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by wging 12y ago
"Well a homomorphism applies to a group" Not so. The notion's far more general: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_homomorphism This gives us a notion of homomorphisms between fields. https://
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by wging 12y ago
In this case, the difference is that broadband subscribers are not being sold a magazine which they know will contain ads--they are being sold a full connection to the internet! That's the precedent, that's what we think we'r
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by wging 12y ago
There's a bit given little or no space in that article: Modi was denied a US visa as a result of the Gujarat riots. Will be interesting to see what happens here... http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Home/Lok-Sabha-
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by wging 12y ago
This confused me too, but the quality of the headphones that come with Apple's products is not reputed to be great either. (I can't say whether this is true. Hearsay at best.)
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by wging 12y ago
Actually in another link, someone is mentioned as having attempted to prove it was a catenary for months until Newton showed it wasn't.
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Alan Guth: What made the Big Bang bang(bostonglobe.com)
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by wging 12y ago
Seems to be a bug in the MIT License that it doesn't refer to its own name within its text. By contrast the GNU GPL is more easily recognizable.
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by wging 12y ago
I'd argue they're only "awkward" because you aren't used to them.
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by wging 12y ago
"That being said, I still use vim for quickly editing single files as you can't beat the startup time." Add (server-start) to your .emacs and keep a running emacs around long-term. Then you can edit single files quickly with
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by wging 12y ago
Reminds me of a post about the internals of ITA, which mentions that they used memory-mapped files to make data access fast: http://www.paulgraham.com/carl.html
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by wging 13y ago
Is anyone else having trouble viewing this on a mobile device?
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by wging 13y ago
That's a marginal 28% tax, too. Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rate_schedule_(federal_income_... , even without tax breaks a single person making more than $87,850 would only get taxed 28% on the portion of th
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by wging 13y ago
http://goto.ucsd.edu:8090/index.html ?
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by wging 13y ago
Seems to be down; here's a mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20070712113441/http://www-cs-fac...
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by wging 13y ago
IE10 is too aggressive a goal. Can't require OS upgrades...
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by wging 13y ago
At the top left, in 'Chrome', there's a useful 'Warn before Quitting' option.
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by wging 13y ago
Now I really wonder what the state of v8 internals is today. Anyone have more up-to-date information?
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by wging 13y ago
>Until recently, I had thought that the only real tools out there to do this kind of analysis lived only on Solaris (DTrace). FYI, there are ports of dtrace to systems other than Solaris.
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by wging 13y ago
It can make you pay more than you otherwise would, not more than your limit.
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by wging 13y ago
He seems not to have written one for ClojureScript :)
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by wging 13y ago
I can't be the only one who has difficulty understanding what exactly the signal is when a board member steps down. >resigned because they had sought an outside hire to work alongside Eich Okay, but why would this mean you needed to
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by wging 13y ago
Latency might not be great in SE Asia or Africa. The blog post linked elsewhere in these comments indicates that this is currently served up only from Virginia and Oregon.
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by wging 13y ago
How did you figure out which byte to change?
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by wging 13y ago
Which Neal Stephenson is also involved in.
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by wging 13y ago
FYI, emacs lisp already does have lexical scope. It is optional, as I understand it. Not sure how you choose to use it.
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by wging 13y ago
With emacs and haskell-mode, I just open a Haskell buffer, and C-c C-l (control-c control-l). This will reload that buffer into another buffer that runs GHCi, creating it if it doesn't exist and using the existing one if it does.
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by wging 13y ago
Mind sharing some config details? Does that minimap work in the terminal?
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by wging 13y ago
One thing that will help a lot: type (source f) to see the source code for a function or macro. Also (doc f) for documentation.
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by wging 13y ago
A little googling has dug this up: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_Tutorial_for_C_Pr... I'm sure that you also know C, since you know C++. Let me know how it goes.
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by wging 13y ago
Since you like strong typing and use Clojure, have you checked out Typed Clojure yet? I'm sure you have heard of it, but it seems obligatory to mention it in any discussion of programming languages involving both Clojure and Haskell, o

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