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by rybosome 12y ago
Nations have a long history of funding exploratory ventures. It is generally understood that the process is useful for a variety of reasons: it creates jobs, there is a small chance that something practical could be discovered, and most imp
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by rybosome 12y ago
This is an excellent point; reality-show-manufactured drama would rob this achievement of the gravitas it deserves. Humans are given to pettiness on occasion, it would be a tragedy to elevate and preserve those petty moments when memorializ
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by rybosome 12y ago
Let's take the example interview question: given a string, how do you determine if it is an anagram of a palindrome? The answer is that, for any given character, at most 1 should appear in the string an odd number of times. Here is an
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by rybosome 12y ago
Is it this[1] form? If so, I'll find the owner and file a bug. [1]: https://support.google.com/adsense/contact/contactsales?hl=e...
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by rybosome 12y ago
If we get a working CFR as described, I'd be shocked if the cost of coal extraction and usage remained low enough for this to be a sound idea. In the face of extremely cheap, clean power, I'd sincerely hope that the government wou
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by rybosome 12y ago
In this context, how about something like this? "Don't repeat yourself (As Much as Possible)"
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by rybosome 12y ago
Not having data which would incriminate you to a party which will misuse it is something of a pyrrhic victory, but I still see your point. It would be preferable to have no parties which would misuse this data, but if such a party does exis
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by rybosome 12y ago
I'm not sure that I understand. The future implementations that I'm aware of allow you to take different actions if a future succeeds or fails; in the above, couldn't you render a 500 if the email didn't send or the db u
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by rybosome 12y ago
This is kind of a pedantic distinction, but the behavior you've described is actually Functor behavior; I think Monads allow for Functor-like behavior as part of their definition (not sure, I'm neither a category theorist nor an e
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by rybosome 12y ago
I was pretty impressed with the content in "Real World Haskell"[0], it's available online for free and for sale in print. I don't remember all of the practical examples, but off the top of my head, they include wiring up
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by rybosome 12y ago
As oil becomes more scarce, its price will rise sharply. A large increase in the price of oil would have significant negative effects on the global economy. It can be argued that money spent to reduce our dependence on oil is only "giv
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by rybosome 12y ago
> The state...hates renewable energy Well that clinches it for me. There are very, very few viewpoints that I dismiss out of hand, but opposition to renewable energy is one of them (maybe the only one). Energy is one of the world's
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by rybosome 12y ago
Hm, fair complaint. At some point I found that hitting ESC immediately after typing became habitual. I find myself accidentally doing it outside of vim quite frequently. I've heard others make similar statements to yours, though. If re
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by rybosome 12y ago
I'm not so sure that I agree with your perception of the tone. The high-level takeaway I got from this article with respect to C was, "C's abstract machine is clearly the best way to think about performance sensitive programm
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by rybosome 12y ago
That's a fair point, although long chains of forwarded methods could be indicative of poor design - writing inheritance via composition in much the same way that one may write Lisp via Java. Granted, it's very easy to say that thi
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by rybosome 12y ago
Well, there's one of the big problems; param ordering isn't ideal. Believe me, you are preaching to the choir. I had a long argument with the people who maintain our JS library about the merits of adding reverse and curry function
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by rybosome 12y ago
If I'm understanding you correctly, that's still possible with instance methods. var mapOverNums = _.partial(_.map, [1,2,3,4,5]); mapOverNums(function(n) { return n * n; }); // Square nums mapOverNums(funct
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by rybosome 12y ago
Tested on mobile safari on an iPhone 5S running iOS7, and native Function binding is nearly 5x faster than fast.js. Even in cases where this lib soundly beats native, I think I'd prefer the native variants for their fluency. Combinatio
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by rybosome 12y ago
I'm assuming because of the heavy concentration of tech along the canal near the Fremont bridge? Agreed that it might give an incorrect picture of the structure of Seattle. :-)
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by rybosome 12y ago
I see your point, but when the article cites companies such as Microsoft, Amazon, Google, HP, CenturyLink, Tableau and Chef, your complaint about "an app that you've never heard of" doesn't really hold up. Perhaps I&#x27
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by rybosome 12y ago
It will depend on what you like - I know plenty of people here who are happy and unhappy with the weather. Personally I love it. The most intolerable thing about living in the Midwest before moving here was the winter. When it gets below fr
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by rybosome 12y ago
> You actually can't prove _anybody else in the world_ besides you has a first person subjective experience. That's absolutely true. My wife and I sometimes joke that each of us is an incorporeal figment in the other's dre
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by rybosome 12y ago
I agree completely. It's difficult to watch this without feeling deeply cynical about our particular implementation of democracy. The wants of the wealthy few are being given precedence over the needs of the many.
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by rybosome 12y ago
Interesting questions. Part of the implication with granting personhood is that we recognize the creature in question is aware of its situation and suffers for it. Would a computer that can recognize itself suffer? Although computers can be
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by rybosome 13y ago
My current team is the first one in my career as a software engineer in which our testing infrastructure is robust enough to think like this. I just resolved a bug this week by writing a test that failed due to its presence (and leaving a c
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by rybosome 13y ago
Do you not think there is something interesting about a cartoon that appeals to children by employing imaginative characters and silly humor while simultaneously appealing to adults with existential concerns? For it to skim along the somber
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by rybosome 13y ago
This article raises an issue that terrifies me; over-reliance on one's wife for friendship. I love my wife and I do consider her my best friend, which is wonderful...but now that I no longer live in the same city as my closest friends,
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by rybosome 13y ago
There's a lot more that goes into enjoying one's surroundings than just the price paid to own a home there. For those who enjoy small towns, you're absolutely right; what an amazing opportunity.
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by rybosome 13y ago
If I'm reading the above comment correctly, the author is stating that Backbone surfaces this to the user. To manage state in a Backbone app requires lots of callback binding.
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by rybosome 13y ago
Surely the fact that such a valuable tool can be implemented due to Elm's "esoteric" nature (not sure I agree) is of interest?

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