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Re: 3 left in Pink Floyd now... 2 (Rick and Syd) gone to Heaven
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Author: Raja
Date: Sep 20, 2008 12:09

..., and I am aging myself. But when Robert Fripp showed up in 1981 with "The League of Gentlemen" at a bar, XTC's Barry Andrew's ruled the earth. I'm sorry. Old farts like me tend to rave about "the good old days". How about Jimmy Smith? An old fart should rate him pretty highly. If you start throwing jazz musicians in the mix, everyone starts moving down pretty rapdily. Do we really want to compare Paul ...
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Re: Survey: What led you to functional programming?
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Author: Tom Lord
Date: Sep 20, 2008 09:36

...spend the first several hours learning to not look for these things. 2) The notation of functional languages is remarkably confusing unless you already know the concepts of composition and recursive definition (and, even then, the notations tend to be a bit cryptic). So, a programmer with an imperative background coming with the question "is assignment written x = y or x := y or what?" is going to find himself looking at indecipherable...
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Why the Polls Drive Us Crazy (and Shouldn't)
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Author: Zaroc Stone
Date: Sep 20, 2008 09:32

... they vote in numbers we've never seen before? Nobody knows (many have only a cell phone, and cell phone users are rarely polled). At the same time, we know that in times of pronounced pessimism, people tend to vote the ruling party out of office. Yet, John McCain has spent a career carefully nurturing an image of independence from his party. Will he overcome the tarnished Republican brand? Nobody knows. Those uncertainties are what ...
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If you've been on an emotional roller coaster, you might want to
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Author: Zaroc Stone
Date: Sep 20, 2008 09:24

... they vote in numbers we've never seen before? Nobody knows (many have only a cell phone, and cell phone users are rarely polled). At the same time, we know that in times of pronounced pessimism, people tend to vote the ruling party out of office. Yet, John McCain has spent a career carefully nurturing an image of independence from his party. Will he overcome the tarnished Republican brand? Nobody knows. Those uncertainties are what ...
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Re: 3 left in Pink Floyd now... 2 (Rick and Syd) gone to Heaven
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Author: The Arranger
Date: Sep 20, 2008 07:31

..., and I am aging myself. �But when Robert Fripp showed up in 1981 with "The League of Gentlemen" at a bar, XTC's Barry Andrew's ruled the earth. I'm sorry. �Old farts like me tend to rave about "the good old days". How about Jimmy Smith? An old fart should rate him pretty highly. If you start throwing jazz musicians in the mix, everyone starts moving down pretty rapdily. Do we really want to compare Paul McCartney's ...
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Re: 3 left in Pink Floyd now... 2 (Rick and Syd) gone to Heaven
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Author: Eiron
Date: Sep 20, 2008 01:12

...likes of my friend Emm Gryner (keys on Bowies 2000 BBC stuff). But that's a personal thing. I suppose this is a little weird, and I am aging myself. But when Robert Fripp showed up in 1981 with "The League of Gentlemen" at a bar, XTC's Barry Andrew's ruled the earth. I'm sorry. Old farts like me tend to rave about "the good old days". How about Jimmy Smith? An old fart should rate him pretty highly. -- Eiron.
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Re: F-35 coming along as planned. Never.
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Author: Addinall
Date: Sep 19, 2008 23:37

... looking for them. Stealth dissapears down the toilet if everything lights up. And it will in the grown up comic books. Then you had better have a good reason for staying in the Air. The Yanks think they have that with the F-22. I tend to agree. It's a nice bit of work. However, the Su-30MKI, JL-XX, Su-35, are all in the area or getting bloody close. You know the good thing about the Su-27 shape? It's big. And what can you fit ...
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Re: Passing module procedures to external procedures -- type issues
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Author: nospam
Date: Sep 19, 2008 23:25

...is fine as is (I think), you might be able to give the compiler a helpful hint by declaring something about other_sub before its use. About the only such thing you can validly declare is the public or private attribute. I usually tend to do so for module procedures. Well, for a start I have to do it for public ones because I make the default accessibility private. I often do it for private ones as well, partly in order to make the compiler'...
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Re: Black Domina revisited 5 months later!
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Author: BudBurner
Date: Sep 19, 2008 17:25

... to hear from someone that's grown the Ortega strain and see what they thought of it. You absolutely should be able to make hash from fresh weed. I'd freeze it first, however, to harden up those trichomes as they tend to be sticky and have an affinity for sticking to the lighter leaf material and be tossed out in the top skim. Frozen, they are much harder than the rest of the plant material. While frozen, the bud can be chopped up...
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Re: Spreading the word
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Author: The Beez'
Date: Sep 19, 2008 16:29

... of William S. Burroughs's cut-up techniques. Have a screen with MindForth's randomness being displayed while a sax player and a guy on bongos explore jazz textures. Personally, I think it would be more interesting to integrate MindForth with the code for the vending machines you tend to program. It might give rise to a whole new debate about Dennett's intentionality issue. http://cogprints.org/431/0/evolerr.htm Hans Bezemer
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