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by ricree 15y ago
My understanding from the last thread on this was that the decision mostly came from the people running the Italian site.
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by ricree 15y ago
I'm rusty on my C preprocessor, but how would this work out for do {} while blocks?
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by ricree 15y ago
A blog post (one of Steve Yegge's, I think) linked to one of PG's articles, and I wound up reading through the archive. At some point, I followed a link from that site to HN.
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by ricree 15y ago
Various biomolecules, including DNA, RNA, enzymes, and small molecules, could all potentially be used as inputs. And it should be possible to link the outputs into relevant biological functions, including gene expression. This would sugge
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by ricree 16y ago
Unless the post has been edited since, I don't see anywhere in the post where says the word lie. As to your second point, it depends on how the number is being presented. If it's being shown as the number of recommendations, then including
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by ricree 16y ago
This is a really great post. Have you considered posting this as a blog post and submitting it?
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by ricree 16y ago
Looks like he's a new user that got mostly downvotes on his early comments. In isolation, I can't entirely disagree the downvotes, but it seems to me that the system ought to be more tolerant of people that screw up their first couple posts
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by ricree 16y ago
I think that he means the copy that gets returned is what gets destructively modified. In other words, the overall process winds up being functional and nondestructive, but the intermediate internal steps aren't necessarily so.
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by ricree 16y ago
The fact that it's the average for reported incidents probably cuts out a lot of the outliers on the low end of the scale.
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by ricree 16y ago
I'm currently in the process of learning it, and I'd definitely recommend it. If nothing else, it's great having a compiler that can catch a large amount of errors without getting bogged down in the type boilerplate that many other static l
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by ricree 16y ago
Assuming he's referring to the book version, he's just mirroring the book title's self censorship.
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by ricree 16y ago
Maybe I'm remembering wrong, but didn't QBASIC actually have a REPL?
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by ricree 16y ago
From what the article says, it sounds like the tax is reverting back to a previous level. I'm sure this will do little to help family farms. However, if it didn't kill them off the last time it was there, then what makes this time around s
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by ricree 16y ago
Since they're running pipes anyways, I wonder whether it would be better to have a urinal that auto flushes itself once a day or so. The water savings would probably be comparable to a plain no-flush, but it seems like it might save some o
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by ricree 16y ago
An interesting idea, but in this video it just spooked the burglar enough to send them running. How much of an effect would there be if they decided to just grab some things and feel their way out. I suppose it would limit the time someone
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by ricree 17y ago
Though oddly enough, it still returns the story despite the error message.
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by ricree 17y ago
I have as well, though in my experience a lot of those issues have been fixed. Especially with sound, I haven't seen much in the way of problems since 9.10 shipped with a kernel that ran pulseAudio acceptably.
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by ricree 17y ago
Out of curiosity, what do you find yourself having to use the command line for? I tend to use it out of preference, but I can't offhand think of any "regular" tasks I do that would require it. Some more obscure bits of troubleshooting migh
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by ricree 17y ago
Gimp has a batch mode that lets you run commands without loading the UI. That would probably achieve the same thing, although it might be a little much if you're sure that all you want is resynthesizer.
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by ricree 17y ago
That post basically just says go look at this wiki page: https://twitterapi.pbworks.com/Counting-Characters Why not link to that in the first place?
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by ricree 17y ago
That didn't really seem to be what the article was getting at. Windows Mobile was a serious push to try and establish itself in that area. It just turned out to be a flawed one, and the main thrust of the article was that at least some pe
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by ricree 17y ago
I don't really get the joke. I don't suppose someone would mind explaining it.
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by ricree 17y ago
I agree with you in the case of NiN and Radiohead. But while OK Go did have one single that charted via traditional means, their last two big successes came in large part due to the popularity of online videos. The videos for "A Million Wa
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by ricree 17y ago
Video games, to an extent. Though at least some of that comes from branching out into new genres that appeal outside of what would be considered traditional nerd interests. Sports games come to mind, for example.
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by ricree 17y ago
I'll second that. 48 hours is optimistic as heck (or I'm just that bad), but it definitely has helped me wrap my head around Haskell a little better than it was before.
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by ricree 17y ago
It seems to me that a reasonable compromise would be to make automatic copyright a relatively short term deal in the neighborhood of 15-25 years. But at the same time, allow copyright holders to pay a fee to extend the copyright for a furt
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by ricree 17y ago
Or just load up the wikipedia page on him. In the four paragraph* "Since Retirement" section, it mentions both that interview and other attempts to get an interview. *It's 5 or 6 now, but the later ones refer to this recent interview.
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by ricree 17y ago
A human on mars could certainly have covered more territory than the robots did, but the expense would have been several orders of magnitude more. Had those billions been spent on robotic explorers, they would also have outperformed the rel
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by ricree 17y ago
"Is this what we asked for? I think not." I can't speak for anyone else, but I remember those large crayon boxes from when I was a child. They weren't quite as large as the ones from the article (50ish, perhaps?). But that said, I definit
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by ricree 17y ago
I tend to drop windows ports of a bunch of unix command line utils somewhere in my PATH http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/

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