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by Patient0 13y ago
ok I'll bite - what is the writing at the bottom of the picture?
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by Patient0 13y ago
Yes and at least the article makes it pretty clear just how complicated and subtle the issues are.
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by Patient0 13y ago
Oh man, now that lock free programming is such a hot topic I am dreading the code about to be written by people "teaching themselves" about it! "This algorithm is much faster now that I've used some lock free programming
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by Patient0 13y ago
"OOP is widely-used and easily comprehended because it is a fairly simple way of modeling reality that is compatible with how human beings do it." I disagree with this. Ask any non-programmer "is a square a rectangle?" O
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by Patient0 13y ago
Yes this paper is excellent. Far more comprehensible (to me) than the link at the top of this discussion. I guess it all depends on what you are already familiar with. I was familiar with vectors and functions of vectors, and the concept of
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by Patient0 13y ago
he means that the countries are so small (in area) - the size is comparable to a postage stamp (i.e. hyperbole)
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by Patient0 13y ago
Yeah it reads like a PR puff piece. I am sure that is what it is. It follows the template described in http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html .
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.net lisp interpreter with first class macros, continuations(patient0.github.io)
1 points by Patient0 13y ago|0 comments
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by Patient0 13y ago
For me it was completely the other way around: I was "taught" calculus using the infinitesimal approach but without any rigour. Statements like "As dx gets really really small x+dx/x becomes 1" drove me crazy! Why w
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by Patient0 13y ago
Oh yes I so agree! These guys are a key mechanism for how a simple program that used to read a csv file ended up depending on a multi-site replicated database managed by an external team of DBAs, burdened with a 6 month release cycle. Rally
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by Patient0 13y ago
PatientZero's law: Any submission to Hacker News about a novel Java script program containing a reference to Atwood's law will contain a reference to tlrobinson's law. ;-)
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by Patient0 13y ago
Perhaps the title should mention that it's done in a mere 15 bytes of assembler: "; size: ; 15 bytes" So it's a code-golf sort of thing.
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"the largest and the most massive structure known in the observable universe"(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by Patient0 13y ago|0 comments
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by Patient0 13y ago
That was my thinking too. Who sits down and writes a lengthy blog post about a piece of software that they like to use? How boring! It's like someone sitting down to write a blog post about why they like Pepsi instead of Coke.
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by Patient0 13y ago
"This is why the bitcoins sent in this special transaction are unspendable, as the addresses are being generated from the document's hash fragments instead of from a private ECDSA key." I hadn't realised before that this
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by Patient0 13y ago
Thanks for confirming - this was the one statement that struck me as wrong too but I don't have a C++ compiler readily to hand on my iphone
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by Patient0 13y ago
hehe nice troll! At least I hope you are trolling...
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by Patient0 13y ago
What would also be interesting would be an explanation of how this then ties in to the "headline" short term interest rate that the Fed, ECB, Bank of England etc. set. All the ground work has been laid - and I think many people wo
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by Patient0 13y ago
I'm surprised that the C++ code is not using the RAII idiom in some obvious places. For example: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/blob/master/db/db_impl.c There are many places with brackete
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by Patient0 13y ago
Well, I would put it differently: you simply misunderstood what he (Walter) was saying, and then (too quickly) concluded that he therefore must have a deep misunderstanding! But I admit my critique is a bit unfair and "ad-hominem&quo
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by Patient0 13y ago
The last time you accused someone of misunderstanding something was when you accused Walter Bright, inventor of the D language, of a "deep misunderstanding of compiler technology": https://news.ycombinator.com/item
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by Patient0 13y ago
Next time you might want to look up who Walter Bright is before jumping to the conclusion that you know more about compilers than he does ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Bright )
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by Patient0 13y ago
Interesting that they originally planned to have it cover Belgium too - if they'd actually finished it Germany would not have been able to go through Belgium after all. I wonder why they didn't finish it?
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by Patient0 13y ago
Site seems down - is it cached anywhere?
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by Patient0 13y ago
Exactly. You don't need a conspiracy to describe a stable but sub-optimal outcome: you just need it to be a Nash equilibrium.
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by Patient0 13y ago
Talking about the best way to construct a hash function without having any concept of the distribution of the things that it is hashing seems wrong. I don't understand how this article does not give any consideration to the distributio
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by Patient0 13y ago
Blaming David Cameron personally for this seems a bit of a reach: at this stage is there anything that actually shows that David Cameron himself knew about and approved of the detainment? He could still claim he knew nothing about the event
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Yale Game Theory lectures (2007)(oyc.yale.edu)
3 points by Patient0 13y ago|0 comments
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One year on from the Higgs boson find, has physics hit the buffers?(theguardian.com)
3 points by Patient0 13y ago|0 comments
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by Patient0 13y ago
This is from 2008. Could you add (2008) to the title?

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