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by ucarion 10y ago
People who worry about the moral decision-making of a car are pointing out that there's a sort of ethics reduction (in the math sense of the word) here: deciding on the ideal driverless car is about as hard as deciding on what the idea
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by ucarion 11y ago
To add to chongli's suggestion, I learned Haskell (and had a great time doing it) from "Learn You a Haskell": http://learnyouahaskell.com/
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by ucarion 12y ago
In fact, such a book has been written before already: http://patshaughnessy.net/ruby-under-a-microscope
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by ucarion 12y ago
The current AP standards focus a lot on OOP. Here's the latest course description: http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/ap/ap-comp...
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by ucarion 12y ago
Let's say you somehow "chose" to be hardworking. Since not everyone is hardworking, it seems that not everyone makes the right choice. Did you "choose" to choose to be hardworking? It's turtles all the way down
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by ucarion 12y ago
We can go further, though. Intelligence and tenacity are also things that were given to us. You don't choose to be smart, nor do you choose to be hardworking.
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by ucarion 12y ago
This game is quite confusing even if you speak French. Somehow playing a variant of tetris explains public key crypto.
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by ucarion 12y ago
Sounds like that still requires that we trust DDG to be actually using the code in its git repo.
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by ucarion 12y ago
I think the main breakthrough here is that these nucleotides are not only unnatural but that the host can actually duplicate them; the E coli in this experiment passed the new nucleotides to 24 child cells.
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by ucarion 13y ago
There are beliefs in this world that you cannot publicly hold and still expect to be taken seriously. If Eich were arguing against interracial marriage there would be very little debate about this issue; believing that humans cannot marry b
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by ucarion 13y ago
I think they're hard-coded to appear in places that are the real-life locations of Pokemon games, and they tossed in the Googleplex for fun. For instance, the latest Pokemon iteration is quite obviously based on France [1], so that&#x2
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by ucarion 13y ago
I totally agree with you, and I think everyone commenting on this thread should stop and read Sam Harris's "Letter to a Christian Nation". It pretty much covers all the questions being asked here.
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by ucarion 13y ago
I agree with you about most of those phobias, but I strongly disagree about Islamophobia. I think future societies will be surprised by how much human suffering we permit in the name of being "tolerant". Religions are not all crea
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by ucarion 13y ago
I think the idea is that those films are all public-domain.
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by ucarion 13y ago
There is a difference between an unsatisfactory enforcement of the Constitution, and its outright failure. Saying that "the first, fourth and seventh have all been forgotten about" sounds like the latter, but the reality is closer
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by ucarion 13y ago
You've expressed my point of view better than I ever could have. I tried to make it clear that this program will not change much for those who are 2+ standard deviations to the right of average. For the majority, this is a great deal.
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by ucarion 13y ago
I should have emphasized that full-length tests is what I think is valuable here. College Board has been offering daily SAT questions by email for awhile now (and there's no lack of individual test questions online either), but what&#x
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by ucarion 13y ago
By this I mean being familiar with the types of problems the SAT asks, and being aware of gotchas / features of these problems. Familiarity with the test makes it easier to take the test effectively to save time for the few genuinely c
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by ucarion 13y ago
For students trying to achieve high scores (which are a prerequisite to getting into most "good" schools), this won't help. Two summers ago I took courses at Summa [1], an SAT prep course in the San Diego area. The valuable m
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by ucarion 13y ago
If you're looking for an invite, there are lots of people offering and requesting invites on IRC: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=##atom
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by ucarion 13y ago
Hopefully a Docker 1.0 will follow soon too!
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by ucarion 13y ago
I think this could be boiled down as: List<T> is a data structure. Anything that inherits from List<T> should be a data structure too. So LinkedList<T> could reasonably extend List<T>, but Team should not.
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by ucarion 13y ago
I disagree. As a high schooler, I know many intelligent and creative young women who don't want to do robotics or programming because of the people in those fields. High school boys in tech are much more likely to be misogynistic and s
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by ucarion 13y ago
So is Docker really a safe alternative to VMs? I was under the impression that you can't run untrusted code in a Docker container yet.
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by ucarion 13y ago
It appears they've changed the look of the scala-lang website to celebrate this: http://www.scala-lang.org/ (This is what it looked like yesterday: https://web.archive.org/web/20140119030617/h
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by ucarion 13y ago
A "fork me on GitHub" banner is always nice. :)
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by ucarion 13y ago
https://twitter.com/solomonstre/status/419250795247177728 (note: the link there is the actual build.)
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by ucarion 13y ago
Not sure if you're aware of this, but the technique of representing a chess board as a 64-bit bitmap is in fact the method used by pretty much all chess engines these days. These 64-bit unsigned long longs are known as "bitboards&
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by ucarion 13y ago
I took AP Computer Science A two years ago as a sophomore. Most of the questions have to do with understanding how scopes, assignment, loops, and conditionals work. There isn't very much about data structures -- arrays (both the native
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by ucarion 13y ago
In case anyone is curious, Henderson Island ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henderson_Island_(Pitcairn_Isla... ) is perhaps best known as the remote island where some of the survivors of the whaleship Essex arrived after

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