ShardPhoenix

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by ShardPhoenix 13y ago
This is exactly what I've been hoping for - I'd like to write little games/etc in Scala, but it's a lot easier to distribute JS.
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by ShardPhoenix 13y ago
Earlier this year I decided I would buy 10 or so bitcoins if the price ever fell to $10, and so far I'm sticking to that.
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by ShardPhoenix 13y ago
They're clearly describing the opinions of (mainland) China, not the factual situation.
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by ShardPhoenix 13y ago
Intellij IDEA isn't so bad as an IDE (it's faster and less buggy than the Eclipse Scala plugin last time I checked), but SBT is utterly horrible. It's so awful I'd literally strongly prefer to use Ant (ie clunky scriptin
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by ShardPhoenix 13y ago
While Scala is indeed a bit overly complex (concept-wise), in practice working with both at an "enterprise" I've found it better overall than Java. Also, neither Kotlin nor Java 8 are available in non-beta form yet. My bigges
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by ShardPhoenix 13y ago
Just because genetics is important doesn't mean that talking doesn't help - and the difference is that talking is in the parents' control.
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by ShardPhoenix 13y ago
This might be an issue of thinking on the margin - that given their starting points, it's theoretically easier to get Israel or Russia to meet (leftist) American standards than to get Sudan to meet them.
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by ShardPhoenix 13y ago
Just because you brain is frozen doesn't necessarily mean that it will stay that way for long enough, or that it will remain in a readable state.
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by ShardPhoenix 13y ago
In this app we're doing a lot of serializing and deserializing of large JSON objects (using Jackson in Java and Json4S-Jackson in Scala), which is the main performance bottleneck.
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by ShardPhoenix 13y ago
># Generally, on an average, 1 line of Scala = 10 lines of Java. That's less maintainable LOC (it can be argued otherwise, but just assume it's a good thing) ># Performance. Now this is where Scala really shines. Scala'
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by ShardPhoenix 13y ago
> We’re making faster and more powerful CPUs, but getting the same kind of subjective application performance that we did a decade ago. My modern computer with an SSD feels subjectively faster/snappier to me than any computer I&#x27
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by ShardPhoenix 13y ago
The joke being that before they switched to the hyphenated url, it could be read as expert sex change.com
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by ShardPhoenix 13y ago
Someone who writes interesting things (often with a lot of statistical analysis) on http://www.gwern.net and Less Wrong.
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by ShardPhoenix 13y ago
If you're going to be that dramatic about it you could at least give some examples.
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by ShardPhoenix 14y ago
Having it externally can be an advantage in that it doesn't matter if you have an extraneous space when you type the code in because it will be cleaned up by the formatter, whereas making it part of the language makes that an error (and pos
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by ShardPhoenix 14y ago
Having good ease of doing business in general doesn't mean that Australia doesn't have a specific problem with startup equity and tax.
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by ShardPhoenix 14y ago
You might refuse if you're pre-commiting to fairness (which could be correct in some situations and decision theories).
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by ShardPhoenix 14y ago
Perhaps there's a delay in doing those 14 different requests? My phone is very fast when downloading apps, but sometimes still takes a long time to load a page.
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by ShardPhoenix 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity
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by ShardPhoenix 14y ago
(I misclicked and downvoted this instead of upvoting, apologies).
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by ShardPhoenix 14y ago
One of the campaigns in the Warcraft 3 expansion works like this (Warcraft 3 has RPG-style heroes leading the armies).
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by ShardPhoenix 14y ago
The fix for this is to give people the option to sell the items to the government at some high fraction (eg 75%) of the valuation, instead of paying the taxes.
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by ShardPhoenix 14y ago
It shows how fast computer technology moves these days that he spends the whole article talking about how hard and far-off this tech is, then casually mentions that it might be available in as little as 5 years.
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by ShardPhoenix 14y ago
Java is the reason that Scala has had any significant interest at all.
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by ShardPhoenix 14y ago
The fact that you are so emotionally invested in the subject is a good reason why you shouldn't be the one writing or creating the article in the first place.
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by ShardPhoenix 14y ago
Instead of notability, I'd prefer criteria of verifiability (ie there must be reliable sources) and objectivity (ie no marketing or self-promotion).
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by ShardPhoenix 14y ago
The concept of novelty accounts goes back to the earliest days of electronic text-based communication, and probably back to newspaper letter columns and whatnot before that.
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by ShardPhoenix 14y ago
No, it's always been about AI: "Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an
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by ShardPhoenix 14y ago
Diablo 3 has some issues (mainly rareness and badness of legendary items and excessive difficulty/frustration in Inferno), but I've still found it the most fun game I've played in quite a while. The most important part of the game - skills
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by ShardPhoenix 14y ago
He may have been right not to get caught in the bubble hype, but the internet has been revolutionary - sometimes literally.

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