pliptvo

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by pliptvo 2y ago
Sorry but picking out let* as a problem just shows that you don't know some of the most basic Lisp forms. You say that you don't want to learn a specific Lisp, but starred let is in both Common Lisp and Scheme. So what Lisp have y
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by pliptvo 4y ago
Great tool, thanks! Question - What are good ways to deal with dead zones?
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by pliptvo 4y ago
All the ad hominem attacks on Bobby Fisher in this thread are by the by. One can accept that he was paranoid, conspiratorial and antisemitic -- which I do -- whilst also accepting that he was subjected to the police violence he describes
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DuckDuckGo Is Down(duckduckgo.com)
13 points by pliptvo 4y ago|11 comments
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by pliptvo 4y ago
Is it the case for anyone else that searches on DDG are not returning results?
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by pliptvo 4y ago
Could you explain what you mean by no one understanding thermodynamics? As in Maxwell, Einstein, Wiener, and so on - none of them understood thermodynamics? I think at stake here is what you mean by understanding. And what is a 'pragma
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by pliptvo 5y ago
I think this is an April fools ;)
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Highway Hypnosis(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by pliptvo 5y ago|0 comments
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by pliptvo 5y ago
I'd suggest having a look at the self screening tool on adhduk, which gives you an indication of whether you have adhd symptoms. If so, it might make sense to pursue a formal evaluation and diagnosis. The tool's been put together
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by pliptvo 5y ago
This sounds like a pretty good strategy for me too. I'm completely ignorant about consulting agencies though - I assume there good ones, bad ones, etc? Can anyone recommend ones in the UK?
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by pliptvo 5y ago
Mind expanding on what you mean by 'desolated'?
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by pliptvo 5y ago
I literally just off the phone to my GP trying to get a referral for an adult ADHD diagnosis. She basically said, there's a massive backlog and underfunding of the service, and instead of her referring me to the adult ADHD and autism p
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by pliptvo 10y ago
They also give brilliant support, speaking from experience.
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by pliptvo 10y ago
> A PDF viewer that supports highlighting. Tried Okular? > A better email app. Currently none can be said to work very well. I'm actually considering mutt at this point Switching to Mu4e was the best thing I ever did to my emails
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by pliptvo 10y ago
More precisely, what's being demoed is Sketchpad III, which improved Sutherland's original 2d Sketchpad with 3d rendering capabilities. And Ivan Sutherland's not in the video.
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by pliptvo 10y ago
Great that you're interested in finding out. http://www.npr.org/tags/221437017/women-in-tech http://overit.com/blog/sexism-in-tech https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexi
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by pliptvo 10y ago
Discrimination isn't just an idea, it's a material reality. Women are systematically disadvantaged on every level of tech, from the assumption that 'nerds' are boys, which seems to go back to IT marketing from the 1980s[
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by pliptvo 10y ago
In what part of healthcare are men systemically impeded from involvement?
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by pliptvo 10y ago
I can't speak for your particular experience at school, but in general I think it's a shame that people whose lives are, as you say, "privileged" by the systems in which we live feel like they are at a disadvantage becau
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by pliptvo 10y ago
Problem: There's a massive gender imbalance in CS and amongst the coding community. There are loads of men and hardly any women. Most of half the population would never consider working for us or our partners. Solution: Make a website
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by pliptvo 10y ago
> Well that's just discriminating against nerds This is exactly the problem. You've assumed that 'nerds' -- people who are skilled and passionate about tech things -- are male. It's that kind of assumption which
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by pliptvo 10y ago
Presumably Google is targeting India, Ireland, NZ and Australia because they have significant bases in those countries. In regards to targeting young women, they're making an effort to redress the obvious gender imbalances and male dom
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by pliptvo 11y ago
I make Yiddish keyboard maps for OSX, GNU/Linux and Windows. http://www.shretl.org Since moving to GNU/Linux I could really do with a hand maintaining the Windows and OSX branches. Anyone interested? Also - anyone have
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Mapping Hacking Team's metadata(labs.rs)
1 points by pliptvo 11y ago|0 comments
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Philosophical History of the NSA(radicalphilosophy.com)
2 points by pliptvo 11y ago|0 comments
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Snowden's original CryptoParty Hawaii page(besva.de)
1 points by pliptvo 11y ago|0 comments
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Web and Philosophy Conference – May 31, Slovenia(web-and-philosophy.org)
1 points by pliptvo 12y ago|0 comments
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by pliptvo 12y ago
Fourteen years have passed, almost to the day, since this was published and Lick is still an obscure figure to the public.
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No, This Man Invented the Internet (2000)(forbes.com)
1 points by pliptvo 12y ago|1 comments
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Leslie Feinberg Has Died(advocate.com)
1 points by pliptvo 12y ago|0 comments

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