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961.
by wnoise 16y ago
How can one buy bulk glucose to use as a sweetener instead of fructose or sucrose?
962.
by wnoise 16y ago
And younger than C, C++, Perl, Fortran, Cobol, ...
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by wnoise 16y ago
I strongly prefer links to the abstract: http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.4282v2 This lets you: (a) read the abstract before deciding whether or not to read the paper (b) easily find earlier (or later) versions of the paper (c) easily search for
964.
by wnoise 16y ago
> Because the path components are separated by / characters, an object key like "abc/def" would result in ambiguous output. jsonpipe will throw an error if this occurs in your input, so that you can recognize and handle the issue. To mi
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by wnoise 16y ago
Pairings involve matching everybody. There are indeed O(n^2) (well n*(n-1)/2) ways of constructing the first match. But then the other n-2 people still need to be paired up. The exact number is n!/((n/2)!(2^(n/2))). There are n! ways to
966.
by wnoise 16y ago
Because a troll might do the exact the same thing, and it's April Fools.
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by wnoise 16y ago
> I can only assume that the definition of 'obscure' here refers to the vast majority of an mathematics undergraduate curriculum. Which is absurd. It's not absurd at all. "Obscure" is relative to a given population. The relevant popul
968.
by wnoise 16y ago
I think he was referring to number theory, which would be a lot more obscure if not for public-key cryptography.
969.
by wnoise 16y ago
The argument is that it's just _interface_, which has to be that way for interoperability, so has no "creative content". Code that is actually expressive code in a header file (inline functions, or non-constant macros) could readily spoil
970.
by wnoise 16y ago
I love Haskell. I hate Cabal. It's a bunch of semi-opaque goo on top of a compilation process that wasn't terribly hard to start with.
971.
by wnoise 16y ago
Reimplementation/extension here: http://www.oolite.org/
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by wnoise 16y ago
Get root to run "man foo" with the right manpath...
973.
by wnoise 16y ago
But if nothing links with it, so there are no executables using it, that would seem to reduce the attack surface.
974.
by wnoise 16y ago
So, 5% of the time it doesn't meet your needs. I would find that significant.
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by wnoise 16y ago
Don't pull. Pull is two operations -- fetching the upstream work, and merging it in to your current branch. It's true that CVS and SVN both let you do this with dirty trees, but it's generally not what you should really be doing. Merges
976.
by wnoise 16y ago
Agreed. In precedent based systems broad-ranging principles often arise after-the-fact based on earlier, narrower-held opinions.
977.
by wnoise 16y ago
Do they really need to be part of the language when they can be encoded so readily, either ad-hoc, or with the Cont monad / ContT monad transformer?
978.
by wnoise 16y ago
Call with curried chicken?
979.
by wnoise 16y ago
No, that's not my objection to slavery. That's my objection to using support of slavery as a false example to discredit the idea that popularity can be used as (sloppy) gauge of morality.
980.
by wnoise 16y ago
> Well I don't know, what happened to slavery in the south of the united states? That was supported by the majority of the whites. It's a bit different if you count the opinions of the slaves as well.
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by wnoise 16y ago
That would be a reasonable counterpoint if 70% of the public did find rape socially acceptable.
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by wnoise 16y ago
It's not clear to me why the author should be bound by terms of service that he never agreed to. A web request is merely a communication with the web server. The server is free to do what it wills with such a request. If Wolfram doesn't w
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by wnoise 16y ago
> some early elevator systems E.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternoster
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by wnoise 16y ago
> But recently, Palantir has found itself in headlines for putting together a proposal, along with HBGary and Berico Technologies, to launch cyber-attacks and other “dirty tricks” against Wikileaks and its supporters, on behalf of Bank
985.
by wnoise 16y ago
That's much clearer. Thanks.
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by wnoise 16y ago
What do you love about this response? What actual value does it convey besides snideness toward people that actually care about what they work on?
987.
by wnoise 16y ago
On the systems I used to maintain, every single configuration file was generated by a script. If you make a mistake, you just re-edit and re-run the script.
988.
by wnoise 16y ago
And it's a fair point too. And I'm not meaning to claim that these particular numbers are actually relevant to the debate.
989.
by wnoise 16y ago
Numbers can be deceiving. It might not seem like there'd be much difference between 99%, 99.9%, or 99.99%, but there most definitely is -- the same difference as between 1%, 0.1%, and 0.01%.
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by wnoise 16y ago
> 10-15 years ago, you couldn't swipe your ATM/credit card at the grocery store. I clearly remember doing so 15 years ago.

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