sirseal

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by sirseal 12y ago
This style guide is depressing... The author's complete oversight of for-comprehensions, the convention of using apply, the insistence on using API-leaking side effects for error handling (read: throwing exceptions), makes me weep. Spa
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by sirseal 12y ago
"Writing try-catch block using setjmp and longjmp" Great! Now I can have fun with some bad, old programming ideas!
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by sirseal 12y ago
Er, you mean to say "compiles to machine code." There is no such thing as concurrent machine code... Now the Go language has some fantastic data structures baked-into the syntax that provide a language with which to construct conc
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by sirseal 12y ago
Precisely. I was expecting this to be incredibly useful. With the license restriction, these documents lose tremendous value.
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by sirseal 12y ago
And then let's add some taxes to make this proposal even worse!
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by sirseal 12y ago
Local urban farming is not assured to produce healthier nor tastier food. That squarely lies in the hands of the farmer. Farming is a skill; most people are not good at it. LED powered farmhouses would be nice. But going back to the person
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by sirseal 12y ago
Software engineering requires mathematics. Software development does not. Engineers and developers both bang out code. But the similarities end there. A developer uses a library to make a product. An engineer uses mathematical knowledge, sk
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by sirseal 12y ago
Hmmm....smells like BS.
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by sirseal 12y ago
When it comes to the State, we have to actively limit its activities. Especially when it comes to indiscriminate information gathering. Don't you find it odd that there's no record of the real crimes -- homeless people fighting, g
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by sirseal 12y ago
There's a BLAS/LAPACK interface in biogo. https://code.google.com/p/biogo/ The maintainers had plans to turn that part into a standalone library. I have no idea on progress.
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by sirseal 12y ago
I should have been more precise. I agree with you that PyLadies and Women Who Code should not be labeled as sexist organizations. There's a distinct difference between targeting a group of people based upon their sex and baring a group
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by sirseal 12y ago
We'll keep going round and round until it gets fixed...
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by sirseal 12y ago
The ends don't justify the means: having a sexist practice to combat sexism is using the wrong means.
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by sirseal 13y ago
I used to love my Chromecast. It was one of those "it just works" pieces of technology. Unfortunately, after it auto-updated, it now has a bug where it will disconnect from WiFi after 30 minutes. Anyone know of a fix or has seen t
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by sirseal 13y ago
There's too few of us...