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groveronline.com 10y ago

Why Rust for Low-Level Linux Programming?

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techcrunch.com 10y ago

Half of U.S. Freelancers Wouldn’t Take a Job No Matter What

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mechanical-elephant.com 11y ago

Becoming Productive in Haskell

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morepypy.blogspot.in 14y ago

PyPy - Call for donations for Software Transactional Memory

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alexbellos.com 14y ago

Alan Turing’s school reports

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lambda-the-ultimate.org 14y ago

A Crazy Programming Language Idea: Prescriptive Trait Inference

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lostinjit.blogspot.com 14y ago

Maciej Fijalkowski's view on PyPy's future

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blog.doughellmann.com 14y ago

New Year's Python Meme

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en.wikipedia.org 14y ago

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

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www.freakonomics.com 14y ago

How Much Do Mood Swings Drive Business Cycles?

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bits.blogs.nytimes.com 14y ago

Spot Pornography on Facebook for a Quarter-Cent an Image

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www.project-syndicate.org 15y ago

The Dangerous Myth of the Hero Entrepreneur

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web.mit.edu 16y ago

Artificial Photosynthesis - Viruses harnessed to split water

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www.project-syndicate.org 16y ago

Esther Dyson: To Russia with Social Media

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spectrum.ieee.org 16y ago

Cursed Efforts to Diagnose and Correct IPCC's Accursed Himalayan Errors

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nathanwiegand.com 16y ago

The problem is timid edits

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cprg-research.blogspot.com 16y ago

A Haskell DSL for Parsing Binary Files

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www.thepaypalblog.com 16y ago

India Suspended From PayPal For "At Least a Few Months"

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spectrum.ieee.org 16y ago

Conficker is Alive: Isolated Greater Manchester Police System For 5 Days

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spectrum.ieee.org 16y ago

DIY Eye in the Sky

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spectrum.ieee.org 16y ago

Dream Jobs 2010

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hplusmagazine.com 16y ago

AI scientist Jürgen Schmidhuber & 'Artificial Curiosity'

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flowingdata.com 16y ago

Engineer’s Guide to Drinks

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projects.tmorris.net 16y ago

What Does Monad Mean?

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blogs.discovermagazine.com 16y ago

24 Questions for Elementary Physics

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arstechnica.com 16y ago

An x86(Moorsetown) based LG smartphone running Moblin Linux

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spectrum.ieee.org 16y ago

Creative Winners of Embedded Systems Challenge

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www.slate.com 16y ago

An interactive map of vanishing employment across US

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myreckonings.com 16y ago

A 2010 "Graphical Computing" Calendar

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www.project-syndicate.org 16y ago

Listen to me - your users

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Vim After 11 Years 13 years ago

I have a repo with 3000+ files and I can't notice any delay searching with CtrlP. I have the following custom file listing command in my vimrc:

    let g:ctrlp_user_command = {
      \ 'types': {
        \ 1: ['.git/', 'cd %s && git ls-files'],
        \ 2: ['.hg/', 'hg --cwd %s locate -I .'],
        \ },
      \ 'fallback': 'find %s -type f'
      \ }

> I don't think "cowardly" is the right way to put it.

Oh, is "apathetic" a more comfortable label ?

> The level of harassment you put up with is obscene, and that you continue to stick to your guns in the face of it is admirable. That said, it's not something that most people want in their lives.

That guy is getting harassed a lot because he is alone. I don't think the overloads up there have the courage to harass tens of thousands - do they ? Wide ranging support means less heroism will be required to get what people want. He is not fighting a personal battle, right ? It is better to fight smaller battles now and avoid the possibility of all out wars that we are seeing in Africa and the Middle-East.

> Dealing with the level of harassment you face imperils all of those goals. Unless someone is dedicated to a cause and willing to sacrifice a lot to serve it, it's unreasonable to ask them to invite that kind of drama into their lives.

So, that person won't even "want to meet or correspond with" them. Do they realize the stark contrast between Jake's priorities and theirs.

