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by asg 3y ago
Strange that neither the journalist or the Times folks reference the BBC show "Only Connect"[1] which has had this game for years. That show, BTW, is highly recommended if you haven't seen it. Their pitch is that it is "
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by asg 3y ago
Yes, the Julia ecosystem provides cross compiled binaries for many platforms https://docs.juliahub.com/GTK4_jll/XRLGj/4.10.5+0/#Platforms
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How a computer designed this week's cover(economist.com)
4 points by asg 4y ago|1 comments
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Asterisk(cormullion.github.io)
120 points by asg 6y ago|20 comments
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The Little Book of Algorithms: Teach Python to kids (2019)(mrlaulearning.com)
2 points by asg 6y ago|0 comments
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by asg 6y ago
Direct link to Juliacon event page: https://juliacon.org
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by asg 6y ago
It can also show you assembly at the function level: julia> a=1+2im; b=2+4im; @code_native a+b .text ; ┌ @ complex.jl:271 within `+' pushq %rbp movq %rsp, %rbp ; │ @ complex.jl:271 wi
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Todays email to blue apron team(linkedin.com)
1 points by asg 7y ago|0 comments
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Stars charged in exam cheating scheme(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by asg 8y ago|0 comments
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by asg 8y ago
There a great Asimov story on these lines. Its called 'The fun they had'. Highly recommended. I read it aeons ago as a kid, and its stuck with me ever since.
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by asg 8y ago
That's not the founding team, that's the current executive team -- who are getting a "retention bonus". All the founding team seem to have left the company (but presumably still hold shares)
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Fanduel Founders and Employees get $0(legalsportsreport.com)
1 points by asg 8y ago|2 comments
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Uber strikes deal with Volvo to bring self driving cars to its network(nytimes.com)
2 points by asg 9y ago|0 comments
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IKEA Acquires TaskRabbit(ikea.com)
2 points by asg 9y ago|0 comments
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by asg 11y ago
Couldn't agree more. I was sending a couple of thousand emails a month with mandrill for free. Would have happily paid 9.95 a month. But when I got their email, and read their blogpost, it was completely unclear what I had to pay. The
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by asg 11y ago
This is really bad news for us, and the tone of the announcement grated. Two weeks notice is very bad form, I'm having to come back from vacation to fix this. When we evaluated options a year ago, kimono was the best fit. We'd hap
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by asg 11y ago
I've wanted something like this for years, I can easily see why this is awsome. I considered the Echo seriously when it came out. However, even as an Amazon Prime member, I'm hesitant to have amazon in my living room. I don't
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by asg 12y ago
We played around with what I believe was a prototype version of this at the BBC stall at last summer's Edinburgh festival. The kid loved it. This is of course nothing like the RPi. You board has a grid of LEDs that you can control by u
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by asg 12y ago
Well, that is just one way of doing it. As other commenters say below, julia decouples the concepts of namespaces, and files. Which means there are many ways of organising your code. You're right in that most projects include files int
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by asg 12y ago
Of course this article is a lot of hyperbole, and whether you agree or not depends on your worldview. But one bit I couldn't agree more. Uber and Lyft are NOT examples of the sharing economy. Just adding an element of technology to goo
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by asg 12y ago
There's a video a trailer to the event. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hgw9RVwbaw
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University of Reading staging Turing Test at the Royal Society today(getreading.co.uk)
1 points by asg 12y ago|1 comments
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Thomas Piketty's exhaustive inequality data turns out to be flawed(ft.com)
3 points by asg 12y ago|1 comments
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by asg 12y ago
That text is written from the point of view of 'neubot', so its not 'man'-ual.
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by asg 12y ago
Many of the Strongtalk team went over to write the Java VM at Sun. So Hotspot owes a great deal to Strongtalk.
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by asg 13y ago
The divisor should probably be the total installed base, i.e. all active iPhones in use, rather than one year's sales.
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by asg 13y ago
From the documents, it appears that the holder has the option to get money back, or shares in the event of a merger/acquisition. They also have priority rights over shareholders in the event of a dissolution. So no, they DO derive econ
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by asg 13y ago
The intrinsic value of paper currency, I suppose comes from the promise of the central bank to pay its value on demand. In the 'good old days' this was a promise to pay its value in gold, but now its in the settlement of your debt
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by asg 13y ago
While the focus of many of its contributors remain scientific computing, and its use in academia is growing, the language in itself is very amenable towards more mainstream programming. For example, there are packages (at varying level of m
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Why AOL CEO Tim Armstrong Fired An Employee In Front Of 1,000 Coworkers(businessinsider.com)
12 points by asg 13y ago|0 comments

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