adamgravitis

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by adamgravitis 12y ago
"an iconic font made for developers, code jedis, ninjas, HTTPsters, evangelists and nerds." Urgh. Why do people do this?
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by adamgravitis 12y ago
This is a vitally important point. Many people still naively believe entanglement allows communication. Simultaneous randomness doesn't permit a signal.
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by adamgravitis 12y ago
Having done some grad work in this area, I'd say this is a fairly superficial take on the topic. This certainly describes one area on the supply/demand curve, and perhaps even a pervasive one given that we essentially stopped b
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by adamgravitis 12y ago
When people talk about proofs of correctness of software, they don't generally mean some bloke has gone and worked out on paper a formal proof. It means that they have used provably correct methods and then run the whole thing through
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by adamgravitis 12y ago
With the exception of games, the items you mention aren't distracting much engineering talent from solving the big stuff. With $1.2m, Yo can directly compete for talent that might otherwise go to graduate school or make progress in a
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by adamgravitis 12y ago
And in what way, exactly, is that a virus? Epidemic, at a stretch. (I'm not typically this pedantic... I just think viruses have particularly interesting information dynamics and it's really weird to me when applied as a metaphor
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by adamgravitis 12y ago
“If a program can't rewrite its own code”, he asked, “what good is it?” Amen.
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by adamgravitis 12y ago
At least in this situation, you can see the entire affected control flow within four lines. goto generally becomes a problem when suddenly everything is short-circuiting everywhere and you can't see where control's getting passed
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by adamgravitis 12y ago
Similar semantics to git... it's a super robust approach.
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by adamgravitis 12y ago
Methyl, not metham. Rather substantial difference.
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by adamgravitis 13y ago
This is a very good summary of a future, but I don't think any sort of coin system will be particularly effective at mitigating either the spam nor DDoS problem for the wide variety of cases: if a botnet captures a computer, I expect
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by adamgravitis 13y ago
HFTs aren't really helping your situation at all. Other forms of liquidity generators might be, but HFTs are exploiting microsecond-level arbitrage opportunities. I've never heard of a small investor with sub-second execution re
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by adamgravitis 13y ago
Seems like there may be a correlation with: Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges (The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government) http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tacitus
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by adamgravitis 13y ago
It would be a difficult study... How many YC companies would have failed if they had not been accepted to YC? Certainly, a number of rejected companies who later failed may have thrived under YC.
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by adamgravitis 13y ago
Urgh. If only there were a simple protocol to transport mail between distributed systems so the world didn't grind to a halt when the central router died.
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by adamgravitis 13y ago
Looks like Zak's put a lot of effort into this one. Check out the "Hardware Ecosystem Overview" infographic in particular :-) http://blog.upverter.com/static/images/hardware_ecosystem.jp... [ discl
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by adamgravitis 13y ago
Misleading title; makes it sound like the Canadians were doing the holding.
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by adamgravitis 13y ago
This is outstanding. Thank you for the effort. Has there been any consideration of making a semantic version of the equations involved? The great thing about having this on the web, is I could easily see myself maintaining links in long
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by adamgravitis 13y ago
http://upverter.com Not just for kids anymore.
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by adamgravitis 13y ago
Very cool. Also check out the implementation of encapsulation in John Shutt's Kernel Lisp: http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~jshutt/kernel.html
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by adamgravitis 13y ago
I think it's fair to say just about anything is dangerous in C if you don't understand it...
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by adamgravitis 13y ago
yep - and it's manifestly not the "internet". It is, however, a network that bears some hardware similarity to internet backbones.
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by adamgravitis 13y ago
IIRC, it's supposed to be set exactly equal to pi upon Knuth's death.
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by adamgravitis 13y ago
They're all Eurozone now, so EU citizens can move between those countries without issue. Part of the population decline can be attributed to youth moving to central Europe for work. Additionally, other posters have been right about et
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by adamgravitis 13y ago
The big part is this: you get the equivalent of a green card - Permanent Residency. The Minister's office actually did a lot of research into this thing before launching it, and consciously didn't want to put talented people into
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by adamgravitis 13y ago
Anyone interested in this would immensely enjoy Meta Math! by Gregory Chaitin. Basically, he demonstrates that there are theorems which are randomly true: they're true for no particular reason. It's, of course, deeply connecte
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by adamgravitis 13y ago
I think I've noticed a pattern with these kinds of systems: its not a software problem; it's a policy problem. When designing (evolving, inventing) rules, regulations, policy, exceptions, limitations, audits, checks, balances, the bureaucra
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by adamgravitis 13y ago
This is a crucially important point. The question becomes: to what extent does the accumulation of capital, expertise, equipment in a corporation render a software engineer able to produce more value than working on their own, or in a part
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by adamgravitis 13y ago
This depends on the university. At UofT, for example, "software engineering" is actually taught outside of the engineering faculty, and is not CEAB approved... and therefore doesn't qualify.

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