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Re:Rest – A Haskell REST framework on Monday June 30, 2014 @01:49PM (#7966441)
Managing side effects is one of Haskell's biggest selling points
Re:A Hacker News for grad students? on Sunday June 29, 2014 @06:53PM (#7962810)
I'd recommend LessWrong [1], It's an active community around discussing rationality, AI, self improvement, and many more intellectually stimulating topics.

[1] http://lesswrong.com/

Re:Help Shut the Government's Surveillance Backdoors on Wednesday June 18, 2014 @03:09PM (#7912031)
I think a little bit of bragging is good, it can create a bit of social pressure for others to act. More people should publicly share what they've done

So, your awesome, if I was a US citizen I would be calling right now.

Re:The Disappearing Universe on Sunday June 15, 2014 @10:31PM (#7897130)
Leonard Susskind talked about this idea and expanded on it in his talk 'Why is time a one way street'

Highly recommend the talk.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhnKBKZvb_U

I didn't make that inference, I figured Larry was avoiding the question.

NLP is hard

Re:Hello Haskell, Goodbye Lisp (2009) on Saturday May 03, 2014 @01:58AM (#7689802)
Not incredibly popular but Nikki and the Robots is a game written in haskell that has recently been greenlit on steam

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=107105...

Re:Google Revenue Jumps, But Misses Forecasts on Wednesday April 16, 2014 @08:24PM (#7601370)
Because the ads are usually relevant and useful. in your example, the second card is a nice summary of hotels with all the relevant info right there
Re:My Ideas, My Boss’s Property on Monday April 14, 2014 @09:51PM (#7589904)
What's stopping you from setting an outrageous price?
Re:Night Walk in Marseille [video] on Friday April 04, 2014 @05:32PM (#7534535)
possibly logos/advertisements.
Re:Motorola's Moto G bites into UK budget smartphone market on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @09:36AM (#7508009)
it's got motorola assist, which is pretty cool
Re:Zen photon garden on Saturday March 29, 2014 @12:45PM (#7492845)
It seems like this effect could be got much more efficiently using block lighting. you could get the gradients by storing the light's strength at each vertex. This way you would be tracing only two rays per line
Re:Mozilla and Epic Preview Unreal Engine 4 Running in Firefox on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @05:01PM (#7388371)
Mozilla is working on it :) http://mozilla.github.io/shumway/
Re:LSD, Reconsidered for Therapy on Tuesday March 04, 2014 @03:55PM (#7343052)
Did the mushrooms help?
I think the assumption is that the menu won't take up the entire bar
something being open doesn't imply it has every imaginable feature
Re:Installing VLC Media Player voids your speaker warranty on Sunday February 09, 2014 @12:48PM (#7206264)
wait, so you currently have an infected computer on your home network?
Re:Belgian professor in cryptography hacked on Saturday February 01, 2014 @02:19PM (#7162954)
Your link is broken
Re:Oracle doing a survey on sun.misc.Unsafe usage on Monday January 27, 2014 @05:09PM (#7133663)
An interesting post on c++ like memory management in java:

http://vanillajava.blogspot.ca/2014/01/sunmiscunsafe-and-off...

Re:What I Wish I Had Known Before Selling to Google on Saturday January 25, 2014 @04:46PM (#7122612)
It is when you've got the startup bug, think of what you could built in 4 years. In OP's case he built picnik
Great example, another metric I like to use is to look at the history, to see how many times the file has been patched
Re:1.85% of Steam users run Linux on Wednesday January 01, 2014 @07:46PM (#6997561)
what is your video card?
Re:Would you take smart drugs to perform better at work? on Sunday December 15, 2013 @08:19PM (#6912076)
Why not do all that and also take smart drugs?
Re:The city of Munich switches to Open Source Software on Sunday December 15, 2013 @07:58PM (#6911958)
Awesome news, I always wonder how the users react to these kind of switches. They switched everyone to open office, firefox and thunderbird while on Windows and then gradually switched to LiMux. It seems like they tried to make the DE very similar to windows NT to ease the transition[0].

[0] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LiMux.jpg

Re:Google Acquires Boston Dynamics on Saturday December 14, 2013 @11:14AM (#6906014)
I remember watching this awesome video from Bot & Dolly a few weeks ago, "Box" http://vimeo.com/75260457
Re:Notch Playing Ludum Dare [video] on Saturday December 14, 2013 @10:38AM (#6905906)
For anyone wondering, the theme for this ludum dare is "You Only Get One"
Re:World of Mathematics on Tuesday December 03, 2013 @09:39PM (#6844641)
Exactly my thought, This kind of math visualization has been on my mind ever since watching the talk "Media for Thinking the Unthinkable"[0] by Bret Victor. I would totally be into contributing to this project

[0] http://vimeo.com/67076984

Re:How to Buy Bitcoin on Thursday November 28, 2013 @08:33PM (#6817426)
This affects me too, firefox on linux
Re:CyanogenMod Installer Application Removed from Play Store on Wednesday November 27, 2013 @06:20PM (#6811916)
I'm pretty sure the restriction to objective-c was due to performance concerns.
> code interviews by phone you're joking right? would you speak the code out loud like so:

a equals list open bracket range open bracket ten close bracket close bracket new line

or is it more abstract, like:

create a list from 0 to 9 and store it in a variable called a

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