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by wging 13y ago
Sometimes titles are improved by moderator intervention--other times it's the opposite. Sometimes titles lose bias, but sometimes they become inaccurate or generic-to-the-point-of-madness.
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by wging 13y ago
And now (a) it's preserved because it has 'historical significance', yet (b) the bits are rotting as new books are released and old books' information becomes out of date
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by wging 13y ago
This isn't really substantive feedback about the language, but this is a magnificent bit of fun, even if I can't figure out any time I'd want to use it :)
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by wging 13y ago
As Chris mentioned elsewhere: In user.behaviors (ctrl+space, user behaviors), adding an element to my current editor vector activates vim mode: :editor [:lt.objs.editor/no-wrap (:lt.objs.style/set-theme "
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by wging 13y ago
It does miss a trivial optimization. For example, fac n = product [1..n] can be replaced with fac n = product [2..n] and will still do the right thing for n == 0, n == 1. Saves you a multiplication!
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by wging 13y ago
fyi, the 'why' link is broken due to a naming mismatch.
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by wging 13y ago
They do say "It can access that data 20 times faster than the best breed of flash memory" but a rate of 17 MB/s means this is incorrect.
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by wging 13y ago
"It’s an astoundingly high-quality language, sure—in fact, I’m beginning to think it’s the best I’ve ever seen" [ http://joyofclojure.com/foreword/ ]
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by wging 13y ago
Here is a page mirrored at archive.org, now 404ing on Apple's website, that will provide at least a little more information on Bill the Cat. http://web.archive.org/web/20130723144507/http://www.apple
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by wging 13y ago
There is some precedent for the notation (a, b) or <a, b> or [a, b] meaning "some function applied to a and b". For example, inner products or commutators (for a group, the commutator [a, b] of a and b is equal to a^-1 b^-1
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by wging 13y ago
Faster mirror: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/15/547
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by wging 13y ago
If the aim is golf, it's probably best to keep #" ". If the aim is accuracy, we might get better results by using #"[^\w]+". Though that does nasty things to words like "it's". Edit: Actually, we can
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by wging 13y ago
Oh, crap, you're right. I read that as f''(x) must have the same sign as f(x).
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by wging 13y ago
f(x) = e^(-x) works too :) But the point is to draw a function with these properties. You just have to have a smooth curve that approaches 0 asymptotically and is concave up. No worries about graphing any particular function!
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by wging 13y ago
Oh, absolutely. But this seems to indicate the debt repayment math being done to support the author's point is badly off.
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by wging 13y ago
The strange thing is that if you just say "newer technologies" it's both a simpler sentence and less obviously wrong. (As someone's pointed out already, it's still wrong because Python's comparatively older.)
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by wging 13y ago
>By their own estimation, the cost of a four year education at RISD is $245,816. >An online debt repayment calculator recommended a salary exceeding $400,000 in order to pay off a RISD education within 10 years. ... If you made $400k
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by wging 13y ago
That's true of most people, but in some situations Java's unavoidable.
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by wging 13y ago
>I'm told that if all rings of the form a+b.sqrt(-p) are unique factorization domains then there is a fairly simple proof I just can't resist showing why this is false. It's actually pretty simple. Take p=5. Then our &#x27
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by wging 13y ago
This SyntaxErrors for me. >>> from types import * >>> mycode = "a = int(raw_input()); print a * 2; return a" >>> myfunc = FunctionType(compile(mycode,"<string>","exec&q
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by wging 13y ago
Cherrypicking a bit there. http://www.nsa.gov/ is done in a much different style.
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by wging 13y ago
We're not talking about performance loss but a relative performance difference. It's at least possible that MySQL might've introduced performance gains that MariaDB didn't get. I have no idea whether this is the case.
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by wging 13y ago
I think they have the same author.
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by wging 13y ago
He can't be elected for a third term under the Constitution as currently written .
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by wging 13y ago
Many people are not paid for their time (wages). Instead they're paid a fixed rate (a salary). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salary#United_States
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by wging 13y ago
Nice, but with https://twitter.com/timebot empty of tweets I can't help but feel cheated.
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by wging 13y ago
Labor wasn't free in the prewar South. There are costs associated with maintaining slaves. To be effective laborers they required feeding, housing, and clothing, and their acquisition wasn't cheap either! This isn't fatal to whatever your p
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by wging 13y ago
>motorcycles that won't fall over Which company is this?
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by wging 13y ago
To expand on others' answers: In Clojure, \a is a Java character, :a is a Clojure keyword, and "a" is a Java string. user=> (type \a) java.lang.Character user=> (type :a) clojure.lang.Keyword user=> (type "
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by wging 13y ago
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