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by sid0 16y ago
I'm not sure if this is humour or not, but "relatively prime" or "coprime" means that the two numbers have GCD 1.
482.
by sid0 16y ago
The way it seems counter-intuitive to me is that I think of each loop iteration as containing a fresh variable, and not the same variable being re-assigned to over and over again.
483.
by sid0 16y ago
Yeah, I've been bitten by this more than once while writing code using for-each and Iterator in JavaScript. It is definitely counter-intuitive.
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by sid0 16y ago
On Windows, every app has a menu No. Lots of applications don't have menus.
485.
by sid0 16y ago
No. Explorer, IE, Firefox (4), Chrome, Office, Windows Live foo... none of them have menu bars.
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by sid0 16y ago
Sorry, that's more precisely ceteris paribus -- "all else being the same".
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by sid0 16y ago
The ribbon?
488.
by sid0 16y ago
At my college every CS student is expected to pick C up on his own time. I knew how to program in C long before I entered college -- however, I really dislike non-GC environments in general.
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by sid0 16y ago
Agreed. Have you tried the latest nightlies of Firefox 4? They're much closer to what I imagined browsing would be like today, ten years ago, than Chrome is (Firefox has new features like Panorama, and is as hackable as ever. Chrome has...
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by sid0 16y ago
Remote XUL is disabled in Firefox 4.
491.
by sid0 16y ago
Most Windows sold today is 64-bit, and it allows you to run more 32-bit programs without running out of memory.
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by sid0 16y ago
> Case in point: when I saw the title "The language I wish go was" I expected to find an article about google cancelling the go language. I'm not a native English speaker, but I do think my English is pretty good. Care to explain why th
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by sid0 16y ago
> This is a systems language, which means you should have the choice to do efficient things, if you know what you're doing. You shouldn't be told "you can't do that because you might get it wrong. I don't have the time to watch the vide
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by sid0 16y ago
Please read http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005515.h... .
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by sid0 16y ago
You know what I wish Go had? Compiler-enforced immutable state. It is inexcusable that a language designed for concurrent programming in 2010 doesn't support immutability [1]. [1] http://groups.google.com/group/golang-nuts/browse_thread/
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by sid0 16y ago
> That doesn't mean that functional languages with side effects Haskell has side-effects too, you know. The point of Haskell is not to eliminate side-effects entirely, but to have a static separation between functions with side-effect
497.
by sid0 16y ago
Is our memory so shallow as to forget the anti-trust methods that brought Windows to dominance? As far as I know, no anti-trust methods brought Windows to dominance. Anti-trust methods did bring IE to dominance, however.
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by sid0 16y ago
> OK, but has anyone managed to construct the real numbers with intuitionist logic? I think it should be possible to do so. As long as you don't need the law of the excluded middle you should be fine. > Maybe different logics are li
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by sid0 16y ago
> Logic isn't a translation layer. It's more like a theoretical machine. More precisely, it is a model for human thought. The way logic is similar to UI is that logic's philosophical success is a function of how well human thought maps
500.
by sid0 16y ago
It makes perfect intuitive sense if you're used to the way the word "if" is used in classical logic. Remember that it's you who has bent your intuitive sense to fit how material implication works. Most people are not going to think it mak
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by sid0 16y ago
By "constructively" do you mean in a constructivist logic like intuitionist logic? I'm too lazy to work it out right now, but I'd place my money on that statement not being valid in intuitionist logic.
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by sid0 16y ago
Good article overall, but I think I should make a comment: > Many understand implication intuitively, yet find its symbolic formulation puzzling. Yes, and for a reason: material implication (the kind of implication discussed in the arti
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by sid0 16y ago
There are several ways to update programs on Windows without needing admin rights: - You could do it as Chrome does and have a per-user install. I don't think Mozilla wants to do this. - You could install a service or a scheduled task to do
504.
by sid0 16y ago
Boxes still on Win2k won't have much memory, and Chrome is really memory-hungry, so it isn't going to help.
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by sid0 16y ago
No, not really. The most complex math AES uses is operations in the finite field GF(256). Given that addition in a power-of-2 finite field is simply XOR, I expect any good programmer to be able to get AES.
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by sid0 16y ago
That last interview with the laureate asking if it was really necessary to stop his experiments was particularly sweet.
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by sid0 16y ago
Yes, it does for me with Firefox 4 on Windows 7. This is something that would be browser and OS dependent. In general, I've noticed OS X tends to have much fewer places with rollover effects than Windows.
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by sid0 16y ago
I see you work for Mozilla. (Hey!) I work on Mozilla too, I certainly didn't feel like I needed to learn "the ins and outs of how everything works". I work in mailnews and I really have no idea how layout/ etc work. I don't think I know how
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by sid0 16y ago
> It says that, as a general rule, you should use 'use' instead of 'usage'. Nowhere does it say that. It says that only if both seem appropriate (obviously disallowing modifying the rest of the sentence -- that is clear from the context
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by sid0 16y ago
How does it imply that you're right? "Common Errors in English Use" sounds much worse to me.

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