3chelon

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by 3chelon 9y ago
If it's a startup knocking up an MVP, I hardly see compile times being an issue. It's only when there's a massive, usually legacy, and therefore largely Objective-C based codebase that compile times start to hurt. It shouldn&
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by 3chelon 9y ago
Valid points except the last one: Objective-C is a strict superset of C, Swift is not. If you're going to learn another C-style language, I'd start from Obj-C not Swift.
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by 3chelon 9y ago
Wow, that was quite a whining article. I mean, I doubt I'll ever forget Obj-C but Swift is now my goto language for iOS projects. Reminds me of when I was reluctant to abandon assembler for C. Get over it.
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by 3chelon 9y ago
Surely you need to ask what you shouldn't read?
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by 3chelon 9y ago
Kudos for "lipstick on a pig". My thinking entirely. I don't really understand how the web got so broken. But you're right it's not going to be torn down any time soon, any more than the human eye will unevolve to f
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by 3chelon 9y ago
And can anyone still read all that Perl? I used to speak Perl but I know I'd be far better able to understand some C I'd written 20 years ago than any of the Perl I did back then.
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by 3chelon 9y ago
So weird. I also learned C in college, but Python I love and use exclusively from the command line; I'd choose to write GUI code in almost anything else. But your central argument is right, that UI stuff is ignored in non-web language
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by 3chelon 9y ago
I'd take antibiotics over all of it. And they might not be around for much longer, which is the really shocking part.
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by 3chelon 9y ago
Only skim-read so far but that's interesting stuff. I had no idea FP data structures were implemented like this: I consider myself duly educated, thanks!
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by 3chelon 9y ago
It seems obvious to me. All the copying of immutable data. To turn the question on its head you could ask, "why are GPUs or DSPs so blazingly fast?" Part of the answer is they do a lot of operations "in-place", treating
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by 3chelon 9y ago
The author makes a very valid point about people replacing embedded systems with Linux. I have a home automation system that has been running for over a decade now, and has several generations of technology in it. The order of failure is, f
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by 3chelon 9y ago
Yes, I experienced that too. It was at ZTE in Shanghai. They'd all pull out bunks and airbeds from under their desks. I thought it was a fantastic idea, with one downside: the reason it was mandatory was that everyone was expected to w
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by 3chelon 9y ago
The same kind of company where they still "write memos."
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by 3chelon 9y ago
My old gym used to have "sleep pods" in a darkened room. I'd go for a half hour sleep at lunchtimes some days. Fanatastic, but they renovated the gym and removed them, and I canceled my membership.
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by 3chelon 9y ago
And taking the kind of pill that keeps you awake is probably counterproductive :)
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by 3chelon 9y ago
Basically, regardless of VMs etc, parsing any kind of binary data is inherently dangerous. Old binary formats were bespoke, there weren't always standard libraries to read the headers etc, so everyone wrote their own, with their own bu
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by 3chelon 9y ago
Point taken, but the original point was being associated with the name, not throwing a fit. Having it on your CV/resume, for example. Potentially alienating clients because of words that stand out from the page in the wrong context. I
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by 3chelon 9y ago
Ah, but is there a line? Where does it get drawn? Without explicitly naming them, once you get into the realm of Stalinism or the holocaust, surely it wouldn't take too much imagination to come up with a few names too unsavoury even fo
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by 3chelon 9y ago
Yeah, that one always gets me too, because it is so universal and so natural for the bigshot architect to proudly say "I built that," and never once acknowledge any of the guys who risked, and sometimes even gave, their lives actu
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by 3chelon 9y ago
I agree completely. People can blame MS for their insecure OS, or users who don't know any better for running outdated systems (or even for running Windows at all), but the stark reality is that all OSes have vulnerabilities because th
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by 3chelon 9y ago
Well, I am currently developing a full-blown back-end service using AWS containers, but for a prototype I got it going as a simple Python script, based on an outline I found on github. Took a few hours. Basically you get your source speech
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by 3chelon 9y ago
Your question says "utilize" machine learning. I was in the same position. It struck me that rather than go off and try to catch up with half a century's research, and contribute nothing, I'd be better off utilizing mach
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by 3chelon 9y ago
The heavyweights are already there... http://www.techradar.com/news/you-can-now-get-amazons-alexa-...
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by 3chelon 9y ago
That sounds like a surefire way of getting worthless customers. If your customers are not your target audience then they will never engage with your product and that's worse than not having customers.
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by 3chelon 10y ago
It's possible because some of us have very supportive wives who have made a lot of sacrifices regarding their own careers. Even then, it was hard in the early years, and we never subscribed to the whole farming-the-job-out-to-a-nanny m
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by 3chelon 10y ago
Indeed :)
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by 3chelon 10y ago
Q.E.D.
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by 3chelon 10y ago
It is also one of their most beautiful.
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by 3chelon 10y ago
No, Morrissey has _far_ more irony and humour.
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by 3chelon 10y ago
Well considering it is about committing suicide via exhaust fumes, it must come near the top of the list.

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