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yangyang
15y ago
Principles of Functional Programming - Glaser, Hankin, Till I Have America Surrounded - John Higgs
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yangyang
15y ago
Total compensation = salary + bonus + perks + whatever else they give you.
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yangyang
15y ago
Neither are sensible for anyone who uses Emacs keybindings (at the shell or in Emacs). I have my prefix key set to C-t, which is tolerable.
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yangyang
15y ago
> 16 bit COM programs won't run on my 64 bit system Have you tried DOSBox?
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yangyang
15y ago
Maybe he meant QuickC ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickC )
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What the heck is “Program Management”?
(hal2020.com)
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15y ago
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yangyang
15y ago
Look at the many newspaper and magazine apps on the iPad. They often contain interactive content - videos, graphs you can blow up, slide shows, and so on. And I'd say they're better for that. If the Kindle Fire is going to compete with the
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yangyang
15y ago
As far as I know, PDFs don't reflow text. They're only suitable for a fixed screen size.
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Voices of finance: computer programmer at a trading company
(guardian.co.uk)
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A Call to Pull Reins on Rapid-Fire Trade
(online.wsj.com)
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15y ago
> No smudge trails left on the screen Surely you're still going to touch it after you've unlocked it? :-)
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yangyang
15y ago
Maybe that's the point of it - most people won't think twice about authorizing, but might realise what they've opted into once they see it.
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yangyang
15y ago
Some of the other examples are pretty impressive too: https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js
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The Secrets of High Frequency Trading
(allaboutalpha.com)
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15y ago
It would also be nice to have the option of using age instead of mileage, or possibly miles / year. Sometimes an old car that's hardly ever driven, with a low mileage, isn't as good a bet as a newer car with lots of miles that's been well m
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15y ago
There have always been loads of sub-genres. The stuff you mention there is very commercial. Looking at some of my vinyl from over 10 years ago, you can compare Jonny L http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qo1aoR96oI with Goldie http://www.you
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15y ago
Only a fraction of current D&B uses the amen break. Plenty of current stuff doesn't use sampled drum loops. Loxy & Resound: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0mcxqhJ2j8 Consequence ft. ASC: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErwdSS--cg
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15y ago
It's probably a bit late by the time they've got to looking at the extension of the attachment - the image will have already loaded and they'll be "busted".
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NesC: A Programming Language for Deeply Networked Systems
(nescc.sourceforge.net)
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15y ago
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The Crazy Old Gadgets That Presaged the iPod, iPhone and a Whole Lot More
(theatlantic.com)
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yangyang
16y ago
WP7 is consumer-orientated. RIM / Blackberry have most of the business market at the moment.
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yangyang
16y ago
Why does Winphone 7 make them more distinct? It offers far fewer opportunities for distinction than Android.
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16y ago
I would have to say "yes", to an extent. When you drive in the dark, if there is no ambient lighting, all you can generally see of a car approaching or behind is its lights, and you can definitely judge distance from that. This is noticeabl
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Parrot AR.Drone - Wi-Fi quadricopter with 2 cameras
(ardrone.parrotshopping.com)
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16y ago
It's not just parallel assignment, it's destructuring assignment: >>> a, (b, (c, d), e) = 1, (2, [3, 4], 5) >>> a 1 >>> b 2 >>> c 3 >>> d 4
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yangyang
16y ago
Very true. I find the emacs shortcuts nicer on command lines though. I find the modality is too much of an overhead there.
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Kinect's Greatest Hack: A Gesture-Control Robot
(fastcompany.com)
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I'm glad it's improving. Whilst being able to script vim with lots of different languages is great, it's a shame it's not just one, since nobody really wants some hybrid beast linked against 6 different interpreters just to run a few script
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16y ago
I left vim for emacs solely because of how much nicer emacs lisp is than scripting stuff in vim: https://github.com/hsitz/VimOrganizer/blob/master/ftplugin/o... .
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16y ago
Surely it's aimed at technical people, able to understand technical language?
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