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by _yosefk 10y ago
These can be valid points for some, and carry less weight for others (say, if you live in Paris and are offered a good job in London, and they help you deal with the visa stuff, for most it's probably also nice to be able to visit Pari
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by _yosefk 10y ago
"This country has decided they don't need you and me, they don't deserve our labour, our ideas and our taxes." What about an EU citizen deciding to move to the US, Canada, Australia, Brazil or India? These countries were
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by _yosefk 10y ago
It is not obvious to me that a compiler or JITter can generate low level code that is (A) free of bugs (compilers are notoriously buggy, as in hundreds of real bugs found by a single fuzzer like CSmith) and I don't want those bugs to h
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by _yosefk 10y ago
This is OT, but - most of linear algebra dies quickly even in single precision, meaning that your equation system solver produces a solution that doesn't really solve these equations, etc. One exception is neural networks where Google
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by _yosefk 10y ago
I think the new Stratix might well beat GPUs, not? The Reduceron specifically tries to quickly perform application of lambda expressions that GHC will try to avoid generating in the first place. The Reduceron speeds things up using several
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by _yosefk 10y ago
Alan Kay likes to fail at least 90÷ of the time (shows you aim high enough) and says the industry is too dumb to digest good ideas. I like to succeed at least 90÷ of the time so that the dumb industry keeps employing me. I'm afraid we
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by _yosefk 10y ago
#2 saves a little but not much and precludes unsafe low-level code completely. #1 I think impairs many HLLs, certainly every multithreaded imperative shared memory ones (and IMO nothing is close to these in terms of efficiency on multicore)
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by _yosefk 10y ago
You mean the great advances in Deep Learning we keep reading about did not revolutionize search? Still PageRank?
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by _yosefk 10y ago
It could be that people telling others about such quests seem to fail in those quests. Not sure most people seeking therapy for issues greatly bothering them are going to tell you.
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by _yosefk 10y ago
Well, I guess I agree with Rob Pike in that the "tools doing one job and doing it well philosophy is dead and the eulogy was delivered by Perl." I think you should write build rules in a programming language and a programming lang
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by _yosefk 10y ago
You use $(shell) and sed in there which I don't think is much different from $(foreach), and perhaps it's gnarlier. Perhaps my counterpoint is "a build system is a program using a library/framework for scheduling work ba
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by _yosefk 10y ago
I dunno, I've never seen a readable Makefile in any system above say 300 files. If you could write readable declarative Makefiles getting the job done, would there be autotools? This is not to say that autotools get the job done beauti
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by _yosefk 10y ago
This is the funniest thing I read today. The problem of course is how to trade them.
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by _yosefk 10y ago
Actually it's a 3 in one example, and the strongest of the 3 players is the strongest woman chess player ever. So I guess that yes, I think it's pretty strong evidence, and no, I don't hold this opinion particularly strongly;
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by _yosefk 10y ago
If my "value system" shouldn't apply to someone else, then you are making my point - women are less interested in pro chess than men, and their different value system is not a problem. If you do think it's a problem, you
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by _yosefk 10y ago
The father of the 3 Polgar sisters deliberately pushed them to play chess to prove a point. All 3 got very good, Judith was #10 in the world. This strongly suggests "not interested" is more true of other women than "not that
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by _yosefk 10y ago
A guy playing very shitty chess here. * Not sure if pro chess needs more women, men or computers spending their energy on it. I guess stuff like this is its own reward but being good at it comes at a price and competition guarantees that th
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by _yosefk 10y ago
I hear you, I just think you're a lot like that Soviet cybernetician [1], meaning that you think you're very close to the technology of that ever-elusive tomorrow, but you aren't :-) Of course it's not really fair to say
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by _yosefk 10y ago
There's a huge difference between a vertically integrated company competing for customers and vendors and the entire economy of a country, IMO. One evidence is that large companies keep ossifying and failing to adapt all the time which
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by _yosefk 10y ago
You mean today's computers can assign prices to existing products and decide which new products to develop better than the market? The iPhone coming out of a neural network which isn't close to passing even a pale shadow of the Tu
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by _yosefk 10y ago
It's good as long self-termination is a nice-to-have feature. If you REALLY want them to self-terminate but you found out that they mutated and can now synthesize X & Y, you're in trouble. Genetically modified organisms are a
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by _yosefk 10y ago
I think the attitude toward "self-enhancement" using mind-altering substances reflects the suspicion that it really isn't, meaning that the side effects are not worth the positive effects. People have very positive attitudes
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by _yosefk 10y ago
It doesn't seem easy to reason about the performance of a program under lazy evaluation. Generally there are many aspects of a system that you may want to reason about, and making it easier to reason about one often comes at the expens
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by _yosefk 10y ago
Right, because it's better to be paid $X/year and have 0 stock options than it is to be paid $X/year and have Y stock options, and no sane person would prefer the latter or negotiate for a Y large enough to be worth something
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by _yosefk 10y ago
"Treat as zero" is bad advice. "Treat as 10x or 50x cheaper than they say it is" - that's good advice. The difference is that 10x more equity solves a lot of problems with equity, and it's not what you'll
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by _yosefk 10y ago
Short-selling? Where's patio11? He said he badly wanted to short BTC, all that was lacking is a mechanism.
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by _yosefk 10y ago
Having dialed back to 3 days/week, I believe that "how much time I'm willing to spend working" is a somewhat orthogonal question to "what motivates me during the time when I'm working." Not entirely orthog
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by _yosefk 10y ago
What also amazes me is that the same heterodox crowd critiquing capitalism goes on to say "money doesn't make you happy", citing surveys of millionaires and billionaires who all say they'd be happy with 2x-3x their curre
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by _yosefk 10y ago
I'm guessing few would book a management consultant simply telling to pay people more money - consultants who want a job instead have to explain how to motivate for free. But the people who share a lot of the blame for this idiocy and
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by _yosefk 10y ago
It's not the cloud - it's the sad downside of the democratization of hardware design, as in fabs like TSMC and IP companies like ARM making it relatively cheap to make your own chips with competitive functionality in a wide range

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