anaphor

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811.
by anaphor 13y ago
He also got very little sleep apparently (This is according to Turing's Cathedral by George Dyson), which we also know to cause a drop in productivity/thinking skills for most people.
812.
by anaphor 13y ago
I have a pair of Denon AH-D2000s and they work pretty well for this purpose. It doesn't do the job perfectly though it cuts out most idle chatter.
813.
by anaphor 13y ago
There has been some research done into why this is (I'm citing a personality course I took), and it could be because some people's brains have a lack of stimulation, and others are overstimulated. The people lacking stimulation fi
814.
by anaphor 13y ago
Because the theme music is awesome
815.
by anaphor 13y ago
You're the one using the wrong words: actual experts on concurrency and parallelism disagree with you: http://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/03/17/parallelism-... http://blog.golang.org&#x
816.
by anaphor 13y ago
Actually it is important to learn about, because it's possible to do parallelism without bringing in the issues of concurrency (non-determinism, synchronization) and thus write code with less potential for serious bugs.
817.
Simon Marlow on lightweight threads vs. events (2010)(stackoverflow.com)
5 points by anaphor 13y ago|0 comments
818.
by anaphor 13y ago
Thanks, people need to learn the difference between concurrency and parallelism ffs, I'm tired of explaining the difference all the time.
819.
by anaphor 13y ago
Completely agree. This is extremely basic stuff you should be doing on supposedly secure systems. It should be difficult to disable logging, and logs obviously shouldn't be stored on the same machine with write access to anyone who m
820.
by anaphor 13y ago
Really? They didn't consider the notion that someone might delete logs (or disable logging)? Maybe they should be using a better logging daemon...
821.
by anaphor 13y ago
Doesn't this defeat some of the advantages of using XML though? Like Xpath?
822.
by anaphor 13y ago
I use vim, so no. Also Bram Moolenaar works for Google so I don't think he needs my money.
823.
by anaphor 13y ago
I just donated 20 dollars. Nginx is a really excellent example of how to do concurrency correctly imo, and I think they deserve a lot more.
824.
by anaphor 13y ago
Great, that seems to have fixed several bugs I've been encountering as well (if I switched tabs the firebug UI would disappear).
825.
by anaphor 13y ago
Yeah, I meant that it's not exactly the same level. Certain implementations of RSA were using broken sources of entropy, but it's not the same as "Bob always uses his address as his password" which has no entropy.
826.
by anaphor 13y ago
Yeah, when I originally read about this I thought more or less the same thing. A low amount of entropy is already assumed in various attacks (like dictionary attacks), or even just guessing based on your knowledge of the person who created
827.
by anaphor 13y ago
You can create lightweight threads built on delimited continuations in javascript, same as any language that supports thunks reified as functions.
828.
by anaphor 13y ago
Yeah, I should've said "all". I know that you can describe regular grammars using languages designed for CFGs, like BNF.
829.
by anaphor 13y ago
Do you mean that some regex implementations allow you to parse context-free grammars?
830.
by anaphor 13y ago
Why isn't anyone doing languages that compile to a trampolined form of JS? It would kill two birds with one stone: you get to write recursive code without wasting memory, and you can easily implement a lightweight thread scheduler. It
831.
by anaphor 13y ago
Chomsky doesn't think we should be trying to observe how people use language on a mass scale, so screw him imo. See: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3180 "The other argument has to do with the methods
832.
by anaphor 13y ago
gmail was just down in southern Ontario, working okay now...
833.
by anaphor 13y ago
Does language documentation count? If so, http://docs.racket-lang.org/ is probably as good as it gets.
834.
Frances Brooke: Destroyer of English(languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)
1 points by anaphor 13y ago|0 comments
835.
by anaphor 13y ago
The GIL is not an issue if you aren't interested in doing parallelism, and if you are then there are much better ways of doing it that don't rely on non-determinism (and thus are easier to reason about). You only really need pytho
836.
by anaphor 13y ago
That is a good point, although I still find it suspicious, especially given some of their previous questions. E.g. the one where he/she created two Haskell data types that looked the same but were using different characters in their na
837.
by anaphor 13y ago
If you look through the questioner's history it seems like they enjoy making these sorts of threading/synchronization errors, as well as getting angry/trolling. I wouldn't be surprised if the story about losing the 12 mi