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by 4thaccount 8y ago
Safari online has a lengthy interview with him that is an excerpt from a book with lots of interviews on programming Titans. I read the one from Moore every year and I don't even write Forth. It is simply that good and thought provokin
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
I was not aware of either of these things (and now have some interesting reading to do) thanks. I will say that it doesn't surprise me that there is some limit on how much social coordination can be done in a group. I guess you're
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
Yea, I've thought about living in another country before for various reasons including adventure, but once you start a family a lot of stuff gets complicated fast. Yea...a little weird as an American citizen, I have trouble comprehendi
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
I've often thought this as well as we basically are just making marginal advancements at this point in things like computing power (hey, let's shrink this some more or add more cores). The nuclear power industry is a sinking ship
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
I'll agree that there is likely some value (usually CYA for the company) and some real value too. However, those things still take up significant time that the two-person startup doesn't have to worry about and that is just one cl
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
I think the small team aspect is far more important than anything else. With two developers in a startup, you can split up key components and have quick informal talks concerning design choices. In a real company, huge amounts of time are w
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
That's what I'm referring to. I believe there is a runtime clause that means a program (Ex: hello world) isn't automatically under the GPL. However, a lot of the Adacore libraries are either GPL or commercial. At least this i
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
I think this is what is so cool about Common Lisp. You can literally get pretty darn close to C in performance and still be at the highest levels of development efficiency/prototyping speed. I don't think too many other languages
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
It's built for massively distributed systems and is efficient at that I believe. It's not really designed to be a replacement for numeric languages like C/C++/Fortran/Ada...etc. It's a high level language, so w
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
I've heard of obverse, but had forgotten about it. That is neat. Thanks for sharing.
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
Agreed, but the 41 MP had Carl Zeiss lens (I hear that is good) and the PureView tech. Please correct me if that is just a good name on slapped on a crap lens (I'm not a photography enthusiast )
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
If you think that is crazy look back to the Nokia 1020 that had a 41 MP camera and PureView back when most phones had like 8 MP. It took some awesome photos and several of my friends were very satisfied with the phone.
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
Thanks for the recommendation. I'll keep that in mind. If you ever get the chance I'd love to read some more J related articles as I find the language weirdly fascinating even though it ain't easy. The community doesn't
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
I meant online training AT Work lol.
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
I'd argue it is largely true now. If the free version is GPL'd, students can easily use it, but a lot of folks won't want to develop in something that has what is likely to be a high commercial cost. I'm still curious ho
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
This is why I'd much rather be doing the Matlab modeling simulations and analysis as the first step of the project and would prefer to stay away from the actual implementation part. You get the creative fun without the hard part of tra
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
This quote from the parent comment made me sad because it is true. With that being said, why is this so? Is it because the internet learning makes it possible to not need training classes to learn a language like you once did? Would the pos
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
Yea. As a traditional engineer (non software) I shudder in horror at what y'all go through. My industry is all about what you know and there seems to be nearly infinite things to know. That knowledge takes years to accumulate, so a Sen
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
I've flipped through it before, but didn't remember it being very enlightening (note that I didn't read the full thing and do all the excercises). I'll have to give it another shot. Thanks for the tip!
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
Thanks Scott! I remember reading one of your posts somewhere talking about Jd. I'm curious if you still use it, or if it or your admittedly non-expert J knowledge made sticking with R, Torch7, Lush, Tensorflow...etc more tenable. I fig
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
I had all the books growing up and it was one of a few comics I really loved. I still do, and honestly just relate to it and Dilbert now.
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
Bingo....this one I do not have the source for. It is a vendor app. Sadly, I could rewrite everything it does in a fraction of the code and it would be more maintainable and cheaper, but it would never be approved.
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
In our case it is reading from an antiquated non relational database and usually one of the millions of fields that were being parsed had a "null" value. It is easy to fix, but only if I know which ones the app needs.
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
Kevin Lawler and Scott Locklin (posts on here sometimes) tried to make a tsdb similar to kdb+ called kerf I think. I don't think it worked out, but it would've been nice to have a more affordable competitor.
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
Well there are books like "Mastering Dyalog APL", but they don't help you think in the language. There is the "Finnish APL Idioms" book which helps a bit. APL and J certainly have libraries, but a lot of functions a
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
I don't write Java, but support an application written in Java that gets null pointer issues and aborts all the time. It's also annoying that there is precious little information for me to go on.
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
I found Google+ to be great, but not nearly as many people used it. I'm not on any social network anymore though.
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
I respect your lisp skills, but isn't what you're saying that "sure a tank can fly...you just need really big wings and and a giant rocket engine strapped on the back"? I'll agree that you can hack on your own objec
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
Polymorphism yes, but there is no class structure to combine state and behavior. I suppose OO is pretty subjective and I should say most folks wouldn't consider Julia to be OO in nature.
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
I think OO or FP probably works best for enterprise apps. I don't see it as necessary for a lot of scientific apps though.

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