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by zhemao 13y ago
Probably because those rabid capitalist types actually have the money to afford those locally produced items.
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by zhemao 13y ago
Why would you assume I eat bigmacs and drink coke? I don't eat fast food unless I'm traveling. My diet consists mostly of rice, vegetables, and lean meat. You're putting up a false dichotomy here, i.e. Soylent vs. Standard No
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by zhemao 13y ago
What do you mean traditional food industry? If you buy natural ingredients and cook them yourself, who are you depending on to look out for you? I'm pretty sure the people afraid of "risking their health" are not the ones who
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by zhemao 13y ago
Blegh, maybe eventually, but I doubt it. We can already eat healthy and balanced diets today. No need to wait until they perfect some formula. I know some people might want to use this just for a quick bite (er, slurp?) when they're in
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by zhemao 13y ago
Every time I see a Soylent article on HN I hope that it's all just a sick joke that will soon be revealed as an elaborate hoax and forgotten about. Why the hell would anyone in their right mind base their entire diet off of some liquid
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by zhemao 13y ago
I don't know. Every action you take "changes the world" even in an incredibly insignificant way. That's a much lower bar than "rebuild the internet". You say that and I'm like "O rly? So does your new
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by zhemao 13y ago
Oh SAIC, I used to work there. So much for their strong sense of corporate ethics.
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by zhemao 13y ago
I think it's relatively popular in University courses on compilers and programming languages. We use it for our Programming Languages and Translators course (i.e. the course the Dragon Book was written for) here at Columbia University.
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by zhemao 13y ago
I'm assuming that's where the NSFW version of this article is. It probably has more risque photographs than one of a cat, keyboard, mouse, and right hand. Of course, the photo might have some subtle implications. For instance, whe
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by zhemao 13y ago
What do you mean you "missed" the github bus? If you still have the code saved somewhere, you can just create a new repo and put it up there.
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by zhemao 13y ago
I would argue that just posting such advice here on a public forum could potentially damage OP's case. If the Malaysian authorities are willing to charge him with "sedition" for a photo, isn't it possible that they'
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by zhemao 13y ago
Right, but that's true of all CPU instructions. If you already have an ALU capable of doing things like integer multiplication, would adding what is essentially a bunch of chained flip-flops really going to add much more complexity or
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by zhemao 13y ago
Wait, why is it resource intensive? If all you need to do is reverse a fixed-size integer, wouldn't you just wire the inputs to the outputs backwards?
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I think that's just regular Scratch, not Scratch Jr.
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by zhemao 13y ago
Wait, does Crunchbang not separate free and non-free? I've never used it, but I was under the impression that Crunchbang used mostly packages from the upstream Debian repos. You should just be able to select or deselect sources by edit
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by zhemao 13y ago
Debian and related distros, such as Ubuntu, usually separate open source and proprietary packages into different repositories. If you only want open-source licensed software, just deselect the proprietary repositories. Now, the only problem
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by zhemao 13y ago
> Not many parts of life need intelligence and those that do tend to be low-level areas where people work alone, like science and engineering I'm sorry, what? Neither science nor engineering is a solo endeavor. You still need to wor
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by zhemao 13y ago
Unless you literally had a single thread of execution running on each core, you would still have to worry about all those things you mentioned. Presumably, Cloudflare's software is too complex to make that feasible. So while it makes s
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by zhemao 13y ago
What's with all the extra periods in the title?
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If you look at the actual beat sheet. http://www.slate.com/content/slate/sidebars/2013/07/the_save... They all seem pretty general. I'm pretty sure you could stick to the structure without bein
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by zhemao 13y ago
Oh, I'm familiar with functional programming. I had played around with Scheme for a bit before moving to Clojure and used Common Lisp and OCaml afterwards. It was always just the terrible stack traces and really long startup times that
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by zhemao 13y ago
It seems like the author's main point is that Gentoo's source-based package management offers more fine-grained control than Arch's binary package management. To this I say: Arch has source-based package management too! It&#x
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by zhemao 13y ago
I looked at Clojure at one point and fell in love with the lispy but not too parenthetical syntax. I left it behind after a while because I couldn't deal with the awful exception tracebacks which were supremely unhelpful when debugging
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by zhemao 13y ago
Yeah, SWAT teams were created for a reason, to respond to crises that the regular police were not equipped or trained to handle (that's why it's Special Weapons and Tactics). The problem here is just that they're being used
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by zhemao 13y ago
Yeah, minus the enormous military expenditures and political meddling. They're going about building empire the smart way: a way in which no one even realizes they are building one and they can pull out at any time without far-reaching
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by zhemao 13y ago
Yeah I don't know about that. Chinese governments have historically never been quite keen on owning overseas empires in the same way that European powers have.
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Also, are your existing libraries open source? If not, it might be a good idea to, after finishing the REST interface, refactor your libraries to use the REST interface and then release them as open source. That way people could contribute
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by zhemao 13y ago
Hey, that's great! And good work so far, by the way. This looks pretty cool.
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Well, in most science and engineering classes the final grades are curved, so it's still possible to get an A in the class even if you do worse than 80% on the exams.
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Probably because they didn't think many people would use it and had limited man-hours to spare. But it would be nice if they released some language-agnostic API like a REST interface so that people could write bindings for their own la

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