to situate yourself?
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by plg 13y ago
anyone tried it native on a macbook pro retina yet? and/or : best laptop for running it? I'm guessing a thinkpad or maybe one of the dell xps13 developer edition?
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by plg 13y ago
An example: a phenomenon that I think has come into play gradually over the past 3-5 years: national news broadcasts lead stories are based on the weather. "3rd highest temperature seen in 5 yrs" "4th coldest winter since 200
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by plg 13y ago
it still shows beta at the link given above
880.
by plg 13y ago
It's true... but I view this as a technology problem not a problem _in_principle_. After all we don't all need to be engineers and electricians to operate a refrigerator, or our automobiles, for example. Society has built up the i
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by plg 13y ago
It's funny isn't it. The current state of affairs and the direction we're moving in reminds me (since I'm old enough to remember) of the early days of server based computing and dumb terminals. VAX's in some room so
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by plg 13y ago
"Maybe someone will come along and create a super easy to install and low maintenance server platform" that's the idea
883.
by plg 13y ago
nice! thx
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by plg 13y ago
It's time to decentralize the internet. There is no good reason why we can't have email, webpages, photos, even facebook-like social stuff housed on our own machines in our own homes (or some other place under our control). The cu
885.
by plg 13y ago
Why isn't google releasing the full algorithm?
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by plg 13y ago
I also have concerns about this sort of thing. On the other hand as far as I can tell Ubuntu is still the easiest, fastest way to get a Desktop environment up and running on a new machine, one that looks decent (e.g. fonts) and one that pla
887.
by plg 13y ago
Nice description of backprop for sure. Aren't people using conjugate gradient descent to optimize NN weights now? Sure you need the partial derivatives but ... that's what GPUs are for, right? :)
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by plg 13y ago
So this raises the question, especially in the context of the new iOS MS Office apps, when, oh when, will the MS Office apps for OS X be updated? It's a long time since 2011...
889.
by plg 13y ago
true
890.
by plg 13y ago
also NPV is nice and all, but if you have $5k for a downpayment and you need to finance the rest, there aren't many people who can afford a $95k car loan. Not to mention the interest cost. Hey don't get me wrong, I think Tesla is
891.
by plg 13y ago
What about ruggedness? Up here in (eastern) Canada we have stretches of weeks even months where the temp doesn't go above ... 10F? 15F? (-10 to -15 C) and frequently goes down to -20C or lower (below zero F). How does this affect batte
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by plg 13y ago
OK I'll bite ... why should I not use my browser's built in pw manager? (e.g. Safari on OS X Mavericks) I can see an argument about cross-platform use but is there another reason or reasons? thanks,
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by plg 13y ago
" ...C, a system programming language which could be considered as a niche" wow C is now a niche language? http://langpop.com http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/in
894.
by plg 13y ago
Point taken. I think I need to take a vacation
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by plg 13y ago
I never understood why this sort of thing is interesting. Let's say you can program 2048 in 487 bytes of C ... and then someone else comes along and they can program it in 387 bytes of C. So what? Is there a use case in the year 2014 w
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by plg 13y ago
"Apples" ... next day what shows up, exactly? 6 granny smith apples? a 15 pound bag of golden delicious? 3 MacBooks pro? ummm
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by plg 13y ago
'cause who really likes _eating_, anyway. A no-brainer to just reduce food. Yeah that'll work. Lots of things might reduce mortality and prolong lifespan. It's quite another thing to ask whether these things are viable option
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by plg 13y ago
How is this not a honeypot for copyright lawsuit generators?
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by plg 13y ago
oh good. Now I can wear a $800 iWatch on my wrist while holding my $800 iPhone in my hand and my briefcase carrying my $900 iPad in my other hand. Can you imaging how annoying it will be to receive iMessage alerts on all 3 devices at the sa
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by plg 13y ago
The changes in company behavior have been absolutely stunning since Ballmer left. Hopefully these changes signal a more modern, forward looking Microsoft going forward.

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