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by aperiodic 7y ago
I've never seen it before, but it appears to be inflation notation. It's a subscript on prices, so the year is the original year of the price, and the cost above it is the inflation-adjusted equivalent in present-day dollars.
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by aperiodic 7y ago
I've actually been thinking of moving to Atlanta recently. I live in Portland OR right now, so the sprawl of Atlanta scares me, but I've heard there are good walkable pockets of it. I walk my dog 2 hours a day; are there places wh
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by aperiodic 7y ago
Send me an email at dlp@aperiodic.org
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by aperiodic 7y ago
Yes. I was at Puppet (nee Puppet Labs) for four years, one of the larger Clojure shops to my knowledge (not that I've been keeping close tabs on who's picked it up recently). I switched jobs and language choice was not my #1 crite
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by aperiodic 7y ago
In my experience -- I was a professional Clojure developer for 6 years (until 2018), and hung out in the #clojure IRC channel on freenode a lot between 2011 and 2014 -- the Clojure community tends to be very experienced. Clojure is not many
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by aperiodic 8y ago
I played the heck out of Magic in middle school and ended up with a perfect SAT Verbal.
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by aperiodic 8y ago
This is just one of the reasons why Limited (building a 40 card deck from only packs that you and your group open) is clearly the best way to play Magic. Another: even though it seems more variance-prone, it's arguable the most skill-t
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by aperiodic 8y ago
Somewhat related, Leslie Valiant believes that if evolution performs a random search in genome space, it is computationally impossible for it to have led to the complexity that it's produced in only a few billion years. He's writt
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by aperiodic 8y ago
Curiously, the language's features for doing runtime checks as a user--core.spec and pre & post conditions--are both very easy to completely disable for production. I don't know why they're not used in core: probably a co
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by aperiodic 8y ago
In this respect, they share the characteristic of being easy to wholly disable (i.e. prevent them from being compiled at all). With pre & post conditions if the var `clojure.core/ assert ` is bound to false, then they're elide
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by aperiodic 9y ago
Well, you can easily do this with a native app that relies on content from your servers (e.g. dropbox).
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by aperiodic 9y ago
How do web-apps help lock-in? Because you can force users to update?
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by aperiodic 9y ago
It's a great example of worse is better in action: a technically inferior platform winning out because it's better at one or two things that enable virality, which is the only thing that matters when all the money is looking for h
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by aperiodic 9y ago
I've had good results with a normal crock pot on the high setting overnight.
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by aperiodic 11y ago
It is exactly that: Pluto is a very tiny astronomical object. Galaxies, nebulae, and such are much further away than Pluto, but that is more than made up for by how mind-boggingly large they are. For example, The Andromeda Galaxy is about s
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by aperiodic 12y ago
More constant tweaking: x * y * (sin((x+time)/5) * cos((y+time)/5)) * 15 + 3000 http://maxbittker.github.io/Mojulo/#IHggKiB5ICogKHNpbigoeCt0...
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by aperiodic 14y ago
You can build hexagons really easily out of equilateral triangles, which seems even purere than squares to me.
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The Mars Ogler - Curiosity Raw Images Feed(mars-ogler.com)
4 points by aperiodic 14y ago|0 comments
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by aperiodic 14y ago
The logistics of supplies and rescue are a lot easier, sure, but the two environments have more in common with each other than the rest of the surface of this planet. You already need to live in artificial structures that can take a poundin
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An Analysis of the ESA's "Strong Evidence" for Martian Ocean(planetary.org)
1 points by aperiodic 15y ago|0 comments
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Evidence of Sub-Surface Water Ice on Mars(universetoday.com)
3 points by aperiodic 15y ago|0 comments
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by aperiodic 15y ago
GPS gives you speed relative to the ground, not speed relative to the air, which is what's important for aerodynamics.
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by aperiodic 15y ago
Contrary to popular belief, the reason that spacecraft heat up upon re-entry is gas compression, not friction (remember the ideal gas law, PV = nRT). The gas would still be compressed by the electrostatic barrier, so the heating would still
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by aperiodic 15y ago
Only if there's an exploitable bug in the Siri client.
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by aperiodic 15y ago
The mother of one of my friends works with the Zooniverse[1] project, a citizen science effort. She was saying that one of their biggest problems is how to distribute their data to the public. I naïvely suggested BitTorrent, figuring the se
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by aperiodic 15y ago
The real difficult part of explaining this concept to the layperson is getting them to understand what asymptotic complexity is. The example I always use when I explain this to people with little or no math or computer science background is
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by aperiodic 15y ago
Yikes, sorry about that. These are the things I use daily that I find the most useful: Lots of nice zero-click goodies: * StackOverflow integration: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=remove+directory+symlink (can also search directly with !so) *
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by aperiodic 15y ago
These are the things I use daily that I find the most useful: Lots of nice zero-click goodies: * StackOverflow integration: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=remove+directory+symlink (can also search directly with !so) * IP Address: http://d
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by aperiodic 15y ago
Braid is in my top three alongside Ico/Shadow of the Colossus and Civilization IV.
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by aperiodic 15y ago
People might have that misconception due to hearing about the Apollo flight and guidance computers, which were pretty janky. They had a really difficult to use interface, and used core-rope memory[1] that was woven together by old ladies .

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