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by shasta 12y ago
I had noticed neither that the arrow in Amazon's logo points from A to Z nor that the arrow resembles a smile. My guess is that the only competitive advantage resulting from such design flourishes is the free press you get from design
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by shasta 12y ago
Right. For example, two files are not a file.
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by shasta 12y ago
That can't be the right definition. Not all applications need to use files, for example.
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by shasta 12y ago
These blogs describe Howe as an NPE/patent troll, but there's a big difference between a guy that invents something, tries to market it, and then sues people who build off of his invention (fixing the flaws), and a modern day pate
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by shasta 12y ago
> resumable exceptions The word resumable is important to that quote, which isn't arguing against exceptions in general.
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by shasta 12y ago
> the troll's strategy was so obvious they were required to put up a bond to cover at least part of our side's legal fees if they lost. Yeah, how much money did you spend getting to that point?
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by shasta 12y ago
Cool numbers. Are they median home value / median income?
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by shasta 12y ago
Oh, wow, I misread that. So what's the protocol for dealing with trolls who refuse to concede?
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by shasta 12y ago
Of course there are situations in mathematics where the tightest proven bound is 10^10^48 and the conjectured value is 7.
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by shasta 12y ago
> Most of the cost is in building infrastructure, not delivering bits. But there's significant cost in building infrastructure that can deliver more bits. > Further, I don't want to live in a nickel-and-dime world where ever
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by shasta 12y ago
> Is Frodo conscious? Probably not. How do you know? > I'd say that act of computation has more to say about consciousness that the actual result itself. And what is the act of computation? Is it not just a progression of relati
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by shasta 12y ago
For wholesale copying as many aspects of their phone as they did. Patent lawsuits (at least in this industry) usually hinge upon whether some small number of silly patents are infringed upon, when really those patented items weren't p
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by shasta 12y ago
> So, optimally, multiple paradigms coexist in the single codebase, applied where they're most useful. If you count a pure (e.g. monadic) encoding of another paradigm in this, then you're not disagreeing with Erik. If you don&
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by shasta 12y ago
> But I don't see how that's different from explicit interfaces; in both cases the intent is only implied by the name. Go's approach is theoretically more error prone. It relies on names matching in a way that can happen
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by shasta 12y ago
No, dual is correct. There's no local way to unkink the phone cable in that image. Just notice that the orientation (whether a cord spirals clockwise or counterclockwise as you travel along it) doesn't change in a properly unki
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by shasta 12y ago
I don't remember the details, but luckily google knows everything: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeSycf6A7pI .
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by shasta 12y ago
No, you can unkink them locally, the opposite of how you introduced them.
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by shasta 12y ago
That bias with a fixed L is present, but you already mentioned the answer in your article: the difference is bounded. Compare to the situation with algorithm complexity. We usually don't attempt to talk about the running time of merge
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by shasta 12y ago
> (Libertarianism isn't anarchy. If it were, we wouldn't need a separate word.) Not that your conclusion is wrong, but if that argument worked we wouldn't need the word "synonym."
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by shasta 12y ago
> If they de-duplicated the data (as Zediva did), they'd certainly save a lot on storage and hardware costs, but they'd no longer be protected by this legal precedent. This should be a clue to the supremes that this is bad law.
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by shasta 13y ago
> Maybe, just maybe, you could use the vanishingly small entanglement left with the other Everett Branch to directly communicate with your other self. I'm not even sure it can be done in principle. My understanding is that this woul
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by shasta 13y ago
I feel like I was just Rick-rolled.
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by shasta 13y ago
I believe the 100 (or any of the numbers in that chart) are scores which he normalized to 100 in each age category for 1968. I don't know what the per 100,000 is supposed to mean. As a death rate per year, it doesn't seem possib
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by shasta 13y ago
> The obvious answer in a classical universe is ... Since there is an obvious answer in classical physics, it's a bit disingenuous to claim that this solves a long-standing problem in classical physics, no? > With entanglement an
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by shasta 13y ago
So have a total fragment in your general recursive language, or encode recursion in your total language. Either is preferable to using an FFI to combine markedly different languages.
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by shasta 13y ago
Most current ones do, but this will change as new languages gain the ability to express most of what the others can express.
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by shasta 13y ago
In many ways it's much worse than the difference between English and French. If you are fluent in both of those languages, you can read a book that's written with some paragraphs English and some French. Software written in two
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by shasta 13y ago
I wasn't arguing that "use the right tool for job" is wrong. It's a tautology, after all. What's implied by most people using it in the context of programming languages (and what I believe michaelochurch intended
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by shasta 13y ago
This "use the right tool for the job" reasoning is just as flawed, though. Switching between programming languages when you need explicit memory management vs. garbage collection or high performance vs. rapid development incurs a
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by shasta 13y ago
7. People who don't like people who walk away from the company can complain about that. 8. People who don't like the people from 7 can complain about that. 9. People who want to derail interesting conversation about how people ou

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