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by sah 18y ago
Does Linux boot, or is that GRUB/LILO? Remember loadlin? Does that count? What about Windows XP under VirtualBox?
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by sah 18y ago
Iterate through the list bitwise-XORing the numbers together into an accumulator. Because x ^ x = 0, and x ^ 0 = x, and ^ is commutative (x ^ y = y ^ x), the final value in the accumulator for a list like [x, y, y, x, z] is: x ^ y ^
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by sah 18y ago
More languages should have a facility for keeping track of units and doing conversions, regardless of whether it's done in the type system or at runtime. Making this a part of the type system seems a little strange to me. Obviously it's ni
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by sah 18y ago
Sure, whether you need to work to earn a living depends on the standard of living and risk level you're comfortable with. But I think it's possible to set a reasonable upper bound. Say, around the point where your interest income at a typ
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by sah 18y ago
You're spelling "you're" wrong.
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by sah 18y ago
I think the clearest line between rich and not is whether you have to work to earn a living. In my book, if you're an "earner" at all, you're not rich yet.
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Syntax Across Programming Languages(merd.sourceforge.net)
4 points by sah 18y ago|0 comments
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by sah 18y ago
What's wrong with making known physical location a service that you buy, rather than a right? A right is really just a service that you can't not buy.
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by sah 18y ago
I would argue that there's very little value in standardizing that syntactic stuff. Whatever tiny amount of value there might be is probably destroyed by picking a convention as almost universally inappropriate as XML.
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by sah 18y ago
You missed the point. After you've agreed on XML, you still have to agree on how to represent a list. You can use existing libraries to parse the XML, but you still have to write a parser to transform the resulting DOM into a list. Plus,
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The 34 Women That Won The Nobel Prize(nobelprize.org)
1 points by sah 18y ago|2 comments
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by sah 18y ago
I hope someday I manage to build something that people laugh at as much as they're laughing at Twitter.
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by sah 18y ago
I think the idea was to be entertaining.
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Social news sharing survey results, part 1(seefresh.net)
1 points by sah 18y ago|0 comments
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Amazing Stat: California Uses More Gas than China(blog.wired.com)
2 points by sah 18y ago|1 comments
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by sah 18y ago
There's one here in Truckee, CA.
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by sah 18y ago
There's a reason why "if x is None" is idiomatic when "if not x" is shorter: >>> x = '' >>> if x is None: ... print 'x is None' ... >>> if not x: ... print 'x is empty' ... x is empt
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by sah 18y ago
"Who writes like that??" The authors of: BitTorrent: https://develop.participatoryculture.org/trac/democracy/brow... Django: http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/django/ut... Pylons: http://pylonshq.com/project/pylonshq
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by sah 18y ago
This is an excellent overview of how Python is usually written by people who write (and read) a lot of it. I hardly ever see coding conventions documents that do such a good job of capturing the popular conventions without inserting quirky
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Approximately 800 vulnerabilities discovered in antivirus products(blogs.zdnet.com)
1 points by sah 18y ago|0 comments
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by sah 18y ago
This paper makes a pretty compelling argument against threads as a model for concurrency: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2006/EECS-2006-1.... ? [pdf]
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by sah 18y ago
"The difficulty of concurrency lies in the problem itself, not the API." Isn't it possible that it's both? Concurrency is hard, but I think the classical threading model makes it harder. There are simplifications that really do make it
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Earth's Core & Magnetic Field Changing Fast, Study Says(news.nationalgeographic.com)
3 points by sah 18y ago|1 comments
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List of acquisitions by Google(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by sah 18y ago|0 comments
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Problems with C++(yosefk.com)
3 points by sah 18y ago|0 comments
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Biofuels have forced global food prices up 75% according to a World Bank report(guardian.co.uk)
4 points by sah 18y ago|0 comments
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New longevity drug mimics caloric restriction in mice(blog.wired.com)
10 points by sah 18y ago|10 comments
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AOL Increasing Dial-Up Fees(informationweek.com)
1 points by sah 18y ago|1 comments
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Paleolithic concert halls? Cave drawings in France correspond with places of natural resonant sound(news.nationalgeographic.com)
5 points by sah 18y ago|1 comments
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by sah 18y ago
I think this is relevant, and would love to hear more about it.

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