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541.
by stewbrew 9y ago
"Have you ever spent more than 1 second wondering" They should add: - Run a static file server but huh, I don't have a full blown web server and/or php installed on my work station. Seriously, I think syncthing provides
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by stewbrew 9y ago
Swipe from the left. Long press on keyboard -> you get a toolbar for special keys.
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by stewbrew 9y ago
No, because you usually have to maintain programs, add features later on, rewrite/refactor parts of the program. Do you write only one-off scripts?
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by stewbrew 9y ago
I remember that shortly after??? Scala native was first announced, Kotlin native made the news. How do these two compare today? Which one is better suited to create native executables now?
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by stewbrew 9y ago
Could somebody please tell me: How do they bend this thing so that the keyboard and the display face upwards as shown with the device on the right?
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by stewbrew 9y ago
By this argument, wifi or bluetooth are even more insane. An interface that isn't a single-trick pony doesn't sound insane to me.
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by stewbrew 9y ago
(I haven't watched the talk because nothing you said makes me expect hearing something new.) WRT verbosity and cognitive overload: I honestly challenge this statement. In a modern statically typed language, you have to add a few type a
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by stewbrew 9y ago
It doesn't directly lead to cancer, it increases, to some extent, the risk of some kinds of cancer, which can be influenced by life-style choices, to evolve. (The title says "linked" in the sense of being correlated.) That&#x
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by stewbrew 9y ago
Not exactly news but worth being mentioned from time to time.
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by stewbrew 9y ago
Marketing fun in action: "we highlighted the increasing problem of centralisation and how that impacts discovery on the Web." And that's why they send all their user's data to one central place that responds with recomme
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by stewbrew 9y ago
Is HN officially work now?
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by stewbrew 9y ago
The problem here is overtreatment. As a male, you'll sooner or later most likely get prostate cancer. Most men die before it becomes a problem though.
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by stewbrew 9y ago
5-yrs mortality rates are a questionable statistic, especially when comparing death rates in time. Critics would argue that the lead time (i.e. the time between diagnosis and clinical symptoms) has changed in time due to earlier diagnosis b
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by stewbrew 9y ago
Maybe you just live in the wrong region. Over here, you can get a decent wine for 5 EUR, if you know where to buy. That said a wine for 30 EUR from the same wine maker most likely is a lot better. One thing I've learned is to buy from
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by stewbrew 9y ago
Smalltalk (pharo etc.)? E.g. Squeak has/had some special widgets for small kids. IIRC they also used it to teach programming to kids. If they're older, I would probably go with javascript. The browser is the new terminal.
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by stewbrew 9y ago
Erm ... Well, I admit it's somewhat confusing. factor(x = character(), levels, labels = levels, exclude = NA, ordered = is.ordered(x), nmax = NA) [...] levels : an optional vector of the values (as character strin
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by stewbrew 9y ago
I think you're mixing up scales. Timestamps and numbers can be recoded to categories but when doing this you're throwing away information -- the same way you lose information when converting an integer to a string. When you work w
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by stewbrew 9y ago
That's not right. Factor _levels_ can only be integers, factor _labels_ can only be strings since labels are the printable representation of a level. Maybe you could store the "real" values of a level as attribute (I.e. metad
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by stewbrew 9y ago
Speaking of reasonable: I always thought the use of single character markup (e.g. * for bold), visual markup (bold instead of emphasized), several modes of emphasis (italic and bold instead of just emphasized, but maybe I just used latex fo
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by stewbrew 9y ago
"Grails" was derived from "Rails", just with a g prepended. Are you actually asking whether the "Holy Graal" refers to a railway station in heaven?
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by stewbrew 9y ago
Maybe I'm missing something or I'm just blind but where is there AOT compilation in your example since you seem to run the same jar with the same command-line options. That said I'm not that surprised that class aot compilati
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by stewbrew 9y ago
Humanity survived without apps for quite a long time. I'm not sure though the comparison would yield the same result for information retrieval.
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by stewbrew 9y ago
VIM + ((vim)?grep|ack|at|...) That said. I also liked TiddlyWiki.
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by stewbrew 9y ago
So go (a garbage collected language) is about as memory efficient as pascal, the most memory efficient language. That comes surprising.
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by stewbrew 9y ago
I honestly applaud the endeavor. Too bad though they only include the main headlines. I personally very much like the approach of my preferred newspaper that offers full, mobile, text only editions of its web site.
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by stewbrew 9y ago
I'd rather say it's time to recall what significance levels actually meant to be and in which context they are useful and to ditch the contemporary aberration thereof. Any game can be gambled. Bayesian statistics just isn't t
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by stewbrew 9y ago
Multiple-test correction usually implies lowering alpha, doesn't it?
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by stewbrew 9y ago
The problem here is that you most likely hear about false positives.
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by stewbrew 9y ago
So I guess it has nothing to do with http://hevea.inria.fr Is there a reason why French people like that name so much?
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by stewbrew 9y ago
I don't fully understand your comment ("no relational expressions in your import strings") but parentheses are valid characters in filenames (thus URLs). I don't think Python is the best reference here.

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