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by asynchrony 9y ago
I don't see what could possibly be the long term issues with a decentralized version of Windows XP handling global currency exchanges.
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by asynchrony 9y ago
That's a very real danger. As much as I can side with the desire to have a human in the loop to observe the system, I'm not sure I trust any particular human to be free of bias or immune to emotional reactions that result in incor
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by asynchrony 9y ago
I was thinking more of high-functioning socio paths than people who have lost some mental capacity. I appreciate the benefit of your experience on the topic.
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by asynchrony 9y ago
I suspect that in at least some cases when the actual perpetrator discovers that law enforcement has focused in on the incorrect suspect and is expending great resources to prove that suspect's guilt, they simply take their get out jai
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by asynchrony 12y ago
The readme mentions that windows are draggable by holding alt.
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by asynchrony 12y ago
Can you add a link to the instructions?
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by asynchrony 12y ago
Copying the fingers is the most common operation. Every cons/decons requires copying one of the fingers. Operations that propagate deeper into the tree are lazy, so the primary factor affecting performance of common operations is time
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by asynchrony 12y ago
My understanding is that 4 is a relatively sweet spot for allowing efficient consing/deconsing of the finger nodes. I became fascinated by fingertrees a few years ago and created several toy implementations. I recall that the size of t
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by asynchrony 12y ago
In Javascript (contents !== null && contents !== undefined) is equivalent to (contents != null).
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by asynchrony 13y ago
Where are you getting this material advantage / ELO handicap ratio? At any rate I'm also a decent amateur (2350 ELO) and it's absolutely unsurprising that a (2200+) player easily beats very strong computers with bishop odds.
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by asynchrony 13y ago
Two bishops is still too much. An above average amateur chess player around ELO 2000 should regularly beat the world champion with two extra bishops.
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by asynchrony 13y ago
The majority of the games that you listed for console are also available for PC (on Steam).
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by asynchrony 13y ago
Javascript strings are immutable and literals are almost certainly preallocated and stored in a table of constants. Why should using a string keys cause heap allocations?
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by asynchrony 14y ago
Could you provide an example of a calculation that is more naturally expressed with concurrency?
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by asynchrony 14y ago
Perhaps we should first establish the precise benefits of individual consciousness.
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by asynchrony 14y ago
Hygienic macros prevent accidental symbol capture. They don't prevent intentional symbol capture. You may be thinking of the limitations of pattern based macros, but many Scheme systems provide hygienic procedural macros.
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by asynchrony 14y ago
Some people would argue that once you remove the JVM there isn't much there (that can't be found elsewhere).
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by asynchrony 14y ago
Except that ClojureScript is dependent on JVM Clojure, and if ClojureCLR were to take advantage of the CLR's capabilities (TCO and stack allocation, for example) it also wouldn't be Clojure. So we're really talking about dialects of Clojure
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by asynchrony 14y ago
Clojure is so closely tied to the JVM that it's hard to imagine it being the "100 year language" unless the JVM turns out to be the "100 year platform".
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by asynchrony 14y ago
I don't quite understand this distinction between liveness and hotswapping, as all the examples of liveness that I've seen involve hotswapping code that causes graphic or audio side effects, and clearly that sort of thing has very real prac
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by asynchrony 14y ago
I wonder if 4 comments to Godwin is a new record for Hacker News.
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by asynchrony 14y ago
So you're saying that 042-68-4425 belongs to Jean Paul Ludwig, and Harrison J Bounel, and Obama. And despite how trivial it would be to verify all of this, he's been elected president twice? I have to call bullshit. He's obviously a reptili
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by asynchrony 14y ago
Am I the only who really dislikes the use of the word "binary" to simply mean "executable"? In particular, calling an executable js file a "binary script" just seems wrong.
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by asynchrony 14y ago
Class declarations will be equivalent (can be desugared to) a function declaration and some manipulations of the function's prototype. JS VMs already optimize this pattern, so why should syntax sugar for classes be anything special for the
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by asynchrony 14y ago
The system will just spontaneously update to the next power-of-two bits when address space gets short. Problem solved.
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by asynchrony 14y ago
Recursion depth limit is really a memory limit, so you just need someone to come and install more RAM when you run out in order to obtain de facto infinite memory, hence infinite recursion depth.
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by asynchrony 14y ago
Translators and interpreters are still used in a fairly wide range of situations. I've worked both as a document translator and as a spoken interpreter in a number of manufacturing plants. After watching this video, I'm fairly confident tha
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by asynchrony 14y ago
Consider a balanced tree that only exposes an immutable interface but uses destructive updates internally when rebalancing. In principle it would be immutable, though it wouldn't necessarily be threadsafe without additional work.
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by asynchrony 14y ago
Have they ever explained why Pi is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter?
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by asynchrony 14y ago
Coffeescript doesn't add pattern matching.

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