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by skylan_q 12y ago
Because it's politically incorrect to point this out.
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by skylan_q 12y ago
I thought the same thing. It's like Matz writes C the way he'd like to write ruby. I also see some smalltalk inspiration in his style. Very neat.
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by skylan_q 12y ago
Inlining it means that you're still executing the exact same code. If it had problems as a function, it still has problems when inlined. But if it's inlined, it's no longer a function. ;) What he's saying here is that
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by skylan_q 12y ago
Yes, an unprovoked military incursion into a foreign country is usually a great way to win the population's hearts and minds and ensure its full cooperation. It's not about winning hearts and minds. It's about containment.
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by skylan_q 12y ago
The orignal study that caused the salt scare didn't claim that increased salt intake caused increased blood pressure. The claim was that a sodium intake on the high end of regular sodium intake was closely correlated with increased mor
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by skylan_q 12y ago
What do we know about capitalism's properties? Its supporters constantly talk about the moral benefits of sociopathic behavior. They say it harnesses humanity's greed... as if that's the only emotion to consider. (Rather tha
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by skylan_q 12y ago
As per the comments on the article Peter Klein has done work on this. Market forces give prices which allow sensible and efficient economic calculation. When a firm is large and creates unique intermediate products/capital and performs
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by skylan_q 12y ago
I've known a few people who have actually suggested that we start doing this. People think athiesm is far too prominent, but I think we live in a time in history that will be viewed as more dogmatic than any other. "Science"
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by skylan_q 12y ago
But science isn't about someone agreeing with a theory. Those who advocate blocking dissent with theories in the name of science would disagree. Apparently, it's more important that people agree with a body of work that is large
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by skylan_q 12y ago
Next up: muting people who don't agree with the fact that inflation is good because the only people who deny it don't participate in economics.
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by skylan_q 12y ago
Quelling dissenters! A true victory for science!
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If you count the federal reserve as a market participant.
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Sure, it looks like code (in fact, VHDL's syntax is purposefully similar to ADA), but it sure isn't code. Computer science grad here. I had to keep reminding myself about the HDL part of VHDL. It's not algorithmic descripti
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I've explored the Xilinx tools extensively during graduate school. It was by far the most complicated thing I've ever had the misfortune of using. I remember there being far too many tools and features that overlap in function and
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by skylan_q 12y ago
I was considering getting a vps with them (since DO is dropping support for arch) but $20/month seemed like too much of a commitment for some hobby work. Now I'm sold. :)
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Totally unscientific opinion, but wouldn't increase in CS graduates and programmers mean lower salary for those newly minted graduates? Yes. Unions and associations address this by lobbying and legislating such that someone who isn&#
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by skylan_q 12y ago
I've got the same issue. Another poster mentions Auditory Processing Disorder, but I have no trouble figuring out the source of sounds or hearing them. The only part I have issue with is turning the sound of speech into actual words. I
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by skylan_q 12y ago
First gender identity/equality is more important than free speech, and now DRM is more important than freedom from submitting to vendor demands. What's the point of Mozilla?
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by skylan_q 12y ago
It was about being agile, which is what developers were striving for. Now it's about doing agile which is in direct conflict with the notion of being agile.
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by skylan_q 12y ago
Or a patent application describing the automation of the application of patents that were generated by patent-generating software.
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by skylan_q 12y ago
The theme of Monolithic vs. Modular reminds me of Linux vs. Minix. The Tanenbaum–Torvalds debate was a debate between Andrew S. Tanenbaum and Linus Torvalds, regarding Linux and kernel architecture in general. Tanenbaum began the debate in
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by skylan_q 12y ago
Kool Keith should be exempt from this list. He's not from any of the 4 regions listed, but from Jupiter.
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by skylan_q 12y ago
Admitting ignorance is better than repetition of unfounded "common wisdom". Disbelief in one's own understanding of something is the first step towards developing a better understanding of something.
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by skylan_q 12y ago
Obviously it's saturated fats. Actually, cholesterol. Make that LDL cholesterol. For clarification, LDL pattern B cholesterol. (Or was that just a marker for damage? I forget.) The attitude of "settled science" is what kills
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by skylan_q 13y ago
Putin shows no signs of giving back Crimea any time soon. He can try to give it back, but they don't want to go back. The Kremlin is defiant against NATO, whose sole purpose is to be a front against Russia. You can't blame them
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by skylan_q 13y ago
You'd think this would be common sense. The common sense is metric tracking when dealing with incredibly intangible things in order to use data and statistics to make informed decisions. In my experience, it's almost always a co
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by skylan_q 13y ago
Isn't it possible that they were us and we just happened to get smaller brains?
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by skylan_q 13y ago
This is a great article. If you believe everything you're supposed to now, how can you be sure you wouldn't also have believed everything you were supposed to if you had grown up among the plantation owners of the pre-Civil War S
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by skylan_q 13y ago
It took about a day of mucking around, but we got a VPS up and running and we're using gitlab. (the software github is based on) It works well for us. We just have to pay the price of a VPS and updating the system occasionally.
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by skylan_q 13y ago
A competitor could also face charges for this sort of activity, couldn't they?

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