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901.
by waqf 15y ago
Evaluating the benefits of legislation should take into account the cognitive burden it places on everyone in the country, could have been your point. (This since I notice you are taking the tack that the problem was the unlawfulness of w
902.
by waqf 15y ago
What's this supposed to achieve? Just as with regular captchas, computers will be able to solve this just as soon as there's a financial incentive to program them to do so: that is to say, just as soon as it's at all widely deployed.
903.
by waqf 15y ago
I would like you to be right: do you have evidence that this was the reason the name was changed? I am personally hoping that "PARASITE" has a much more negative ring that will make it easier to campaign against the bill.
904.
by waqf 15y ago
Perl 6 changes this syntax to @src[$src], effectively admitting that the way sigils worked through Perl 5 was a failed experiment.
905.
by waqf 15y ago
Unfortunately G+ circles are not a good fit for the use case you describe, because whether you are permitted to see a post (which certainly should be at the author's discretion) is different from whether you are interested enough to see it
906.
by waqf 15y ago
Since macros are fundamentally just a poor man's higher order functions, Haskell really shouldn't need them. For example, two major uses of macros in Lisp are with-macros and embedded DSLs. You don't need macros for either of those in Hask
907.
by waqf 15y ago
The difference is that it only makes well-defined, encapsulatable dependencies on your mutable state easy. It doesn't make totally screwing up easy.
908.
by waqf 15y ago
It's not well understood, as evidenced by the continuing arguments about how upvoting "should" mean informative but "does" mean agree.
909.
by waqf 15y ago
I still vote up comments that are greyed out (indicating a negative score) if I think they don't deserve to be downvoted.
910.
by waqf 15y ago
> I started writing a game in Haskell and found that the scaffolding necessary to do randomness in the "right" way was just too painful. It could be that I hadn't learned the idioms well-enough to see a better way of doing things; but i
911.
by waqf 15y ago
I can't understand why everyone commutes at the same time of day. It would be of HUGE economic benefit if office activities were evenly distributed around the clock (and the calendar). There would never be rush-hour traffic because people
912.
by waqf 15y ago
It would have been easy to write a less disingenuous headline. For example, "U.S. Compelled Google To Hand Over Wikileaks Volunteer's Gmail Data."
913.
by waqf 15y ago
... nonsensical words which just happen to be computer jargon? It's been done: http://www.textfiles.com/humor/COMPUTER/aliceunix.txt
914.
by waqf 15y ago
I'm intrigued that you didn't anglicise to "... Oxbridge or the gutter". Is Harvard now both as well known as and more prestigious than Oxbridge in the UK?
915.
by waqf 15y ago
The page rendered fine on my machine, but I closed it immediately because I hate infographics, or rather I hate "infographics" in the current vogue. It's just like reading any other superficial journalism, except with somebody screaming in
916.
by waqf 15y ago
This is really interesting and I've never seen it laid out like that. Can you recommend a reference?
917.
by waqf 15y ago
The world has easily ten times the population it had in Leonardo's time, and also is probably less than 100% effective at discovering such people. So at a conservative estimate, I'd say there are hundreds.
918.
by waqf 15y ago
He's only solving the simpler version of the game, as popularized by Milton Bradley. In the prewar original, you get three simultaneous shots per turn and you get told how many of your shots hit but not which ones. I'd be more interested
919.
by waqf 15y ago
If I were applying I would send them my 1-minute solution, because I wouldn't want them to think it took me 20 minutes to solve.
920.
by waqf 15y ago
We should write a filter for HN that makes it impossible to submit articles from the Leaders section!
921.
by waqf 15y ago
If that resource wants to be taken seriously it could start by getting a web design that doesn't scream "quack".
922.
by waqf 15y ago
You're all for dark humor? Forgive me, but if you don't even like wordplay on a "dark" topic, what kind of dark humor is it that you find acceptable?
923.
by waqf 15y ago
How do they measure satisfaction? Is it that people are assumed to have been satisfied with their results if they don't come back ?
924.
by waqf 15y ago
That has been happening for years. If you click through to the cached version of the result, which is marked up to highlight your search terms, Google provides an excuse: "These terms were found only in links pointing to this page:". I've
925.
by waqf 15y ago
No, the refusal to make the effort to design well allowing for this is why we don't have nice things.
926.
by waqf 15y ago
I think the rule is that very short variable names are a lot more usable in very short scopes (so you don't have time to forget what they denote). I use a lot more short scopes in Haskell than in less-functional languages, though I'm not q
927.
by waqf 15y ago
Since even the most high-level concept, explained correctly, can be absorbed and applied by any person of average intelligence, I will be very interested when the author (or, y'know, anyone) posts such an explanation of motivic cohomology.
928.
by waqf 15y ago
Although in this instance I agree, I think the bigger point is that you shouldn't call anything "arcane" on HN. Because it'll be well known to someone and that someone—who is probably someone who could contribute a lot to the HN discus
929.
by waqf 15y ago
Following an existing score should be a lot easier than de novo polyphonic transcription. For example, you could almost just track the beat while ignoring all the pitches.
930.
by waqf 15y ago
You should have tried ITA Software's Matrix site in 2000. It was already awesome, but it was US only.

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