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by farginay 13y ago
Clang v. GCC all over again?
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by farginay 13y ago
I've always wondered about the aggregate effect of wind pressure across the length of the cable. It seems like it could be significant.
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by farginay 13y ago
Very good article.
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by farginay 13y ago
Be wary of an architect who hands you anything and tells you to implement it. Real architects talk to you and sit down and write code with you.
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by farginay 13y ago
I think it is fairer to say that tests can specify a system but not to the extent that you personally want to.
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by farginay 13y ago
Different thing. Spec# is about embedding specs in your code. Spek appears to be a Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) framework ala RSpec. http://rspec.info/
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by farginay 13y ago
Does anyone have a list of the 50+ options? No article seems to show them.
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by farginay 13y ago
I've long wanted a shell with logical separation of each command/output pair.
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by farginay 13y ago
Like this? :-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2k9JwGpm1w#t=50s
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by farginay 13y ago
He starts with an anecdote about cheating and then lays out HFT an implies it is cheating without saying how. If he had to defend his assertion that it is cheating he wouldn't have an article.
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by farginay 13y ago
I'd prefer to live in a society where things like this were a matter of research rather than pronouncements by bureaucrats: > "The distraction of the giant screen in the Tesla is not tolerable. I am convinced that the deflectio
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by farginay 13y ago
But is it illegal, or is this simply a civil thing?
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by farginay 13y ago
I'm still not sure what the legal rationale is for treating link publication as copyright violation. When you publish a link, you are not copying anything, the person following the link is. By analogy, a person who told people that Tar
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by farginay 13y ago
To me it's odd to see an article talk about empathy as a skill or a thing you can do. I've always thought being empathy as something you are at a feeling level. I did some looking a while ago and discovered that psychologists dist
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by farginay 13y ago
This post reinforces my sense that Scala is the new C++.
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by farginay 13y ago
You say "a hub" but I wonder whether it would be many? How close would such an effect be to hubs we see in scale free networks? In those, preferential attachment seems to induce hubs. Airline hubs are a good example - there&#x27
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by farginay 13y ago
I think that if it was your money paying for a lawyer you'd see the problem more readily. The way you described the legal process is accurate: have a trial, having findings of fact. The thing people forget is that the process of being
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by farginay 13y ago
Is there some result in the theory of random graphs that says that you can't have a graph of a certain size without developing hubs? It seems to happen in most systems.
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by farginay 13y ago
Freedom of press is guaranteed only to those who own one. -- A. J. Liebling
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by farginay 13y ago
If that's all they were concerned with they could just use GPS readings to invalidate the service agreement rather than switching the machine off. In any case, I wish that Congress would step up and put law around the issue of whether
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by farginay 13y ago
I'd hope that all costs are transparent at public universities.
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by farginay 13y ago
I believe there was a copyright safe harbor for content on the internet before DMCA. However, it may have been just through case law. BBS and USENet operators took advantage of it back in the day.
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by farginay 13y ago
We have privatized prisons with quotas for the number of prisoners. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/19/private-prison-quot... What is a cry of "entrapment" next to incentive?
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A Default Identity Value for Programming(michaelfeathers.silvrback.com)
2 points by farginay 13y ago|2 comments
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by farginay 13y ago
It's interesting to see how the array programming languages have handled this. The way it works (loosely) is that everything is an array. A scalar is kind of a degenerate array, and a vector is an array of rank 1. Matrices can be see
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by farginay 13y ago
I wish the page described what the goal actually is - and what gitless is. This is very hard to parse: "We are exploring what conceptual integrity means with the goal of building a rigorous foundation for concept design." Huh?
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by farginay 13y ago
I think that it is more than syntactic sugar, it's an affordance. Different notation schemes make it more or less likely to find and code particular solutions. As an example, the syntax of ML-derived languages makes partial application
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by farginay 13y ago
Wouldn't it be nice if it was just: toUpperCase . guard (\x -> length x /= 0) . trim I think that is how it would be if it was part of the language.
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by farginay 13y ago
I think the big thing is to make the case for one and the case for many look exactly the same in the language. Is that nicer to look at with do-notation?
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by farginay 13y ago
Erik Meijer points to this as research in this area: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.146....

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