Ultimatt

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by Ultimatt 8y ago
If anyone's wondering how you get autoviv in Python, its surprisingly gross/elegant/fun depending on how much you use the phrasing "pythonic" in your interaction with people. some_autoviv_variable = defaultdict(lamb
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by Ultimatt 8y ago
This guys code on GH is quite a bit better and broad than plenty of actual hires I've been part of. Kind of ridiculous someone who's gone as far as understanding and playing with cellular automata off their own back can't fin
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by Ultimatt 8y ago
Luckily Ubuntu on a Pentium II might be dog slow but most programming languages will work just fine.
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by Ultimatt 8y ago
These people should have asked to see a sample of what they were going to have to work on.
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by Ultimatt 8y ago
Youre already paying for their bullshit job indirectly but theyre miserable. Why not pay for them to be happy. Thats the definition of a BS job. I have a job thats meaningful to me. I am willing to work without pay for that even. If being a
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by Ultimatt 8y ago
Apart from surgeons dont say that, and people with bullshit jobs do. Your argument is even more baseless. Youve highlighted the problem with the metric but Im not convinced its more noise than signal. Plus if every surgeon found their work
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by Ultimatt 8y ago
Silicone is the stuff of shower sealant and plastic surgery. Silicon is the thing embeded circuits are made of. FWIW. The idea of a silicone valley did make me smile though, thanks for that.
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by Ultimatt 8y ago
Not sure why you would even remotely assume genetics over just skills being passed down..? Pre war if you look at careers in census everyone used to do what their parents did. Its because its what they taught you!
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by Ultimatt 8y ago
This is still ultimately a limitation not an impossibility. I can easily imagine some form of tissue deposition like 3D printing where you use laser activated gene regulation to control cell fate of the stem cells digitally at high spatial
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by Ultimatt 8y ago
Ultimately its down to dimensionality CPUs (at least originally) were designed for scalar calculation, you loaded something a piece at a time from RAM and did a single scalar calculation before putting it back into RAM, rinse repeat. A GPU
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by Ultimatt 8y ago
The fault hardly matters, the issue is one of safety. Humans are not safe already. Yet you feel entirely fine on the road. Humans are clearly not the same as ANNs but they are a network of neurones and the cognitive ability of a driver is n
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by Ultimatt 8y ago
Only when everyone learns a major property of fake breasts isn't that they solve computational problems via the field effect.
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by Ultimatt 8y ago
Yeah because all the verified neural networks made from meat travelling >100mph are legit ok to drive 100% of the time. There are no road accident deaths to speak of.
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JetBrains interview creator of Comma an IntelliJ based IDE for Perl 6(blog.jetbrains.com)
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by Ultimatt 8y ago
> This just seems to be heavily misguided elitism. Not really. There is a bit too much meet you at the bottom communism in the modern ethos of computer science. When you can have measured difficulty and time to skill in a field isn'
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by Ultimatt 8y ago
If you're going to Mars there is plenty of room for cancer research as part of that. Unless spending years exposed to the solar wind is fine with everyone. Plus this argument is bullshit. Why spend more on cancer when only a third or l
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by Ultimatt 8y ago
In startups a lot of technical debt is more organisational debt and lack of role specific hiring and poor decisions at a higher level early on when you do have to move quickly. For every "full stack engineer" you want a real syste
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by Ultimatt 8y ago
Or Jupiter is just the failed to to get big and ignite companion and there are models for that.
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by Ultimatt 8y ago
As someone who actually glares at Perl quite frequently can I gently request you take that slight back. Or at least qualify it to be "perl regex". Unless youve used Perl 6 (a different language) and not found it readable youd do w
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by Ultimatt 8y ago
Yup and in the UK because freight is all on tax payer paid roads private rail has become incredibly expensive for normal people travelling.
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by Ultimatt 8y ago
Yup both right. All the clues were there >:3 I could have used Inf instead of the unicode but thats not really whimsical enough for Hacker News. A slightly less listy pattern style is to declare types. Like I'd prefer this sort of d
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by Ultimatt 8y ago
Or in my fave language: my @primes = (1..∞).grep: *.is-prime; my @twin_primes = map { ($_, $_+2) }, @primes.grep: (*+2).is-prime;
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by Ultimatt 8y ago
There is an intermediate language the Rakudo compiler is implemented in called NQP. That split from the Parrot project to support several VMs as the stuff emitted as the "compiled" code. For a while Parrot and JVM were supported s
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Perl 6 Intro now comes in 13 languages after recently including Russian(perl6intro.com)
3 points by Ultimatt 8y ago|0 comments
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Brief History of JIT in MoarVM for Perl 6(brrt-to-the-future.blogspot.com)
83 points by Ultimatt 8y ago|19 comments
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by Ultimatt 8y ago
No they expect you to learn COBOL and keep the economic machine turning.
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by Ultimatt 8y ago
Scaling individuals gets you output at the quality of the very best individuals. Scaling the people gets you the best the average of the people can deliver. The vast majority of useful and highly complex software at least in its initial for
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by Ultimatt 8y ago
__sr__ you're aware open source actually works. Largely because a tonne of people have entirely the opposite attitude to you for social tasks? Unless you haven't noticed Wikipedia exists... I worked on that long before it was main
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by Ultimatt 8y ago
I call bullshit on this. Literally they are the generation who fostered war in Europe. Look at Brexit its the younger people defending peaceful and gradual unification, the older people want Britain to be "great again". We've
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You are also likely still getting paid more. 80% of an offer for someone who can negotiate 20% of the year off is still likely to be more enticing pay than anyone working a tonne of free overtime.

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