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Research papers usually have more than a citation or two. It is the job of the person making an argument in a field with a long line of extant research to demonstrate that they understand what's been contributed before them.
I think noisy fan was meant to imply that people who are in favour of functional programming languages tend to be more vocal in their views, rather than those who are in favour of imperative programming languages.

This is probably because imperative languages are the majority, so there's no need to soapbox, rather than anything related to the communities or the merits involved.
Thanks for the honest opinion! It seems the key difference is whether you approach the book project as more of a singular project vs. an ongoing 'product'. I may want to write more about motivations and try to strike up a conversation about that difference too :)
Is that so? Some years ago I remember some rando's blog post that seemed to completely invent this narrative from thin air, and it got repeated a lot by Apple fans who have never built Windows applications and probably grossly overestimate its cost. This seems like a pretty lame excuse for one of the world's most powerful companies to not do something it would otherwise want to do.
When this article talks about "Unix systems" as something seperate from X86, what does that mean? Itanium and... SPARC? (Assuming POWER comes under "IBM"?)
They actually explicitly used to say...do your UI in VB or C# and your compute intensive work in F#. F# just wasn't their focus. They were productivity language/tooling focused.

I haven't heard anyone against type inference. Not saying that it doesn't happen. Every place has it's weird "thing"...just haven't seen it personally.

I guess I'm saying that I don't think it was some kind of conspiracy or anything. I just think that there focus was/is elsewhere.
Last.fm is still an amazing resource thanks to its listening statistics that I participate in.
I've actually written this http://www.camoy.info/modoc/
For void: https://github.com/voidlinux/void-packages/issues/4570

And alpine: http://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages?name=rust*&branch=&repo...

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/31322#issuecomment-... is the latest news on the subject. It's not impossible, but we're not sure _how_ we want to make it easy. The real issue is the bootstrapping, my understanding is that cross-compiling a musl compiler from a gnu compiler does work today, which is how those packages were made.
Thanks.

Yeah, I don't mind the lack of polish as much as you do. And I primarily work in scheme and lisp, where there's not much out there that can beat emacs (apparently, there are a few that people swear by. If you have a couple grand on hand, you can try them). The write/eval/test loop is so short and clean. And there's integrated documentation and tab completion.
Wow. That's a bold stance on HN.
Sounds like a "fail safe" operation.

Eject is a lot safer than format.
> The other possibility is that corruption would be reduced in scope as to make it difficult to detect and and root out. Do you know 10 of the 435 representatives? The average person doesn't. Have you seen a corrupt city council? Now imagine every 9400 of those people representing 30k and imagine the possibilities for corruption.

To me it seems like you have a lot higher chance of personally knowing someone who represents 30k people instead of the current figure. Finding a bad apple among a lot more apples sounds harder, but each 'apple' will have a closer relationship with the people they represent.
Is it possible that those running such establishments just live off less money?
> I haven't heard anyone against type inference.

I have seen C# style guides that forbid var.
As someone who keeps hearing about F# but has not used it, I look at C#'s evolution - generally speaking, the language just keeps getting more and more terse for the common use cases (without sacrificing readability), especially in line of business applications. Combine it with a tool like Resharper, and generally, coding in C# is quite a pleasure.

Also, it is not as if C# is stagnant - e.g. the introduction of async and await keywords.

It seems as if people promoting F# try to create use cases which are, frankly, not very often seen in the domains where C# is commonly used. Maybe I am completely mistaken, but F# seems to lack a so called "killer app" use case where people notice and say "aha! That's why you need it".
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That is why this is a setting that you can change:

In iTunes Preference, under "Advanced", simply uncheck "Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library" and you'll have the exact behavior you want.
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I would have said UK in general and London in particular, but as we don't know what will happen in the next 2 to 5 years, I would steer clear from that.

Ireland and the Netherlands sound like the next reasonable options. Easy to do stuff in English, big pools of talent to poach from, very open to foreign companies and who knows, you might land a sweet tax deal while you're at it ;-)
Webtorrent is 2 years old and seems to have several active contributors, do you really think the "0.1 prototype" argument applies here?

Not to mention we're not talking about some optional, nice-to-have feature here, we're talking about a core aspect of bittorrent which gives it robustness.

Also, you forgot to address my other argument.
Yes, it's virtuous to sacrifice each other's economic freedom (though not political freedom) to increase average happiness.
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>> "The one problem with a number of Representatives being so large is that bill introduction may become a bit unmanageable. ... We can even use 21st Century technology to make such bills easier to process."

