At my university, we had to work with both Scheme and ML during the programming languages class. Of the two, I much preferred ML. Scheme solutions just looked kludgy; too many parentheticals, and the car and cdr syntax just irritated me to no end. ML solutions, on the other hand, were just beautiful, especially with list operations(of course). Take this problem for example:
Write a third function reverse that takes a list of any type ('a list) and returns the list with all its elements in reverse order.
fun reverse nil = nil | reverse ls = reverse(tl(ls))@[hd(ls)];
Two lines. Just concise and elegant. It does feel quite a bit like you're playing hot potato with your final result, though.
As a sidenote to this comment, there's an interesting interview with Peter Denning, past president of the ACM, talking about the future of the IT "Profession", and what being an IT professional would or should entail. Dated March, 2000. Take a gander.
The cowpox virus is what we use to immunize against smallpox. If it could be altered in such a way, it would likely render our current vaccinations obsolete. What I find interesting is that the cowpox virus is a live virus, not inactivated like most others, and is administered as such. The vaccinee experiences all the associated symptoms, albeit localized to the vaccination site, which is carefully dressed with gauze and transparent op-sites to prevent spread. If this new strain is engineered to be fatal to humans, the current method of administration would no longer suffice.
They already have theft-prevention technology established in many places. When I was down in Eugene, OR, they had a Safeway that was constantly getting its carts taken. They renovated the store, and with that introduced shopping carts with electronic locks on the front wheels. Apparently they would sieze whenever someone took it outside of the parking lot. The locks were enclosed in a large plastic housing that sat over the top of the front wheels. It looked incredibly durable. I guess the only problem they've had is with people (pissed off bums? drunk college kids?) getting pissed off and bodily throwing the carts over the nearby fence into scummy Amazon Creek 20 feet below.
If I wanted to sell replacement or upgrade mainboards to a company, I'd give them the option to reuse part of the horde of PS/2 Keyboards and Mice they all invariably have lying around.
It's all a matter of bottleneck. Not every server has huge pipes to offer their customers. What if, by the mere act of sharing some of your bandwidth, you were able to double the speed of your download? Isn't an 80% down 20% up full active connection better than a 40% down none up?
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At my university, we had to work with both Scheme and ML during the programming languages class. Of the two, I much preferred ML. Scheme solutions just looked kludgy; too many parentheticals, and the car and cdr syntax just irritated me to no end. ML solutions, on the other hand, were just beautiful, especially with list operations(of course). Take this problem for example:
Write a third function reverse that takes a list of any type ('a list) and returns the list with all its elements in reverse order. Two lines. Just concise and elegant. It does feel quite a bit like you're playing hot potato with your final result, though.Could you imagine walking off a lander onto the surface of Mars only to see 16 lb. balls hurling around through the air? :)
Must...fight...temptation...
Maybe he's talking about the other Budweiser.
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What if they had a few of these guys stand in the same spot?
I, for one, am alarmed.
I would much rather see something like this worked into a HUD.
As a sidenote to this comment, there's an interesting interview with Peter Denning, past president of the ACM, talking about the future of the IT "Profession", and what being an IT professional would or should entail. Dated March, 2000. Take a gander.
available at Popular Science here. Better pictures.
25. Profit! :(
The cowpox virus is what we use to immunize against smallpox. If it could be altered in such a way, it would likely render our current vaccinations obsolete. What I find interesting is that the cowpox virus is a live virus, not inactivated like most others, and is administered as such. The vaccinee experiences all the associated symptoms, albeit localized to the vaccination site, which is carefully dressed with gauze and transparent op-sites to prevent spread. If this new strain is engineered to be fatal to humans, the current method of administration would no longer suffice.
10 dollah too bookoo!
They already have theft-prevention technology established in many places. When I was down in Eugene, OR, they had a Safeway that was constantly getting its carts taken. They renovated the store, and with that introduced shopping carts with electronic locks on the front wheels. Apparently they would sieze whenever someone took it outside of the parking lot. The locks were enclosed in a large plastic housing that sat over the top of the front wheels. It looked incredibly durable. I guess the only problem they've had is with people (pissed off bums? drunk college kids?) getting pissed off and bodily throwing the carts over the nearby fence into scummy Amazon Creek 20 feet below.
If I wanted to sell replacement or upgrade mainboards to a company, I'd give them the option to reuse part of the horde of PS/2 Keyboards and Mice they all invariably have lying around.
From the article:
What does it mean for "family time" when every room has a TV?
More importantly, what happens to "family time" when you can fit all your porn on a 1GB hard drive?
Finally the sordid truth of secret service work is revealed.
It's all a matter of bottleneck. Not every server has huge pipes to offer their customers. What if, by the mere act of sharing some of your bandwidth, you were able to double the speed of your download? Isn't an 80% down 20% up full active connection better than a 40% down none up?
Flies' visual perception is so fast that 24 fps easily seems like individual frames to them, and the brown spots would be easily identifiable.
You haven't been through any teleporters recently, have you?