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by walrus 14y ago
It's invite-only, but you don't need an account to read it.
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by walrus 14y ago
When I'm riding my bicycle at night on a street without streetlights (or with widely spaced streetlights), I can't see where I'm going if there's an oncoming vehicle. I just go straight and hope there's nothing in the way.
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by walrus 14y ago
I thought the flickr interface was pretty slick: I only had to wait for an image to load once, right at the beginning.
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by walrus 14y ago
There's also a comment thread here on HN about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4818727
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by walrus 14y ago
Having control of a group of semi-automated characters (think Age of Empires) could be one way to guard your creations when you're not playing.
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by walrus 14y ago
Not quite. Proofs, in practice, are not programs. They do not contain every detail, nor are they written in completely consistent language.
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by walrus 14y ago
Is 'sexy' the new word now? How long until the 'sexy ninja rockstar developer' jobs start showing up?
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by walrus 14y ago
http://cs.gmu.edu/~sean/book/metaheuristics/ is good. Genetic algorithms fall in a class of algorithms called metaheuristics. This book is about metaheuristics. If you're just interested in genetic algorithms, those are covered in chapter
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by walrus 14y ago
It stops the compiler from complaining about unused variables: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8052091/void-cast-of-argc...
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by walrus 14y ago
Fonts are clearer and, assuming your vision is up to the task, you can fit more on the screen. Other people may have other reasons for higher density displays, but those are mine.
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by walrus 14y ago
In Python 3, map returns a iterator, not a list: In [1]: sq = lambda x: x * x In [2]: map(sq, [1,2,3,4]) Out[2]: <builtins.map at 0x2135050> In [3]: list(_) Out[3]: [1, 4, 9, 16]
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by walrus 14y ago
Short answer: not really. Long answer: In [1]: from operator import attrgetter In [2]: class Person: ...: def __init__(self, name): ...: self.name = name ...: In [3]: me = Person('walrus') In
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by walrus 14y ago
Why would someone do this to themself? I find I enjoy life much more when I take things slowly, but maybe that's just a difference in personality.
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Visualizing Pascal's triangle remainders(mathlesstraveled.com)
1 points by walrus 14y ago|0 comments
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by walrus 14y ago
I'm glad you resubmitted it. It was interesting.
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by walrus 14y ago
By the way, here are the first 2263 diagrams: http://jumpshare.com/v/R7nRxZ?b=27itKy . It's a renamed bzipped tar. Extract with: tar xjf factors.mp3 It extracts to a directory named 'factors' to about 30 mb total.
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by walrus 14y ago
Install dependencies: cabal install arithmoi cabal install diagrams Copy all the code from the blog post into a file (let's call it factor.hs). At the end of that file, add: main = defaultMain $ factorDiagram YOUR_NUMBER The
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by walrus 14y ago
When you said "No it doesn't", were you responding to my statement that "I imagine it takes some time to learn to properly estimate how much to charge for a project"? Yes, it does. However, your charge-by-the-day method is a great workaroun
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by walrus 14y ago
It's a pretty neat device. I haven't seen any others that operate like the Formlabs device does (starting with a pool of liquid and hardening the desired part out of it). Is that a new development, or has the technique been around for a whi
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by walrus 14y ago
I imagine it takes some time to learn to properly estimate how much to charge for a project. Until then, billing by the hour is a way to build heuristics.
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by walrus 14y ago
Trivially, this result is clearly obvious.
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by walrus 14y ago
That's a very unrevealing website. Do you have more information on Formlabs' device?
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by walrus 14y ago
Reminds me of http://worrydream.com/#!/SimulationAsAPracticalTool
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Screen edge pointer wrapping for X(mainisusuallyafunction.blogspot.com)
2 points by walrus 14y ago|0 comments
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by walrus 14y ago
Some previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4485347
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by walrus 14y ago
I don't know. A lot of people have asked that question about scientific publishing. In any case, just read the preprint instead. It's basically the same.
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by walrus 14y ago
OP seems to have linked to the wrong page. This is one you're looking for: http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/6141/amount-of-s...
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by walrus 14y ago
Article ($32): http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/natu... Preprint: http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.3909
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by walrus 14y ago
How would I invoke a compiler that isn't interactive? The act of invoking it is the interactivity.
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by walrus 14y ago
Yes, the 'minor scaffolding' has side effects. That's why I said it wasn't controversial.

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