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by sixbrx 13y ago
I think you're making my point, with your inclusions of "if"'s ("If order is only important within gender") that a machine would not and generally cannot know, without understanding the semantics of the data t
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by sixbrx 13y ago
I agree there's an annoying mismatch between how XML treats data and almost any programming language does. Without an XML-Schema saying otherwise (and, yuck), XML supports arbitrarily interleaved sequences of mixed elements, which can
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by sixbrx 13y ago
Well you can dot them if not cross them (cross needs 3 dimensions iirc)!
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by sixbrx 13y ago
This would also be useful for me. To properly do the recursion though, I think it needs to have a function attribute "recurse-by" specified which, at any level in the structure, returns the items for the next level.
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by sixbrx 13y ago
It looks like it's a Darwin/GTK3 open source OS and desktop environment. Previous release "Jupiter" of 2011 was based on Linux. Has its own development library, "Granite". I'm surprised I haven't h
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by sixbrx 13y ago
Which $1500 PC? This sounds interesting.
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by sixbrx 13y ago
Probably because most of the "entertainers" are just people famous for pretending to be other people who are worthy of attention/respect (or would be, if they existed). Which makes their leveraging of this to push theirs vie
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by sixbrx 13y ago
I think a fabulous night sky also makes people, especially kids, wonder about the universe, what our place is in it, and how it all came about. That's part of why it's such a shame that it's obscured for so many.
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by sixbrx 13y ago
If you work somewhere that's anything like places I've ever worked, then I think knowing your salary might have a bigger impact on some of your colleagues than you might think, eventually causing some blowback to come your way. J
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by sixbrx 13y ago
Yeah, i gave up on doing fp (or any mathematics) in python when I got surprised by this: >>> monomials = [lambda x: x(star)(star)i for i in [1,2,3]] #(not sure how to escape stars for exponentiation properly, whatever) Those all en
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by sixbrx 13y ago
I actually like xml about as much as anything else for complicated config files. I find the explicit (named) block closing tags to help readability.
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by sixbrx 13y ago
How do you know application programs won't barf if they see an unexpected key?
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by sixbrx 13y ago
Not transparent to actual clients of the data. edit for clarity: You're assuming that the application code isn't doing something with each key that it reflectively sees in the object, e.g. creating database fields to match them
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by sixbrx 13y ago
Oh no, not adoration?!! Ando those poor customers, being forced to buy those apple devices!
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by sixbrx 13y ago
... And Oracle is going to change that any day now for varchar, which is why they've been hounding us to use "varchar2" from time immemorial. (They wouldn't have any other reason to encourage varchar2, would they?) :)
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by sixbrx 13y ago
I do tend to agree with the blog author that shadowing is far preferable to what CS does. I believe the fork that led to Livescript grew partly out of this concern.
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by sixbrx 13y ago
Can't help but wonder if this is one of those things that will go downhill towards the "dangerous, better not try" once a wider demographic than the early adopter tech crowd gets involved. Like hitch-hiking?
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by sixbrx 13y ago
Or use a password manager, which does proper encryption.
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by sixbrx 13y ago
Do they mention that it will be unencrypted? I don't remember that, and I think I would have remembered that.
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by sixbrx 13y ago
The "static if (directed) { <code> }" part threw me for a loop. The comment says it's evaluated at compile time to control whether the methods are included. That's pretty neat!
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by sixbrx 13y ago
In a long term relationship, I don't like subtlety and politeness. It just leads to emotional amplification on the receiver side - the receiver just learns to "turn up the volume" on anything said to try find the true signal
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by sixbrx 13y ago
Sure, if Americans don't want to talk with you about something personal like sex, access to which depends a lot on looks which is a very personal thing, then it must be because they're repressed. And the government corrupted at i
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by sixbrx 13y ago
No it will use a copy or move constructor to return the object by value, no problem there. Notice the value is being returned, not a pointer to the value.
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by sixbrx 13y ago
But character sets are not just sets of characters, they are assignments of abstract glyphs to integers , regardless of the storage representation of the integer.
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by sixbrx 13y ago
And just a few years ago, they knew XML databases which were eclipsing that old SQL!
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by sixbrx 13y ago
I grew up in Arkansas as an atheist (I guess that's "Bible Belt" though I find the term insulting), and really I don't have any problems that would cause me to seek out other atheists. I had minor problems as a teenager
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by sixbrx 13y ago
Very interesting that Euler even sometimes used π as C/r!
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by sixbrx 13y ago
The mutable strings should add some excitement.
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by sixbrx 13y ago
This is a nice little tutorial, I like how it gets directly to the point. I had trouble with the preview for step 2+ though, I couldn't enter any characters in either field in the form with Firefox 21 on Linux. Worked OK in Chromium.
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by sixbrx 13y ago
I'm not very familiar with Node, but I had assumed that a more flexible or movable client/server dividing line was the point of Node, and assumed it's what people were already doing... but maybe not. Can any Node afficianados speak to this

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