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by axman6 12y ago
The problem for Apple is that doing that would then hold them back; they would be required to not break other people's code with new releases, and I feel they would like to be able to completely reqrite large parts of Xcode as often as
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by axman6 12y ago
I personally feel that this post has missed a huge opportunity to show how to do much more complex things from smaller pieces with trivial proofs providing high assurance. I wish the example application had been something far more interesti
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by axman6 12y ago
Some people are of the school that the term 'she' should be used by default, switching from the traditional assumption that people are male. I personally prefer 'they' but some people seem to take offence/feel it&#x
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by axman6 12y ago
Is the portable LibreSSL library being written by the OpenBSD folks or someone maintaining a fork? My impression of their plans was that they would focus on OpenBSD first and foremost and once they were happy with it, then would be the righ
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by axman6 12y ago
I think Watson's role will be more geared towards the HealthKit side of things for Apple, since that's already what IBM are putting the technology towards.
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by axman6 12y ago
"Large projects"? I don't think iTerm counts as a large project
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by axman6 12y ago
How can the order in which votes are counted change the outcome? The whole process is in my opinion pretty easy to understand: each ballot is assigned to the candidate who is marked as the top preference and each candidates votes are counte
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by axman6 12y ago
I did read it in a darwin awards book, so I assumed it was true, but it's such an innocuous anecdote that I never felt it was worth checking.
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by axman6 12y ago
This is a great place to start then! https://github.com/bitemyapp/learnhaskell
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by axman6 12y ago
There's a darwin award for a security guard at (I think) a TV studio who decided on christmas eve that work was too hard and instead spent the night sleep in front of one of their microwave transmitters. I believe they found him dead a
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by axman6 12y ago
I know, my girlfriend bought me a lovely Boehm stirling engine for my birthday a few years ago and it's fantastic =)
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by axman6 12y ago
I think the term you might be looking for is product excellence. Apple rarely do technology for the sake of technology, they do it for the improvement of their product from the customer's point of view. They do appredciate good design,
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by axman6 12y ago
Apple's new earpods are a huge step up from their old earbuds, and given their price ($30) are well up there in their price range. Most reviews I've seen of them from more audiophile oriented sources have been very positive given
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by axman6 12y ago
That example does match some high level definitions of quicksort; "pick a pivot element (the first element of the list), split the rest of the list into elements less than and greater than or equal to the pivot, quicksort those recursi
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by axman6 12y ago
Haskell is still avoiding (success at all costs), the bracketing is very important. Haskell may seem like a slow to develop language and community at times, but this is because most users want to see well thought out solutions to problems,
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by axman6 12y ago
AFAIK, a Stirling engine is basically a heat pump, it mopved heat from the heat source to some heatsink using the expansion and ocntraction of air. If you were to run water over the heatsink, you'd probably both heat the water and incr
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by axman6 12y ago
The newest, shiniest gadgets? Like generics? You're kidding right?
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by axman6 12y ago
Haskell makes Go's concurrency and composition look primitive and restrictive while also giving you safer code with generics. This isn't an area that Go wins at unless you're comparing it with C, not anything modern. The lack
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by axman6 12y ago
This is so completely absurd I'm almost speechless. You have so completely missed how the world works I can't even fathom it. The more arguments I read, the more delusional people sound. People are not getting patents for some seq
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by axman6 12y ago
I had the same thought as the parent of your comment, but I really like this way of doing things, well done. Looks really clean and I'd consider using it if I needed a wiki for some project.
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by axman6 12y ago
That's the role of the description, not the claims. Though according to some people here, all that you need to read is the title of the patent to decide whether it's novel and inventive.
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by axman6 12y ago
It takes less than 5 minutes for someone to tell if a published work (particularly in a journal) is prior art. As long as it was made publically available before the priority date (the date the provisional application was filed anywhere in
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by axman6 12y ago
The language is precise and defines the legal scope of the invention. The claims are not supposed to tell you how to implement the invention but to definitively define what is and is not within its scope. All areas of technical expertise ha
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by axman6 12y ago
Claims are supposed to be written in the form of one sentense. Claims are not instructions on how to construct the invention, they are a legal definition of the scope of things that would infringe the invention. The language used is suppose
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by axman6 12y ago
Shock news: Marketing puts company's products in positive light! All companies tweak the truth to make themselves look good (which company was touting their huge sales numbers when they had barely sold any products to actual customers,
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by axman6 12y ago
Golang also doesn't do anything particularly interesting as a language, and didn't have to maintain interoperability with a system like Objective-C.
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by axman6 12y ago
Surprising, but nonetheless true.
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by axman6 12y ago
If you see my comment above [1] I've got an example of just how nicely GCD/libdispatch works with Swift. It's quite exciting really. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7844219
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by axman6 12y ago
Speaking of which, I was quite pleased to see the inclusion of nested comments. Makes getting rid of currently incorrect code during development much easier.
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by axman6 12y ago
People don't write articles discussing how their whole complex project works because it would take too long. those articles are written to highlight what and how these features have improved their ability to make software efficiently&#

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