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by sbmassey 14y ago
How would you expect it to handle high and low volume blogs together "meaningfully"? I guess I'm not really sure what the problem is: it's pretty easy to put all your high volume stuff into a single category so you can mark everything read
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As I understand it, these guys distinguish between "micro-evolution", such as the current topic, and "macro-evolution", which is the large scale monkey stuff they don't believe in.
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It would form a curve for a given state at a given time period. Obviously you wouldn't get the exact same curve for different states and times.
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by sbmassey 14y ago
You can leave out the explicit return type. auto func = [] (std::complex<double> z, std::complex<double> c) { return z * z + c; }; You could also typedef the number type somewhere: typedef std::complex<double&
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In addition to the inefficiency, putting a large proportion of the communications infrastructure directly under Federal control would seem to make political interferance way too easy as well. Assuming they could get the thing up and running
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I don't know why, but it is a good example of how small states are still capable of acting in the interest of it's people, while large states are captured by corrupt interests of one sort or another.
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Should one pay taxes based on how different the rulers look once they are dead? 'Cos if so, I don't think elected rulers look much different from peasants either.
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The EU is all about setting up a centralised governing power over Europe. Given that Europe contains many different cultures, this will inevitably be an Imperial government, since there is no single demos with broad agreement on policy to b
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by sbmassey 14y ago
When someone dumps a large Python codebase on you, it is significantly harder to figure out how it works than with a statically typed program, since it is harder to figure out what types to use and are returned by any given function call.
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Where does this idea that income inequality indicates the downfall of a civilisation come from? It doesn't seem to be historically true, given the vast income inequality in, say, Regency England, or pretty much any part of classical Roman h
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Only when women are overrepresented on every educational metric...(aei-ideas.org)
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Well fine, but Byzantium never took Northern Spain, let alone 100's of years after the Viking age.
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Plus humanity will eventually perish
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C++ OOP was based on Simula, rather that Smalltalk, which was OO back in the 60's, and didn't have blocks/anon functions/lambdas. (It did have coroutines though; not sure why that didn't make it to C++). Unlike Java or (I suppose) C#, C++
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Surely the price of Lego will plummet if 3D printing ever lives up to its promise.
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... which is fine for creating data structures containing pointers to things created elsewhere, but it doesn't work if you want your data structures to contain more complex data types, without the overhead of another layer of pointer redire
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Under that classification, what is a low level language then? Even Forth abstracts away registers, and allows structured programming (or a sort). Is the set of low level languages that people have heard of in 2013 an empty set?
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I was thinking in terms of comparing riding a horse to riding a bicycle. I'm sure stagecoaches were miserable rides, but I don't think any kind of bicycle based technology would really compete with one.
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I'd guess the point is that the guy didn't follow his passion to become a pig farmer, but became a pig farmer because it was expedient, and later learned to be passionate about it. Not that i've actually watched the film or anything, you un
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by sbmassey 14y ago
i imagine horses would have been much better at handling the roads of the time, pre tarmac.
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The scum of the earth are often the same people as those who deeply emotionally feel they are good guys, I suspect, hard enough as it is to believe for people who try to avoid cognitive dissonance. Human behavior is more complex than Holly
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by sbmassey 14y ago
The Hanseatic league stretched from England to Novgorod, and highlights the strong need for small independent sovereign city states, rather than top-heavy bureaucracies like the EU. The EU is an attempt by the European political classes to
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Lucky like a fox.
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I vaguely associated it with "Surfin' Safari" and the Beach Boys.
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Does it do anything more sensible with pdf's and epub's?
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Just be happy it's not being remade as a FPS
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Frequently, yeah, but the Rust developers seem to actually have some idea what makes C/C++ successful, so I think it stands a better chance than Java/C#/Go.
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Python deliberately broke stuff in the 3.0 release, in order to get rid of some (minor) cruft, but other than that it is as backwards compatible as anything else. Complaining about backwards compatibility on the 3.3 release news item makes
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Yeah, but mandating a list of global variables though?
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When you consider that infix operators include '==', '!=', '<' and '>', I suspect that most code uses them quite a lot.

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