An "issue tracker", if you will.
That's the ideal, given infinitely long and infinitely bendable strings. Reality is that a tuner works from a certain key and tunes in equal temperament the other keys. Since the piano and the tuning is a compromise and there is limited time, the piano will always sound slightly better in one key than another. As most people play in keys close to the C major scale, this usually gets most attention.

Also, pianos rely on resonation. I would not be surprised that the sound board and resonant cavity is designed to favour certain tones. I'm not certain about this though.
Nothing 'wrong', but the reason for the multiples of 8 was likely because sprites back then needed masks so that they could handle 'holes' properly. This was in the days before alpha channels, so there'd be spritemask instead - essentially a 2-colour sprite that acted like a single-bit alpha channel.

And if your sprite is a multiple of 8-pixels wide, then your spritemask takes up a whole-number of bytes, you can do funky low-level bit-twiddling to handle occlusions and it's more efficient in terms of memory space.
This is a solution to the excessive power concentrated in Washington, D. C. Dilution to more people. I think better would be not concentrating the power there in the first place.
When the cost of something goes up 20x, one rarely sees demand unchanged at the new price point. I don't believe influence to be so price inelastic.
There is no such thing as a universal intelligence test. I'm not claiming that winning at Go implies intelligence. I'm simply demonstrating that spiders aren't generally intelligent. They can't learn to do things other than what they were programmed to do. Whereas ANNs can do a wide variety of tasks, including tasks no animals are remotely capable of.
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Assuming the learning curve to use a static site generator is addressed, I would say simplicity and stability are key points the the users of these appreciate. For example, even though I'm technically savvy, I struggle with Wordpress (wordpress.com) and its unintuitive UI. Almost every other (major?) release changes the locations of items and starts having some new-age UI vs. classic UI differences. I'm guessing that many other dynamic platforms are also bloated a lot when one looks at the features that most people use. Of course, there are dynamic platforms like Ghost [1] that have made it simpler, but Wordpress is still very common (so are other heavy platforms like Drupal and Joomla).

For those who do use these, my best guesses on the benefits are, in no particular order:

1. The speed of transmitting and rendering the pages.

2. Flexibility to host the site anywhere where there's just a web server, even a low powered, low resource one (no need to look for mod_php or for a host that allows running rails or anything else).

3. Simplicity of having all content stored as plain text in files. There's no database to fiddle with or administer.

4. Flexibility to easily create their own templates (probably using a favorite templating engine).

5. Better and simpler control over security since the web server and the underlying OS are the main concerns (without adding several more layers on the server - this may be an oversimplification, but there are fewer things to worry about in general).

6. Better stability (fewer moving parts).

7. Version control of content, if one uses git or something similar.

[1]: https://ghost.org/
The guy that writes Mechanical Sympathy, Martin Thompson, has said that people who think pure functional programming are the future are missing the point that hardware favors the imperative model. He's worth a listen to. Many talks on YouTube.
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The private debt in Germany for example today is lower then 1995. [1]
The accumulation of debt stopped already in 2000.

[1] http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-datasets/-/tipspd2...
The Microsoft AutoUpdate client on OSX is a beautiful mess for this.

doing anything else

> Microsoft AutoUpdate starts bouncing in the dock

> Modal "There are no updates for your Microsoft software at this time." dialog appears.

Seeing as half of the updates it receives are FOR THE UPDATE CLIENT, it's incredible this behaviour hasn't been fixed in the last eight years.
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I finished it a couple of weeks ago, and it's really worthwhile.

It did seem a bit gimmicky and superficial at first, but once the course progresses, you realize that the material itself heavily applies the techniques that they describe in the course (e.g. spaced repetition, visual associations).
Is he just saying that you can put down a government by faking a lot of news?
Is there any project where there are 4000 "real" decisionmakers?

Though I suppose elections are kind of like this.
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Many papers have been found to be non-reproducible, and from time to time I read papers where I don't see how their conclusion is logical given the data. To me that indicates that often conclusions are drawn that seem logical to the researchers, and I'm sure they make perfect sense at the time, but every once in a while they end up being wrong later.
That's Prisoner's Dilemma [1]. Similar to ban on advertising of cigarettes is said to be beneficial to Tobacco companies. I couldn't find definite quantitative research on this claim. On Wikipedia in economics section [2] this claim has [citation needed] tags assigned to it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma#In_econom...
I'm not a good musician by any means, never had music education apart from the primary school which was abysmal. I can't recognise pure tones (just the intervals). I still can play any song I hear on guitar or keyboard "good enough" so that people have fun singing to it.

The huge reveal to me was the same - notes doesn't matter - the intervals make the song recognizable. People change notes all the time when singing (jump octaves, start again lower to adjust to others, etc).

