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by wcarss 11y ago
You've basically swung too far to the other side of the spectrum, and you will be penalized for not having a credit history if you ever seek a large loan. If you consider your credit card to be a no-fee (or low-fee) payment mechanism t
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by wcarss 11y ago
Ah thanks, I was wondering who that was! The interviewers just nod along when he says it. Good idea on adding some footnotes like that. I'm trying to get a paper/interview/essay-reading group started (which is why I'm ho
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by wcarss 11y ago
Weird timing! Just this afternoon I finished cleaning up a transcript of an Oral History interview with Licklider from 1988: http://wcarss.ca/refs/aspray-licklider-interview.html
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by wcarss 11y ago
From [1], the "Docstring Standard" section of your link, "Our docstring standard uses re-structured text (reST) syntax". It seems like they use reST? 1 - https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob&#x2F
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by wcarss 11y ago
He's actually got two posts about it, that I've found to be insightful and useful to take back to my own reading: http://blog.fogus.me/2012/02/22/reading/ http://blog.fogus.me
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by wcarss 11y ago
This has become one of the few end-of-year wrap-ups that I actively look forward to seeing, both as inspiration to read more and as a source for interesting ideas. As usual, this is an amazing trove of interesting links and top notch person
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by wcarss 11y ago
Hm, I may have been unclear -- I didn't mean to question your claim that Microsoft is not showing us real pictures/video, as they clearly are not. I was (and am) curious about the ability to display darkness, which you specificall
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by wcarss 11y ago
I agree that Microsoft would have push well beyond the established best of AR technology in order to darken things in the hololens, but I can't tell what's likelier: that they're totally lying in their demonstrations, or that
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by wcarss 11y ago
Just noticing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10428508 is a 3-day old submission from the same user , and had modest attention.
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Just to flesh out my parent's point, while the internet existed and was widely available in 1995, its impact over 3 years was far less impressive than expected, but its impact over 20 years is far more impressive than expected. The int
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by wcarss 11y ago
Just to follow up with further evidence that NASA's announcement[1] is about this research: in attendance at the conference today will be Lujendra Ojha of the Georgia Institute of Technology, the principal author of the linked paper, a
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by wcarss 11y ago
My layperson's opinion is that it is. The paper reports data indicative of transient liquid salt* water flowing on current day Mars (as in, in the past year), answering the "mystery" of the apparent daily sand flows in pictur
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by wcarss 11y ago
It actually generally heats the pavement long enough that all of the water evaporates, leading to a totally dry, unsalted slab of pavement.
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by wcarss 11y ago
This is a very naive (and perhaps unsatisfying) answer, and I haven't read CTM so I may misunderstand the real concept of the kernel language, but you may be looking for either the Relational Calculus or Algebra[1][2] or, for less math
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by wcarss 11y ago
Knowing just a teensy bit of 68K and x86 assembly, I still am shocked to hear that there are "something like 16 load and 13 store instructions". Super... cool. This post has given Starfighter a lot more flavour in my mind. Thanks,
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by wcarss 11y ago
this might also be an artifact of the development of browsers -- IE was a dominant force until relatively recent times, and browsers had to standardize what existed, then build carefully on top. It may be the case that the techniques used w
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by wcarss 11y ago
I suggest looking for 'python' and 'remote' in the fairly recent 'Who's Hiring?' thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9639001
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by wcarss 11y ago
I'm pretty certain the Chrome PMs actively decided long ago that people who use lots of tabs make up too small of a population to support in-browser with special features. The featureset has worsened with time, moving from correct rend
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by wcarss 11y ago
I think it's worth noting that this is not a poll, and has nothing to do with a government action. It is entirely the opinion of one person about other people's opinions, from the perspective of Mountain View, CA. It also doesn&#x
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by wcarss 12y ago
Hi, I might have you or the article wrong, but I think you have misinterpreted the whole "Die Progress Unit" thing, in a way that alters the fundamental premise of the article to the flawed one which you have called out. The inter
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by wcarss 12y ago
Apart from the linked video, do you have any suggestions for approaching Zizek as a philosopher, or for giving context to his works?
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I imagine there's a possibility that algorithmic-trading bots may have just seen an uptick in news about these organizations and through a frenzy of general "activity" drove the prices up. That signal might have led other, mo
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by wcarss 12y ago
I think this may belong in a different submission.
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For anyone else wondering what the hell "BT" is, it's British Telecom, an ISP.
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His solution to the EOF problem is ... disturbingly satisfying. In the worst case imaginable (it's almost unimaginable) the transfer would just appear to be hanging right at the end and the user should try again.
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by wcarss 12y ago
After running across this game a few days ago, I became curious if playing it would develop any sort of skill, or at least if my scores would improve over time. Over about a week of casual (and briefly, obsessive) playing, I kept track of m
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by wcarss 12y ago
About two years ago, I was responsible for the curriculum of a number of after-school "learn programming" classes for kids aged 11-14 (Canadian grades 6-8), and we used a slightly older version of light-bot as one of our teaching
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by wcarss 12y ago
I really initially thought this would have to do with the novel Accelerando.
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One significant work was the founding of the Creative Commons in 2001, whose licenses provide an alternative to traditional "all right reserved" copyright schemes, now applied to hundreds of millions of works. http://en
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by wcarss 12y ago
I was totally unfamiliar with any linking between functional programming and Abstract Data Types before reading your post. They are certainly present outside of that world. Back in my university data structures class, an Abstract Data Type

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