nrlucas

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by nrlucas 1mo ago
Two things... Firstly, I agree with you on all those things. One aspect of the programmer you are missing is managing complexity in a system. This i find to always be the main goal of the programmer. As design changes, it's easy to cod
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by nrlucas 4mo ago
This is why it needs to be done top down. Pareto optimizations can only happen that way.
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by nrlucas 4mo ago
(Yo, Elon: I’m trying to increase the fertility rate. Childcare for 3 small children is six thousand dollars a month here in California. Do I have to go into the office all five days this week? Why not four?) This is just ripe for a respons
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by nrlucas 6mo ago
They got good through legislation. The left is focused not on the correct thing (albeit a thing worthy of support), and the right refuse to acknowledge the benefit of regulation / legislation and are totally disenchanted with the possi
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by nrlucas 7mo ago
> Why would the presidency matter? Trump fired a ton of competent people and hired an absolute unqualified morons for high level government positions.
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by nrlucas 10mo ago
They have mutability, but it's generally not encouraged. The default is immutability.
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by nrlucas 10mo ago
I would really like this content to be an essay, not a story. Or I should say, the narrative feels like an essay but it turns out not to be. Namely, (spoiler) he finds some schematics in the door that would have informed his analysis prior.
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by nrlucas 1y ago
I don't think "master" is as difficult as it's been described. In fact I found it much easier than expert. Finding a "key" row, filling in that, and continuing in a direct style was often the solution. I think
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by nrlucas 2y ago
I have seen so much on Twitter that demanded a community note I had to leave. It's a terrible solution.
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by nrlucas 2y ago
Is it insufferable because you disagree or because you think this shouldn't be a space he has a right to discuss? I don't know mate, if you cannot ignore it, which I find it pretty easy to personally, then maybe this isn't a
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by nrlucas 3y ago
It depends on your child. That's it. My kids are 9 and 6 and the older is impulsive/adhd, so I am very careful with her. She used to want to watch kids playing with toys / unboxing videos when they were in vogue years ago and
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by nrlucas 4y ago
And Cali. knows that how? This the filing.
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by nrlucas 4y ago
""" So now they’ve lied to me about my income and demanded information that is none of their business. """ Ahh, the Muskian, "I couldn't possibly be wrong so they are coercing and lying, and I am the
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by nrlucas 13y ago
looks like kickstarter links will redirect to /profile/ if you don't include the entire uri. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1484284472/windcatcher-i...
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by nrlucas 13y ago
The path to that end has many solutions, and the methods to obtain that value are overdetermined. Long term or short term outlooks and nuances between. Cost-benefit analysis paired with changing technology and political landscapes, along wi
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by nrlucas 13y ago
Is there a way to play with the service without signing up?
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by nrlucas 13y ago
link should be: http://beforeitsnews.com/economy/2013/05/u-s-currently-fight...
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by nrlucas 13y ago
I haven't read his new book, but "I am a strange loop" sure as hell didn't acknowledge it.
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by nrlucas 13y ago
F# obviously approves |>, but in my software project that has been continually maintained for ten years, we introduced -->. Now re-factoring our project we use |>. It kind of messes with my sight against pattern matching in OCam
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by nrlucas 13y ago
It's going to be tough to convince every app developer to have their applications work in those circumstances. I would imagine some permissions which are core to the application would be required. Of course, then we are back at the start wh
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by nrlucas 13y ago
feedburner shuts down
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by nrlucas 14y ago
Standard not to mention it? Not sure. But it's referenced in other places of the user agreement, see below. Pretty much exactly like the pay-pal opt-out. Opt-Out Procedure IF YOU ARE A NEW EBAY USER, YOU CAN CHOOSE TO REJECT THIS AGREEMENT
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by nrlucas 14y ago
I dropped PPC a few years ago and nobody has complained. Mind you this is scientific software, but it has a few thousand users around the world.
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by nrlucas 14y ago
Chromium 24.0.1312.56 on Mint w/out an issue.
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by nrlucas 14y ago
For all music. You can select lines or stanzas, so it has all levels of scope in regard to the annotations.
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by nrlucas 14y ago
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2010/10/08/1006993107.abst... But in widespread use probably quite a bit less.
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by nrlucas 14y ago
Anatomical modernity of humans is about 200,000 years, flour processing is around 30,000 years. Sorry, I fail to see that as being recent.
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by nrlucas 14y ago
"Within a week, trees were in short supply." If you're implying minecraft in general, then yes. Otherwise in this particular case, resources seemed to be all finite.
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by nrlucas 14y ago
Increases and Decreases like some T-Shirt Market.
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by nrlucas 14y ago
My understanding is the same. I, like you, haven't followed F# since it diverged so much in development, but it's understandable that those features would be in-commensurable with how it interoperates with the .NET framework.

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