stygianguest

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by stygianguest 16y ago
Would it be possible to make such a list with free and/or libre books? The list they made is not extraordinarily expensive but not cheap either. Some are outrageous: an introduction to partial differential equations for 110 GBP?!
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by stygianguest 16y ago
Moving sand dunes make it very hard for vegetation to grow.
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by stygianguest 16y ago
Does anyone know what the precision of these missiles are? I don't suppose they could be used for precision strikes in e.g. Afghanistan, or could they?
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by stygianguest 16y ago
I don't think any country is stupid enough to 'show off' missiles that near to the USA. Well, there's North Korea but the rocket didn't explode.
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by stygianguest 16y ago
Functional programming languages such as Ocaml/F# offer many things that are not in imperative languages such as C# (and arguably vice versa). In the spirit of ``the right tool for the job'' the .net platform needs a functional language to
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by stygianguest 16y ago
But what to do with such a cache? Build a new search engine to compete with google? I sincerely hope they will do that, but it cannot be easy. That said, if you have the cache, you might as well try. By the way, what about online banking et
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by stygianguest 16y ago
Well, at least we will end up with a few kids that can build such a thing. If it's spend on education it isn't all wasted. I worry more about the part that is spent on administrative meetings in Brussels.
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by stygianguest 16y ago
Yes, the wheels drive the propeller directly. Read the articles posted in the first comment. They will explain it. Very short summary: The prop creates an air cushion that acts as a virtual sail.
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by stygianguest 16y ago
A classic case of arbitrage. But it seems to me that it would be quite hard to achieve on ebay. You need to have very little overhead, mailing stuff isn't usually that cheap. Drop shipping --send things directly from seller to buyer-- is al
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by stygianguest 16y ago
Thanks! That was far more readable than the original article. I had dismissed the idea for exactly the same reasons as the author, and now understand how I was wrong about it. Glad to have learned something today.
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by stygianguest 16y ago
The article seems almost a direct response to the ``A statically typed language I'd actually want to use'' article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1872501 I agree wholeheartedly with the general sentiment. Even if it is a bit outdate
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by stygianguest 16y ago
His example is also completely unconvincing. I just don't see the problem he is trying to solve here. Unless you take the absence of static typing as a problem. In general, new type systems should start with a good problem definition: e.g.
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by stygianguest 16y ago
Antennas --especially big ones-- have a large radar cross section, i.e., very visible on the radar. So a stealthy ship wants to avoid them. At the same time, long distance communication requires very large wavelengths and therefore large an
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by stygianguest 16y ago
The TSA can blame individuals all they want, but the systematic abuse of power points to bad policy.
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by stygianguest 16y ago
Your argument doesn't seem to apply to most code in natural sciences. The difference being that their theoretical models are, in most cases, only approximated by code. Yet, in papers, they claim to prove or test their theoretical model by e
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by stygianguest 16y ago
I agree that code should be made public, but I couldn't disagree more with the last paragraph. Even worse, I take offence to the sentiments expressed in it. It's time to set ethical standards?! Really? Are they so unethical? I would claim t
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by stygianguest 16y ago
Indeed, I myself have always been quite doubtfull of drugs' effectiveness. I used to attribute success much more to e.g. the discipline to refrain from browsing. This article makes me rethink that. As for the creativity, I'm not always sure
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by stygianguest 16y ago
Indeed, it does not seem very likely that there is a genetic basis for corruption. But you understate corruption's damage. Corruption often means buying your way out of jail, or downright theft. Not 'just' overcoming bureaucracy.
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by stygianguest 16y ago
If bl2seq gets the longest common subsequence I did exactly the same thing. In haskell it just seems the right thing to do. Actually it would be damn interesting to see if there are patterns in the solutions for every programming language.
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by stygianguest 16y ago
Indeed, I was not.
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by stygianguest 16y ago
Simple: Americans, pious and sinful as they are, don't want to go to hell. Hence their money flows towards churches and healthcare.
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by stygianguest 16y ago
Personally I have more faith in JITs for dynamic languages such as Python. It just seems a more natural match. That said, I'm sure there are many Python programs out there that are essencially static. Did anybody else notice the large numbe
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by stygianguest 16y ago
Only some countries in Europe. It is interesting you refuse to generalize over the US but are happy to do that for Europe. For some pretty good numbers see wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parental_leave