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by rwl 5y ago
> Thus what matters is a publication's impact factor, its reputation, and whether they are already in the acceptable list or not. This makes me wonder if there's room for a kind of legal hack that could carry these things ove
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by rwl 5y ago
My point is not that this is impossible; it's that separating the tasks of building a list of query results and then executing an operation on those results requires some kind of convention about how to refer to those results across th
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by rwl 5y ago
This is a good point, but notice that what makes the segregation easy in your example is that the query and the command have a shared way to refer to what the command will operate on: the filename. Consider a conceptually very similar case:
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by rwl 6y ago
There's a gatekeeper question to enter the Settings for grownups: "Answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything." Fortunately, as a grown up, I knew the answer immediately. ;)
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by rwl 8y ago
> Sure, you're probably rich enough that you can afford a crazy amount to subscribe to every possible website. But the majority of the world cannot - and that's why ads are not just an unnecessary distraction but instead a nece
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by rwl 8y ago
> I just don’t see tracking online activity as more harmful than the benefit that people get from the service. (Not so much US users, but the benefits to people in very poor countries are very real, and wouldn’t exist if the service didn
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by rwl 8y ago
> assuming student size held constant It did not: https://pages.github.berkeley.edu/OPA/our-berkeley/enroll-hi... During this period, the undergraduate student population grew about 20%. I was at Berkeley durin
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Eniac Programmers Project(eniacprogrammers.org)
2 points by rwl 8y ago|0 comments
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by rwl 8y ago
In this context, it seems worth mentioning Woolfiller, a product I love because I always wear out the elbows in my wool sweaters and it lets me mend them: https://www.woolfiller.com/ It's a great example of a company t
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by rwl 8y ago
> grades assigned by those instructors? Probably not directly. These are STEM classes at a big public university; I'm guessing most of the grades were assigned by TAs, and only approved or minimally adjusted by professors.
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Helping us judge a book by its cover: software help request(blog.archive.org)
2 points by rwl 8y ago|0 comments
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Why a French Attorney Is on a Digital Privacy Crusade [audio](npr.org)
2 points by rwl 9y ago|0 comments
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Big profits drove a stock boom. Did the economy pay a price?(nytimes.com)
3 points by rwl 9y ago|0 comments
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Dark Leviathan: what the Silk Road shows us about libertarianism and the state(aeon.co)
6 points by rwl 9y ago|0 comments
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by rwl 10y ago
Yes, narrowing lanes will increase drivers' stress (whether by a significant amount, I don't know). But it will also decrease the stress of cyclists, pedestrians, and other people using the same roads. So this is not a straigh
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by rwl 10y ago
Knuth's book (that is, the TeX Book) is worth looking at. You're right that it won't tell you everything you want to know about LaTeX, and in that sense is like learning C rather than C++. But (also like learning C before C+
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American Dental Association Mails Malware to Members(krebsonsecurity.com)
2 points by rwl 10y ago|0 comments
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by rwl 11y ago
I don't know if the authors of this proposal are here, but I wonder if they have heard of Elm: http://elm-lang.org/ If they are not completely married to Haskell, they might consider using Elm instead. Why? Like Hask
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by rwl 12y ago
Maybe so, but does a Facebook app uploading my phone number from a friend's phone to their servers, or turning on my friend's microphone while we are having an otherwise-private conversation, count as "freely posting"?
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by rwl 12y ago
Hmm, that does sound interesting. I would be interested in the reference, if it's not too much work to dig up. I guess I don't see how this idea addresses the concern, though. Sure, maybe it's natural that there's a sp
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by rwl 12y ago
So why does this work? Is Chrome 37 for Linux now being shipped with support for Encrypted Media Extensions, i.e., HTML's built-in DRM, with Netflix relying on EME? Or has something happened with Moonlight to support Netflix DRM?
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by rwl 12y ago
Indeed, it wasn't. In fact, Aristotle's logical works (the "organon") have been recommended as the entry point into his philosophy since antiquity. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organon
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by rwl 12y ago
> Universities are designed to give you a firm grounding in the fundamental concepts, which should give you the ability to understand whatever tools are in fashion in the industry with relative ease. One of the things that continually fr
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by rwl 12y ago
According to the article, the focus on scientific data is a product of funding from the Sloan Foundation: "Although Ogden's background is in city government, the Dat team is now squarely focused on the needs of scientists. That&#x
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by rwl 12y ago
> a value `v` annotated as `str` could still be changed as follows: > v = 1234 Surely at least this could be caught by a static type checker? If `v` is annotated to be of type `str`, assigning it a constant int should be a type error
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by rwl 12y ago
What does "using" public transit mean, according to the data you're using? I notice that if you increase the minimum percentage of the population that uses public transportation to 15 percent, it eliminates basically everywhe
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by rwl 12y ago
> I really do feel Amazon is on the consumer's side. $15+ for a non-transferable ebook is ludicrous. Hmm. I agree that that price is in many cases too high. But as you say, that's because ebooks are non-transferable. Is crea
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by rwl 12y ago
> it's more about improving quality and keeping costs down. Yes. This point seems to be lost on the author of the article. Even the founders of the Open Source movement thought that. I can't find it now, but I remember once r
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by rwl 12y ago
This sounds like a great outcome, and I support legalization for basically these reasons. More revenue for state governments, less violence, less law-enforcement time wasted on drug offences, and less crowding of prisons with non-violent d
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by rwl 12y ago
> The other problem with open source dev is dealing with the impossible egos. I want to write good code. I don't give a damn what anyone thinks of my language choice, code style or lack of dress sense. It's funny -- in my (perh

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