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by Patient0 11y ago
($) = id !? < tries it out in Raskell/Ghci > I see now why it's true, but still... Whoah!! Thanks for that! I think your suggestion would make a terrific online book.
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by Patient0 11y ago
Sorry how is this relevant to heap allocation? alloca just allocates memory off the stack - it's literally just bumping the stack register by the number of bytes you requested (and hence it's freed when the stack pointer is reset
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by Patient0 11y ago
My favourite bit of that movie (Rickman plays Sir Alexander Dane, a proud thespian whose once illustrious career has been destroyed by Galaxy Quest typecasting him into this humiliating role): Jason Nesmith: You WILL go out there.
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'A tortured heap of towers': the London skyline of tomorrow(theguardian.com)
67 points by Patient0 11y ago|44 comments
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by Patient0 11y ago
"I saw terms recently that had a 2x liquidation preference (i.e. the investors got the first 2x their money out of the company when it exited) and a 3x liquidation cap (i.e. after they made 3x their money, they didn’t get any more of t
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by Patient0 11y ago
I don't find his cover up story at all credible - Pakistan knew where Bin Laden was the whole time and kept it a secret from the U.S.? For what possible gain?
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by Patient0 11y ago
small correction: Don StewarT not Steward
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by Patient0 11y ago
Was I missing something or was there actually nothing about Marc Andreessen in the article? The title says "and why he is not friends with Marc Andreessen" yet there's nothing at all about him. Who upvoted this? edit: oh I fo
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by Patient0 11y ago
Title should say 1 million ARM cores
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by Patient0 11y ago
NB: I was confused until I realised that this is not the same Olivier Blanchard who is chief economist of the IMF. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivier_Blanchard
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by Patient0 11y ago
Totally agree- the primary purpose of HR is to protect a company from lawsuits brought by its own employees. By establishing that they have policies against sexual harassment, discrimination, etc. etc. the company can say that there's
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by Patient0 11y ago
I walked past "Neptune" just last Sunday doing this wonderful walk: http://www.walkingclub.org.uk/book_1/walk_23/index.shtml It's beautiful countryside there - I highly recommend it. There's al
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by Patient0 11y ago
Phew! I was thinking this was going to be a template-meta programming example of a y-combinator... Looks useful!
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by Patient0 11y ago
"The strong allegation that British troops fired on demonstrators was based on recollections, recounted as fact" http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/mar/28/readers-editor-...
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by Patient0 11y ago
where did it mention that in the article? I don't see it
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by Patient0 11y ago
I agree - all he needed to do was implement a recursive descent parser. You don't need to understand all of that LR stuff to implement a parser.
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by Patient0 11y ago
It reminds me of this story: http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/02/27/2120422/meet-the-man-w... "When he was seven years old, Max-Hervé George was given a magic ticket by his father. It lets him turn b
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by Patient0 11y ago
Hehe - I am actually Australian - I have been skiing at Perisher valley, Charlottes Pass too. Totally get what you are saying about the Snowy "Mountains". They look like really big hills! ;-) I also took a look at your HN page - I
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by Patient0 11y ago
I always did think that the Alps looked like mountains were "supposed" to look, and mountains in, e.g., US, did not. Having skiied in the Alps and the US West coast, you really notice that in the Alps, the valleys are steeper and
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by Patient0 11y ago
This was the first thing that jumped out at me too when I saw the code. I kept expecting them to optimize that- it would have been cleaner too. Very surprised when they wrapped it all up leaving the if statement still inside the closure.
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by Patient0 11y ago
Right but I don't see how this detracts from my point. Also, often the models are very simple - it's the calibration to a particular market that is very expensive (the constants - which are then often hard coded for best performan
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by Patient0 11y ago
A lot of the high frequency trading code actually is very expensive to recreate, because it contains logic like (and I am paraphrasing here): if(bookPressure > 0.7 and alpha23signal<0.2) buyEurUsd() where constants like 0.7 and 0.2
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by Patient0 11y ago
Yeah that's what I thought the article was going to be about. By re-arranging terms you can make it convert to any real number.
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by Patient0 12y ago
The stack overflow page is disappointing because in my opinion all of the answers miss the point: Yaml is designed to be readable and editable by humans. Json is only designed to be human readable - and intentionally does not have feature
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by Patient0 12y ago
Can anyone explain the flaw in Bickerton's reasoning? It's not obvious to me where the mistake is: "For a projectile entirely to escape the gravitation of earth, it needs a velocity of 7 miles a second. The thermal energy of
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by Patient0 12y ago
Could you repost it here? Reddit is behind a firewall where I am.
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by Patient0 12y ago
Brilliant - I wish I had thought of this... Seems accurate too based on my recent experience.
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by Patient0 12y ago
I upvoted purely because I saw your comment: so now the balance is restored :-)
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by Patient0 12y ago
My thoughts exactly when I read this article.
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UK moon landing kickstarter(m.bbc.co.uk)
2 points by Patient0 12y ago|0 comments

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