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No idea about the most important, but one US law that had massive (and apparently unintended) economic consequences is the IGRA (Indian Gaming Regulatory Act)? not a lawyer, but I …

fwiw ,except for election day, viber has been up continuously--used it every day to communicate with family

is the former pilot you are referring to, Ron Bliss? He passed away in 2006; he and i were neighbors; i knew him very well

exactly! or break a chair over someone's head so that they fall backwards through the doors and out of the saloon. Every epiosode of Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Wild Wild West, et al that i…

also an ESS user; do you still use/prefer ESS vs RStudio for package development?

graphviz: rock solid, and bindings for just about every language

wow, so much for disrupting the underwears space

really fine, fine writing. Eg: >I’m not from the South and don’t talk as if I were. Most telling, and the other guys can sense this somehow, I do not for a moment think I’m a symbo…

maybe ageism will be stimgatized as form of bigotry

i'm a regular reader of this blog; there's always something non-obvious (at least to me) plus just really fine, fine writing--eg, "Some Dart users really dig a functional style and…

i love redis and have been using in production for over five years. But i'm interested to read the story of this fork because the practicioner-focused redis book this guy wrote is …

in Roblox; i am building a simple game with my 7-year old daughter on the Roblox platform. A nice combination of gui-based building and scripting and a cool objective (a completed …

seems to be about some new dating site for Spanish geologists

nice one fire up the redis server--you'll see some ascii art there

read through the OP and scanned a few examples on the J Project Wiki i suspect that, to capture the full value of J, one needs to already know the array-oriented paradigm (or at le…

similar background (started my career in APL, only language i've ever used that had its own keyboard) also NumPy, and Nd4j via scala bindings of course NumPy and Nd4j are libaries …

the category theory term is co-product (which honors the convention of expressing a dual using "co-" and indeed co-product is the dual of product)

agree completely aside from that, python has a separate ordered dict class

the number of SWAT unit deploys probably exceeds this number by some absurd ratio

beat me to it! An awesome film

i lived for two years in Oslo, Norway, but also spent time in Bergen in Stavanger (west coast). it's a beautiful country, but for a start-up? I have my doubts. i have also lived in…

this is not what i thought it was the term "triage" means to order items (patients, originally) according to urgency this paper has nothing whatever to do with sorting a bug list a…

Minister to developer: "people are stealing toilet paper from stalls We have to stop this!" developer to Minister: "ideal use case for Machine Learning--i'm on it"

i would think Martin Fowler would know better than this. to argue that the meaningful rubric of effort ought to be a "product", he creates a straw-man called a "project" the much m…

indeed, and perhaps practical insight into how a culture different from one's own, thinks "a word [or phrase] is the skin of a living thought"--not sure who said this, i think it w…