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Economist: Crime in Florida(economist.com)
2 points by sb 13y ago|0 comments
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by sb 13y ago
Seconded! Especially with magit (and I suppose with vc in general) key chords are really nice.
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by sb 13y ago
I started using emacs about seven years ago after about eight years of exclusively using vim, primarily because I wanted to see what the editor war's were all about (and because I got the blues from work and needed something uplifting.
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Good Emacs Introduction(m00natic.github.io)
1 points by sb 13y ago|2 comments
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by sb 13y ago
In general many commenters have a misconception that the mentioned French "baccalaureate" is related to the US/UK undergraduate bachelor's degree. As the article points out, and the corresponding wikipedia page hints at, this somewhat roug
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by sb 13y ago
Managing free memory is indeed an interesting problem. Besides the simple free-list approach sketched by the author (sidestepping the first-fit vs. best-fit search strategy, which affects fragmentation, too), I always found the buddy-list t
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You can be busy or remarkable, but not both...(calnewport.com)
2 points by sb 13y ago|1 comments
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The Fog of Cyber Defence [book](f-secure.com)
1 points by sb 13y ago|0 comments
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by sb 13y ago
A couple of years ago, I read his paper "Definitional Interpreters for Higher Order Languages" [1], because it was suggested to me by a friend. It was a joyful read, and to the best of my knowledge it is the first treatment of how to implem
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by sb 13y ago
ABC, always be coding.
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Prospect's World Thinkers 2013(edge.org)
1 points by sb 13y ago|0 comments
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CACM: GPU Ray Tracing(cacm.acm.org)
2 points by sb 13y ago|0 comments
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CACM: The Science in Computer Science(cacm.acm.org)
3 points by sb 13y ago|0 comments
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by sb 13y ago
I tried Oberon once and have to say that it was way ahead of its time. Not only did the author (of the linked paper) invent one of the first JIT compiled systems, but also the ability to execute code with a mouse click (similar to Rob Pike'
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From Brazil to Wikipedia: The Surprising Journey of Lua from Rio(foreignaffairs.com)
8 points by sb 13y ago|0 comments
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by sb 13y ago
ad 1: Please also do keep in mind that there are career steps after obtaining tenure. If you say "Fuck it" right after getting tenure, you are almost certain to never make it thus far. I also do agree with the other comment regarding fund
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Computer Science 'Ninja Arts'(blog.prof.so)
29 points by sb 14y ago|10 comments
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On the cult of youth in academia(blog.prof.so)
4 points by sb 14y ago|0 comments
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by sb 14y ago
I know these from the site, and have looked at the Django benchmark that's listed there. I think it's a rather small benchmark that does exercise lots of Django internals (but that benchmark comes from Unladden Swallow). I don't know for th
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by sb 14y ago
ad 1 ) Hm, this seems to be a good point, but what's with the following line of thinking: some thread A interprets a program P, while another thread B compiles P to native machine code (P'). Now, if another thread C would start executing P
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by sb 14y ago
Interesting point of view, the problem in compiler construction is well known ("Proebsting's law", though it says it's more like 18 years instead of 10.) The issue with benchmarks is surely well known, also by the PyPy authors; I wonder wha
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Chart of exposed industries to Mandiant's Comment Crew(economist.com)
2 points by sb 14y ago|0 comments
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Why Health Officials Want You To Eat More Potassium(npr.org)
1 points by sb 14y ago|0 comments
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Dershowitz on using science to prove reasonable doubt(economist.com)
1 points by sb 14y ago|0 comments
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European Union funds Project to simulate human brain(humanbrainproject.eu)
2 points by sb 14y ago|0 comments
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Making primes more random(rjlipton.wordpress.com)
1 points by sb 14y ago|0 comments
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Nine facts about top journals in economics(voxeu.org)
2 points by sb 14y ago|0 comments
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Graph of the day: This is why you're fat, America(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by sb 14y ago|0 comments
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by sb 14y ago
http://servv89pn0aj.sn.sourcedns.com/~gbpprorg/2600/2600_28-...
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How the world manages to waste half its food(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by sb 14y ago|0 comments

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