nanimo

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   by nanimo 8y ago

   I personally like that philosophy, but I wonder if it's in Go's best interests to ignore the desires of the people who don't like, or perhaps aren't even aware of, that reasoning.
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   by nanimo 8y ago

   It's amazing how this is a practical piece of math that can be understood with little more than a basic familiarity with polynomials. This is the kind of stuff I'd loved to have learned in middle school!
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   by nanimo 8y ago

   > I don't ban for sincerely held, well argued politics. But that's subjective, so you'll just end up reinforcing your own opinions, which is exactly what an echo chamber is, unless I'm missing something...
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   by nanimo 8y ago

   Well, it might have been Airborn.io, the Google Docs competitor that this library grew out of.
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   by nanimo 8y ago

   https://www.windowfunctions.com is a good introduction to window functions. Besides that, the comprehensive testing and evaluation of SQLite never ceases to amaze me. I'm usually hesitant to call software development "
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   by nanimo 8y ago

   I haven't heard of a "practically free" blockchain yet, though.
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   by nanimo 8y ago

   Underflow and overflow and 2's complement are all just modular arithmetic, which is definitely math.
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   by nanimo 8y ago

   It's common to think of an exception as the program stopping and never being started again. In that sense, the invariant is still maintained, because the program never sees it violated. This has non-trivial consequences - for example,