rincewind

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by rincewind 13y ago
Your Cake metaphor breaks down because of your intuition and experience of cakes. If everybody needs to study for 10 years to bake a cake, cakes would become are more expensive. If people are were willing to spend 5 bucks on a cake, bakin
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by rincewind 13y ago
how do you test for false negatives?
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by rincewind 13y ago
Frozen Braid: A Frozen Synapse/Braid demake http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview... Created with Python, PyGame, ASEprite, bfxr, Autotracker-c
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by rincewind 14y ago
Are you thinking about Mark Jason Dominius? His Web site is http://perl.plover.com/ . He made a presentation about making presentations at OSCON: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_Tsom5hI98 Stephen Bond, who wrote the linked page, is at
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by rincewind 14y ago
This is old news: http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011... Also does "scamming" not involve some kind of lie or misrepresentation? They just bought lottery tickets.
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by rincewind 14y ago
I did not mean to change the subject. This measure just seems ineffective at stopping PadMapper. But it seems like it will stop people from posting their ads elsewhere.
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by rincewind 14y ago
Does this license mean copyright? In Germany you cannot protect facts with copyright. Something like "Flat for rent: $size m², $price €, $coordinates, $link" seems more like a fact or an idea.
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by rincewind 15y ago
The name is confusing. Vim-slime does not speak the swank protocol. But another plugin for vim, called slimv, does. You could also use slime in vim with a rube-goldberg-esque combination of eclim ( http://http://eclim.org/ ) and CUSP ( ht
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by rincewind 15y ago
> The articles are littered with crappy advice confusing beginners, have little structure and are filled with ridiculous questions (questions in an wiki???) The original wiki has questions, back-and-forth-discussion and loosely struct
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by rincewind 15y ago
Can anyone recommend a good smart card device that works with openssl and firefox?
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by rincewind 15y ago
There are more important differences: 1. Apples are fungible; one apple is as good as the next one: unlike Harry Potter movies you can consume apples in any order. 2. Nobody holds the copyright on a particular apple. There are many companie
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by rincewind 15y ago
It is called "creeping determinism" or simply hindsight bias. http://www.gladwell.com/2003/2003_03_10_a_dots.html
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by rincewind 15y ago
I also implemented some of the exercises in clojure, and my naive implementation without colt or incanter ran orders of magnitude slower than my octave code. Then again i did not code it with performance in mind. I overloaded algo.generic
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by rincewind 15y ago
I really cannot tell if the pun was intended.
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by rincewind 15y ago
why is it (a | b) and not (:or a b)?
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by rincewind 15y ago
I did not tick the word, but I know Terpsichore is a muse. Do the other eight also have english adjectives?
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by rincewind 15y ago
is there a way to make parts or joints fixed when bending, so I can't turn my train upside down when I rotate a wheel?
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by rincewind 15y ago
I miss the "made with alien technology" badge on this site. Otherwise awesome work, drcode. Edit: it needs a way to make parts or joints fixed when bending, so I can't turn my train upside down when I rotate a wheel.
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by rincewind 15y ago
He seems to be the same guy as this weev: http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=40904 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03trolls-t.html?_... He seemed very keen on inflicting damage, not knowledge.
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by rincewind 15y ago
imagine the possibilities... * a network stack in haskell might be easier to verify and less prone to stuff like teardrop attacks than one in C * port/vulnerability scanners in haskell * new routing algorithms like B.A.T.M.A.N. in haskell
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by rincewind 16y ago
In arc: http://arclanguage.org/item?id=6669
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by rincewind 16y ago
I have used it in order to develop an eclipse plugin for vim. It took some time to set up, but then it worked as advertised. I could use vim inside eclipse. It exposes all the mistake detection and completion stuff of the regular Eclipse ed
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by rincewind 16y ago
This in the definition of NPC. What you have to prove is that a language is in NPC. This was proved for SAT first: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook%E2%80%93Levin_theorem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NP_complete
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by rincewind 16y ago
is the arduino part based on firmata?
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by rincewind 16y ago
I have heard that China runs lots of nodes in order to a) spy on people who want to hide from the chinese government and b) spy on foreigners and c) make life harder for western intelligence agencies. Maybe every secret police or spy organi
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by rincewind 16y ago
How does this compare to JSqueak? Does it run Morphic? It seems to integrate better with the host JVM (like GST integrates with unix).
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by rincewind 16y ago
yes, for me too (same version of Firefox on Ubuntu 10.04)
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by rincewind 16y ago
fluxbox had this 5 years ago
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by rincewind 16y ago
Many of these business cards are impractical because they are too large or to small or too thick or you cannot write anything on them.
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by rincewind 16y ago
There is no continuation in the arc example I think. The request is also not a global variable (the aform macro stores a closure in a global hashtable, maybe you mean that).

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