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by rwj 10y ago
The low-level hardware access is handled using C, but presumably people want to write higher-level code on top of that. It doesn't seem that unusual.
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by rwj 10y ago
Not recommending either way, but if the language supported algebraic types with pattern matching, it would still be explicit.
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by rwj 10y ago
guy that co-invented calculus...
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by rwj 10y ago
There is a specific definition for elementary functions (see Wikipedia). However, the elementary functions are only a subset of all possible functions.
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by rwj 10y ago
Peer review serves a useful, but limited, function. In a case like this, the important issue is that failures to replicate can also be published.
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by rwj 10y ago
I'm not sure that containers will help with security profiles. They should help with (for example) privilege escalation, but you will still be left with managing what systems/programs need access to what resources.
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by rwj 10y ago
I think the idea would be the program would fail to compile, and you would need to go back and replace the unwrap with proper error handling. The goal would be to allow the use of unwrap during development, but require the final polish bef
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by rwj 10y ago
Are there any plans for a headless server. I'm still looking for a good way to sync my NAS to my desktop.
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by rwj 10y ago
For a statically-compiled languages, I don't see why people would prefer runtime reflection to compile-time code generation. You can reduce code duplication, but at the expense of runtime speed. But if that was the use case, I'm
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by rwj 10y ago
A big part of Uber's advantage is corporate nullification. I'm sure their app is nice, but avoiding regulation appears to be their big advantage. Government may be slow, but it will catch up eventually. There are already severa
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by rwj 10y ago
People have confused a right to express their opinion with a right to their opinion. The first is a foundation for discussion and improvement, the second is a recipe for stupidity.
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by rwj 11y ago
Depends. If they are holding back from IPOs because they don't believe they can match their private valuations, that would be a sign of weakness.
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by rwj 11y ago
At an individual level, I agree. At the community level, I don't think it will be that easy. If trolls can destroy the SNR, the community will also be destroyed.
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by rwj 11y ago
Isn't that kind of the point? Americans can't decide if they want new laws or to amend the constitution before deciding what the ideal would be. Your point is to shut down discussion before they get that far. In any case, IANAL
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by rwj 11y ago
Those low rates have probably also propped up the the value of your house. Look at the ratio of the median house price to income over time, and you will be less convinced that low interest rates have been helpful.
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by rwj 11y ago
Except that vial has 2 syllables, and vile has only 1 syllable.
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by rwj 11y ago
Plus there is the fact that utilities are state-regulated monopolies... Until you have competing utility providers, it isn't much of a market.
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by rwj 11y ago
As you seem imply, the trade-off here is between the costs of distribution and economies of scale. However, without numbers for the various costs, I don't see how you can make a prediction.
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by rwj 11y ago
Sorry, but the methods and definitions used vary from country to country. The unemployment rates between countries are not directly comparable.
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by rwj 11y ago
While I'm not sure about the complete anonymity suggested by Hanel, I do wish that journals would move to double-blind reviews. It would not be perfect, as often research know enough to guess who the authors might be, but it would sti
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by rwj 11y ago
Selling back your power by slowing or stopping production is an old technique. Large factories that buy power on long-term fixed-price contracts will often sell that power back to the electric company when rates are high. It might be more
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by rwj 11y ago
To be fair to the CBC, they were very critical of Harper from the start, even before the funding cuts.
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by rwj 11y ago
Yes, good point. Resistance to antibacterials might also be a problem, so their use in consumer goods is still problematic, but the distinction does undermine my tldr.
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by rwj 11y ago
The solution does not need to be that drastic. Stop using antibiotics as a placebo, stop using antibiotics in your household cleaning supplies, stop dosing livestock with antibiotics as a prophylactic, .... Part of the problem is that sin
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by rwj 11y ago
Having been an academic, this article confused two things. The use of jargon is often justified, as specialists often use particular words to encapsulated complicated but also well defined concepts. Having seen the confusion that comes wh
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by rwj 11y ago
You are confusing ionizing and non-ionizing radiation...
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by rwj 11y ago
There are more than 50 engineers working to support WhatsApp. A complete count should include all of the work that was out-sourced, such as engineers at AWS (or whomever is supplying the computing), the engineers for Erlang, etc. If the g
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by rwj 11y ago
This is an interesting question, but I'm not convinced it is the case. Many people have argued that Java, Ruby, (insert favorite language here) will one day match the speed of C, it just requires more advanced tooling, but that promis
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by rwj 11y ago
This is also how interfaces are implemented in Go.
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by rwj 13y ago
It took me an unreasonably long time to figure out how that time parsing works. The explanation is not particularly clear. That said, once you understand the format, it is very easy to use.

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