dbpatterson

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by dbpatterson 4y ago
The "blues" created the legislation & forced the workers to accept a shitty contract with no sick days. They could easily have refused to vote for it and let the strike happen w/o real sick days.
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by dbpatterson 4y ago
Umm, if everything was built around the idea that tweets were immutable, yeah I could imagine it's quite a bit of work to change things. Immutable and mutable data can be treated _very_ differently in systems bigger than the little toy
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by dbpatterson 5y ago
I think this still, somewhat, misses the point. Sure, Racket has facilities to make implementing languages easier (that's the whole point), but that simply makes it _easier_ to implement BSL, etc. I could certainly, with more effort, i
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by dbpatterson 5y ago
So... unless Grinnell does things very differently, the author did not learn Racket, they learned (Beginning/Intermediate/Advanced) Student Language, and that's the point. Racket is a complicated language, designed primarily
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by dbpatterson 5y ago
At least for me, the main reason for the remarkable to exist is reading scientific papers -- not having to print them out (and keep track of them) is a great benefit, but sometimes color is an important part of them. As a device for _writin
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by dbpatterson 5y ago
Ad-free doesn't necessarily mean they aren't tracking you, right? Viewership info is _still_ valuable, even if it's not being used right on the device.
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by dbpatterson 5y ago
Extending your point, 4% more would go down to just under 3:42.... which has not yet happened, over a half century later.
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by dbpatterson 7y ago
There are (at least) several goals: 1. persistence, which obviously is hurt by them running out of money. Dropbox links apparently die eventually, static websites bitrot, etc. Things put on arxiv can be trusted enough to put links to them i
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by dbpatterson 7y ago
Have you actually done any proofs in one of these systems? (or used one?) Natural numbers are used because of the induction principle you get: it's very useful, and generally straightforward to use in lots of contexts (e.g., just the o
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by dbpatterson 7y ago
The fact that this was on your list of "improvements" rather than being a minimal requirement before being willing to launch, sell, etc, is pretty damning on it's own. No need to get misty-eyed.
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by dbpatterson 7y ago
That the task description is only posted at the start of the competition?
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by dbpatterson 7y ago
Link to the "full privacy policy" 404s, which is not a good thing, given you are asking people to enter their full names, addresses, CC numbers.
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by dbpatterson 7y ago
Not sure about actually having protected collective bargaining rights (i.e., in the US subject to the NLRA), but pooling resources to have staff attorneys, etc -- certainly possible. e.g., the IWW tries to do this, organizing "unorgani
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by dbpatterson 8y ago
you ignored "and mark every sensitive field with a special value", which is the key part. As long as all sensitive data has been essentially zero'd out (for some value of zero), all is fine.
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by dbpatterson 8y ago
I believe in the past you had to open some kind of support request, as there wasn't an "automated" way to do it (and there was maybe still some kind of waiting period after having deactivated the account). It's certainly
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by dbpatterson 9y ago
Pattern matching on GADTs will get you there, I believe.
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(Cheap) home backups(dbp.io)
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by dbpatterson 9y ago
It's amazing that someone can go through this and come to the conclusion, at the end, that the solution is that this is a business opportunity that would make a lot of money if someone could just make it more efficient. Trying to make
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by dbpatterson 9y ago
Or, to summarize, we need to take some of the money from the people who are currently extracting it from everyone else... Money, and wealth, is not owned, it is collectively created. Without collective enforcement of monetary value, currenc
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by dbpatterson 9y ago
In the simplest case, a macro system gives rise to two-phase evaluation - first, there is code that runs at macro expansion time, that produces, as its result, new syntax, and second, that resulting code runs. But having just two phases is
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by dbpatterson 10y ago
The PDF is interesting, but reports no actual data from GA... Seems like that would be relevant, if they are trying to push for more transparency!
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by dbpatterson 11y ago
> The article doesn't mention Vasigel Did you read the article? About half of it is specifically dedicated to Vasalgel.
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by dbpatterson 11y ago
You could give them 15 days free use, and only charge it after that... there is a risk that the charge doesn't go through (in which case you've given a couple weeks free service - big deal), but otherwise, you've just made it
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by dbpatterson 11y ago
To give him credit, the thing that is appealing about it is that there is very little to it that's not javascript. So you can very easily expect to figure out everything you need to know about it in a day or two, vs however long it tak
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by dbpatterson 11y ago
So where did their wealth come from? Most likely, they made it through 'business' - which usually means, through benefiting from the work of other, significantly less paid workers. The fact that our economic and political system p
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by dbpatterson 11y ago
You might get better optimizations if you make it tail recursive (LLVM probably gets some of these). ie: fn sum_tail(v : i64, l: &[i64]) -> i64 { match l { [] => v, [x, xs..] => sum(v + x,
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by dbpatterson 12y ago
I think the author doesn't give enough credit to things that OCaml has that Haskell doesn't have: a powerful module system (ie, functors), polymorphic variants/subtyping, etc.
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by dbpatterson 12y ago
Camlistore seems relevant - it's whole intention is to last (at least) 100 years, primarily by making the data format simple and making data migration (ie, moving between providers, between hard disks, etc) a common thing. https:&#x2F
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by dbpatterson 12y ago
I actually find that _worse_ than what the parent described. If I hit Win+1, I want to see the browser provided that it's open. I don't want the state of the system prior to hitting that to have any effect on it. If I accidentally
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by dbpatterson 12y ago
This is also true in Ubuntu's Unity, but after trying to use it, a minor issue drove my crazy: if you switch to one that isn't open it will open the application. So if I accidentally Super-4'd (which I didn't think I did

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