After a long time I had the "The prefix 'God said'" signature, I managed to come up with a new one, which I'm not sure is entirely original. (my mother said...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif@...
Mar 31, 2001 8:59 am
... Wonderful! And I read it and it seems one can only request one digit in one transaction, not a range of them. But, IMO, HTTP can be used for such purposes...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif@...
Mar 31, 2001 9:16 am
There's a Freshmeat editorial at: http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/238/ which talks about meaningful commenting. There are lots of responces and ...
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Nadav Har'El
nyh@...
Apr 3, 2001 10:42 am
... As long as there will still be unduplicatable things, people will find a point to be rich in order to get them. A few things I can think of: 1. Real Estate...
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Nadav Har'El
nyh@...
Apr 3, 2001 1:33 pm
... I thought about this a little bit, and there's a solution to the mass problem: If the amount of mass entering the house was larger than the amount exiting ...
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Oleg Goldshmidt
ogoldshmidt@...
Apr 3, 2001 2:35 pm
... Aren't you running into the entropy problem here? ... Sounds like alchemy. Not really, of course, since transformations between elements are one the...
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Nadav Har'El
nyh@...
Apr 3, 2001 3:34 pm
... Yes, as I said you'll need a way to "relieve" you of the excess entropy somehow. Entropy sewers? Releasing a small part of the air back to the atmosphere...
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Oleg Goldshmidt
ogoldshmidt@...
Apr 3, 2001 3:58 pm
Allow me to re-arrange your posting a bit to put the following two statements together: ... ;-) I wholeheartedly agree with both statements. Having studied...
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Nadav Har'El
nyh@...
Apr 3, 2001 4:53 pm
... Yes, it's by Ed Regis. It's mostly a biography of Eric Drexler (see www.foresight.org), some guy who dabbled in the issues of nanotechnology (mostly...
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Oleg Goldshmidt
ogoldshmidt@...
Apr 4, 2001 8:12 am
... As I said earlier, keep a star around (a yellow G-type would do quite nicely, thank you), point the remote at it, and press the fast forward button... ;-) ...
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Nadav Har'El
nyh@...
Apr 6, 2001 2:04 pm
The following colloquium in the Technion might be of interest to the "hacker" community (just look at the name of their computer!). Note, however, that it's a...
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Nadav Har'El
nyh@...
Apr 9, 2001 1:36 pm
This year I was out of the country (and mostly away from a keyboard) on April 1st, so I didn't get to "enjoy" the crop (or should the "o" be an "a"?) of April...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif@...
Apr 10, 2001 8:25 am
Hmmm. This course sounds like "Logic Design and Intro to Computers" of the EE faculty (http://tiger.technion.ac.il/~imenache/Logic/) on steroids. I would not...
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mulix
mulix@...
Apr 10, 2001 8:55 am
... i think it encompasses a lot more than just logic design. however, since the material the sugested course encompasses sound like half of a degree in CS, i...
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Oleg Goldshmidt
ogoldshmidt@...
Apr 10, 2001 9:05 am
... IIRC, there is also p2c. Maybe that will work with your favourite gcc version. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | ogoldshmidt@... "I'd rather write...
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Nadav Har'El
nyh@...
Apr 10, 2001 9:10 am
... Don't worry, I think the actual course is given in the IDC, not the Technion, so you won't get a chance to take it anyway :) The lecture I was pointing out...
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Nadav Har'El
nyh@...
Apr 10, 2001 9:27 am
... I don't know the official rules, but my inner morals tells me that it is perfectly fine to publish homework *you* did, assuming that your solution is a...
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Chen Shapira
chen@...
Apr 10, 2001 9:41 am
... IMO if the homework grade isn't part of the final grade, there's nothing immoral with copying work, its just abit stupid. ... Same in TAU. But most of us...
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Omer Musaev
omerm@...
Apr 10, 2001 10:34 am
... In some ways, case sensitivity decreases value of self-documentation of programs. It can be very misleading to following function: char *Open( char *foo,...
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Chen Shapira
chen@...
Apr 10, 2001 10:47 am
... A technical win. Because when I remember names I remember them by sounds, I think that most of us do too. So having 2 variables with the same sound and ...
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Omer Musaev
omerm@...
Apr 10, 2001 10:58 am
... Hm. Well, my example was somewhat exaggerated. However, any convention is better than to have fsize, bsize, MIN_FSIZE _AND_ BSIZE. Take a note that we use...
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mulix
mulix@...
Apr 10, 2001 11:00 am
... it appears to me that the major loss in such an "intermediate" compiler is in the area of optimisations. consider the "no alias" keyword of C99, which says...
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Chen Shapira
chen@...
Apr 10, 2001 11:06 am
... Lets take note that this intermediate language is very much similar to lisp. Which may be attributed to some GNU bias, or the wide knowledge about ...
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mulix
mulix@...
Apr 10, 2001 11:07 am
... there is one class (Digital Systems) i've taken so far, where no tests are published since the questions come for a closed pool of questions. in all other...
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mulix
mulix@...
Apr 10, 2001 11:13 am
... sure there is, when you are debugging with a textual debugger, such as gdb. why, oh why, if i declare a variable as foo_bar, should i do 'print FOO_BAR'? i...
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Oleg Goldshmidt
ogoldshmidt@...
Apr 10, 2001 11:14 am
... I don't know about it. Can anyone confirm? A bit of personal reminiscences: For a few years I worked for a company that was writing tons of Fortran code,...
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Moshe Zadka
moshez@...
Apr 10, 2001 11:15 am
... You forgot Chill -- "I'll be ex-DPL soon anyway so I'm |LUKE: Is Perl better than Python? looking for someplace else to grab power."|YODA:...
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Chen Shapira
chen@...
Apr 10, 2001 11:17 am
... My apologies. I had in mind case-insensitivity VB style. You write "print foobar" and your friendly debugger will match FOOBAR, FooBAr, etc. I understood...
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Oleg Goldshmidt
ogoldshmidt@...
Apr 10, 2001 11:29 am
... I forgot to mention that I do see advantages in translating everything into a "portable assembler". Or into lisp (to have both a compiler and an...
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Moshe Zadka
moshez@...
Apr 10, 2001 11:31 am
... No it isn't. It's about as similar to Lisp as C is similar to Java. -- "I'll be ex-DPL soon anyway so I'm |LUKE: Is Perl better than Python? looking...
