zumatic

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by zumatic 9y ago
No, it requires precedence to distinguish between (2 f (3 g 4)) and ((2 f 3) g 4) > which is arguably how most sane engineers would write it I'm always wary of this sort of statement.
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by zumatic 9y ago
More like 3X the area and 15X the population (Tokyo metropolis vs SF city and county) or 1.5X the area and 8X the population (Tokyo metropolitan area versus SF metro) -- all figures gleaned from Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.or
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by zumatic 9y ago
I suspect yes, because Lotus Notes was briefly very fashionable for corporate communication, and apparently supported NNTP, according to this article (PC Magazine, 24 Feb 1998): https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=C5-l28dcz5
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by zumatic 9y ago
IIRC for a while the Amiga calculator would crash the OS if you did that.
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by zumatic 9y ago
This is what I came here to post, and you can see that, in the mobile chart, Chrome and Safari already seem to be levelling off. Maybe a better model would be like an ADSR (attack decay sustain release) envelope in sound synthesis where the
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by zumatic 9y ago
'Qc Na responded by hitting Anton with his stick, saying "When will you learn? Closures are a poor man's object." At that moment, Anton became enlightened.' The cruel tutelage of Qc Na.
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by zumatic 9y ago
A tip is essentially an LRU cache: https://www.ft.com/content/e6f82da0-8b4d-11e6-8cb7-e7ada1d12... (I first heard about this concept ages ago, but that's the first article on Google; sorry if paywalled).
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by zumatic 9y ago
Was anyone else reminded of John Harvey-Jones versus Morgan, where he bawled them out for pushing a car chassis up and down a hill several times as part of their production line? https://youtu.be/PtDA714SdgQ Can't help
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by zumatic 10y ago
That was my initial reaction, but if you look at section 2, both paragraphs could plausibly have been written by Stewart and/or Shapiro; all the images are authored by Stewart as the director.
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by zumatic 10y ago
I am not a doctor, but I think if you have been clinically diagnosed as depressed, you can call yourself "Capital-D depressed" -- IMHO, obviously.
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by zumatic 10y ago
Interesting -- we could do with that in London. Is it all diesel cars? The article seems to say something about Euro IV -compliant maybe being OK?
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by zumatic 10y ago
Bans have been proposed in Holland from 2025 ( http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2016/03/only-electric-... ) and Norway ( http://electrek.co/2016/06/03/norway-gasoline-p
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by zumatic 10y ago
...and what about words which contain the string "...nazi...", such as "Ashkenazim"? They don't seem to give the exact query, that I could see.
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by zumatic 10y ago
And here's one for London: https://www.thrillist.com/lifestyle/london/london-undergroun... Direct link to large-scale map: http://assets3.thrillist.com/v1/image/1560005 Note we tend
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by zumatic 11y ago
Agreed, but in your example 'xargs', 'curl' and 'print' are arguably meaningful.
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by zumatic 11y ago
arguably it's O(N^2) in spacetime , because it's O(N) steps on O(N) hardware (N parallel units). You can imagine different hardware architectures taking O(1) steps on O(N^2) parallel units or O(N^2) steps on O(1) unit(s), or anyt
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by zumatic 11y ago
linked from that page: """ The University of Manchester's Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM)[15] is generally recognized as world's first electronic computer that ran a stored program—an event that occurred on
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by zumatic 11y ago
Worth dipping into even if you're not really into synths, because some of the anecdotes (like his quest for the GS1) are pretty funny.
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by zumatic 11y ago
As well as the glitches, there's a story that the tilt was initially set to entirely cancel the lateral acceleration from the curve. The press on the demo train was well lubricated with free booze -- result: headlines about the new tra
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by zumatic 11y ago
See also (in the UK): Spitting Image, Drop the Dead Donkey (sadly both long defunct).
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by zumatic 11y ago
A 6km radius would fit quite well with schemes like Community Radio in the UK: http://consumers.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio/radio/a-guide-to-comm... ...still need a licence, of course.
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by zumatic 11y ago
It was very influential on Java (as the Java people acknowledged in their early documents) and C# (unsafe types).
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by zumatic 11y ago
[quote]And OMG the ridiculously verbose syntax.[/quote] Not as bad as Ada, VHDL, Cobol etc.!
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by zumatic 11y ago
The climate varies greatly between different places on the same latitude. She seems to live near Abakan, Russia at about 53 deg. N; according to Wikipedia, this has average daily means ranging from -18.3 C to +20.0 C. Compare with Mancheste
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by zumatic 11y ago
...and I should have said that you can replace the above by: S \ R
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by zumatic 11y ago
This is also found in the Ruby hardware description language (not the same as the scripting language). A commonly-occurring pattern is: R^~1 ; S ; R where R and S are functions, ';' is composition ('.' in Haskell) and &#
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by zumatic 11y ago
Yes! I'm glad someone else notices the similarities. Both suck-it-and-see northerners (though I think Martin comes from Grimsby, not Lancs.)