anatoly

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by anatoly 16y ago
While the idea itself is worthwhile, I didn't see any explanation why these books and not others were selected, and no underlying structure to the choices made by the author. He also frequently lists several books covering the same topic wi
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Haven't seen it, will try - thanks!
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It's often misattributed to Borges. It was written (in prose) by columnist Don Herold in 1953 for the _Reader's Digest_. Since then it underwent several changes, has been attributed to several authors, was broken into a verse form, was tran
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by anatoly 16y ago
Reading right now: Charlie Stross, Halting State. Jacques Barzun, An Essay On French Verse: For Readers of English Poetry. Recently finished: James Shapiro, Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? (nonfiction, highly recommended; more about
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by anatoly 16y ago
People mostly don't wait in line anymore - they buy tickets through a website. The tickets aren't there, because the scalpers pre-bought them. Now people need to waste time looking for scalpers to buy tickets from, and pay lots more money t
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by anatoly 16y ago
Why are you dismayed? What is it in particular that you see wrong with such condemnation? I share it and in fact thought the response on reddit was relatively tame. I think it's very reasonable to consider domain squatters to be parasites w
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by anatoly 16y ago
So what's it like? Tell us more.
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Recorded music. The most bewildering thing about us to our descendants 80 years from now would be that millions of people routinely walked around with headphones, tuned to radio stations, or walked around public spaces, listening to exactl
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by anatoly 16y ago
About a year ago, I refreshed my memory of basic probability theory with Bertsekas & Tsitsiklis Introduction to Probability and really enjoyed their approach.
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by anatoly 16y ago
For linear algebra, Sheldon Axler's _Linear Algebra Done Right_. For analysis, Stephen Abbott's _Understanding Analysis_. These two books will give you a very solid grounding in the undergraduate linear algebra and analysis. Personally, I a
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by anatoly 16y ago
The boring answer is that there is no particular nerd-rage directed against IDEs. There are many nerds who prefer IDEs and there are many nerds who prefer text editors. The modern culture encourages us to self-identify as rebels breaking aw
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See also the "shut up and calculate" interpretation of quantum mechanics.
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In the case I had in mind, the threads were CPU-bound and the programmers naively thought that they were running concurrently. For someone coming from a C++ or Java background, that's a natural assumption to make, and Python doesn't put up
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by anatoly 16y ago
Being aware of and managing my ignorance. I don't know if I can describe this very well, and I've only recently started explicitly noticing this about myself, but I seem to have a well-developed intuition of how much I am "in the dark" abou
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by anatoly 16y ago
Few people are able to blog and then _not_ worry about who's reading it and who isn't, why there aren't any comments or there are some hostile/stupid ones, etc. etc. This can become a major source of distraction, and for some, obsession.
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by anatoly 16y ago
Because when Britain switched from coal gas to natural gas (low in carbon monoxide), the national suicide rate dropped by 40%.
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by anatoly 16y ago
You read these reports because these are unusual results, and people consider them achievements to be mentioned. If it were normal for competent developers to crank out completed projects in an evening or during lunch, you wouldn't see the
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by anatoly 16y ago
"Why are you here, soldier?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHY8NKj3RKs
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by anatoly 16y ago
A data point: the first version of memcached was written in perl. It was pretty good perl, with an async epoll-based event loop and everything. It was hopeless, orders of magnitude away from the desired performance.
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The Great Vowel Shift happened after Chaucer, but was mostly complete by Shakespeare's time. One important change in vowels that didn't happen yet by Shakespeare's time was the unrounding of short u, that is, the modern sound in words like
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by anatoly 16y ago
Yeah, there're many. Here're a few examples: - the gas/pass divide: in many British accents pass is pronounced like 'pahs', but gas retains the same vowel as in American accents. gas and pass will basically always rhyme in America, but in B
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by anatoly 16y ago
I honestly don't understand why this is called a "web server", and not a "reverse proxy", which is what it appears to be. I also don't understand what "self-hosting" means for a reverse proxy written in C. It appears to mean "it compiles an
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by anatoly 16y ago
I see what you're trying to do, but it won't work this way. Since your termination condition is z_terminated[index], you must never look beyond index, yet you access [index+write]. This alone means the code's buggy. The second version is si
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by anatoly 16y ago
Interesting. I didn't try to do the assignment when I read the first part, but just tried it now before looking at the second part. When I started to write the main loop, I felt uneasy when I realized I'd be doing unnecessary copying in the
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by anatoly 16y ago
The column that introduced Lisp is from Hofstadter's era. It's collected in his _Metamagical Themas_.
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I recommend Terminus (it's not in the list).
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I use vim in a minimalistic fashion; I've never talked to you about it. My guess is that you haven't talked to other than a minuscule portion of vim-using developers around the globe, and are presenting your prejudice as fact.
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by anatoly 16y ago
No, my argument is that your argument is misleading because it ignores the fact that Apple doesn't have a choice in keeping Webkit open. It's possible that they would want to and possible they would not want to, if they had a choice. When t
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by anatoly 16y ago
None, because the source code to Internet Explorer isn't based on an LGPL library and so can be kept proprietary. Now, how many Microsoft OSes refuse to run in a virtualization environment on non-approved hardware? How many treat such execu
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Webkit has to be run in the open; it's originally based on KHTML and inherits its LGPL.

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