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by bad_alloc 13y ago
I always wonder why computers should be intelligent. In essence they can add numbers pretty quickly. If you interpret the result of many such additions in a certain way you get a text, a video or an operating system. Wouldn't it make m
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by bad_alloc 13y ago
I found these videos that can be viewed in Germany: 1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GlYh58cxKY (Interview with German translation) 2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x38jkFlPeg (Interview in English) D
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by bad_alloc 13y ago
They sent Phoenix, which had a scoop and dug down a few centimeters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_probe
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by bad_alloc 13y ago
Something that annoys me about how the NSA scandal is treated even here on HN is the extreme self-centric approach. Not all 300 million US-citizens are identifiable by looking at word choice, since not all of them are native speakers. The 6
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by bad_alloc 13y ago
In total, she missed 2053 nuclear explosions all over the world: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxyRLvcjVCw
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by bad_alloc 13y ago
The RaspberryPi is supposed to be a computer you can use like a regular one. Rex seems to have a dual role: It's designed to control a robot (lots of pins and extension boards) and to act as a general purpose computer. So it sits somew
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by bad_alloc 13y ago
The rover has got two computers though and during upgrades only one is updated. If something goes wrong, the non-updated one takes over and they can restore the last working state. Phones are easy to brick since they lack a backup system.
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by bad_alloc 13y ago
See also this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fractals_by_Hausdorff_d...
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by bad_alloc 13y ago
Wait Lockheed Martin is working with them? I had the impression the project was not being taken seriously by professionals. Did that change lately?
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by bad_alloc 13y ago
I'd speculate that is because what is being fought is the tumerous growth and not the cause. Chemotherapy, radiation and surgically removing tumors is an attempt at fixing the symptom. The cause for the tumor is (probably) at molecular
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by bad_alloc 13y ago
According to our current knowledge, it is impossible. However that knowledge may be incomplete or incorrect, both of which is very likely.
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by bad_alloc 13y ago
It's called "bind". Here's how to memroize that: One Type to rule them all, One Type to find them, One Type to bring them all and in the Lambda >>= them
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by bad_alloc 13y ago
Why is there much effort? Take a pan, turn on the heat, put the pizza into the pan. If you keep the cheese from touching the pan, you could even get away with not cleaning the pan.
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by bad_alloc 13y ago
TSA is rapidly approaching the level of creepiness of Half Life's Overwatch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=y_3... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZX6oLEK5KQ
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by bad_alloc 13y ago
Then again this only enumerated existing languages. The most disruptive ones might still be in development.
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by bad_alloc 13y ago
You can download it for free[1], as it went out of print some years ago. [1] http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisptext.html
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by bad_alloc 13y ago
Who would these counterparts be?
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by bad_alloc 13y ago
Sorry for being the obnoxious fanboy of another language, but Lisp + Slime + Emacs has had this feature since forever: By including some swank-updater in your main loop you can have this functionality too. Example: http://www.you
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by bad_alloc 14y ago
Most cities that have little parking space have got very good public transport (in comparison to American standards). Getting around in Berlin without a car is much easier that with one.
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by bad_alloc 14y ago
Just to be a smartass: I guess it will last for a significant timespan, but not actually "forever" unless Hitachi also finds out how to reverse entropy or how to leave this universe. If they don't a lot of stuff might get their data, like p
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by bad_alloc 14y ago
In some cases this might backfire horribly. Imagine some guy sets his phone up to send an SMS to his spouse when he is held up at work. Imagine he also lets the phone send his location, because he travels a lot at work. Result: "X will be l
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by bad_alloc 14y ago
life←{↑1 ⍵∨.∧3 4=+/,¯1 0 1∘.⊖¯1 0 1∘.⌽⊂⍵} (APL Code for Conway's Game of Life, taken from Wikipedia) Recognized as Haskell. This X[⍋X+.≠' ';] is AVRASM or CSS. UPDATE: It gets better: INTERCAL (the despotic programming language) is recogniz
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by bad_alloc 14y ago
NASA is (more or less) using the same technique with the Mars Science Lab, currently en route to Mars. The only differences are that the rover is smaller and that they use a sky crane ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4boyXQuUIw&feature
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China publishes a human rights record of the USA(chinadaily.com.cn)
120 points by bad_alloc 14y ago|62 comments
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by bad_alloc 14y ago
Okay the reactor core MIGHT sill be contained but you still probably have a huge fire, inaccessible critical machinery and tons of damage to other essential equipment surrounding the reactor, like coolant valves. Besides, if you avoid the r
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How can you program if you're blind?(stackoverflow.com)
117 points by bad_alloc 14y ago|43 comments
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by bad_alloc 14y ago
The statistics show a typical HN-effect. Traffic is up from an average of 15 unique visitiors to 1419.
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by bad_alloc 15y ago
I would prefer the editor that runs locally because 1) I can code offline. I must admit, that i have to regularly unplug my Ethernet cable to avoid being to distracted. An online editor would encourage just tabbing into a site with distract
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by bad_alloc 15y ago
Is it likely for a CS student to find a job or an internship there or is this strictly intended for startup-founders? If the first case is true, I'm in.
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by bad_alloc 15y ago
I think we're overlooking the fact that programming is hard per se. A program runs on a computer which is nothing more than a calculator with storage and peripherals. In the end everything is just numbercrunching. The whole point of a progr

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