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by serichsen 16y ago
What if someone writes you the question "what is 12, Park Avenue + 34, Park Avenue?" Wouldn't you assume that this cannot be about addition, and instead tell him who lives in those two places and perhaps the walking distance?
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by serichsen 16y ago
Actually, Wolfram Alpha is doing a sensible thing in each case: it is not adding the temperatures, it is comparing them, resp. calculating the difference, when you give different scales. You can see that in the output, where it says "diff
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by serichsen 16y ago
Is the lawsuit not about the VM technology, all languages running on it thus being affected the same?
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by serichsen 16y ago
Is there a plausible mechanism?
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by serichsen 16y ago
Is Oracle faring so bad? Last I looked, a company actively suing for patent infringement meant that they have no real product, so it's their only hope of "generating" "income". It is a sure sign of imminent corporate decline.
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by serichsen 16y ago
I see no reason to use a language that eliminates run-time types. Having type information available at run-time means that I can develop, debug, and analyze at a living system. The IDE and refactoring support you can gain from this is in
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by serichsen 16y ago
Yeah, right. Even if the "25% each" estimate is right: the part that "naturally dissolved or evaporated" does not just disappear, but gets diluted to the point where further effects are not readily attributable to it. The part that was d
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by serichsen 16y ago
Sadly, some publishers actually expect Word documents. The same publishers then have all kinds of problems where they need considerable help from the authors to get the layout right.
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Against Intellectual Monopoly(dklevine.com)
1 points by serichsen 16y ago|0 comments
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by serichsen 16y ago
Some ideas: - The icon on the forehead of the robot should indicate who is currently controlling it. - This could even be a little screen for a webcam in front of the controller. - An office full of these robots could be an innocuous settin
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by serichsen 16y ago
If you are applying for a coding position, you should be glad that they are predominantly interested in your coding skills. There is no substitute for real code to judge that.
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by serichsen 16y ago
I do not get why a keyboard is not needed. How do you write on an iPad?
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by serichsen 16y ago
Most cars are just toys, because for every real car that someone has, I can (on average) find 10 toy cars in his son's bedroom.
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by serichsen 16y ago
Dual-core Acer notebook, Gentoo, stumpwm, Emacs.
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by serichsen 17y ago
I have a deep mistrust of Alice. When everything you do is done by pulling something from a menu, how do you even think about creating something basic that is not already in those menus? It is almost like expecting to learn a lot about ci
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by serichsen 17y ago
Use something where you actually have to program by typing. I would perhaps use DrScheme.