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by aufreak3 13y ago
The memory tax for GCed language was written up in [1]. The blog post [2] (which is a great read that I recommend) summarized it like this - "As long as you have about 6 times as much memory as you really need, you’re fine. But woe be
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by aufreak3 13y ago
> I like all of these tools but can't help feeling I'd be more effective if I could just get at the underlying code half the time (in cases where that's not an option). I've seen novices do cool stuff with Max without
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by aufreak3 13y ago
Extract from the abstract - "People consistently report that sound is the most important source of information in evaluating performance in music. However, the findings demonstrate that people actually depend primarily on visual inform
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by aufreak3 13y ago
> an amount that would rid the hungry part of the planet for 2 years I meant "rid the planet of hunger for 2 years"! What a typo!
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by aufreak3 13y ago
It feels odd to lift this to a problem with an "ism" and ignore the people behind it. The problem I have with the original article is that it seems to think that innovation and markets consist of investors, entrepreneurs and nas
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by aufreak3 13y ago
> ... the issue is that a program has at least two different logical structures: its lexical organization in text, and its dynamic organization in time. That's a concise way to put it and I'll certainly remember and reuse it! D
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by aufreak3 13y ago
Though true, the "banners" aren't always obvious. Some folks may have a complementary mission. The golang authors are perhaps not directly working to "organize the world's information", for instance and their b
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by aufreak3 13y ago
> "Folks like Musk" are smart enough to know that the progress of humanity, the great and meaningful leaps of technology to strive for, are accomplished by people solving those hard problems under a common banner. That's a
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by aufreak3 13y ago
Computing is in a sad state today, but not because of fucking callbacks. It's in a sad state today because we're still thinking about problems on this level at all. The unfortunate part about thinking about prob
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by aufreak3 13y ago
(Don't mean to divert this thread from Kal, but this is on the topic of "callbacks are bad" etc.) For some time now, I've been accumulating async patterns I've needed when writing JS code in my monadic IO.js library
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by aufreak3 13y ago
This is exactly what I thought as well. An interesting twist is to think whether we'd consider our entire universe to be alive - perhaps like an egg with an embryo in it. There you go, you have the "hugest" thing possible :)
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by aufreak3 13y ago
At the same time, I can't help but grin that we on the CS side find a way to erase all the gains in performance and efficiency as soon as the EE guys make them. Here is one way I can think of - add a layer to run a s
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by aufreak3 13y ago
It was both a pleasure and a pain for me to read about this! Pleasure - because a language with closures is finally getting "closer to the metal" (even if it means an abstraction layer sitting in between). Pain - because that la
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by aufreak3 13y ago
A mentor of mine drew the line like this (paraphrased) -- a "startup" is a new company with some innovation at its core. Without the focus on innovation , most discussions tend to drift off into categorical murk such as whether
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by aufreak3 13y ago
I didn't come across the HN post when the original article was posted. I think the original article has many warning signs of "sophomoric" thinking to warrant rapid dismissal. The first big bold warning sign is this - &
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by aufreak3 13y ago
Vendor prefixes appear to be on the way out. For experimental not-a-standard-yet kind of features, the preference seems to be a browser config switch like "chrome://flags". This is "a good thing" methinks.
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by aufreak3 13y ago
(wave) Some years ago though. Wrote the "style browser" stand-alone application in DrScheme. Damn! Feeling nostalgic about Scheme as I browse through some old code :) https://code.google.com/p/muvee-style-auth
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by aufreak3 13y ago
I believe you're just reading the surface message here. When I read the article, what I felt was "man, he's really railing against a general decline in curiosity ". To paraphrase Marvin of HHGttG fame, our computers may
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by aufreak3 13y ago
The sure fire way to become a lousy programmer is to learn programming without some domain to apply it in. Given that MIT undergrads have a fair amount of math and physics backgrounds, the exercises aren't a bad fit at all (methinks)
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by aufreak3 13y ago
Ok, just saw the talk and Bret's certainly referring to Erlang here.
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by aufreak3 13y ago
> Similarly, he casually mentions a programming language founded on unique principles designed for concurrency, he doesn't name it but that language is Erlang. I haven't seen the talk yet and just browsed the slides, but just f
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by aufreak3 13y ago
For those looking to grasp relativistic physics, checkout the game "A slower speed of light" [1] and "spacetimetravel" [2] [1] http://gamelab.mit.edu/games/a-slower-speed-of-light/ [2] http:&#
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by aufreak3 13y ago
Haven't read the paper, but another problem that occurred to me - if the mass of all particles is increasing over time, over whose time is it increasing. The rate of progress of time depends on the frame of reference, right?
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by aufreak3 13y ago
Challenge accepted. https://gist.github.com/srikumarks/5992608
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by aufreak3 13y ago
Channels are a neat generalization of what Erlang has. Btw the first example used in the post isn't all that "fall out of your chair". Here is the same implemented in pure JS using my toy IO.js library - https://gi
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New school curriculum emphasises coding, climate change, 3D design(wired.co.uk)
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by aufreak3 13y ago
The charming bit of this story shows something I think should be part of any education - the most fun we have is when we go out and think about things and discover stuff on our own. Getting on to this path is the sure fire way to get out of
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by aufreak3 13y ago
This. After the addition of blocks, Grand Central Dispatch, and the booting of garbage collection in favour of ARC, ObjC is a pleasure to code in and to see it perform. As mentioned, KVC/KVO have made the UI code for my app much simple
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by aufreak3 13y ago
Oz (the language presented in this article) is a language worth learning also for the unique way it formulates concurrency. Concurrent processes are coordinated through variables being realized - i.e. a process that requires a variable to b
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by aufreak3 13y ago
I'd been off facebook for about a year. I mean not even logging in. Just a while ago, I logged in to post about ... guess what ... our second baby. I took a glance through the feed and thought "looks like nothing's changed in a year". Then

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