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by sid0 15y ago
Standard academic linguistics is by definition descriptive.
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by sid0 15y ago
While descriptivists and other such laissez-faire linguists All linguists are descriptivists.
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by sid0 15y ago
Latest Gecko is 9.0 to coincide with Firefox 9. :)
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by sid0 15y ago
Don't worry, Anathem's the only book where he renames things like that, and that's mainly because his construction necessitates it. He is rather self-indulgent though. Snow Crash or Cryptonomicon are good starts, and if you like them you sh
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by sid0 15y ago
Out of all his books I've read (Snow Crash, Diamond Age, Cryptonomicon), the world in Anathem is by far his most complex.
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by sid0 15y ago
I can't wait for this bubble to burst.
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by sid0 15y ago
There is no known way of getting a quantum computer to solve an NP-complete problem in polynomial time. Integer factoring is in NP but not complete for it.
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by sid0 15y ago
The entire Web is a test page for this one, and I have come across numerous stories similar to my own. If you have the problem on your machine, you can't miss it: basically any time you see a capital T there will be an obvious kerning prob
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by sid0 15y ago
Not all reasons for rejecting a standard are equal.
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by sid0 15y ago
Sorry, it's not compatible with me either, since I hate popup windows so much I force them to open in tabs.
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by sid0 15y ago
As I mentioned above, the best way to keep items matching a condition is filter predicate xs
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by sid0 15y ago
As far as I remember you can write that as var filteredCollection = collection.Where(predicate); I agree that C# is a fundamentally usable language.
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by sid0 15y ago
Yeah, I was thinking Haskell, but any functional language will do. Problems like the one in the blog post really make you appreciate them.
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by sid0 15y ago
What I'm talking about is entirely Firefox-specific (IE9 renders the same sites just fine) and it applies on Windows XP as well as Windows 7. Do you have a test page? If it happens on Windows XP too then it's probably a bug. Did you file
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by sid0 15y ago
filter predicate xs :)
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by sid0 15y ago
That may be so, but the fact is that for several months lots of people using Firefox will have had difficulty reading lots of sites that worked perfectly well in older versions of Firefox and still work perfectly well today in other browse
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by sid0 15y ago
The trouble is, the current standardisation processes are far too slow to be practically useful, while the breakneck pace of experimental feature development is too fast to keep up, so there is no useful definition of "a little" in your su
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by sid0 15y ago
I'm not taking the bugs into account here (though there are plenty). I'm talking about the design philosophy.
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by sid0 15y ago
If you want to use CSS3 tools, even those that are widely supported across browsers, you often have to code up the same effect 3/4/5 times with slightly different syntaxes. Or you can wait a little until the standard goes through and the
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by sid0 15y ago
That is a very dishonest representation of how the Web standardization process works.
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by sid0 15y ago
You are definitely not. I use Windows 7 primarily and I'd never even dream of replacing it with Windows 8 in its current state as a horribly thought-out mishmash of design principles.
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by sid0 15y ago
The purpose of the false statement is irrelevant. I'm generally not a big fan of perfection in programming, but compilers are one instance it's worth aiming for.
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by sid0 15y ago
- You can still google the code Windows provides. - If you're really savvy you know how to use WinDBG and load up a memory dump.
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by sid0 15y ago
I'm pretty sure they're still going to have the memory dump.
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by sid0 15y ago
Oh man, I did the same when I was at Microsoft for a couple of months for an internship (although I had to interact with SD instead). Coming from hg I found SD to be pretty obnoxious. Thankfully my mentor was fine with it: "whatever works f
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by sid0 15y ago
Sorry, I made a mistake: nonlocal gives you as much power as usual closures. I still stand by my statement that implicit declarations make things very confusing.
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by sid0 15y ago
You, sir, have scared the shit out of me.
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by sid0 15y ago
No, it really isn't. There's a reason Intel's integrated graphics have improved so significantly with Sandy Bridge.
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by sid0 15y ago
I am going to switch away from Apple's shitty notebooks and probably never use one again, and I agree with the GP.
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by sid0 15y ago
Python has implicit declarations, which lead to a world of hurt because you can't directly modify variables in arbitrary scopes. Python 3 has nonlocal, but that only extends the number of function scopes you can refer to to three. I think h

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