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by sqrt17 12y ago
So, what is zhe point here? That writing a compiler in your new language is a good way of dogfooding? Wouldn't that mean that any other complex application would do? Or is it that most new languages are more powerful than the portable
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by sqrt17 12y ago
To be really straightforward with it: your post calls for censorship, both self-censorship and the institutional kind. It is your burden to point out why you think using zhis material in illustrations of a technical claim deserves censorshi
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by sqrt17 12y ago
they'd just be annoyed at the battery life of their fancy new phone going down so fast. For that single reason, I adore Android's "this app ate this much battery" statistics. And if they're using the 'offline&#
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by sqrt17 12y ago
I agree with the second part of the women: to get more women in your company, or get any kind of diversity for that matter, you have to eliminate the parts of your hiring system (and/or beyond it) that are biased against it. It's
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by sqrt17 12y ago
The point here is that Singaporean authorities, while enacting a huge amount of surveillance, still feel accountable to their constituents and try to make the best use of the data they get. The attitude that you're accountable for the
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Caffe: (open-source) Deep Learning for Computer Vision(caffe.berkeleyvision.org)
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by sqrt17 12y ago
So if someone told you that jeans were not proper working clothes and that you are being unprofessional, would you agree with them? What you're describing is just sticking a "I'm working" label onto yourself, which could
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by sqrt17 12y ago
"Mostly functional", in my eyes, works as well as contract-based specification of interfaces works. The property of being free of (surprising/undesirable) side effects is part of a contract that can, but should not be violate
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by sqrt17 12y ago
Not all 32bit sequences can be found in the first 4,294,967,296 binary digits of pi. Hence you will either need more then 4 bytes to encode 4 bytes in a pi position or a lookup table to fit the 4,294,967,296 numbers, some of which will be s
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by sqrt17 12y ago
If you used small chunks (say, up to four bytes) you could just have a lookup table storing all the indices. Or - what a genius idea! - we could use Pi itself as a lookup table and use the sequence of n bytes at that position of pi as an im
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by sqrt17 12y ago
Summary: - If you chase your customers away, it's bad for business - You can chain them to your business using anti-competitive tactics Is it just me or is it just a myth of the startup world that a good product is a sensible idea for
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by sqrt17 12y ago
Lossy compression != lossy decompression/restoration. With vanilla JPEG, you should be able to redo the DCT and find the quantized values exactly as they were, which means that you could losslessly reverse the JPEG compression not in t
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by sqrt17 12y ago
From Wikipedia: Since MIT Lincoln Laboratory's establishment, the scope of the problems has broadened from the initial emphasis on air defense to include programs in space surveillance, missile defense, surface surveillance and object
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by sqrt17 12y ago
At least in the US, officers have quotas of arrests to fulfill, which are most easily fulfilled with petty crime that happens all the time and is easy to find. Attorneys get promoted based on successful cases, meaning those where they could
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by sqrt17 12y ago
Spam filtering works using actual data that someone once used to train it - if we are taking this at face value, it means that the NSA is not just targeting people who might be terrorists and collects data on other people as a side effect,
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by sqrt17 12y ago
You're contradicting yourself here: "[0,1] is open" needs additional context, but saying that A* (or [A] in your notation) can be written as a rational of a power series (1/(1-A)). Why? Well, the expression makes sense i
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by sqrt17 12y ago
I think the comparison to Red Cross/Red Crescent is not quite up to the point: my impression is that, for some things that Europeans see as a matter to be regulated (i.e., force health insurances to include "expensive" patien
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by sqrt17 12y ago
I've noticed that recent google infrastructure puts medium-to-strict requirements on timeservers. Does that mean that the idea of causality and vector clocks has been abandoned partly or wholly for a greater reliance on absolute synchr
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by sqrt17 12y ago
A more paradigm-neutral notion of declarativity is that you separate intent (the function or relation that your program is to compute) from execution (the shoveling of bits that goes on in the actual execution of the program). For example,
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by sqrt17 12y ago
Actually, a midi keyboard has a longer way from keyup to keydown because you need to express differences in the velocities. Then again, many more people have midi keyboards than steno machines, so it might be worth the try to adapt it for p
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by sqrt17 12y ago
Can someone please add a [video] tag to the title? This thing annoyingly starts to autoplay some sound and video.
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by sqrt17 12y ago
There is a slight difference between name-calling and oppression. Oppression can only be done from a position of power, and it stabilizes the power of the oppressing. Namecalling can be done by any person who wants to do it, because it does
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by sqrt17 12y ago
The other obvious crazy-sci-fi scenario would be a young person who survives a massive organ failure by getting their head grafted onto a 70-year-old donor's body. That sounds pretty intense as a topic for a novel.
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by sqrt17 12y ago
Sorry, but the "science marches on" bit is bullshit. There's a difference between Russia and China having the atomic bomb and your friendly neighbourhood drug mafia having one. It also makes a difference whether China gets a
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by sqrt17 12y ago
There are two precedents to look at: Java and Perl. Perl grew from merely useful to your-favorite-whiz-bang by being a decent language and growing a large collection of third-party modules. Then Larry Wall decided Perl5 wasn't fun anym
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by sqrt17 12y ago
That's what public funding of research work is for. Basically, there's a continuum ranging from public research (i.e., high-risk, high-impact) to industrial research and startups (medium risk, medium-to-high impact) to common adop
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by sqrt17 12y ago
gPapers terms itself the "iTunes for PDFs" but it seems more of a "Rhythmbox for PDFs" (i.e. huge usability problems). I like jabref, but it doesn't have papers' ability to grab a bibliographical entry for a PD
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by sqrt17 12y ago
Intuitively, the reason for forbidding Q and Z could be that those passwords can't be typed in blindly on QWERTZ and QZWERTY keyboards (which you're likely to find if you travel internationally). But then they'd have to be co
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by sqrt17 12y ago
Actually, it's a bit more complicated: for small integers, the Python runtime has a stash of pre-made objects. For compiled code, the code may include a static reference to a constant object. Which means that, if you execute "a =
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by sqrt17 12y ago
Your "demander une démo" link uses javascript that launches a mailto: link. The end result is that I can't use it because I haven't set up my browser's mailto-handling properly and I also cannot cut and paste the em

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