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by tripa 7y ago
The book has two parts, both of which can reasonably contain a chapter of that name.
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by tripa 7y ago
(speedcuber here too) Two random squares being swapped isn't really something that happens in real life. But abstracting that, you'd notice as soon as you've placed the piece one of them is on, which is kind of hard to predi
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by tripa 8y ago
It is, but Lisp did have it first, even if not through Racket.
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by tripa 8y ago
/dev/null behaves like an empty file, which is (or used to be?) a valid executable. Cf http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/humor/ATT_Copyright_true.html or https://twitter.com/rob_pike/statu
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by tripa 8y ago
Here's a more neutral classic: What is the difference between USA and USB? One connects to all of your devices and accesses the data, the other is a hardware standard.
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by tripa 8y ago
TBC: Neptune was predicted from observed perturbations in the orbit of *Uranus.
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by tripa 8y ago
Do you have stats at hand about people who whine software isn't available for their platform?
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by tripa 8y ago
There's a “Contributing” link at the bottom of the page.
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by tripa 8y ago
Many years ago, I've had a project manager reluctant to have us commit to the Hadoop ecosystem because, come on, "Pig", "Zoo"[keeper]... this can't be serious! Sometimes people are the problem. Of course they
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by tripa 8y ago
I love how the favicon's still a gopher.
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by tripa 9y ago
> That's pretty wishful (or perhaps naïve) thinking. A family member of mine literary hasn't spoken to me in over two decades because I told her I didn't believe in god when I was 12. She asked me out of nowhere, I said no
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by tripa 9y ago
I actually don't see why it shouldn't. As mentioned above, most churchgoers are nice people, and I can't conceive of anyone throwing the atheist out on grounds of “convert or leave”.
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by tripa 9y ago
This is the weirdest rationalization of three-phase power I've ever read. By your reasoning and disregarding cos phi issues, monophase power is also constant-zero power, since it's two wires anyway and one is always the opposite
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by tripa 9y ago
Reminds me of the US imposing FATCA on the entire world.
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by tripa 9y ago
I read that as: it gives the impression it's been here forever, it's still being actively maintained, and will be for the foreseeable future. Benefiting from the “future” (sqlite4/perl6) at a slow but steady peace. So, real
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by tripa 9y ago
It's fair indeed. For now. What I'd like to know is how we can get the situation to evolve.
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by tripa 9y ago
When do we stop tying religion to geography?
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by tripa 9y ago
Apparently it made it to the FAQ.
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by tripa 9y ago
I love the idea, but can't help wondering: did it actually convert into "sales"?
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by tripa 9y ago
Existence of language schools doesn't prove existence of native speakers.
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by tripa 9y ago
I don't think submodules were designed by Linus.
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by tripa 9y ago
I like how the original was agnostic, yet you interpreted as perl5 :-)
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by tripa 9y ago
Then again I've got Perl code I wrote in the 90s that still runs untouched on the latest Perl 5. Much more recent Python 2 code (of mine) still won't run untouched under Python 3. So I might agree actually on the "bigger&quo
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by tripa 9y ago
I use make as a poor man's substitute for rsync (well, local rsync. Like cp -r), when I need to add some filtering in between.
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by tripa 9y ago
As compared to "introvert"?
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by tripa 9y ago
Even the solver part is impressive. A BFS is a few seconds, but modeling a Rubik's cube properly in a way a daughter would understand is... harder.
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by tripa 9y ago
What optimal methods are you referring to? The paper doesn't really define one, and real world cubers sure don't use any. Assuming you mean real life cubes, the most common [1] method to solve anything bigger than 3×3×3 is to fir
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by tripa 9y ago
I can understand that the etymology is disputed, but what does the modern French expression of agreement have to do with it? For all I know, it's entirely possible a misunderstanding/reappropriation of a foreign phrase could be it
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by tripa 10y ago
I agree with your comment; but I do have to point out the comment you're replying to specifically conceives a political landscape with more than two parties, that can indeed be considered as zero sum as well, yet two major parties can
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by tripa 10y ago
I like Perl a lot better than awk, buy I do agree with the general sentiment of using the language that makes for the clearest code for the task at hand, especially the smaller ones. Which makes me a frequent awk proponent. So I'm surp

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