gngeal

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by gngeal 13y ago
Many, many people in jail were severely mentally ill. There was no support for them. So UK is getting as bad as the US? Or has it never been good over there? Given how mental health conditions and incarcerations (for whatever reason) go h
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by gngeal 13y ago
A reasonable summary of what they're trying to build here is "HyperCard for the internet", which is actually a pretty cool idea. That sounds very much like what the VPRI people have been doing all along.
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by gngeal 13y ago
Your data is still digital at least. What about the E. coli evolution experiment ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escherichia_coli_long-term_evol... ) that has to store its data in analog form in a freezer? You can't
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by gngeal 13y ago
an EE can't simply change the brightness of the sun to meet a requirement. We can. Wow, you can change the brightness of the sun to meet a requirement? BTW, there are quite a few limitations placed on you by nature: uncomputable numb
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by gngeal 13y ago
It's also freely available on https://archive.org/search.php?query=Five%20Hundred%20and%20... ;-)
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by gngeal 13y ago
What has the Berne Convention have to do with it? I've compared the Elsevier contract draft with my local legislation, and the wording of the contract is simply unenforceable.
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by gngeal 13y ago
That's ridiculous. It's not even funny. It's also null and void in my country (.cz), and probably in many other European countries.
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by gngeal 13y ago
The flag is bleached and the other things are dusty, courtesy of your friendly neighborhood solar radiation.
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by gngeal 13y ago
I semi-understand that (intellectually), I just don't have the brain circuits for internalizing any of that. This is illogical and I simply have problems with illogical things. ( That is probably probably why the medical committee dee
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by gngeal 13y ago
A lot of people wouldn't ask them back to their place right away. But that doesn't necessarily mean being upfront and to the point wouldn't work, it certainly does, all the time. Someone like yourself considers it a positive
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by gngeal 13y ago
I have a paper from my shrink that says that essentially, I have had a blind spot for these things since my childhood. Only in recent years have I started to understand what it means. My "if you have something to tell me, why do you da
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by gngeal 13y ago
Java has always been a good language if you ignored the ecosystem. You mean "no unsigned types (even though the language is essentially machine-level when it comes to integers), no compact memory layouts for aggregate data, no useful
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by gngeal 13y ago
I think its more of the realization that types are actually freaking useful for determining "provability" of a system. C++ perhaps takes it too far with Const, but it allows the compiler to prove that certain functions will not a
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by gngeal 13y ago
You can't put me in an uncomfortable situation. Reading these things only confirms to me that I will never be able to understand all the other people.
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by gngeal 13y ago
Except that of all the things you've named, dynamically typed languages are hardly "a fad". It's surprising (?), though, that the lousy ones are the most popular ones.
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by gngeal 13y ago
And C# "fixes" the deficiencies by heaping features upon features. Already it looks like the MS version of Perl.
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by gngeal 13y ago
I'd go for Light Ordnance Rapid Deflection High Energy Laser Mobile Demonstrator. Much scarier that way.
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by gngeal 13y ago
Well, someone edit the title, then!
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by gngeal 13y ago
The domains table currently has 84 fields. Are you sure you've read up on your C. J. Date? I've had that once before: someone complaining that "queries take too much time" with a paltry single-digit-GB database. When I
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by gngeal 13y ago
Downing mortars? How can you "down" something firmly standing on the ground?
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by gngeal 13y ago
"Super simple interface, and it's even written in Erlang." Meaning that you probably still can't read email in it, but it can already do conference calls. ;)
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by gngeal 13y ago
most people intuitively perceive the fact that "the majority of drivers consider themselves above average" as human stupidity I intuitively perceive it as good drivers being clustered together near the top, with a few outstandin
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by gngeal 13y ago
Europeans were almost wiped out by the plague Uh, nope. What does "almost wiped out" mean to you? 30% of population dead is "almost wiped out"? It's horrible, of course, but there were still 70% who stayed alive.
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by gngeal 13y ago
But the web site still works in other browsers, doesn't it?
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by gngeal 13y ago
You can have all these things. A combination of Plan 9 and VPRI's DynaBook jr. is probably what you desire. :-)
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by gngeal 13y ago
1. It reminds me to be civil and think before I post. That sounds very much like "I don't kill people because I'd get caught". Why can't you be civil (whatever that means) and think just because?
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by gngeal 13y ago
So essentially, it's totally meaningless marketing bullshit? As much as I favor memory optimizations, I think that merely trying to linearize the access patterns is completely futile in the case of graph databases. On that level of bru
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by gngeal 13y ago
Essentially, you're trying to do what the medical research isn't doing: to invalidate the existing papers. :-)
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by gngeal 13y ago
Could anyone explain to me what it means "native" versus "non-native" graph processing in that slide show? Ditto for "native" versus "non-native" graph storage. I simply have no idea what I'm sup
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by gngeal 13y ago
Jormundir is very much wrong on that. OOP was never supposed to "involve lots of mutation". Go ask Alan Kay. ;-)

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