Sudoku Solving 15 years ago

You are right that "the purpose of many the constraint techniques seem to be aimed at creating puzzles that are amenable to humans, not solving them"

I shared the link because I found his sudoku generator and the constraint methods interesting.

> That would be backtracking.

Let me quote the first para in full:

  The solver uses depth first and/or breadth first tree search
  with constraint propagation to prune the search for the next
  best move (forms of forward checking.) There are space/time
  tradeoffs between depth/breadth first search and the constraints
  used; sudoku(1) has options to control the combinations.
  The common characteristic for all constraints, here and elsewhere,
  is that they avoid trial and error. Its fine for a computer
  to guess and backtrack but a definite breach of puzzle manners
  to require a human to do so.
I could be wrong but, yes, it does use backtracking to find the constraint that can give a number for an empty cell but it never has to change a number it has put in a cell. That differs from the trial and error approach that moves forward by guessing values and checking if it leads to a valid solution.

Dating is generally considered a 'dirty thing' outside metros. Urban India is mostly monolithic. The real differences are only seen in semi-urban and rural regions. And yes the sub-cultures are quite varied but that doesn't mean there is no pan-Indian identity to which you can market. Understanding the differences and similarities is the key if you want to reach the majority of the billion plus population.

[From: http://www.laweekly.com/2010-12-09/news/jeremy-marks-attempt...]

The first thing to understand is that Jeremy Marks touched no one during his "attempted lynching" of LAUSD campus police officer Erin Robles.

The second is that Marks' weapon was the camera in his cell phone.

The third is that Officer Robles' own actions helped turn an exceedingly minor wrongdoing — a student smoking at a bus stop — into a state prison case.

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Edit to add: Jeremy wasn't smoking, just recording the cop (which is legal in his state)(wo)man-handling the smoker.

That is not the point the Google spokesperson was trying to make.

The full quote: "It says a lot about Microsoft's approach to customer lock-in that the company touts its proprietary document formats, which only Microsoft software can render with true fidelity, as the reason to avoid using other products".

So they were complaining about MS making it hard to decode the Word format and making it tough to preserve format when importing.

> There are an infinite number of minor things that would be pretty good to do that would "just take a minute."

The search link is at least as relevant as the bookmarklet link and certainly more relevant than the webmynd and mixpanel links with images.

> Basically, points exacerbate the "someone is wrong on the Internet" trap.

While i am not sure about that, I suggest that voting for comments should be delayed like the temporarily hidden reply link, that may reduce some reflexive voting.

If you are fighting insurgents inside cities where enemy is in close proximity of children and women you can not damn reality and shoot to death whoever you suspect to be an enemy. That will always get you more enemies and endless war regardless of the noble cause that you may be pursuing.

What the soldiers are doing is mostly shielding their butts while they maintain their presence. They are not helping the invaded civilians if they are also killing scores of them every now and then while being unable to stop the insurgents who are doing the same thing.

The first lead probably came from the hotel cams.

  When al-Mabhouh arrives at his hotel around 3 p.m. on the 
  19th, the footage captures two of the suspects, dressed in 
  tennis gear, getting into the same elevator with him to 
  follow him to his hotel room. The two suspects later 
  checked into the room across the hall from him

You are not contradicting what fgimenez said, its the same condition stated differently.

edit: if two statements are not essentially same (and I am wrong), could you please explain it.

  Simply imagine what happened if unionization occurred
  throughout China and the ramifications for the
  countries trade.
Unionization should occur. The Chinese government is using harsh methods to stop that. But the later it happens the worse the results will be for us.
  China is going to require baby steps to bring it 
  into a democratic and free world
We don't need to be delicately careful as if China's a baby. The local human rights activists and upstanding corps like Google are very effective and non-aggressive ways of prodding it into a democratic and free world.

No, The 2nd para of TFA: We're talking about compression here, the dynamic compression that's used a lot in popular music. There's actually another kind of compression going on today one that allows us to carry hundreds of songs in our iPods...