CJefferson

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2011.
by CJefferson 9y ago
The problem with talking about 'cores', is I still have to parse and handle the entire language if I want to claim to support YAML. I've used JSON is some constrained places, I can't imagine writing my own YAML parser, o
2012.
by CJefferson 9y ago
I think you could use this method with other bases, although be careful with base 256 -- if your strings are stored in UTF8 or something, then base 256 isn't actually that useful. However, the important bit (to me) is that you can use
2013.
by CJefferson 9y ago
Many catalogues of mathematical groups contain things like the monster group, which has 808,017,424,794,512,875,886,459,904,961,710,757,005,754,368,000,000,000 elements. That won't fit in a 64 or even 128 bit integer. It is common to w
2014.
Sorting number strings numerically(arangodb.com)
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2015.
by CJefferson 9y ago
I blame software. I don't understand why we couldn't have some system, perhaps using strace and friends, which tracks everything I ever do, and how every file was created. Then I could just say "how did I make X?"
2016.
by CJefferson 9y ago
What does it do? I started reading the readme, and after getting past general "this is awesome", I got to the doc of the config option... How about showing an example usage, which does something simple and cool?
2017.
by CJefferson 9y ago
Yes (one of the authors here), the press release came out very badly. The reference to the Clay prize was to try to demonstrate that lots of people care about solving NP-complete problems in general... N-Queens has long been known to polyno
2018.
by CJefferson 9y ago
Well, there are some countries with no rule of law, and large ungoverned areas. You are welcome to move to one of your like, then you could have all the empowering you want! (To be clear, that's a joke, as I'm not suggesting you g
2019.
by CJefferson 9y ago
The problem with counting leaks is it counts memory you need until the very end of your program. There is no point calling free as you are exiting anyway, and I have seen programs where freeing everything took .5 seconds as the program was
2020.
by CJefferson 9y ago
I recently had this with a html5 project. Thought it would be nice to use es6 and transpile, then disappeared down a hole of gulp and webpack. Eventually backed up and used Make to run Babel and then cat the files together.
2021.
by CJefferson 9y ago
While this is bad, most gems are executable code, which will get executed (seeing as you installed the gem). So while this is bad, I don't think it's that bad -- a malicious gem could always mess you up. Still update!
2022.
by CJefferson 9y ago
True, but in my (very limited) Haskell experience, it's got worse since then, not better.
2023.
by CJefferson 9y ago
I really want you to produce evidence for that. Everyone I know who selfhosts gitlab has much lower uptime than github.
2024.
by CJefferson 9y ago
One very common complaint I've heard about Haskell is slow compile times, see this discussion for example with a bunch of GHC developers: https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/45q90s/is_anything.
2025.
by CJefferson 9y ago
I've wasted several days trying to get programs I write turned into debs and rpms, I gave up. It's a single executable you can download and put wherever you like, or download the source and './configure.py; make'. A
2026.
by CJefferson 9y ago
Games sales, like movie sales, are mostly made in the first month. I can imagine like Netflix, lots of people with good 18 month old games might be happy to put them on this service. Further, I might seriously consider using it if they ban
2027.
by CJefferson 9y ago
I think "wildly unprofessional behavior" is things like sexually harassing other workers in your company, insulting people, that kind of thing. The problem here is I think people have different definitions of "wildly unprofes
2028.
by CJefferson 9y ago
Nowadays I write a GNUmakefile, then add a Makefile with a message telling people to use gmake. Same idea.
2029.
by CJefferson 9y ago
My main problem with this argument is the huge amount of violence in tv and films.
2030.
by CJefferson 9y ago
So now the 1% (who own about 35% of wealth as far as I know) would get to write the rules however they like? Sounds fun.
2031.
by CJefferson 9y ago
What makes tup amazing is it traces which files a program touches, so assuming your programs obey the rule "I need to rerun if I have different command line arguments or something I read has changed", you get perfect dependencies
2032.
by CJefferson 9y ago
I don't think it's impossible to prove, I think we just aren't yet good at proving it. One reason I believe P!=NP is I can imagine what a proof of P=NP would look like -- just write a C program that solves SAT or Sudoku or so
2033.
by CJefferson 9y ago
No, it's because one could spend a hundred lifetimes showing incorrect P vs NP proofs. Either he is right, or if the author is convinced of the disrespect they can $200,000. Most people who publish proofs don't seem to make any at
2034.
by CJefferson 9y ago
I'm disappointed (in pony) that one suggest is to use tuple instead of a class, and in general avoid naking little clases. One often overlooked benefit of c++ (and I am sure other langyages) is that I can wrap one or two ints in a clas
2035.
by CJefferson 9y ago
Unfortunately, the way HN sorts comments seems to encourage this -- the top comments always seem to be some of the earliest comments, and are usually posted before there is time to read the article (unless the author has read the article pr
2036.
by CJefferson 9y ago
I had a look, I'm not an expert in the area by any means, but at a reasonable glance it looks like a good study to me. Of course, it could be a giant fiddle (almost any experiment can be), but I try hard not to automatically assume stu
2037.
by CJefferson 9y ago
Policy makers do put quite a lot of work into protecting us from alcohol, tobacco and over the counter meds. Also, 1200 people is a fairly huge study, plenty to get some quality statistics from. I'm not sure why you have been so offend
2038.
by CJefferson 9y ago
Wow, just wow. If I was trying to offend my wife, writing a joke sexist piece, I don't think I could do better.
2039.
by CJefferson 9y ago
Just one small thing, I have found a few times git rebase breaking git bisect. Git rebase can create large sequences of commits which no-one has ever checked out, and often don't build -- after a git rebase most people check their new
2040.
by CJefferson 9y ago
I left GCC development after being ranted at. You just see the people who hang around.

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