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by _yosefk 12y ago
But - but! Saying that you want your org to use one version of a library at a time is one thing. Saying that you want your code to use the latest version of every library is another thing altogether, however, and that's what "no
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by _yosefk 12y ago
No it's not - if I put up more webpages than you, the first random page is more likely to be mine than yours. The only truly egalitarian algorithm is to send all queries to a state-run committee of experts and have them sort it out. Th
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by _yosefk 12y ago
Well, it kinda depends on exactly what the breaking changes are and how much code they break, don't you think? Certainly none of the languages you mention in the grandparent comment broke Hello, world. It's also a question of what
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by _yosefk 12y ago
It's not fair to compare a programmable circuit with a fixed-function circuit though, because programmability is often a requirement.
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by _yosefk 12y ago
Machine learning software will tend to use floating point, hence the result IMO. In HFT for instance I'd expect things to be the opposite.
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by _yosefk 12y ago
One (longish) shortcut is getting the info from the debugger which already knows. That is, in the build system, compiling a file #including what you want, firing a debugger, printing out the necessary type information, generating code, buil
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by _yosefk 12y ago
Do you get more throughput per dollar with FPGA relative to GPUs? Most certainly, except for floating point stuff, especially double precision. (Finance would care much less than scientific computing and I think FPGAs are way more prominent
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by _yosefk 12y ago
Author here. I didn't write the follow-up yet because it requires a lot of research and I'm busy :-) If you ask me, GPUs are anything but "the new FPGA". GPUs are the least efficient hardware accelerator out there, but a
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by _yosefk 12y ago
What if you have binaries compiled from proprietary code bases from umpteen vendors using different compilers and compiler options and what-not, and they all use the Internet for self-updating and stuff and they all need to be patched? How
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by _yosefk 12y ago
Interesting signal processing - perhaps. I mentioned DRAM because * An FPGA could do it and the GA chips probably can't, * You can't do a whole lot of embedded DSP apps without DRAM - it's not a question of "trying to be
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by _yosefk 12y ago
How about a DRAM interface? That is both necessary for sufficiently complex applications, and damned hard. An FPGA can do it, for some frequency (though many FPGAs come with a hard DRAM interface to save area and improve the frequency.) Thi
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by _yosefk 12y ago
"A fully fledged independent computer"? You need several such "computers" to compute an MD5 checksum according to an application note at their site. Anything anyone in the industry dares to call a "core" (apart
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by _yosefk 12y ago
Sure, but there are also plenty of cases where you don't care. Why make everyone everywhere bother with HTTPS? If you want to protect the user, as a browser, go ahead and yell or block access, but only when the user's data is at r
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by _yosefk 12y ago
It seems kinda wrong to require encryption for say a static website receiving no input from the user in the first place. Perhaps the web browser's shouting about security issues could be delayed until the moment when something happens
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by _yosefk 12y ago
I laughed, though it doesn't quite work, and I don't quite know how to fix it. In America, companies break the law. In Soviet Russia, the law breaks companies. Or something
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by _yosefk 12y ago
Software companies have it easy compared to artists - their products often have teeth (being hosted at a server is an obvious example, as are many more or less effective anti-piracy measures and ability to relatively easily go after infring
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by _yosefk 12y ago
Good luck with your venture. One thing that I really hope is more refined than the rough description on the site is the "revenue per minute watched" model for paying creators. YouTube has switched to this model at some point (prev
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by _yosefk 12y ago
I think the article is about the difficulties in capturing said Value, especially given cheap digital copying, and it contains a vague promise that the author's company might help, without telling how. Did I miss something?
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by _yosefk 12y ago
Rules must be such that enough people enjoy watching the fights, and enough people agree to fight. Presumably, few will agree to fight if nothing is off limits, and even if that is false, few will have the chance to gain the skills making t
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by _yosefk 12y ago
How about: * "publicly distributed information" is a shop's name and a perpetrator adds racist slurs to that name (the shop is operated by a member of a race disliked by the racist in question.) * the act of "rearrangeme
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by _yosefk 12y ago
What if I wear something terribly ugly according to a street artist and he throws a pie at me? What if I paint the walls of my house and a street artist decides my taste is intolerably poor and sprays the walls? What if I own a shop and adv
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by _yosefk 12y ago
"Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours." That's an interesting conception of one's natural rights in a public space, given that basically nothing in a public space &qu
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by _yosefk 12y ago
A different angle - from someone averse to competitions and trading of most kinds: both have simple cost functions, unlike most of the rest of life. Yeah, it will tend to simplify politics which I think is a good thing. But in other areas
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by _yosefk 12y ago
I want "something", that something being backwards compatibility and long-term support, for $100-150. Can I get it from Ubuntu or any other Linux/Unix? I sure as hell get it from Microsoft.
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by _yosefk 12y ago
You need to know how the sentences were constructed then. In their Turing-test-lookalike webpage you get to guess based on the final sentence, which is kinda pointless without the conversation part of the test which precludes canned respons
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by _yosefk 12y ago
Define "write." Is the output of printf("Should I compare %s to a summer's day", name) written by a human or a computer? If it's defined to be "written by a human", then I bet that most (all?) of thei
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by _yosefk 12y ago
Agreed, to an extent, though you underestimate the hateful parking app :-)
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by _yosefk 12y ago
For me, and I hate all sorts of smart objects with a passion, a smartphone's killer apps (that is, what makes me own the hateful thing) are: * GPS navigation (when I drive - or walk somewhere abroad) * Camera * WhatsApp (glorified SMSe
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A Sokoban levels design programming contest(sokoban-gild.com)
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by _yosefk 12y ago
More consistent perhaps - though tremendously inconsistent between distributions, and versions of a given distribution, in an absolute sense... I read somewhere that Bill Gates said in the 80s that Unix has a versions/forks problem w

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