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No, it requires precedence to distinguish between (2 f (3 g 4)) and ((2 f 3) g 4) > which is arguably how most sane engineers would write it I'm always wary of this sort of stateme…

More like 3X the area and 15X the population (Tokyo metropolis vs SF city and county) or 1.5X the area and 8X the population (Tokyo metropolitan area versus SF metro) -- all figure…

I suspect yes, because Lotus Notes was briefly very fashionable for corporate communication, and apparently supported NNTP, according to this article (PC Magazine, 24 Feb 1998): ht…

IIRC for a while the Amiga calculator would crash the OS if you did that.

This is what I came here to post, and you can see that, in the mobile chart, Chrome and Safari already seem to be levelling off. Maybe a better model would be like an ADSR (attack …

'Qc Na responded by hitting Anton with his stick, saying "When will you learn? Closures are a poor man's object." At that moment, Anton became enlightened.' The cruel tutelage of Q…

A tip is essentially an LRU cache: https://www.ft.com/content/e6f82da0-8b4d-11e6-8cb7-e7ada1d12... (I first heard about this concept ages ago, but that's the first article on Googl…

Was anyone else reminded of John Harvey-Jones versus Morgan, where he bawled them out for pushing a car chassis up and down a hill several times as part of their production line? h…

That was my initial reaction, but if you look at section 2, both paragraphs could plausibly have been written by Stewart and/or Shapiro; all the images are authored by Stewart as t…

I am not a doctor, but I think if you have been clinically diagnosed as depressed, you can call yourself "Capital-D depressed" -- IMHO, obviously.

Interesting -- we could do with that in London. Is it all diesel cars? The article seems to say something about Euro IV -compliant maybe being OK?

Bans have been proposed in Holland from 2025 ( http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2016/03/only-electric-... ) and Norway ( http://electrek.co/2016/06/03/norway-gasoline-powered-…

...and what about words which contain the string "...nazi...", such as "Ashkenazim"? They don't seem to give the exact query, that I could see.

And here's one for London: https://www.thrillist.com/lifestyle/london/london-undergroun... Direct link to large-scale map: http://assets3.thrillist.com/v1/image/1560005 Note we ten…

Agreed, but in your example 'xargs', 'curl' and 'print' are arguably meaningful.

arguably it's O(N^2) in spacetime , because it's O(N) steps on O(N) hardware (N parallel units). You can imagine different hardware architectures taking O(1) steps on O(N^2) parall…

linked from that page: """ The University of Manchester's Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM)[15] is generally recognized as world's first electronic computer that ran a stored…

Worth dipping into even if you're not really into synths, because some of the anecdotes (like his quest for the GS1) are pretty funny.

As well as the glitches, there's a story that the tilt was initially set to entirely cancel the lateral acceleration from the curve. The press on the demo train was well lubricated…

See also (in the UK): Spitting Image, Drop the Dead Donkey (sadly both long defunct).

A 6km radius would fit quite well with schemes like Community Radio in the UK: http://consumers.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio/radio/a-guide-to-comm... ...still need a licence, of course.

It was very influential on Java (as the Java people acknowledged in their early documents) and C# (unsafe types).

[quote]And OMG the ridiculously verbose syntax.[/quote] Not as bad as Ada, VHDL, Cobol etc.!

The climate varies greatly between different places on the same latitude. She seems to live near Abakan, Russia at about 53 deg. N; according to Wikipedia, this has average daily m…

...and I should have said that you can replace the above by: S \ R