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Your account was created 3 hours ago, how could you have had 93 karma? Creating a new account will start your karma over, in case you didnt know.

kashif 19y ago
No it wasn't. It was created a long time back. My point is that my account reset for some reason. Now if only PG could respond to this.
- kashif 19y ago
  This comment was posted before my account was reset. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=63522 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=63522
  - jsjenkins168 19y ago
    Interesting, it looks like your entire user was reset along with your karma. PG recently mentioned the server was running out of memory and they had to temporarily trim some content. Maybe this is related? I upvoted to try and get this on the front page...
    - imsteve 19y ago
      That's funny. I ran out of memory on my server last night too. Spent most of the morning trying to trim everything down. The common scripting languages should include memory optimized basic data structures..
      - Kaizyn 19y ago
        Arc is anything but a common scripting language.
        Zak 19y ago
        But it should include memory-optimized basic data structures.
        imsteve 19y ago
        It's my impression that memory usage is very obscured in functional languages. Others' thoughts?
        SamReidHughes 19y ago
        In lazy languages, it's very obscured, because you're not sure whether the integer you're pointing at is a four-byte number or whether it's a big unevaluated expression. In strict functional languages, and also in Lisp-like languages, it's not obscured. You might, say, not know exactly how many bytes a certain datastructure takes, unless you do some thinking but the same goes for C and C++. (For example, tell me how many extra bytes the std::string datatype takes in the nearest implementation of the STL.) Garbage collection adds the danger of leaving around dangling references, but that doesn't really have anything to do with the functional aspect of the language.

kashif 19y ago

No it wasn't. It was created a long time back. My point is that my account reset for some reason. Now if only PG could respond to this.

kashif 19y ago
This comment was posted before my account was reset. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=63522 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=63522
- jsjenkins168 19y ago
  Interesting, it looks like your entire user was reset along with your karma. PG recently mentioned the server was running out of memory and they had to temporarily trim some content. Maybe this is related? I upvoted to try and get this on the front page...
  - imsteve 19y ago
    That's funny. I ran out of memory on my server last night too. Spent most of the morning trying to trim everything down. The common scripting languages should include memory optimized basic data structures..
    - Kaizyn 19y ago
      Arc is anything but a common scripting language.
      - Zak 19y ago
        But it should include memory-optimized basic data structures.
      - imsteve 19y ago
        It's my impression that memory usage is very obscured in functional languages. Others' thoughts?
        SamReidHughes 19y ago
        In lazy languages, it's very obscured, because you're not sure whether the integer you're pointing at is a four-byte number or whether it's a big unevaluated expression. In strict functional languages, and also in Lisp-like languages, it's not obscured. You might, say, not know exactly how many bytes a certain datastructure takes, unless you do some thinking but the same goes for C and C++. (For example, tell me how many extra bytes the std::string datatype takes in the nearest implementation of the STL.) Garbage collection adds the danger of leaving around dangling references, but that doesn't really have anything to do with the functional aspect of the language.