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For those who haven't heard of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_binning

Mandarin as in Mandarinate, not as in the language.

No, it isn't. There's a difference between McCarthy's "Maxwell's equations of software" and the full-blown Common Lisp standard, which was designed by and aimed at industry.

>The problem was that the Chavista regime bungled the state-owned oil company so badly that it didn't have enough money even when crude prices were high, and really doesn't now tha…

>You see a lot of mixed-income neighborhoods in Houston - places where people are building $700,000 homes where 80% of the same street are 1000 square foot shacks with people livin…

Replacing malloc/calloc/free etc an application-specific xmalloc/xcalloc/xfree is seemingly a fairly common pattern. There's one example in libiberty[0] (-liberty, get it?) where, …

The included header file uses the macro system, among other things, to bring C99 up-to-date with more modern programming techniques, using what we've learnt in the past decades sin…

Actually, cubicles are a good thing.

The frequency illusion is indeed real but there has been a definite uptick in posts about Gopher here.

Yes, that's the point. But it's very hard to point to the effective engineering limit. For example: the ultimate limit to computing power is Bremermann's limit, but that's only rea…

Probably not.

The only context where Argentina can be in the same sentence as Australia is in a list of countries in the Southern Hemisphere, or countries whose names start with an 'A'.

A better way to read this map: countries in the deep red are places where people have tamed this inhuman, unforgiving Earth, and people can lead happy and self-defined lives. Count…

>Singapore: 16000% So the takeaway from this is you should aim for high biocapacity deficit, right? I mean, I live in a deep green country, and it's a filthy dump.

>they only shifted the problem once again Shifting the problem is a sometimes a good thing. In this case, because it means the energy can now come from effective sources (nuclear) …

>Agricultural output is still growing, but there are physical limits. And people frequently confuse engineering limits with physical limits.

>What they saw was that, not only did the star's light output occasionally dip by 20 percent - the weird behaviour scientists first spotted last year - but over the course of the o…

In that case, though, the immutability is a property of the operations rather than the data. And you can have mutating versions of most of those operations that alter the data they…

Equality, like copying, is often more complicated than that. You often run into a problem where you need a domain-specific equality function for your objects. Which is not to say t…

Algebraic data types and pattern matching are equivalent to having a class hierarchy and implementing the same method for each class. The idea that Haskell or OCaml or SML are spec…

>It lets you search by type signature. If you know the inputs and output then you know the type signature. So in short, yes. In short, no.

>He was elected democratically, but then he behaved like a dictator. He was elected democratically to behave like a dictator . Most dictatorships advertise quite clearly what they …

So there you go. That's how Communism is compatible with democracy. It burns the same fuel: the promise of mass political power.