So on amateur level it's really just starting on random place on keyboard and guessing which note will sound "right" after that. Everybody hear if the next note is higher or lover, so it's just "was that +1, +2, or +3?" Usually you can guess, if not - start again. Very easy and makes playing instruments so fun.

I never understood why they bother kids with these complicated drawings and hashes and be-mols, if they could've just wrote all songs as "start at this note, and jump by +2, +3, -5, ...".
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The Apple A10 is trouncing lower-end Intel kit already. We may be looking at a future of client-side computing dominated by Apple; if they can get their shit in one sock cloud-wise they'll make dents in the server space too. Think Amazon AWS, but running Mac OS X server and fully integrated with OS X. Easy peasy deployment of your Rails app straight from your MBP dev box right to the cloud, with almost zero config management required.
Like Artificial Intelligence, Functional Programming Ascendency has been 10 years away for the last 50 years.
The more you know.

Like most sheep, they're marching to slaughter and don't care. I have friends who have plain, old dumb cells that can't even text. But they are reaching retirement age and it doesn't matter for them. Persons who take an interest in their environment and safety will find out and take measures to safeguard their privacy, but the others, like sheep, will blithely ignore everything and continue to broadcast every facet of their lives to anyone who will listen. There's no hope for them.

I can't even be bothered explaining it to them any longer.
I have been using TestFairy to try in-dev applications. It has been fine without iTunes, but I don't develop on iOS myself.
Yes, but that's not exactly a REPL, is it? It's just an incomplete tool that may someday be used to create a REPL.

Go is not set up to have a REPL; even if someone develops one someday it's always going to be limited compared to a language that was designed to do it. REPLs are actually pretty hard; even some languages designed with them from day one (or at least very early) like Haskell still come with an interesting list of caveats about the REPL.
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Release 11 of Vibur DBCP is out. Many new features and improvements since ver 9
https://magcius.github.io/xplain/article/

Something like this?
I've been running on Wayland for a year with only minor issues. Which distro are you using?
Sure I'm used to closing the page, because really screw you if you can't display half a dozen paragraphs of text without JS.
Unless someone else forks it and takes on the weight of doing most of the work (including coordination, interactions with other developers, support), nothing can change. But the beauty of this being open source is that it's possible, if someone is so inclined and can spend the time and energy on the project.
Here's a great video explaining the origins of equal temperament: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2ismsw
This should not be overlooked.

From 1960 to 2000, AI was "brute force" goal and optimization problems. Having mountains of data for anything you want turns it into a "dumb but accurate" pattern matching problem.
So in principle the library supports it, but instant.io always passes sequential, i.e. defaults to disabling rarest-first, correct?
You don't imagine that gmail users will be a prime source of CSS-decorated email within 12 months?
So why does AMD bet on Zen instead of creating their next ARM SoC? The A1100 is pretty good on paper except the CPU but they released it two years too late and the availability still isn't great.
I've worked with people that couldn't be convinced that using var in C# was not the same as the old terrible untyped Variant type from VB.
Manual unrolling fails as soon as the number of repetitions is not fixed (e.g. NLP tasks where it matches number of tokens in a sentence); so you want the looping to happen after the graph has been made, preferably on the GPU.
That is their prerogative, though, and I don't begrudge them the opportunity to try. But short of setting up in-store cell systems that cut out those of the individual carriers, I don't see how they'll manage it.

I never use in-store wifi and only turn on data if _I_ need data. I'm always amazed by people who complain about battery life, yet wander around with wifi,data, and bluetooth running 24/7. :-)
And I've seen style guides that forbid var unless the type is clear e.g.

var example = new CustomClass();

and style guides the require it unless the code will actually break.

To quote the GP:

> Not saying that it doesn't happen. Every place has its weird "thing"
Individual, but with zero media coverage of these local individual seats, theyre basically just placeholders for their party platform.

The media only covers the party's leaders. I mean, Toronto has dozens of elections for mp seats, which should the Star cover?
Some people are just bad programmers.
I used to think our 3 'powers' - legislative, judiciary, and executive -- were sufficient. But I no longer believe that the legislative is up to the task of oversight of the executive.

If the foundational debates were happening today, I would argue for a 4th branch of government: operational.

A modern system should avail itself of available technology. An 'open source' operational branch of the constitutinal state would be afforded the power of runtime oversight of the executive, and ideally be crowd sourced. The issue of 'state secrets' is somewhat legitimate, but imo a healthy system would strive to minimize such requirements, and worst case it can refer such matter to the much more compact legislative body.
H1 is mostly a good thing for America. Like anything, it has a bad side.

