alberich

9 ms·

31.
by alberich 14y ago
Isn't the title a bit imprecise? It seems the article is about leveraging things you learn playing starcraft to better use some software tools, not how starcraft gives you lessons about good design.
32.
by alberich 14y ago
Hm, I'm not sure a benchmark like these allows one to draw such conclusions. The benchmarks, although good, are a best case scenario and of limited aspects of those frameworks. Real applications don't behave like this. What if on the averag
33.
by alberich 14y ago
hm, does the iphone/ipad (as they are today) prevent people from being victim of link baits, spam, and stuff like that? If not... I don't see your point.
34.
by alberich 14y ago
Actually "cloud" can be traced to relatively old ideas like utility computing. It just was not very feasible back then. EDIT: "If computers of the kind I have advocated become the computers of the future, then computing may someday be organ
35.
by alberich 14y ago
I don't get it. What do people mean nowdays when they talk about being a "coder"? It seems everybody want's to build stuff before understanding the fundamentals of computing. I don't see how jumping right away to trying to build stuff for t
36.
by alberich 14y ago
> Easier to read, compare: (+ (expt 2 30) 2) with [+ [expt 2 30] 2]. Really? So now... in place of "lots of irritating superfluous parentheses" you get "lots of irritating superfluous square brackets"? meh
37.
by alberich 14y ago
I was referring to operating systems architectures, not only programming languages. While I believe you could write an operating system in Haskell, for instance, I don't know nothing about it's performance. However, microkernels, even thoug
38.
by alberich 14y ago
Totally safe I doubt there is. It seems there are safer languages (and OS designs). However, there are pratical considerations (e.g performance impact and stuff like that) which make such approaches unattractive for production use.
39.
by alberich 14y ago
Reading the story on the link made me feel envy :) I admire those who really understand how it all works under the hoods. Although I tried to learn assembly on my own a long time ago, I never went much further than reading some imput and pr
40.
by alberich 14y ago
How is that assembly has code as data just like Lisp? Is it possible to create executable code during runtime, change the language's syntax, and stuff like that, using assembly?
41.
by alberich 14y ago
Hm, while the economist's article points out how messy the process became, it doesn't makes an evaluation of how the default actually affected the argentinian economy. I think that Greece and Argentina will make a good examples for comparis
42.
by alberich 14y ago
Could you expand on why do you think it was a disaster? Argentina was pretty screwed up, I'm not sure it got any worse than it already was.
43.
by alberich 14y ago
> However, we had been together for over 7 years by that point Just for curiosity... did you start your relationship with 14 y/o? I guess playing video games was all I cared when I was this age :D
44.
by alberich 14y ago
> Why you'd "manipulated code as data"? To write DSLs? You cannot use JSON to create new syntax for your language. The whole idea of DSLs is to extend the language for the problem at hand. How would you do that with JSON? Say... how wou
45.
by alberich 14y ago
I don't see the point... the article begins with: > A landmark document created at the request of NATO has proposed a set of rules for how international cyberwarfare should be conducted. Really? As if people really followed the rules du
46.
by alberich 14y ago
>> I bet most of these super power languages will watch other pragmatic languages like Perl/Python/Ruby/Php etc eat their lunch over the next decade or so when they figure out more pragmatic means of achieving these goals. You know,
47.
by alberich 14y ago
It seems this sum is all they get, as they said most mechanics prefer to work on their own (informally) as they get more money. Besides, comissions don't contribute for their final retirement salary and stuff like that.
48.
by alberich 14y ago
Funny that I see companies complaining about the lack of skilled workers here in Brazil, but they are not startups... they just don't want to pay the price. They want engineers, programers, etc. with huge experience and paying a little. Jus
49.
by alberich 14y ago
I guess he addressed this point. There are plants well adapted to life on top of a tall mountain... though it's not the beautiful tall trees depicted on the mockups. I'm guessing those plants probably are short shrubs with dark green leafs
50.
by alberich 14y ago
> But the customers have stopped listening by now and are giggling along with a game that makes farting noises when you mash a red gradient rectangle with your nose. People just want to have fun with games, they don't care about how adv
51.
by alberich 14y ago
what about this one? https://github.com/nicholas22/jpropel-light
52.
by alberich 14y ago
Just an observation about the parentheses... Although it can be hard to make sense of the large number of parentheses, using good indentation (emacs does it for you) helps a lot. Of course Python makes it easier to figure out what code belo
53.
by alberich 14y ago
Looks like they didn't even consider using some basic weighted graph algorithms. It would at least look less dumb if the sims wouldnt choose to take a dirt road with heavy traffic jams.
54.
by alberich 14y ago
> I'm merely going to give you my highest-level take-away from trying Clojure: Then you go on the describe what you find good about haskell? That sounded weird.
55.
by alberich 14y ago
As always, there is a thin line between cheating and being ethical. You know... marketing by itself is not unethical, though when you use tricks to induce people to buy something even though you know it's not good for them, the line is cros
56.
by alberich 14y ago
One gripe I have about this article is that it tells people to burn gas. Okay... it won't harm your lungs (so much) but will help increase global warming (nice). The contents are fine, though the annalogies are bad (a diesel engine indling
57.
by alberich 14y ago
Oh, I thought it was gravity alone that did the work :) Thanks for explaining it.
58.
by alberich 14y ago
> a sheet of mylar experiences a higher drag than a steel nut of the same weight. Drag in space? At what altitude, more precisely, does the objects start to experiment drag or the lack of it therefore?
59.
by alberich 14y ago
> If it was a single player game we wouldn't be having these issues... because it wouldn't need server capacity to play, which is nothing to do with DRM. It could still have always-on DRM. Well, if the players still had to be connected
60.
by alberich 14y ago
"if someone resists an individual officer, it can easily turn into a justifiable self-defense shooting by the officer." That reminds me of that robocop scene where a robot enters the room and starts shooting everything heh.

More ›