> Bihar has shown that it can have good governance and make economic strides.
Perhaps the most optimistic lesson I would take from Bihar is how surprisingly quickly it is possible to rebound from multiple decades of neglect after just a few years of (relatively) superlative governance.
> This observation, which has a significance of 5.9 standard deviations, corresponding to a background fluctuation probability of 1.7x10^-9, is compatible with the production and decay of the Standard Model Higgs boson.
Technically it could be another particle with a 126GeV mass, though that's hopefully something more experiments will show one way or the other.
> for example "private" member variables are way less private than incomplete C types
I'd be interested in hearing why you think this is the case: pretty much any method I'd use to get past compiler-enforced barriers protecting access a private variable in C++ is still usable in C to access data hidden away by an incomplete type.
What you say is valid for code that's written freshly. When you have to work with libraries whose first lines of code were written ages ago, you pretty much have no other option than to deal with toothache-inducing styles of C code.
Late reply, sorry. I never even knew they had the option of an XMPP server. For what it's worth, I find the mail experience to be both reasonable, and pretty much fat-free, which I guess is all I really need.
fastmail's non-free service, maybe? I got it a very long time ago, mainly for the .in email address. It's been no-frills, fast, and (mostly) reliable. I'm still not sure I'd recommend it to a gmail user, but its been a good email account to have.
For what it's worth - and not to distract from your real point - Exponential (or the more general Lyapunov) stability are a better explanation of instability. Stiffness is more a property of the method used to solve the ODE, rather than of the ODE itself.
If I remember correctly, I (reluctantly) had to switch to t-bird back in the day because it didn't do STARTTLS+IMAP. It was perfect, otherwise. I'm yet to see a faster way to search through mail.
Wow, there are a lot more EDA programmers on HN than I'd expected, some of whom I even recognise by name.
On topic, it's probably easier to embed Lua than Tcl, though you may miss some of the libraries. The language is cleaner (in some sense). For an EDA application, the only real problem is what your customer is supposed to do with 20+ years of scripts that they've written that are specific to their flow :)
Um, no argument either way - I just believe a lump of crystalline carbon can collect dust equally well in one museum as another.
More seriously, given that pretty much all of history is rife with examples of transfer of wealth from one place to another. it's better to (try to) not make the same mistake again, rather than fixing the past.
Roughly, when you're receiving an AM signal, you use the rectifying effect of a diode coupled to a low-pass filter. The idea is that the envelope is all you really need to pass to the speaker, if the signal itself is powerful enough.
It still exists, and it's still relevant /if/ you're in the situation Dave above describes - and you have sufficient clout to get stlport included in your code. In almost every other situation where you can actually use the stl, it's probably a better idea to use the libs that come with the compiler.
> maybe we do owe them all an apology and some hard cash.
I would think this is a terrible idea. For example, my government might actually take it into its head to ask (yet again) that we get the Kohinoor diamond back :)
> Brogrammers are mostly Silicon Valley / Harvard type douchebags who got into programming. YCombinator drop outs. Years of experience in managed and web languages, but who have no idea how to setup a build system nor work in native code.
> some_big_type foo;