anonjon

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by anonjon 16y ago
go fuck yourself guy who down-voted me, you are part of the willful ignorance. Greenspan was a goddamned Rayndian. Stephen Friedman had super strong ties to goldman sachs, In fact, almost everyone high up in the fed has ties to banking in
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by anonjon 16y ago
It is a fucking conspiracy. fed is run by the banks, banks didn't want fed to intervene bc they were making big bonuses and it was good for the people there. duh. This is an obvious case of corruption of our government. No one was regulatin
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by anonjon 16y ago
Tritium is produced by fission reactors, tritium decays into an isotope of helium. So i think this is different from oil where oil can't really be produced. I'm not saying we should crap all of our helium away, but I'm having a hard time be
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by anonjon 16y ago
I think you are absolutely right. The success of the ipod is all about very clever advertising. At the time that it came out, there were dozens of other mp3 players that were cheaper and just as good (there still are dozens of mp3 players t
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by anonjon 16y ago
So, the world is composed of hypercubes. Neat. If you want to go the other direction dimensionally and technologically, you can get 'Flatland, a romance of many dimensions' off project Gutenberg. http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/97 It is a
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by anonjon 16y ago
It was clj-oauth and clj-apache-http. I've been working on building a generalized DSL for http-requests (based on a site structure description generate the request-functions). I figured it would be interesting to test it with twitter's oaut
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by anonjon 16y ago
I am impressed that he did this in two hours, but at the same time, I am dismayed that I am impressed that he did it in two hours. Why are 'simple' programming tasks often so hard? For example: I spent hours trying to figure out what was wr
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by anonjon 16y ago
Thanks for the links, I will check them out. It would be cool if you could integrate their APIs into what you are doing. (Create Alikewise account based off of already existing Goodreads or Librarything account). I guess what I'm concerned
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by anonjon 16y ago
I'd like this better if it weren't a dating site. Like, a place where you can find people who like the same books as you, and then talk about books.
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by anonjon 16y ago
okay this does match up with practice. However, this makes it a poorly designed link sharing system. I never know where the link that i'm clicking resolves to, and it isn't really optimized for parsing the links out of the message (as a dev
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by anonjon 16y ago
Looks like the world might have not exploded, HORAY! I was almost nervous about that.
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by anonjon 16y ago
He's not kidding, C precedence rules are weird. Even D. Ritchie thinks so. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_operations#Programming... Oh, and it isn't strange to grok FP bypassing C altogether.
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by anonjon 16y ago
Static typing and testing are not replacements for structuring your code so that when you read it at each level of structure you know that it is right.
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by anonjon 16y ago
Infix languages eliminate most of these. No, they don't. They eliminate some of them, mostly ones associated with math. The rest of them they replace with different types of parenthesis. Brackets, braces, tabbing and carriage returns, se
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by anonjon 16y ago
However, I'm also less and less convinced that the one really killer feature that Lisp allows, macros, really makes up for the downsides of the s-expr syntax. Sorry, what is the downside? (foo x) vs. foo(x) doesn't make a difference to
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by anonjon 16y ago
Clearly the death of reputation will be a good thing for tech crunch.
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by anonjon 16y ago
you could, but then you would be needlessly breaking the regularity of the language. the whole point of lisp is to make stuff super ultra regular so that it is really really easy to manipulate unambiguously.
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by anonjon 16y ago
I have a Da Vinci action figure: http://www.shakespearesden.com/11520.html I'm not saying he's better than Charlie, but I find it easier anthropomorphizing a (brilliant!) action figure. (Not only is he great at debugging code, he's also
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by anonjon 16y ago
126 years and the scope of the problems solved. You give an excellent example of the scoping issue: Someone can write a computer program that will run detailed mathematical models of a bridge and cross-check against established data. I can
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by anonjon 16y ago
I think that this largely misses the point. The first thing to point out is that writing software doesn't map very well onto civil engineering. In civil, your base requirements are supposed to be very well defined. 'I need a bridge from poi
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by anonjon 16y ago
There's no reason you can't go in to work at 5am, or just work from home at 5am.
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by anonjon 16y ago
"Another telltale sign is that instead of going directly to web pages, they use the search bar." I've seen this as a 'test' for the unsophisticated user a couple of times, and I don't understand the reasoning behind it. I do almost all of
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by anonjon 16y ago
computer science was the philosophy department, the psychology department, or the math department. you never know what will be useful.
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by anonjon 17y ago
I'm not sure about that. People who get the kindle are more likely to read a lot, whereas people who get the ipad (as opposed to the kindle) are more likely to read fairly casually. (You get the ipad because you want the internet and all of
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by anonjon 17y ago
I think that the idea that Amazon is selling hardware is missing the point entirely. A lot of the time companies lose money selling hardware (ex. the price to produce a PC is more than the selling price... they make up for it by being pai
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by anonjon 17y ago
Your assumption is wrong, as clearly indicated by the data. Countries with less competition and more regulation at least appear to receive closer to optimal value from their money (in the realm of healthcare). Healthcare doesn't make sen
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by anonjon 17y ago
I personally carry a notebook around with me to write down ideas and stuff, but this has potential from the planning perspective. Is there anything keeping you from printing these out double sided to save on paper?
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by anonjon 17y ago
You are assuming that we are getting anywhere near optimal value from the 2.3 trillion that we already spend. Clearly we do not. Compared to other countries there has got to be absolutely TONS of wastage. We die sooner, we spend more of ou
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by anonjon 17y ago
I think the idea that government naturally has to overspend is wrong. It is a meme that people tend to trot out whenever there is a political discussion (along with the other side is bums and politicians are unethical crooks ). In this p

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