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by wging 14y ago
If you want a press release to be ignored, release it at EOD on a Friday.
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by wging 14y ago
> Can anybody here confirm or offer insight about how these companies work? Twitter: https://twitter.com/anilpottimd Website: http://web.archive.org/web/20120318184249/http://www.anilpot... Other website: http://web.archive.org/we
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by wging 14y ago
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~jignesh/publ/underattack.pdf
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by wging 14y ago
"The proof of this identity probably requires mathematical knowledge that is beyond my current capacity" Not at all! Let M = [[1 1] ; [1 0]], the matrix under discussion. What does M do to a column vector v = [x ; y] under the rules of ma
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by wging 14y ago
Nice, but I feel I should point out that there are faster ways to multiply matrices than the naive O(n^3). I think we're down to O(n^2.3something). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_multiplication#Algorithm...
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by wging 14y ago
>progressively larger constant factors If they are getting progressively larger with larger inputs, then they are not in fact constant factors.
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by wging 14y ago
The "we won't pay you" text was not part of the original marketing copy. It was added by the webmaster because they didn't pay him.
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by wging 14y ago
Ah, you're right. Sorry for implying you didn't mention this. I overlooked that--just went to the rlwrap page and got caught up in what I was doing.
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by wging 14y ago
OS X users, I advise using brew install rlwrap instead of downloading the tarball in the link. You may feel tempted to download a tarball and compile readline. But I experienced the problem mentioned in rlwrap-0.37/BUGS: 49-O
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by wging 14y ago
A much more interesting question than "Arial or Helvetica" would be: "Which one looks better?" Then you could ask how well the answer correlated with Helvetica vs Arial. This question is good for seeing whether people know what they're look
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by wging 14y ago
I get a TypeError: Cannot call method 'getValue' of undefined on the last example. Running Chrome on OS X.
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by wging 14y ago
One of the users involved in those small-scale, under-the-radar WP deletion proceedings, RightCowLeftCoast, seems to be an active member of WikiProject Conservatism. Can't help wondering whether the stated reason ("subject appears to fail n
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by wging 14y ago
Update: Four hours later, the article's back. And if someone wanted to try again, they'd have to do a lot better than claim non-notability or lack of sources as below: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion...
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Wikipedia entry for Aaron Swartz-founded PAC was deleted the day he died(en.wikipedia.org)
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by wging 14y ago
It was incredibly unsettling to see this as the top link on Hacker News, then skim down the list to see 'Aaron Swartz', 'Aaron Swartz', 'Aaron Swartz', and feel my suspicions grow. (Yes, I conveniently missed the details of the second link,
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by wging 14y ago
1, morganj
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by wging 14y ago
I don't think you understand what was claimed in the article. 'List comprehension' is the name of a specific syntactic construct. List comprehensions describe straightforward transformations of other lists in convenient notation. http://en
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by wging 14y ago
In which country did this happen?
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by wging 14y ago
What worked well for me when going through SCIP: the header #lang planet neil/sicp at the start of my .rkt files, after installing the corresponding package. See this link: http://www.neilvandyke.org/racket-sicp/
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by wging 14y ago
So why doesn't the root comment about semicolons and braces apply?
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by wging 14y ago
Might be fun (depending on your temperament! but you asked...) to go through Principles of Mathematical Analysis by Walter Rudin (RIP). Also known as 'Baby Rudin.' (Try to forget that there's a 'Big Rudin'; it will only depress you.) Baby
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by wging 14y ago
Who's to say that there's going to be a single 'ultimate interpreter' of the proof? If it's a community effort do we pull a Time Magazine and say everyone proved it... oh, and I guess Shin Mochizuki helped. This whole article is just kind o
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by wging 14y ago
What I found very useful was http://4clojure.org . The elementary-level and easy-level problems provide a good start.
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by wging 14y ago
I can't help notice some similarity in name and motivation to http://tryclj.com . http://www.tryfsharp.org/Help 404s for me. My browser "does not support the execution of F# code in the browser", probably because I don't have Silverligh
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by wging 14y ago
Your HN profile says you're at CloudAmp, which doesn't seem to be a health IT startup at all. What am I missing?
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by wging 14y ago
Eh. If you send out two shipments of Doritos, nobody dies. If you administer a med twice, a patient very well could die. Consequently, if you make it even 1% more likely that a med will be administered twice, patients will die.
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by wging 14y ago
There are companies that still sell desktop software written in VB 6 .
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by wging 14y ago
> there is nothing on the landscape that is really equivalent to APL I beg to differ: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_(programming_language)
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by wging 14y ago
A well-designed laptop which is heading toward zero upgradeablility.
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by wging 14y ago
It is worth noting that Andrew Wiles' initial proof of Fermat's Last Theorem also had a bug. This was later fixed, with help. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_Last_Theorem : However, it soon became apparent that Wiles's initi

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