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by walrus 14y ago
For those who don't want to watch the whole thing, it's said just after 1:25:45. The gopher has no name.
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by walrus 14y ago
Doesn't work on the Arch Linux build of Firefox. Tested both in safe mode and in a new profile. However, the Mozilla build works fine.
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by walrus 14y ago
A friend from high school (who I've since lost touch with) has been doing that for about 4 years. He travels the world working at ski resorts.
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by walrus 14y ago
Maybe the background surface is curved ;)
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by walrus 14y ago
I understand, but I still think it's iffy calling it a combinator. Maybe calling it lazy evaluation (sort of) would be better? (I'm not sure if you saw my edit before you replied. I added the last two sentences only a few minutes before you
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by walrus 14y ago
Ok, I'll bite. From the article: Now let's see how combinators (which we discussed in the previous blog posting) might make doing some of these computations easier. So, how are they defined in the previous blog posting? A combi
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by walrus 14y ago
I was talking about the part you put in quotes: "Numbers don't mean anything anymore they say" Normally quote marks (the " character) are used if you're quoting something, so I was wondering where you are quoting that from. To be ped
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by walrus 14y ago
Are you quoting something? Google just returns this thread when I search that.
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by walrus 14y ago
My apartment is $5000/year (midwest US).
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by walrus 15y ago
Vapor.js is making fun of the trend of JavaScript frameworks. Most of the existing frameworks advertise their file size, since a small size is desirable for fast page loads. Vapor.js is an empty file. Recently the authors of a popular JavaS
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by walrus 15y ago
I urge everyone to click around that site a bit. It has everything: UFO conspiracy theories, 3d modeling, recipes, MS Paint drawings, horror stories, ...
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by walrus 15y ago
FLINT is a library for number theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Library_for_Number_Theory
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by walrus 15y ago
If I'm understanding correctly, the device makes certain neuron pathways more likely to fire. What happens if, for example, you enable this device every time you enter a potentially frustrating situation? Would you become frustrated more ea
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by walrus 15y ago
What does TTL stand for in this context?
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by walrus 15y ago
When I ran it on my advisor's name, it gave the actual titles of two of his papers. Entertaining, though. It seems to be a common pattern. When I ran it with the argument "A Einstein", I got "On the electrodynamics of moving bodies." as one
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by walrus 15y ago
They seem to have changed it already. It's "F3m413" for female and "Male" for male now.
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by walrus 15y ago
That surprised me as well. The first A in "SCROLLORAMA" goes over the scrollbar in Firefox 9.0.1 on Linux.
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by walrus 15y ago
It's here because someone found it worth sharing. From the HN guidelines: Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going t
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by walrus 15y ago
Can you make a torrent of the data files and put the .torrent file on GitHub?
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by walrus 15y ago
To fix this, the author of that website can go to the settings tab of his Disqus account and uncheck "Enable Like Buttons"
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by walrus 15y ago
The author of Caterwaul, Spencer Tipping, has a document (which is a self-modifying Perl program itself) explaining the technique. https://github.com/spencertipping/writing-self-modifying-per...
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by walrus 15y ago
Is MBA short for MacBook Air?
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by walrus 15y ago
The (? ... ) syntax is for "extended patterns". In this case, it makes the rest of the regular expression case insensitive. Read through http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html#Extended-Patterns for more information on extended patterns.
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by walrus 15y ago
Try reading the book that steamer25 mentioned (To Mock a Mockingbird by Raymond Smullyan). It's very approachable and well written.
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by walrus 15y ago
It comes to 14 if you ignore the first line of each function (e.g. `def iconcat(xs, ys):`). I'm not sure why one would count lines like that, though.
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by walrus 15y ago
Sage and SymPy are not direct competitors. Sage is a Python interface to other math software. SymPy is closer to one of Sage's dependencies, Maxima. On the "motivation" page you linked, they actually state that they're working toward making
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by walrus 15y ago
> made me lose my vision for a few days What?
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by walrus 15y ago
Is this a common demo effect? There's a very similar effect on http://generalrelativity.org/BitmapStuff.swf (it's been there since 2007).
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by walrus 15y ago
I don't understand why this is being downvoted. The compiler's behavior is definitely wrong here, as you showed with your example. This issue could even come up in practice. Suppose you have a checkbox with the id 'cb' in your DOM. Consider
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by walrus 15y ago
Your definition of recursion is overly broad. var Y = function (F) { return (function (x) { return F(function (y) { return (x(x))(y);}); }) (function (x) { return F(function (y) { return (x(x))(y);})

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