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931.
by wnoise 15y ago
I was in fact thinking of such common uses as the loop macro. > But the one thing that makes macros irreplaceable is the fact that they can operate at compile-time. "Sufficiently smart compiler" is the standard strawman argument. It's
932.
by wnoise 15y ago
Eh, in lazily-evaluated languages such Haskell, there is much less need for macros.
933.
by wnoise 15y ago
And quantum computation must be reversible too, except for the final measurement process.
934.
by wnoise 15y ago
You've heard representatives of him complaining. You've actually heard nothing from him. His supporters obviously don't know that he's innocent, so they're sensibly not saying he is. People can't know he did it, they too should sensibly
935.
by wnoise 15y ago
allegedly from Bradley Manning.
936.
by wnoise 15y ago
Of course it's relevant to that judgement. Whether he and his girlfriend were right to take in and support this guy, and the reasonableness of the rest of the group in cutting off contact do in fact depend on what this guy did. The thing is
937.
by wnoise 15y ago
I can see an argument that he deserves it, but that's a far cry from saying he'll get it.
938.
by wnoise 15y ago
Fair enough -- there's no real need to know whether your friends were being unreasonable, or you were, only that it was enough to cause a huge rift.
939.
by wnoise 15y ago
To my mind, that response really depends on details such as "what sort of 'trouble with the law'?".
940.
by wnoise 15y ago
In both cases they are right too: the people creating the messed-up market (government via drug laws) and (airlines via schedules) are creating incentives that have built-in externalities.
941.
by wnoise 15y ago
And it's been submitted, with comments here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2515044
942.
by wnoise 15y ago
The Gutenberg method linked to in that article is a fantastic read: http://entropysite.oxy.edu/morrison.html
943.
by wnoise 16y ago
These are not mutually exclusive.
944.
by wnoise 16y ago
It's not pronouncing "blue" as "blur", but extending or duplicating the r.
945.
by wnoise 16y ago
An argument by symmetry is that something shouldn't change when some irrelevant bit is changed -- such as the identity of the actors. Yes, the preconditions for using "If I X then Y" when trying to argue that "when someone else X', then Y'
946.
by wnoise 16y ago
Sadly, that is fancy to the bulk of working of programmers.
947.
by wnoise 16y ago
Arguments by symmetry are incredibly powerful and useful. Why do you think they don't get to the heart of things? (Granted, X must be chosen so that it is a fair comparison, but when it's not, that choice is what should be attacked, not t
948.
by wnoise 16y ago
Fair enough.
949.
by wnoise 16y ago
Why did they decide on a name that can easily be (mis)pronounced as a synonym for urine? That just seems like a poor branding decision, up there with "blur-ray".
950.
by wnoise 16y ago
Even though it's aging, _Higher Order Perl_ by Mark Jason Dominus has some very nice techniques and practices. http://hop.perl.plover.com/
951.
by wnoise 16y ago
Keepassx is compatible with keepass. You can also run the new version of keepass on mono.
952.
by wnoise 16y ago
I've always hated that saying. Absence of evidence is indeed evidence of absence, in situations where you would expect such evidence. It's absence of proof that isn't proof of absence.
953.
by wnoise 16y ago
valid "C".
954.
by wnoise 16y ago
Even when you can't have a _proof_ of associativity in the type, it's perfectly reasonable to document the associativity requirement in types -- e.g. the Monoid typeclass in Haskell.
955.
by wnoise 16y ago
I like the puns, but wish more people would use "epic" instead of "epi".
956.
by wnoise 16y ago
That's just an optimization. The semantics are still stored snapshots, and the diffs can be from any version of any file (blob) to any other.
957.
by wnoise 16y ago
42 USC 1983 http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/42/usc_sec_42_00001983----... Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes
958.
by wnoise 16y ago
Morons drive the creation of assholes. You need to be able to use the spec to push morons to stop being morons.
959.
by wnoise 16y ago
I'm one of those people that don't see a problem. I don't care what branch work happened on. I care whether it was merged or not. If I'm missing something, could someone correct me? My responses would be as follows: > A) I need to k
960.
by wnoise 16y ago
Sure, but I'm still going to want to sweeten food in moderation, and it appears that tilting towards glucose in doing so is better. (Though glucose is less sweet, possibly meaning I'll use more, and that's worth watching out for.)

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