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Poor Sanitation in India May Afflict Well-Fed Children With Malnutrition(nytimes.com)
5 points by austinz 12y ago|0 comments
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by austinz 12y ago
I did phrase that terribly. What I meant (and failed) to convey was that the most authoritative source of info on this topic was a post to a relatively obscure LLVM-related mailing list, rather than any sort of official announcement. Howeve
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by austinz 12y ago
Their lack of transparency on this matter sucks, but at least they haven't committed to making it proprietary: http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2014-June/073698....
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ArXiv vs. snarXiv(snarxiv.org)
2 points by austinz 12y ago|0 comments
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by austinz 12y ago
I like the new site. It's beautiful and elegant. The weird flowers on the download page are gone. But the link to "Introduction to Functional Programming Using Haskell" takes me to the publisher page for the textbook "Aq
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by austinz 12y ago
Interesting that the Apple-provided sample app mentioned around 7 minutes in uses "~=" as a custom operator, given that it's already defined for use with pattern matching (match an input with some sort of pattern), and intend
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Services Emerge to Help Out-of-State Students Pay In-State Tuition(nytimes.com)
2 points by austinz 12y ago|0 comments
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by austinz 12y ago
I read this article the other day, and I really enjoyed both the presentation and the content. The historical and (especially) geographic context provided by the article is really helpful when it comes to trying to understand where ISIS cam
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by austinz 12y ago
I assume that since "Jeremy Ashkenas" is listed as an author, and the submitter is "jashkenas", that this is a legit Show HN. Although, since it is a NYTimes.com article, it would be easy to assume otherwise at first gla
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by austinz 12y ago
I think a large part of good software design involves making the implicit into the explicit (although there are always tradeoffs). Instead of writing six different very similar functions that implicitly do the same thing but on different
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by austinz 12y ago
What software engineering needs is more engineering discipline, and less stupid mystical bullshit.
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by austinz 12y ago
Fine. Let's say that if you don't have HIDs or a monitor and you want a primary dev box, then it's not worth it. If you have the HIDs and monitor, are willing to do a little bit of third-party work, and want a machine that ca
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by austinz 12y ago
You can buy the Apple-branded stuff. Or you can buy a KVM switch, a SSD, and two sticks of RAM off Newegg yourself. Monoprice has HDMI to DVI converters for less than $3. Upgrading the internals is about as challenging as upgrading the inte
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by austinz 12y ago
You can get a Mac Mini that more than suffices for around $600-$800. But honestly, if paying $2000 was the only way to get a set of Android SDKs and development tools of the same caliber as Apple's developer offerings, I would immediat
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by austinz 12y ago
Some developer decides to show a utility library they wrote for better interoperability between 32 and 64-bit numerical types to Hacker News and this is the reaction? Right this very moment there's a REST library for Haskell on the fro
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by austinz 12y ago
"a person who is sleep deprived has no idea how functionally impaired he or she truly is. Most of us have forgotten what it really feels like to be awake." I can attest to this. I went through a months-long phase where I got about
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by austinz 12y ago
I think it should be clear by now that a lot of people think that their expertise in software automatically qualifies them to make authoritative statements on behalf of every other field of science and engineering.
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by austinz 12y ago
It's funny, because in some cases you can write HDL code that looks like a loop - but in this context a loop instantiates multiple instances of some piece of logic.
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by austinz 12y ago
> EDIT: Also, when using infinite scroll, do not put anything in the page footer. Now when the pages have copyright info and couple links in there, I can see those only for a split of a second before new content appears. Makes me go craz
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by austinz 12y ago
That linked 42Floors blog post is terribly self-unaware. > Most startups take the building of their culture very seriously, especially when the culture is still new and quite fragile. If your culture is so fucking fragile that a guy wear
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by austinz 12y ago
The 2% figure doesn't take into account opportunity cost. Maybe a project written in a dynamic language has a well-engineered, comprehensive unit test suite that is large enough to cover for most type errors. Maybe that same project in
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by austinz 12y ago
This is the sort of stuff I would love to work on, as an engineer. Amazing new applications of technology coupled with a truly meaningful purpose.
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by austinz 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercritical_steam_generator has a helpful explanation and some links about supercriticality.
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Oversharing in Admissions Essays(nytimes.com)
2 points by austinz 12y ago|0 comments
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by austinz 12y ago
I would suggest going with Swift, but learning enough about Objective-C concepts to use the Cocoa APIs. There is a guide to interoperability between the two languages on the developer site. For example, some sample code to call a method (he
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by austinz 12y ago
Fascinating to see how originally the project was envisioned with new physical transmission hardware, but at a price that turned out to be impractical. However, software-defined radios enabled the project to be carried out for far less mone
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by austinz 12y ago
Absolutely. I can't agree with this more. A long time ago I worked on a codebase where (among other problems) developers who wanted to extend a particular feature needed to modify five or six different methods spread across a number of
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Japan Seeks to Squelch Its Tiny Cars(nytimes.com)
41 points by austinz 12y ago|50 comments
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by austinz 12y ago
Responding to this from the parent comment (highlight is mine): > Moreover, the fact that so many tax dollars were paid to a foreign company is offensive. Even if that company was at all competent , it shows a disregard for the American
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by austinz 12y ago
Do you think the citizens of countries such as Japan, Canada, and Turkey should be offended that their governments are paying hundreds of millions of dollars to 'foreign' companies in the U.S. for (e.g.) the F-35 fighter?

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