Also, I do generally think that Tata is choosing the 'best people they can' from India. But again, it's a question of numbers and scale.
Probably means Imperial College and Cambridge?
It's incredibly difficult for many players to sustain high levels of production over an entire season, to the point that there's even been talk reducing the number of games in the season to relieve the strain it puts on players.

It also frequently comes up as one of the main difficulties players have in adjusting to the major leagues. Additionally, it comes up a subject among managers, wiyh effective managers often being ones take care to rest their players during the season.

The length and strain of the long season are ubiquitous subjects that get talked about all the time, to the point that they are practically defining features of baseball.
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The video "Hanging with Frank" covers the details of the process the UK used to use:

https://vimeo.com/24804876
"music is waves and frequency" in the same way that "spoken language is waves and frequency"---not very usefully. I think bringing in" appreciation" muddies the waters.
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It creates, exploits and maintains vulnerabilities in public infrastructure that anyone else(state nation or similar capacity) can take advantage of.

> it generally draws the line at knocking services entirely offline

Well if you're gonna play the card "I'm reading a different Internet than you are", sure whatever.
They may have the CPU chops but no way do they have the institutional ability to sell clients and servers to business. They can't even hold onto the educational market which they're losing to Google Chromebooks.
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Power is a completely separate architecture and product line from "IBM mainframes" (i.e. System z), and "traditional" (i.e. AIX) IBM Power Systems products are generally considered "Unix systems".

(Disclaimer: I work for IBM Power Systems, opinions my own)
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uBlock Origin still catches all perfectly IME.
This is how I've had my ReSharper code formatting rules set up for years. I only use var when the type name explicitly appears on the RHS of the equal sign (e.g., in an explicit cast, a generic type parameter, a constructor, etc.)

var is an excellent way to reduce redundancy in an assignment expression; it helps avoid stuff like:

Dictionary<int, List<CustomClass>> dictionary = new Dictionary<int, List<CustomClass>>();
While death penalty supporters suggest that capital punishment has the power of deterrence, a 2012 report by the National Research Council found that research “is not informative about whether capital punishment decreases, increases or has no effect on homicide rates.”
I didn't downvote you, but thought it'd be better to make it clear what the person was referring to. The scenario mentioned was chatting with customer service on a website (like chatting with Apple customer care on Apple's website, foe example), where any message you type or edit would be seen by the customer service agent while you type, even if you didn't hit Enter or click on Send. This is not related in any way to the autocomplete feature on Apple's iOS keyboard or about what third party keyboards on iOS can do.
The impression is that their preference runs on the ideological/pragmatic divide rather than the emotional/rational. (Not that I wouldn't want to be an FP samurai myself, along with exercising more regularly, flossing, and achieving inner peace )
This is one of those simple things I was happiest about when I finally moved from iOS to Android. Look, it's an operating system which actually allows you to move any files you want back and forth like with any other external storage! What an amazing innovation! How did they do it?! It was like having handcuffs removed.

There are many other reasons, but this is probably my biggest issue with iOS (well, this and all the hours of my life iTunes wasted while I wrestled with it to attempt something simple, such as its constant, needlessly slow & complex updates). It's intentionally broken to inconvenience us in the hopes of making more money unethically. I shudder in revulsion.
And that shows how WTF the musical notation is.
According to the article, x86 constitutes 99.3% of the market. I think AMD would rather have a small piece of the 99.3% rather than a large piece of the 0.7%, even if that 0.7% grows dramatically.
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As a whole, we vote for a party. The person on the ballet is that of your riding. They are a Member of Parliament (MP) for your area, and they are affiliated with one of the many parties.

The party the receives the most elected MP's across Canada wins, and their leader becomes the Prime Minister. The party votes for their leader, so Canadiens have little say there.

Sadly, most people vote based on who they want as prime minister, and they put little thought who is running their riding.
People have definitely done work on using SIMD for HTML parsing, FWIW. There's plenty of places where you can easily do it, especially in what tends to be the most expensive tokeniser states.
How can a society which calls itself "civilized" keep the death penalty?

There's so much deeply disturbingly wrong with it that I don't even.
var is not the same as Variant. var is merely a placeholder for the real type, which the compiler infers from the RHS expression type. Variant is closer to object than var.

EDIT: It turns out the parent and I agree 100%. Darn double negatives! :)
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> but I'm struggling to understand "ImpBridge"

["impbridge" -"imp bridge"] returns these articles (with the Guardian article in first place).

https://www.theguardian.com/education/shortcuts/2014/sep/16/...

http://www.varsity.co.uk/news/7436

http://thetab.com/uk/cambridge/2014/09/24/why-impbridge-will...