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by wging 14y ago
The definition of power is energy per unit of time. Similarly, the common usage of the word power as applied to programming languages means pretty much that: you get more out of your work. In this analogy energy would correspond roughly
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by wging 14y ago
I think the idea is that it doesn't ever touch your ship--you just funnel it into your reactor directly. (You have to ionize it somehow...) So it's not equivalent to shielding--it's designed to avoid shielding.
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by wging 14y ago
Can't speak for the OP, but it does happen with Chrome on OS X and Safari on OS X, though not with Firefox.
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by wging 14y ago
You might get some mileage out of thinking of a row in the matrix product as a dot product, with the intuition that goes along with that. The dot product is perhaps easier to tie into the geometric intuition you have for linear transformati
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by wging 14y ago
The sixth footnote appears to address this a bit. You of course need to have something that could possibly grow before you can hope to achieve growth. During Y Combinator we measure growth rate per week, partly because there is so little t
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by wging 14y ago
But 5 months is a long time. Why only now? Surely there have been high-profile cases whose media frenzies can be capitalized on before now.
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by wging 14y ago
> There’s formulas for more complex systems (with x^3, x^4, or x^5 components) but they start to get a bit crazy. This is just untrue! It can be proven that there's no general formula that can work for x^5 without just defining away th
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by wging 14y ago
> Basically humans are the greatest long distance runners the planet has ever known. While I like your enthusiasm, recall that most species that ever lived are now extinct. What makes you so sure that a few hundred million years' worth
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by wging 14y ago
I would guess you did this test on your own keyboard, which you're used to. I wonder if the results would have been different if you'd used an unfamiliar one. (I also wonder if the number of trials you did was statistically significant--but
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by wging 14y ago
> I'm not sure that teaching a construct that you'll never end up using is helpful. But that was precisely Zed's point! You will certainly end up using it, though you may never use it in Ruby . .each is not transferable, and for-loo
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by wging 14y ago
2 and 3 were actually innovations of Total Annihilation , I believe. (They weren't widely adopted, clearly!) Just /s/monkeylord/Krogoth on #2.
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by wging 14y ago
I'm not sure btilly's argument was entirely sound. On the reddit thread for this post (in /r/math) counterexamples seemed to outnumber examples. (Not that that is itself evidence that this phenomenon's real.)
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by wging 14y ago
Does "gimme the next one cap'n" just advance to the next song, or is there some Pandora-type 'I hate this song, never play it' thing going on? Presumably the former but thought I'd ask. Also, the insertion of extra text into my copy of "gim
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by wging 14y ago
>Oxford and Cambridge are certainly exceptions. In general, if an institution offers both a BS and BA in the same subject (at least in the sciences), the BS tends to be more technical. Are you sure? In my case the difference between a B
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by wging 14y ago
On that note, did you know that Trapped_In_Reddit scavenges the top comments from earlier postings and reposts them? This was a big thing just a few days ago. http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/v6wz7/worst_hunting_d...
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by wging 14y ago
In that vein, you may also enjoy Blue Jeans Cable's response to Monster: http://www.bluejeanscable.com/legal/mcp/index.htm
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by wging 14y ago
For those who have been inspired by this post and want to check out Apostol's excellent book, note that it is spelled that way. (It is a shortening of a Greek surname--Apostolopoulus, I think.)
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by wging 14y ago
Ah, I see... 'Shift' doesn't mean what I thought it meant. Somehow I thought that a left shift was supposed to rotate the number. E.g. shifting by 1 would shift the 31st bit into the 0th bit.
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by wging 14y ago
This might be a naive question. On Question 12 ("Assume x has type int. Is the expression x<<32..."), why is this considered an error? Why do we want a compiler to prefer this over "x<<n means shift x by (n % sizeof(int))"?
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by wging 14y ago
A quibble of terminology: fields are rings too, so what you want to say is that it's not a field (or that it's 'only a ring') because the polynomial is reducible, rather than that it's a ring because the polynomial is reducible. It's a
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by wging 14y ago
The comment is basically saying that the size of a hole in a surface is irrelevant, but people incorrectly assume it matters.
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by wging 14y ago
Hardly new... they're definitely crackable.
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by wging 15y ago
You need to have a pretty decent handle on the language before a lot of it will make sense. While that's true, I think a learner may need more to aspire to (whether to write it, or just understand it) than just the next line of 'Learn
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by wging 15y ago
It's worth hesitating before introducing a confirmation-email step. You're certainly going to lose people every time you increase the complexity of the signup process.
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by wging 15y ago
Depends on the NDA I'm sure. Would many people really object to "I won't disclose the questions you ask me, or the written test you'll give me, or anything proprietary I might overhear while I'm there"?
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by wging 15y ago
>In his CV we see that Pierce has a long history of positions, quite varied, and none of them held very long. This is consistent psychologically with the sort of person that the rest of his situation indicates he is. Do you mean Porter,
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by wging 15y ago
You came from Britain, didn't you? The situation there is way worse because of the NHS's failed project.
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by wging 15y ago
Well, almost. Could do with a city lookup that highlights the timezone bar that corresponds to your chosen city and labels it with that city. I think that's the missing step in usability.
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Thank you.
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by wging 15y ago
Would you mind telling me these characters? >the author probably doesn't use 𝜀 as well, >𝜀? Probably refers to the error I'd like to know which my browser (latest Chrome on up-to-date Win7) is failing to render.

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