samwilliams

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by samwilliams 11y ago
Indeed it is! An exceptional film maker.
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by samwilliams 11y ago
I hope that it is not the most honest, but I do agree that it is the best. If you like The Thick Of It, you may also like the film 'In The Loop' and 'Veep' (both also 'created' by Armando Iannucci) as well as t
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Why is max slower than sort in Python?(stackoverflow.com)
2 points by samwilliams 11y ago|1 comments
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'But since this is HTTP, you only got an 404. You're welcome'(erlang.org)
4 points by samwilliams 11y ago|0 comments
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by samwilliams 11y ago
> Why not raise the price of patents substantially? Because it is not only rich people that are innovative? As far as I can see, if anyone is going to have their IP secured by the state, then money should not be the barrier to entry. You
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by samwilliams 11y ago
EDIT: As noted by Paul below, the site is back up. It is a shame that the main elm-lang.org page is currently down. There are presumably a number of people like me that saw this submission and wanted to see what the language is like... Anyw
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Theresa May forced to backtrack over plan to ‘snoop’ on internet use(theguardian.com)
2 points by samwilliams 11y ago|0 comments
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by samwilliams 11y ago
A wise thing to do with sites like these is to procure the cheapest hosting you can (for a static or wordpress site, think $2 a month) and similarly cheap domain provision (although the prices don't vary so much for these). With the ri
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Tell Obama: Stop Mass Surveillance Under Executive Order 12333(act.eff.org)
2 points by samwilliams 12y ago|0 comments
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Hardened Yes(hardenedyes.org)
6 points by samwilliams 12y ago|1 comments
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A Robot's Last Words(puzzling.stackexchange.com)
1 points by samwilliams 12y ago|0 comments
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by samwilliams 12y ago
> Hell, it makes me want to open the IDE and prove something right now. It makes me want to do a little bootloader development too... in Coq! It might be fun to make a tiny 16-bit real mode OS with this also. You could head towards your
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by samwilliams 12y ago
If you want to create your own complete graphical rendering system you could look into writing a replacement for X11. You could look at the source of tinyx to help you get started. Note that the 'tiny' x source is 5mb of plaintext
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What is the story of the mysterious DS_RECURSE dialog style?(blogs.msdn.com)
1 points by samwilliams 12y ago|0 comments
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Erlang OTP 17.3 has been released(erlang.org)
2 points by samwilliams 12y ago|0 comments
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Offical Soylent: Should it be producing Mustard Gas?(discourse.soylent.me)
49 points by samwilliams 12y ago|20 comments
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by samwilliams 12y ago
Further to the 2 excellent answers you have already received, it is also important to know that we have been attempting to create a vaccine or even effective treatment for Ebola for a relatively long time (it was first encountered in 1976).
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by samwilliams 12y ago
> I wonder what kind of life he lives with the extreme paranoia of MI5 messing with him constantly. The lives of those that suffer from paranoid schizophrenia are well 'documented' in popular culture. One such item you may be i
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by samwilliams 12y ago
http://www.geee.net/mv.htm It does not appear to a joke. It seems an awful lot like paranoid schizophrenia...
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Surveillance law in UK wins cross-party support but critics claim stitch-up(theguardian.com)
1 points by samwilliams 12y ago|0 comments
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Erlang OTP 17.1 has been released(erlang.org)
2 points by samwilliams 12y ago|0 comments
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by samwilliams 12y ago
This is extremely impressive - well done all! There is a bare metal chess game [0] for the Pi that was presumably another teams entry for the same assignment (they are both from Imperial). [0] https://github.com/xu-ji/a
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by samwilliams 12y ago
While some of the commentary is not from himself or Anne, some of it was. I believe the quoted experience was not Alex Shulgin's though.
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Detonation by tumbleweed: war-torn deserts cleared by rolling over land mines(wired.co.uk)
1 points by samwilliams 12y ago|0 comments
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HeLa(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by samwilliams 12y ago|0 comments
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NASA's Third Rock Radio(nasa.gov)
1 points by samwilliams 12y ago|0 comments
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Paypal Pay After Delivery(paypal.com)
1 points by samwilliams 12y ago|0 comments
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by samwilliams 13y ago
The following is just my opinion: This really is an issue of self control. Just commit yourself to doing the work, then do it! If you really cannot do that then it might be helpful to see a counsellor, although I am certainly no expert in t
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Linux 3.15 Random To Support Intel's RDSEED(phoronix.com)
1 points by samwilliams 13y ago|0 comments
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Intel Pushes XenGT For GPU Access To Virtual Machines(phoronix.com)
5 points by samwilliams 13y ago|0 comments

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