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by _yosefk 10y ago
Skype, Nokia, Minecraft, LinkedIn. Also Yahoo, almost, at one point. Best of luck to Microsoft with its latest acquisition. It doesn't look that sensible though.
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by _yosefk 10y ago
"The C++ community flames the Rust community" right in this thread. TFA didn't say there was no merit to the "safe C++ subset" [1], just that it's not here yet, it's not going to be as safe as Rust, and
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by _yosefk 10y ago
Children, grandmas and people of every other age cannot set up and maintain a website as you'd most certainly agree, and as a nephew or any other relative I would at this point refuse to help because of the maintenance part which the
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by _yosefk 10y ago
Why do you have to be like AMD - why can't you be like Apple, Qualcomm, NVIDIA, or, well, about any successful/large chip maker other than Intel and Samsung? Regarding the edge of technology - Intel doesn't beat others to a n
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by _yosefk 10y ago
He also mentions the dominance of Google, Facebook and Twitter. Making a usable distributed alternative to these (or to Amazon, Airbnb, etc. etc. - even HN) is not an easy technical problem. It does not help that making money off such a dis
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by _yosefk 10y ago
"Biomimicry has always been the way forward in every industry" Care to elaborate? Certainly classical computers don't look a whole lot like the information processing of any living being (I guess one could argue that they mim
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"It costs more to make a chip than a plane" - nope, not if you don't build the fabs as Intel does. Of course Bloomberg (or at least many people there) should and does know better.
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by _yosefk 10y ago
Do you think the keylogger running on your and my machine came in by exploiting the ME or a C buffer overflow somewhere in the OS or userspace code that sister claims you "control"?
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Prediction: over time, there will remain no commercially significant high-end chips without this sort of a "security subsystem." Recommending ARM, PowerPC or other architectures over x86 as the FSF suggests will not get you very f
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by _yosefk 10y ago
I've seen and ported such programs. I no longer remember what the problems were, but I think some of them had to do with array initializers - C++11 seems to have become stricter wrt implicit casts of values used to initialize arrays (m
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by _yosefk 10y ago
I'm not sure C++ is more stable than Rust. It's pretty stable but it does introduce breaking changes and code written 10 years ago will not compile as C++11 without changes. Of course if you need to port C++ code across platforms,
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by _yosefk 10y ago
As a dissident under the Soviet system, Korchnoi didn't have the chance to prove himself in international competition in his twenties or thirties I don't think he was a dissident in his twenties or thirties, and he did play in i
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by _yosefk 10y ago
This is not your usual endorsement to say the least: "I would be a top-ten assassination target in that scenario because once you define Trump as Hitler, you also give citizens moral permission to kill him. And obviously it would be ok
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by _yosefk 10y ago
Apart from PageRank not being based on ML, there's also the fact that Google did better search than those other services which also had the data, and it does better search than Bing now though Microsoft has no shortage of data, process
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by _yosefk 10y ago
You can say this about any level of democracy though (that its downside is populistic decisions, or, more precisely, decisions that you or I think are wrong.) It's easy to find a country where most decisions are made by elected leaders
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by _yosefk 10y ago
I use gdb's Python API all the time, and I'm really happy that they have it. It's good for custom pretty-printing (well, almost - I wish p vec[6] worked well and not just print vec if vec has a pretty printer defined for its
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by _yosefk 10y ago
Erm... I wouldn't say that the average liberal feels that there's much they don't know, and that they might be wrong about a lot of things. (I wouldn't say that the average conservative is like that, either.) I believe t
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by _yosefk 10y ago
You mean how many chip cycles he needs , right? How many he's got we all know: maybe 2. Then CMOS scaling is over. (Not that things will completely stop evolving, but they'll surely slow down.)
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by _yosefk 10y ago
I think you can do that test by comparing pointers, you just can't subtract them. (The SO answer you link to also points out that comparing and subtracting are different, but I'm not sure that what I said follows.) In practice,
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TTIP is pushed by corporations , not individual rich people. A corporation will want that even if every one of its stockholders has a below-median wealth. More generally, organizations and people working for them will pursue their goals an
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"Nowadays, most of the liquidity is happening for large companies paying for startups and hedge funds buying into the latest round. So when this crash happens, it's mostly going to affect the later-stage investors," Blank say
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by _yosefk 10y ago
IMO what the article talks about is the business model, not the culture, they are two separate things - not entirely separate, but mostly. Business model is Apple shipping devices and Google providing ad-supported services over the Internet
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by _yosefk 10y ago
LoopIdiomRecognize::recognizePopcount? Then I think it's more about "the surprising ability of modern compilers to recognize popcount" than general "cleverness." (I suspected it was this kind of thing, but I thought
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by _yosefk 10y ago
Indeed, Clang/LLVM did a stellar job here. It'd be interesting to know how (in part to understand what situations can one expect this sort of thing to happen; for instance, I'd be surprised if IEEE floating point emulation co
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by _yosefk 10y ago
I didn't know the part where the standard lets you malloc a buffer, write it as int, read it as int, then write it as float, and read it as float, all without freeing, and how the compiler thus has to treat heap memory differently from
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by _yosefk 10y ago
I think programmers overestimate the value of programmatic problem solving. IMO it's slightly under understanding how cars work (something I have no idea about and as a result, I waste money on new leased cars so as to avoid maintaini
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by _yosefk 10y ago
Actually KCachegrind displays files in an open format and is great for visualizing profiling info obtained from other tools.
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I've used Win32 (I guess calling it that in the 64b era dates me) including some of the COM stuff, though I guess not as extensively as you did (TFA definitely brought some memories, the stuff looks a lot like the usual Win32 stuff.) I
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This API is for people (both program authors and users) who really know quite well what they're doing, for very rare occasions, and the alternative/status quo was to not be able to get this info from the kernel at all. I imagine s
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by _yosefk 10y ago
I met a guy I studied with recently, he found my blog and invited me to dine together. It turns out he managed a team of remote workers, and he ranted how those office buildings where you catch infectious diseases are a thing of the past (h

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