3chelon

10 ms·

91.
by 3chelon 8y ago
I agree fully. Regexes get misused and people who don't speak regex blame regex rather than the abusers. Regexes don't even need to be terse: Perl doesn't have too many fans these days but its implementation of regexes was no
92.
by 3chelon 8y ago
Yes, I think you're right about the turbulence. It's not like it would have a smooth edge.
93.
by 3chelon 8y ago
I second that. My degree project was a 68K-based RTOS kernel with a simple preemptive task scheduler, and the scheduler was one of the easiest and smallest parts of the whole project.
94.
by 3chelon 8y ago
I was talking from the viewpoint of the OP who was asking if data scientists were replacing programmers.
95.
by 3chelon 8y ago
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. A few times she wobbled and I thought how terrifying it must be. I wonder if the slipstream would tend to keep her inside it - I mean, would she in some way be repelled back into the slipstream if she
96.
by 3chelon 8y ago
I'm atheist but I like that saying. I'm amazed I survived my 1970s childhood intact. Plenty didn't.
97.
by 3chelon 8y ago
I've interviewed a few "data scientists". Some of them were pretty arrogant. Their idea of a "close to the metal" language was Numerical Python. I don't think these guys are going to be writing the next generat
98.
by 3chelon 8y ago
Because that is the nature of the EU. Although I didn't personally vote for Brexit, it is that kind of thing that made so many people so antagonistic towards it. That and the amount of money shovelled into fuelling this bureaucracy.
99.
by 3chelon 8y ago
Or in the UK where it's dark by 4pm in mid-winter. Give me back my daylight
100.
Advanced Wildcard Patterns Most People Don't Know(appcodelabs.com)
3 points by 3chelon 8y ago|0 comments
101.
by 3chelon 8y ago
This is the correct answer.
102.
by 3chelon 8y ago
I reckon quite a while.
103.
by 3chelon 8y ago
Isn't that one of the main points of sci fi?
104.
by 3chelon 8y ago
It's a problem in mobile comms too. There's a concept called timing advance: in order for TDMA frames to arrive in the correct time slot and not crap all over the neighbouring frames from other users, they have to be sent earlier
105.
by 3chelon 8y ago
I should imagine capacitance and inductance are going to hit the clock speed waaaay before theoretical speed of light barrier comes into play. There were some pretty serious limitations on parallel buses and backplane designs back in the da
106.
by 3chelon 8y ago
The first thing to cross my mind when I saw this was XSS vulnerabilities. Presumably there's nothing to stop this page running JS?
107.
by 3chelon 8y ago
Sounds a little bit like Paul Graham's argument for doing things that do not scale. Until doing something manually, or the hard way, becomes a serious blocker, don't try to fix it with technology because it's almost certainly
108.
by 3chelon 8y ago
Yes, I was coding in hand-coded hex machine language for a couple of years before I had access to an assembler. These days, when and IDE drops into assembly and all my 20-something colleagues duck for cover, I rub my hands together in glee.
109.
by 3chelon 8y ago
Actually, the documentation was amazing in retrospect. The Sinclair Spectrum user manual, which started with how to connect the computer to the TV, then proceeded to teach BASIC, had, in the appendix at the back, the most fascinating table.
110.
by 3chelon 8y ago
+1 for the soldering iron. There was nothing quite so stressful as the first time you plugged in the prototype relay controller you'd built on Veroboard out of salvaged parts and a couple of 74-series logic chips. The whole thing was c
111.
by 3chelon 8y ago
My thoughts exactly: the Arduino is about the same level of complexity as 1980s 8-bit machines. As the author of the article said, "In 1983... home computers were unsophisticated enough that a diligent person could learn how a particul
112.
by 3chelon 8y ago
I've lived where I live for 18 years. I've been in my current job less than a year. Does that justify pulling my kids out of school just before they do their exams so I can move house? Where you live is not a simple choice for man
113.
by 3chelon 8y ago
That's a difficult one. I have a 2 hour commute. If I treated it as work I'd only have to spend 4 hours in the office. Not sure I'd get away with that. On the flip side, having a long commute gets me preferential treatment re
114.
by 3chelon 8y ago
Wow I did not know that, thanks for enlightening me!
115.
by 3chelon 8y ago
Thanks. They're distinct editors on macOS which I'm currently using. And no, vi doesn't have syntax highlighting so perhaps that's a big enough reason right there...
116.
by 3chelon 8y ago
Because I learned vi back in the day (yes, before cursor keys were supported!), I never quite got used to typing that extra "m". What are the biggest improvements of vim over vi?
117.
by 3chelon 8y ago
No, FPGAs are used in production. There are also plenty of flash-based FPGAs available.
118.
by 3chelon 8y ago
It strikes me this must be wrong. The 90% churn rate is way too high, surely? Looking at own git logs (for code, not prose), I notice git is very happy to add and delete lines even if just some characters on those lines have changed. Is it
119.
by 3chelon 8y ago
I found it interesting because recently I had to pose for an extended period for some company headshots with a professional photographer and I hated every minute of it. Worst of all, it was on the street in full view of half of east London.
120.
by 3chelon 8y ago
I don't disagree that water is probably a unique solvent, and you make a good point about the distribution of the elements. But once we get into nucleic acids I think we're once again into the territory of applying constraints bas

More ›