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by adwhit 10y ago
> I've been watching Rust on that Benchmarks Game site for a while — it's been interesting to see it go from worse than Java a year or so ago to competitive with C++ To be clear, Rust-the-language has not sped up significantly
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by adwhit 10y ago
Can I lobby the government to change the law to lower my tax bill? No, I'm not wealthy enough. Top marginal income tax rates in the UK during the 60s were 98%.
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by adwhit 10y ago
HN tends to be extremely reactionary to posts like this. Perhaps because the tech/startup scene is all about getting rich quick, or perhaps because HN has come to partially reflect the personal views of PG. There will be a reckoning. T
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by adwhit 10y ago
Another oldie-but-a-baddie: http://www.thejaywalker.net/2010/12/system-v-semaphores-how-...
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by adwhit 11y ago
I did not try to dual-boot, I just flashed the BIOS and nuked the hard drive as per the instructions (which were clear and accurate). From the links you provide, it seems there may be a way to use chrx to get dual boot working. Perhaps ask
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by adwhit 11y ago
GalliumOS is a wonderful project. It has turned my $150 chromebook into a fully-fledged dev machine that works perfectly including all the fiddly things like sleep/wake, screen brightness, volume keys and secondary displays. And I get
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by adwhit 11y ago
Have you had a look at Hubble? https://hubblehq.com/
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by adwhit 11y ago
For assorted type system/PhantomData madness, see also: http://maniagnosis.crsr.net/2015/07/abstracted-algebra-in-ru... http://maniagnosis.crsr.net/2015/07/more-abstracted-algebra-..
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by adwhit 11y ago
I have recently been writing a Rust FFI for (an obscure dynamic array-language) Q. Unlike the OP, I didn't do it for speedups - in fact my Rust code is no faster than native Q. However there are other reasons to write FFIs - to benefit
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by adwhit 11y ago
I am excited about this release. Once things have settled down I think Ember 2.x will have a much shallower learning curve than 1.x. However it is a shame that routable components haven't made it in yet. I'm about to start a new,
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by adwhit 11y ago
Healthy food is cheaper. If you accept that raw/unprocessed food is healthier than processed, and that vegetables are healthier than meat, then this must be true, because processing food requires energy and raising livestock requires
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by adwhit 11y ago
How many millions of life-years have been lost due to the junk-food industry? To me they are murderers with expense accounts.
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by adwhit 11y ago
How odd, I see things completely differently. The Right focus on widening the gap between rich and poor and inadvertantly causing wealth destruction. The Left... there is no Left. But generally, when governments have focused on reducing ine
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by adwhit 11y ago
The tragedy, though, is because of the way the very rich are embedded at the very top of political and economic power structures, they got away scott-free and are now more powerful than ever [1]. Their wealth is pure rent-extraction and the
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by adwhit 11y ago
Rent for my 1-bed flat in London zone 3: £19000/year. Can London really continue to have an interesting tech scene under such circumstances? Tech wages (outside the financial sector) are around £30k-£60k.
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by adwhit 11y ago
> “Amazon Web Services is a $5 billion business and still growing fast -- in fact it’s accelerating, Revenue 2013: $1000 Revenue 2014: $1690 (+ $690) Revenue 2015: $2518 (+ $828) With those figures you could still argue that growth (in
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by adwhit 12y ago
I'm always amazed when I hear a developer state that they use Windows by choice. Frankly it makes me look down upon them - no matter how successful they are (and this fellow is clearly very successful). I have to use Windows at work ev
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by adwhit 12y ago
For those who are confused - this website is just a rendering of Rosetta Code snippets. You can change the URL to display any two language e.g. http://rosetta.alhur.es/compare/rust/c/ So it is not and is not
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by adwhit 12y ago
Nice! I made something very similar last year[0] but never really found the time to polish it to my satisfaction. [0] http://www.rosettaclone.org/
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by adwhit 12y ago
It happens to be the example UUID on wikipedia [1]. Not so unique, after all? [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier
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by adwhit 12y ago
Try the share trick: http://www.quora.com/Object-Oriented-Programming/Was-object-...
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by adwhit 12y ago
Is this a "food + drinks in evening" kind of warmup or "food + drinks + talks in the daytime" kind of warmup? I'm interested regardless.
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by adwhit 12y ago
I think Rust has been bad for me. I'm interviewing for my first technical role at the moment and all I keep talking about is how much I love Rust and look at these cool things I made in Rust and I want to program in Rust all the time.
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May was hottest on Earth since records began(theguardian.com)
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London Technology Week programme(londontechnologyweek.co.uk)
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by adwhit 12y ago
Quoting from the response: a 44% wealth share for the top 10% (and a 12.5% wealth share for the top 1%, according to the FT) would mean that Britain is currently one the most egalitarian countries in history in terms of wealth distribution
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by adwhit 13y ago
Well at first glance I assumed that it couldn't be run correctly because of the dependency on "big.txt". But digging a little deeper it turns out you can download that file (which happens to be the Project Gutenburg text of T
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by adwhit 13y ago
Unusually for an online notebook, the cells have been saved in an unexecuted state. Making the page uninteresting if not worthless.
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by adwhit 13y ago
I am said Hacker Schooler who issued the challenge. I thought I'd done well with a Rust solution that ran in 42ms [0]. I was well and truly pwned, as they say (but at least I got some sleep last night). [0] http://rosettacod
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by adwhit 13y ago
The best science says that climate change is probably going to make a large fraction of the world practically uninhabitable in less than a hundred years. Climate change is quite possibly the one and only story of the 21st century. What coul

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