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by rw 17y ago
Then use Markdown. HTML is overkill.
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by rw 17y ago
Because healthcare is "fixed" in many other nations?
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by rw 17y ago
This is needed satire on the sad state of investigative journalism. > Print media isn't hurting because it's an outdated business model, print media is hurting because it's boring. Blogs and Twitter are succeeding because their shit is
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by rw 17y ago
APL (and its derivatives) are an obvious use of that. Note also C-style array access: a[i]; It's not new, just new in a lisp (and a good idea if you ask me).
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by rw 17y ago
To make available possibly-incriminating information once someone knows who you are is one thing... providing identifying information to possibly-malicious strangers is a different animal entirely.
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by rw 17y ago
I don't talk about my Gibsons on this wobsite. Sorry.
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by rw 17y ago
Yes it does thank you.
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by rw 17y ago
> "There is a lot more to this, but I'll stop there." Go on with your explanation. I'm not grokking it yet.
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The Art of Unix Programming: Compactness and Orthogonality(faqs.org)
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by rw 17y ago
> Commodore 64 compatibility? > C64: 100% > iPhone: Sigh
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by rw 17y ago
I'll chime in. What gets me in the zone is a combination of: power noise, electro and classical/romantic arrangements.
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by rw 17y ago
(awesome? bioinformatics)
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by rw 17y ago
Not necessarily: time cost.
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Active Learning Tutorial (ICML 2009)(hunch.net)
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by rw 17y ago
We may not know everything about the brain, but we know enough. Go see someone about it.
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by rw 17y ago
Make sure you can ship after every commit!
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by rw 17y ago
So, basically, we need to refactor the human body. I am quite alright with that.
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by rw 17y ago
I second "How To Prove It".
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by rw 17y ago
A few suggestions (if only we all had more time): Do ProjectEuler.net, as it provides a great mesh between algorithm design and mathematics; it might be within your expertise already, however. Look in to getting a good discrete math book or
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by rw 17y ago
I have to agree with you, Thomas. While IP law in the United States is clearly full of problems, we cannot ignore the simple numbers: millions of childrens' lives are worsened every year, through no fault of their own, just because of where
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by rw 17y ago
> but if you are ever around kids you'll realize that every 7 year old knows about google. This is one of the most absurd things I have ever read here. According to the CIA World Factbook, there are 1.8 billion children under 14 years o
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by rw 17y ago
Correction: Intellectual property theft is where you take my work whether you pay me or not and give it freely to everybody else.
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by rw 17y ago
I'd like someone to compare it to LLVM.
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by rw 17y ago
I hope so! I thought that at first, but figured since the desks were so pristine -- it may be for serious. Are the letters on the columns in that photograph used to navigate the office like a parking lot?
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by rw 17y ago
Creepy: > "Notice: work areas subject to search" http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/img_408...
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by rw 17y ago
What, you think they thought they would make a business out of it? Open-source software is notoriously hard for third-party developers to monetize.
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by rw 17y ago
Since when does "Have you built a prototype yet?" matter when talking about if your idea is good?
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by rw 17y ago
> "In Pregel, programs are expressed as a sequence of iterations. In each iteration, a vertex can, independently of other vertices, receive messages sent to it in the previous iteration, send messages to other vertices, modify its own a
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by rw 17y ago
A refreshing sentiment to hear on Every-Man-Is-An-Island News.
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by rw 17y ago
What do we want to achieve? Markets, with all of their permutations, are just a few tools in our toolbox. I completely agree with you that the debate needs to be made much less ideological and much more precise, but we cannot pretend these

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