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by sixbrx 13y ago
I never understood why Java didn't go to proper sum types when it introduced enums. They all have to have the same shape, just distinguished by their method implementations, same as always in OO. What kind mechanism for describing al
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by sixbrx 13y ago
Would you consider publishing in an actual ebook format, that reflows? I read on Kindles, which usually don't do well with pdf's. That the pdf's also have some sort of "security" makes me think I can't conver
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by sixbrx 13y ago
2am doesn't even repeat in the local timezone, it's just that the timezone changes. So here for example, 1:59:59 am CDT increments to 1:00:00 CST, which does not conflict with the earlier 1:00:00 CDT. I think it would be better
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by sixbrx 13y ago
I've always found the repeated application of rules to simplify patterns in expressions until the expression stops changing to be pretty powerful when just playing around, especially with small problems. However, in my experience in b
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by sixbrx 13y ago
I actually quite enjoy looking at it, along with Lovejoy which doesn't get as much press but also is quite visible to the naked eye at a really dark location. Both of the commets are great, if you're into that kind of thing, whic
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by sixbrx 13y ago
Calling Ison the comet of the century is not very helpful, it creates great expectations for a comet which so far has been very disappointing. So far it has been very underwhelming vs. earlier predictions. Hopefully on the other side of t
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by sixbrx 13y ago
Sure and ruling them out is a very reasonable thing to do, if you don't need them. No reason to adopt gratuitously incompatible features. I've needed to move databases between Oracle and Postgres quite a number of times, and I
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by sixbrx 13y ago
I'd be happy to, I'll make the code somewhat presentable and post a message to the list sometime soon.
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by sixbrx 13y ago
I've been using Rust for finite element method research, and I've been pretty happy with the results, the code is faster than my previous effort in Julia. That may be somewhat of a second system effect, though. I had trouble wit
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by sixbrx 13y ago
I'm pretty sure npe's - the hallmark of languages without adt's have done a great deal of damage - Hoares billion dollar mistake.
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by sixbrx 13y ago
> While in industry, it's more "get practical things done quickly so we can sell it". That's a pretty short sighted example of industry - I'm sure those examples are out there, but I don't think they're
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by sixbrx 13y ago
Don't need to see the source, just need to watch the network traffic. The source wouldn't be any additional help anyway, unless you compile it yourself again with a known good compiler on a known good system fresh from read only m
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by sixbrx 13y ago
I also like XPath for some purposes, but I think it really suffers from (IIRC) having been designed before the xml namespaces, which it only integrates very awkwardly IMO and which ruins the simplicity of XPath. Or maybe XML namespaces spo
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by sixbrx 13y ago
Hard to see how it would have been worse if all browsers had implemented stop-on-error, because then the developer/tester's browser would not have rendered the erronous page. That would mean that the developer/tester would h
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by sixbrx 13y ago
No disrespect intended (or involved at all, in my view), she was born male. Curious how you would describe the situation at birth though?
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by sixbrx 13y ago
Maybe not the best example given the focus of the article on inspiring women, since according to Wikipedia Audrey was born male? I thought that might deserve a mention. In fact I wonder if the author even knows? Or maybe better, just foc
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by sixbrx 13y ago
> 1. Word highlights text word-by-word; I find Word's attempt to highlight word at a time to be extremely frustrating and distracting. Very often in my documents it simply will not properly recognize the boundaries of what I want t
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by sixbrx 13y ago
To amplify this a bit, in binary the relative and absolute errors are within a factor of two, but by a factor of up to 10 for decimal. IBM actually used to use base 16 on some hardware but the rel/abs error disparity of factor 16 hurt
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by sixbrx 13y ago
I'm not who you were asking, but I like Maximus and "Hide Top Bar". Maximum screen real estate for working.
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by sixbrx 13y ago
This is a bit OT because the article is about configuring servers, but I wonder if anyone has found CM systems like this helpful for maintaining their desktop or laptop system configurations? Every few upgrades of Ubuntu I seem to get into
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by sixbrx 13y ago
Your first answer wasn't wrong, it just defines a "siderial day", using other stars as a reference point instead of the sun. After rotating 360 deg with respect to the background stars (which we assumed fixed for our purpose
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by sixbrx 13y ago
I can agree with that, I've given a smartphone to my teenage daughter, but have had to take it away on weekdays because it's turned into an all-consuming "permanent distraction device". It's amazing how much kids a
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by sixbrx 13y ago
It's assuming a lot to say that that was racism killing, it's more a guy killing - who in your own words was "in danger". Justified or not.
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I know there are a bunch of JVM's. Just trying to make the point that for most people in most organizations, there's really no choice in the matter, leaving only Oracle's JVM or the OpenJDK - due to the weight of potential
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The one you have to use when you don't get to place all of the working code in jeopardy of not working in random places on your own initiative at the place that you work. WHich almost always means Sun's JDK or OpenJDK.
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by sixbrx 13y ago
> can I run Erlang code on it efficiently? (This question also disqualifies LLVM Are you saying LLVM can't be used to efficiently implement Erlang-style processes/tasks? I thought Rust was aiming to be able to handle a large n
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by sixbrx 13y ago
>> ...the race card > A word almost solely employed by racists, This is an absurd statement. I believe I've given as much justification as you did, BTW.
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Agree, and a map also provides an "at a glance" assurance that I'm getting a transformed array of the same size. For loops take longer to discern what they're doing just because they could be doing almost anything, incl
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by sixbrx 13y ago
Next up: "exponentially" to mean "a lot!", when there's just a single comparison being made and nothing in context which is varying. I think I'll have to be a snob and side against the masses and the "ling
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by sixbrx 13y ago
I was put off slightly at first by the name as well, not so much now. It is a generalization of the enums from the C languages. Also Enum seems a good name because they represent fixed alternatives that may be (finitely) enumerated (We&#

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