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Comment · 15 years ago
The last big poll (the one about hiding comment scores) had about ~4500 votes, IIRC. Everybody who voted is probably somewhat active on here; and I'd guess that most active users voted.
Comment · 15 years ago
Canola oil is basically the only mainstream cooking oil with a somewhat healthy omega-3/6 ratio. Why do you think it's unhealthy?
Comment · 15 years ago
Well, there's the SMOM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_Military_Order_of_Mal...). Sovereign, but doesn't own any land except for a building in Rome.
Comment · 15 years ago
It's probably best to get yourself some books. The online documentation for both Asterisk and FreeSWITCH is shit, the IRC channels are mostly useless unless you already know a lot and the configuration files are just plain weird (Asterisk uses ini-style files with embedded programming, FreeSWITCH's configuration format pretends to be XML (which it certainly isn't)). Asterisk also has severe performance problems and AFAIR has some extremely bad code.
Comment · 15 years ago
Hm. JFK-FRA works, JFK-SIN doesn't. SFO-(AKL|SIN|BKK|BJS) don't, JFK-WAW doesn't, DEN-MEX doesn't, JFK-YYZ doesn't. So, US-US, US-Western Europe, US-Australia. Strange dataset.
Comment · 15 years ago
Seems to work only with US to US flights. "LGA to ORD" works, "FRA to SIN" and "HAM to TXL" don't.
Comment · 15 years ago
Obviously there will have to be more repressions, to catch all those terrorists of other confessions that we simply don't know about yet.
Comment · 15 years ago
US wars since the last decade have killed close to a million people, most of them civilians. This just cannot be justifiable. Or are you suggesting that the live of an American is far more valuable than the live of an Arab?
Comment · 15 years ago
Sorry, that was my fault. I didn't make lambdas evaluate their arguments and I didn't notice this in my code. I.e. car/cdr work correctly, fun doesn't.
Comment · 15 years ago
The eval throwing away context does not make any sense in retrospect. I think I made it that way because of some ghetto-scoping ideas.

You broke car and cdr somehow (these don't evaluate their arguments anymore), but I have no idea how you did this.

This was mostly a training exercise, this is why there is no significant use of monads in there: I simply haven't learned enough about them to feel comfortable using them.

Comment · 15 years ago
(a) The empty list is treated as nil. (b) The scoping is in fact strange; what you saw, however, was a bug. (c) cons expects a list as its second argument.

This certainly isn't useable for anything, but I think it comes somewhat close to being lisp.

Comment · 15 years ago
About 2-3 hours. Lots of breaks though; I started about 16 hours ago and finished about 4 hours ago.
Comment · 15 years ago
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensraum

Caused the eastern front of WWII. The Ukraine and Kazakhstan have extremely fertile soil. Holy wars are maybe fought over useless land, but the deadliest military campaign ever was fought in large parts because of good soil.

Comment · 15 years ago
Found Computrace in my ThinkPad X201's BIOS. However, there's an option to permanently disable it.

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