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by xiaq 11y ago
If you control virtually every aspect of media in a country, I don't see how Streisand effect works...
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by xiaq 11y ago
Maybe they are going to block or attack GitHub again until GitHub takes down all clones of it.
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by xiaq 11y ago
Actually, that's a feature (One of the execuses)
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by xiaq 11y ago
It is shocking to see a post from Qihoo 360 appear on the official golang blog. This company is notorious for at least the following: * Their flagship products, "360 Security", provides an alternative Windows-update facility; they
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by xiaq 11y ago
It's been some years since I last used it, but some of the features are: 1) a repository of common (Chinese) software that you can install directly; 2) an alternative windows-update service that seems to work faster than windows's
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by xiaq 11y ago
Qihoo 360 is very successful in starting a hype in China and some tech company believe that installing it is good practice.
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by xiaq 11y ago
> As the paper outlines, a Plan 9 network needed at least a CPU server, file server and one or more terminals, plus possibly an authentication server (the CPU server might have been able to do this too). ... which can just be run on the
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by xiaq 11y ago
Plan 9 makes extensive use of pure-text IPC, more commonly known as file writes and reads. This is facilitated by the fact that each process sees its own filesystem hierarchy. For instance, GUI programs are built by reading from files like
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by xiaq 11y ago
I don't see how special interest groups will be a problem. Surely, they can flood the reviews with unlegit attacks, but the academia can just ignore them and only stick to the high-reputation review groups. They can make a lot of noise
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by xiaq 11y ago
Hey, my idea is basically a free-market counterpart to yours: instead of restricting access to verified groups, allow anyone to create groups and let them compete for reputation. This is how some journals come to be more prestigious than ot
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by xiaq 11y ago
It surely is, but beware that unlike fields like social networking which makes money from idle and bored people, scientists have a lot of things to get busy and excited about and are much harder to convince, unless there is some real adva
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by xiaq 11y ago
Wikipedia told me this, but the homepage also advertises itself as an e-print service. Anyway, "it does not have it because it has not happened yet" is exactly my point, because I don't see why it cannot evolve into a publish
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by xiaq 11y ago
Maybe it can work as follows: Support a concept of "reviewer group" that can be created by anyone but can only be joined on invitation. When you post a review, the groups you belong to are shown; you can also filter articles that
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by xiaq 11y ago
Because it was intended as a repository of preprints instead of a publishing platform. It surely has the potential of becoming one, but that has not happened yet.
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by xiaq 11y ago
Reminds me immediately of these two passages: > 1936 - Alan Turing invents every programming language that will ever be but is shanghaied by British Intelligence to be 007 before he can patent them. > 1936 - Alonzo Church also invents
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by xiaq 11y ago
Thanks for pointing this out. I have confused the size of output with the size of state.
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by xiaq 11y ago
If you realize that any RNG on [0,256) always has a cycle of at most 256, this is actually pretty decent.
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by xiaq 11y ago
Ah, the arrogant and absolutely amazing way OpenBSD people write :)
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by xiaq 11y ago
Nice article, but > There is another key difference between Lisp macros and many other macro systems: in Lisp, the macros operate on expressions: the data structure of the code itself. Because Lisp code is written explicitly as a data st
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by xiaq 11y ago
> It's funny how the ones who contribute the least to the functionality have the most outspoken opinions on commit messages. Perhaps it's easier to be puritan when you only handle trivial code changes. According to GitHub, this
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Ian Lance Taylor(airs.com)
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by xiaq 11y ago
Use map(key). I learnt this "map as callable" idea fron clojure and wondered why it is not more common.
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by xiaq 11y ago
No, an important aspect of mental diagnosis is that the patient is actively troubled by the problem but is unable to change on his own; otherwise it is more of personality. If you just hate socializing, you don't have social phobia. If
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by xiaq 11y ago
Obligatory xkcd https://xkcd.com/977/
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by xiaq 11y ago
In related news, if you don't have a key and a lock, you cannot really lock a door.
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by xiaq 11y ago
Come on. GFW does not make an actual difference for a decent programmer...
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by xiaq 11y ago
I tried German, where the first text is the German version of Let It Go, and there are quite some mistakes in the text (wrong capitalization, wrong spaces). Even more evident when the YouTube video itself actually contains the text. Is the
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by xiaq 11y ago
I have seen this reposted a lot of times, but I reread it every time. It is simply amazing.
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by xiaq 11y ago
I wonder why Fourier and Laplace transforms were dismissed very early on? It is very tempting to generalize the the differentiation property to non-integer n and do a inverse transform to get any non-integer derivative. For instance, I woul
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by xiaq 11y ago
Thanks, that is good to know.

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