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by vorg 13y ago
> "Until 2009 the credibility of the Peaceful Rise grant strategy was reaffirmed by actual Chinese conduct ... actual Chinese conduct kept faith with these promises in the years 2005-2008 ... But that is no longer true of course.&qu
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by vorg 13y ago
A neutrino isn't conscious.
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by vorg 13y ago
The ?. has only really worked in scripting, i.e. writing quick scripts to manipulate code written in a proper type-checked programming language. Groovy has it but Java doesn't. In Groovy's heyday if some code spewed out NullPointe
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by vorg 13y ago
> to comprehend the scale of the universe is deeply unsettling, especially when thinking about our minute, insignificant part of it Humans are 10^27 times smaller than the observable universe, and 10^24 times bigger than the neutrino, p
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by vorg 13y ago
Decoys, diversions, repetition, statistics, mimic, story fragments, baiting, ruses, exploits, feigned incompetence, gaming rankings, creating bottlenecks, disruption, infiltration, plausible denials, leaks, honey traps, spoofing, fake victi
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by vorg 13y ago
> PG touches on the reason why that alone should be distressing: "dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas" Maybe in America. Americans who visit Asia better remember that just because they're wearing a suit d
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by vorg 13y ago
> Einstein ... had 5 sets of the same suit so that he didn't have to waste time thinking about his wardrobe. So this has been done before! A word of warning if you're thinking of trying this... I went through a time where I&#x2
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by vorg 13y ago
Yes! All language, whether natural or programming, can have two primary structures: semantic and thematic (these are terms from Linguistics). Thematic structure (very roughly) refers to the effect of the writer, the medium, and the reader&#
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by vorg 13y ago
China's Zheng He fleets generally hugged the coast through Singapore, all the way around to Tanzania. That took them a long way, but Columbus went directly into the vast unknown. If China had tried what Columbus had... * the Pacific oc
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by vorg 13y ago
> The Emperor had no competitors so he had no incentive to find new lands first. Competition leads to innovation. Monopolies lead to stagnation. From memory... The Ming around 1420-ish closed down the sea voyages to divert all military r
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by vorg 13y ago
Quick & dirty scripts for testing and such where speed doesn't matter is Groovy's strength. Its managers at VMware are trying to use the Groovy distro as a delivery channel to sneak other unrelated software into businesses, su
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by vorg 13y ago
> It has a great syntax for data driven and interaction based syntax. With DSL's in groovy it always looks like the provided syntax is trying to code around Groovy's syntactic limitations, e.g. having to use the bar | in the ex
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by vorg 13y ago
> China conquered China, unifying a large area of territory under one government The land between the Yellow and Yangtze rivers is relatively flat, making it easier for the Han to unite. When the grand canal was built, the economies of s
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by vorg 13y ago
Grails is really an extension of Groovy, which started out as a fork of Beanshell but with more Java-like syntax. It's business purpose was solely to take some market-share away from Rails. The marketing name "Groovy on Grails&quo
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by vorg 13y ago
I'd go with 3 first languages simultaneously, in 3 tracks, PL focused on programming concepts and constructs, OS focused on low-level interfaces, and SE focused on what the job market requires. From first to last in each track... PL: P
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by vorg 13y ago
> I would be hard-pressed to think of a worse first language than C. You want to introduce people to the concepts of programming, which means abstractions and high-level thinking. C forces you to think in terms of the computer and its m
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by vorg 13y ago
> "Groovy" has been associated with the psychedelic-drug-using subculture, but we've had no trouble naming a programming language after it. A lot more people object to Groovy's "G-Strings", its name for inte
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by vorg 13y ago
Will Gradle ever expose an API so developers can use the same language for the build scripts as they do for the projects they're building, i.e. Groovy with Gradle for Groovy projects, and Scala with Gradle for Scala projects? The Gradl
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by vorg 13y ago
At the very least, when we program we're writing a story to whoever might need to understand it later on.
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by vorg 13y ago
> it may be my mistake for assuming that if I went and watched movies two times wearing Glass with no incident the third time there won’t be any incident either > About an hour into the movie (Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit) The cinema cou
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by vorg 13y ago
> > just restrict the use of macros > Precisely. Enabling macros is the sole justification for the homoiconic syntax, which is often cited as the most offputting feature of lisps for uptake by large programmer teams. If you're
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by vorg 13y ago
A year ago they announced http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Kylin which was released in April but I've yet to see it installed on any demo computer in the large IT sales halls around China. They all have Windows
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by vorg 13y ago
> Despite my head start with J, by the end of the conference I found APL code easier to grasp – J seems more extreme to me. Roger calls J “executable mathematical notation”, and I’ve always been a bit more of an engineer than a mathemati
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by vorg 13y ago
2 planes (130,000) of private-use codepoints aren't enough, and because the top 2 planes of Unicode are designated private use, UTF-16 gives developers the option of extending them to 2.1 billion if they need it. I've wanted extra
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by vorg 13y ago
I don't like the way UTF-8 was clipped to only 1 million codepoints in 2003 to match the UTF-16 limit. The original 2.1 billion codepoint capacity of the original 1993 UTF-8 proposal would've been far better. Go Lang uses \Uffffff
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by vorg 13y ago
There's 16 astral planes (U+1xxxx to U+10xxxx), of which 3 have characters assigned... * plane 1 is the supplementary multilingual plane * plane 2 is the supplementary ideographic plane * plane E is the supplementary special-purpose p
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by vorg 13y ago
Medians and means are interrelated. Averages are best thought of as being on a scale from meanlike to medianlike: a median requires a mean of the middle 2 values when there's an even number of them, and a mean can have outliers on each
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by vorg 13y ago
The college/university industry is self-perpetuating, like many other industries. A typical example... A 6-month vocational course training people in some specific in-demand skill is started at a college/technical institute, partl
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by vorg 13y ago
Yes, I started reading the reference. The normalization form issue is different to the #[non_ascii_idents] feature, though. The issue 2253 does mention address it, but all the comments mention the issue of NFC/NFKC normalization specif
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by vorg 13y ago
> normalized to Unicode normalization form NFKC I'm wondering why they chose NFKC (compatibility composed from) instead of NFC (canonically composed form). `ª` would become `a`, losing its super type. `ᵤ` becomes `u`, losing its

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