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by sixbrx 14y ago
"just not anonymously" Just not depending on anything in the environment either except globals, which is a huge limitation. So writing a function inc by = \x -> x + by becomes unnecessarily difficult for example.
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by sixbrx 14y ago
Before laying down any money, I'd recommend heading over to hydrogen audio ( http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/ ) and reading around for a while, or asking questions. As part of their terms of service, they require listening test data to
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by sixbrx 14y ago
Not really, they just need to keep selling satellite launches around Earth to help pay for the eventual Mars shot. Sometimes companies do stuff because they or their founders just want to. Musk has made no secret that he plans to walk on
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by sixbrx 14y ago
Not sure how it's "ironic" that a nation state is attempting to act in a self-interested way, in each of these cases. Regardless of the success or wisdom of that action.
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by sixbrx 14y ago
If you're going to consider that the author "looses" a sale because of a resold, used physical book (which was the original subject, not ebooks), then you should factor in the losses due to not allowing resales at all - because such books
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by sixbrx 14y ago
So did I, but almost none of those programs would be acceptable to deliver today. When hardware is faster and (resource intensive) IDE's and frameworks do more for you, if you don't deliver more for less, you're competition will. How does
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by sixbrx 14y ago
I did't downvote, but maybe you can explain what you mean by Ubuntu for Android? They are both OS's, I'd think that Ubuntu would replace Android if you're using Ubuntu, is that what you meant?
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by sixbrx 14y ago
I'm not defending the "nobody uses it", it was an overreaching exageration, much like the graphic seeming to claim that IE9 had 54% share.
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by sixbrx 14y ago
Not sure you "shot down" anything, your data isn't specific to the version of IE (note the title). I would assume that there's a large fraction on IE 6, 7 and 8 under the umbrella of "Internet Explorer".
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by sixbrx 14y ago
I think the parent is saying it's a new task within sbt for submitting homework, not that sbt itself is new.
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by sixbrx 14y ago
I haven't programmed in Coffeescript, but does it bother anyone else that new variables are introduced without "var"? When reading js, seeing the "var" really helps me to know the programmer's intent that this is a new variable being introd
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by sixbrx 14y ago
All that happened there is you entered your factors in a strange base (albeit the same one the output humors you with) and then didn't like the appearance of the answer.
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by sixbrx 14y ago
"Add 1 and the product of 2 and 3" "Multiply the sum of 1 and 2 with 3".
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by sixbrx 14y ago
I've been away from Haskell for a while, it's great to see interesting things still being done. Wondering what the use of type-level naturals in Haskell is though? I dabbled with Agda a bit where they're used to satisfy the termination ch
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by sixbrx 14y ago
For me, code listings are too small on the small Kindles, even when the books are bought from Amazon. Also it's a bit distracting to me to turn the page as often as is required on the small Kindles, which fit much less words per page than
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by sixbrx 14y ago
I'd say void pointers are more untyped programming than generic programming.
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by sixbrx 14y ago
It's different than the classical/non-algorithmic sort of math taught in schools, it's more like "maths in motion" which can be very exciting and give early rewards in the feedback loop of learning, when kids see their creations actually d
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by sixbrx 14y ago
Because nearly every programming language uses \ as an escape, which means in string literals that you have to double escape the \ which is error prone and ugly.
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by sixbrx 14y ago
OS X does have a slick interface, but that interface is not very configurable (as opposed to say KDE4). When it works for you, it works well, when it doesn't there's not a lot you can do about it. Also there's more and better and easier ac
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by sixbrx 14y ago
But histograms do allow you to easily see one of the most important patterns to me, at least for technical books, which is that the book is excellent but too "hard" for some who aren't willing to put in the effort. Those books tend to have
501.
by sixbrx 14y ago
I didn't downvote but it's probably because details are needed for the assertion.
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by sixbrx 14y ago
> And if you write flawed C, you will also get errors when you try to use it.. Errors potentially in completely unrelated parts of the code. Or worse, no detectible errors at all, just silent corruption of data. You parent comment w
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by sixbrx 14y ago
> because the low carbers accidentally also reduced calorie intake Accidentally is a loaded word there, because if low carb diets tend to make people eat less, then that is an enormous, critical advantage over competing diets.
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by sixbrx 14y ago
I think types are orthogonal to why named parameters are helpful, because parameters don't just indicate a type but a particular usage of a type. So for example, in a bank transfer method the named parameter would help distinguish the from-
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by sixbrx 14y ago
I doubt studies really show any such thing. They probably showed that when fiber is rare in a residential area, it may add $10K to a house value. When it becomes common, it won't.
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by sixbrx 14y ago
No it's a jump to a conclusion at least, and according to a recent study may be false. http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1199154 . The study seems to indicate that low carb diets actually do trigger more calories to be bu
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by sixbrx 14y ago
Not true, some diets raise metabolism relative to others according to recent studies, low carb diets burn about 430 more calories on average per day for the same level of activity. So that's another way of burning calories without "exercise
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by sixbrx 14y ago
Not trying to denigrate the new device, just pointing out that comparisons are being made of a new device with a device which is near the end of its rather long refresh cycle. Of course that tends to favor the new device. I expect the xbo
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by sixbrx 14y ago
Xbox will probably be refreshed next year, though.
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by sixbrx 14y ago
You're overgeneralizing. Let me overgeneralize in the same vein then, "Camping beats offense". In my house, in a home invasion, I'm a camper. I'd rather camp with a gun than a knife.

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