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That assumes that the nature of the work load doesn't change over time.
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I enjoyed it. Is it practical for you to only play the animations on mouse over, and pause them otherwise? I think that might allow us the entertainment value of the gifs, without the annoyance of them looping endlessly while we're try
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> anthropomorphism The original post is straight up anthrocentrism. The part discussing video games is great, though.
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The choir already understands all that. You lost everyone else at the words "lambda calculus". Go into a random PHP shop, and I would be surprised if a single person would know what lambda calculus is. I'm not complaining abo
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I would be so tempted to write back something like, "You deserve to live free of that kind of anger. If my website makes you that upset, please stop looking at it. I suggest incinerating your computer and stapling your eyes shut to e
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Now I'm imagining a system that never displays a user's absolute rating. Instead, ratings are only displayed as a number of standard deviations above or below that user's mean rating. The main drawback I see (assuming that yo
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I really do think Haskell is a wonderful tool, but: "Haskell, at its core, is simple: it is just a polymorphic lambda calculus with lazy evaluation plus algebraic data types and type classes." In a different context, I would have
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by wtracy 8y ago
Either McAfee was being facetious in that tweet, or he was smoking something good. It's one thing to believe that Bitcoin is the future, it's another to believe that "Bubbles are mathematically impossible in this new paradigm
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The only thing that I could imagine approaching a "complete" solution would be to have a dedicated secretary who manually writes comprehensive summaries every few days. Since that's not going to happen, I don't see any b
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On top of what you mentioned: Java hopped onto the Object Oriented Programming bandwagon just as it was getting a lot of buzz. To a lot of people, Java and C++ are the canonical Object Oriented languages. (Sorry, Alan Kay.) Of those two, Ja
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An implementation certainly could return memory to the OS on calls to free(), but to my knowledge none of the widely used implementations do so. (I would be interested to learn of counterexamples!)
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People whose behavior revolves around their insecurities in that way have ceased to learn and grow. If those people who are "B" players now continue being open to learning new ideas, they are eventually going to leapfrog those &qu
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Malloc doesn't interact with the kernel at all. The kernel sees pages, not the data structures that malloc manages. The kernel doesn't even know whether you free()'d the memory by the time the process exits. There is exactly
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Other "alternative" compilers like tcc have pulled it off, supposedly without patching the kernel, so it is doable.
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It took me a couple minutes to figure out how to navigate this on mobile. Swipe right on the bottom block of text (not the map) to advance. Tap on it to read the story for that location, and tap again to return. I found it annoying enough t
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by wtracy 8y ago
Do you have any basis for claiming that Google Video Search only shows whitelisted videos? I thought only Google News was limited that way. I did a few quick searchs on the video tab, and pulled up a lot of videos from YouTube and at least
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I had to double-check with the Atomic Rocketship website. You are correct in that the energy released by a normal nuclear detonation in a vacuum would follow the inverter square law, and would not transfer force as effectively over distance
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That doesn't begin to describe the problem: The presence of an unused dependency causes the entire operating system to briefly stop processing input events . A background process could have this problem and you would see performance a
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Before the Yahoo acquisition, Tumblr was hemorrhaging cash. I don't think it ever was "stable" financially, which is all that matters in the end.
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Don't discount the possibility that these groups generally believe that they are helping others through outreach.
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Does anyone have any resources that explore how these groups achieve these things? (Especially the process of alienating inductees from friends and family--that's scary stuff.) It seems like understanding how these systems work would b
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There is something to be said for not reinventing the wheel. That said, it is very easy to read a list like this, "feel inspired", and then go right back to your old habits.
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I'm thinking of adding to that: Don't open any emails until noon unless the subject line and/or sender address indicate something that really needs to be addressed before noon.
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Any time I am sitting in my car, my keys are in one of the following places: * The ignition (my car plays a chime if I open the door with the keys still in the ignition) * My pocket (self explanatory) * My lap (they will fall and make a ra
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That reinforces my suspicion that taking even mildly psychoactive substances (pot, alcohol) when you are depressed or "in a funk" is generally a bad idea. Those are the times when substance abuse is most likely to rear its ugly he
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The impression I'm starting to get is that the dealers sometimes fail to mix properly when cutting the product. This means that one batch can create doses with widely varying concentrations. Then you get cases where one distributor dil
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> Any and all opinions listed here are my own and not representative of my employer. I was concerned until I saw this disclaimer.
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Most web apps do this in a JavaScript context inside the browser's security sandbox, not as native C++ code with unknown privileges.
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Heh, r/flipping hates it when people talk about retail arbitrage opportunities like this. "You're giving away our secrets!"
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I think that includes shipping, but not time spent or travel expenses.

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