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Is there a major new release this week? I tried recently, and the UI performance was painfully janky.

When you go Pro, it becomes all about the money and not about the spirit of the Zen. ZenAmateur may be less skilled, but more desirable. > That said insulting people's children is …

You could use the monad to generate an embedded program that runs in constant time on a given class of problems. Then the challenge is smaller-- ensure that the program generator i…

The nice thing is that this shows the "Chinese wall" between Search Quality and Ads Monetization.

I suppose parent was trying to prove that ideas can be conveyed without stretching for the Shift key and inviting RSI.

> Your body and tissues are made to happily work with surges of insulin and there is absolutely nothing problematic about that. then what is diabetes about?

^ This is a model HN post. Instead of contradicting and insulting the parent poster, it acknowledges the value in the contribution, and adds further clarifying information to corre…

related: http://web.mit.edu/puzzle/www/2013/coinheist.com/rubik/the_m...

Android doesn't have such great CPU diversity.

FWIW, being crackable with extreme brute force (that only the best-funded attackers have) can be a reasonable compromise -- NSA can't crack everything , just the few pieces of data…

Training programmers to ignore a builtin type, and set up hacks to make string literals use a different type, is hardly "nice".

> See the famous video is a "piecemeal understanding", though.

Does anyone have a 2007 MBP with a functioning battery?

The Korn Shell Story isn't an appeal to an authority, it's a punchline: Not only are you mistaken, the arrogance in your mistake is humorous to onlookers. You can discuss whatever …

An admirable attempt to slow down the hype train which could derail his work, but weird to see him backpedaling against his own work, in the face of encouragement . But, good for h…

"Devices" have been driving children to "epidemic" levels of ADHD for a decade or two at least, so it is hard to see the connection now . I suspect it's more to do with general inc…

Hmm. Those two examples are from many, many years ago. What about more recent acquisitions?

The Mathematica system makes some beautiful, informative graphs, and presumably users can make those graphs with a minimum of fuss and bother. It's technically very nice. Yet, in t…

People donate their data to support Wolfram's closed-source, paid-license, for-profit program?

> If someone cannot grasp this, they lack either or both of the intellectual maturity Yes, that's entirely the point! >> flummoxes people at the 9th grade level, > There is no such…

Yes, ultimately we are bound by tradition, since changing over to any system is too expensive and confusing. Path dependence and local optima. See also: English vs Metric units.

> this is based on the Quill v North Dakota interpretation of the Commerce Clause of the US Constitution. Note that this is a very old reading, and any modern court would likely wa…

Are there multiple sales tax regimes operating within the span of one PO Box? Doubtful than anyone on either side will worry about that case

That's like saying "e-commerce == middleman effectively increasing the burden of any purchase and wasting resources"

> If goods are taxed more businesses raise their prices. Businesses aren't being taxed. Consumers are. This is entirely dependent on which part of the supply chain has the fiercest…