whyenot

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1501.
by whyenot 17y ago
Yum, you do have some excellent beer.
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by whyenot 17y ago
All this effort to track down someone accused of a victim-less crime who had already left the country and posed no future harm to people in the US. Yet, we have Nigerians terrorists flying around with explosive underwear. Somehow it seems
1503.
by whyenot 17y ago
You could compile to bytecodes using luac, if that is a concern.
1504.
by whyenot 17y ago
Google Scholar. In California at least, you can also get pdfs of papers at most UC and CSU libraries without being a student. Stanford too, last time I tried. Of course this means you do actually have to physically go to the library in mo
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by whyenot 17y ago
I use Linode. It's inexpensive, reliable, and easy to set up and use. The company also makes significant contributions back to the open source community. On my rating scale they get double bonus points for that.
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by whyenot 17y ago
I suspected as much, and I don't think there is anything wrong with using facts to defend your employer, but he should follow your example and disclose his affiliation when making comments like the one above.
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by whyenot 17y ago
Where are you getting the 50% number from? How do you know "there was a lot of work and testing to make sure people understood the results"? Why is this change "important?" IOW, how do I know you know what you're talking about. Based on
1508.
by whyenot 17y ago
Python also wins because it's a living language, still changing, adapting and updating itself while Common Lisp died the day the ANSI standard was published and today is a zombie, even if it still smells fairly nice. Now that comp.lang.lisp
1509.
by whyenot 17y ago
He's not crazy, he's passionate about his cause, and whether you agree with him or not that passion has led to a lot of good. On the other hand advocating that someone should be "institutionalized" because you happen to disagree with their
1510.
by whyenot 17y ago
They want the best deal they can get for $20, not $57 (€39). The price point is important.
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by whyenot 17y ago
Somewhere in the archives of comp.lang.lisp there is a post by Ross Ihaka where he mentions that they wanted to use scheme or another lisp-like language for R, but decided to go with something more familiar to most potential users. If I re
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by whyenot 17y ago
Many systems allow a small minority to tyrannically control the group, applying censorship where nobody actually wants it. Many systems may allow this behavior, but that doesn't mean it actually happens. At least I've never personally
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by whyenot 17y ago
The people who need the pledge the most are also the least likely to follow it when it's really put to the test. There was an interesting study done by the London School of Hygiene recently that found that people were much more likely to