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   Simpson's paradox (statistics)(en.wikipedia.org)

   3 points by beza1e1 16y ago|0 comments
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   by beza1e1 16y ago

   One problem with C++: It is hard to build tools for, because parsing it is nearly impossible. Clang and GCC plugins may change this situation, though.
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   by beza1e1 16y ago

   GCC is now allowing C++ code. It will be interesting how they can keep C and C++ style unified and coherent.
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   Project idea: Why not set up a citation trading system?(ectropy.info)

   1 points by beza1e1 17y ago|0 comments
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   by beza1e1 17y ago

   LLVM is mainly developed by Apple and Objective-C (via clang) requires garbage collection, therefore garbage collection shouldn't be a problem.
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   by beza1e1 17y ago

   I'm hacking on a compiler written in C, which isn't worse than LLVM: http://libfirm.org
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   by beza1e1 17y ago

   In Python True==1, unfortunatelly. >>> True + True 2 Simple left-associativity would also make 3<4<2 evaluate to True.
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   My so-called wife (nytimes.com)

   6 points by beza1e1 17y ago|1 comments
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   by beza1e1 17y ago

   What is the reason for your Best Practice advice?
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    by beza1e1 17y ago

    I never bothered to look up the "IQ tests are broken" statement. Scheduled this paper for reading.
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    by beza1e1 17y ago

    My current favorite paper of the month: "An efficient implementation of graph grammars based on the RETE matching algorithm" by H. Bunke, T. Glauser, T. Tran http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BFb0017389 Abstract: This paper is concerned with the
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    Erik Naggum on Atlas Shrugged(open.salon.com)

    60 points by beza1e1 17y ago|34 comments
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    Solving puzzles with (computer) science(platypope.org)

    6 points by beza1e1 17y ago|0 comments
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    by beza1e1 17y ago

    No mention of tarsnap? http://www.tarsnap.com/
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    by beza1e1 17y ago

    I agree that merging doesn't seem to be necessary. Probably they will be selected out until a few winners emerge. Currently Ikiwiki seems to be the most feature-rich to me, so i use it. The downside is an ugly template language and Perl.
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    by beza1e1 17y ago

    Gesegnete Weihnachten!
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    Zsync - the improved rsync(zsync.moria.org.uk)

    5 points by beza1e1 17y ago|2 comments
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    by beza1e1 17y ago

    The article doesn't compare OOP to anything. It tries to define OOP and considers it necessity. Personally i think FP is complementary to OOP and Haskell could be OOP according the articles definition (OOP=polymorphism). Maybe someone who k
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    What Object-Oriented essentially means(beza1e1.tuxen.de)

    24 points by beza1e1 17y ago|16 comments
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    by beza1e1 17y ago

    I find the condition in your loop hard to test. A more realistic algorithm would be: while (model is not useful in the real world): collect data adapt model to fit data The problem here is that "useful" is a quite l
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    by beza1e1 17y ago

    What open source code would you consider worth reading? Lua is said to have a nice code base, djbdns is probably the most bug free code ever written and TeX is also legendary.
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    by beza1e1 17y ago

    Well, the recession may be an indirect reason why i'm going for a PhD instead of "working for real".
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    by beza1e1 17y ago

    Twitter is not a protocol. This Pubsubhubbubtub-thingy is.
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    by beza1e1 17y ago

    Hey, i like this. It looks like a cheap copy of Friendfeed, but it is what Friendfeed should have become. Friendfeed focused on lifestreaming instead of aggregation. I'd just need Tumblr integration and i could ditch Friendfeed. Way to go!
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    A Farewell to ORMs(hatfulofhollow.com)

    6 points by beza1e1 17y ago|1 comments
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    by beza1e1 17y ago

    So what about demanding a minimum amount of characters? In reference to a certain well-known internet service i'd propose to accept only comments with more than 140 characters.
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    by beza1e1 17y ago

    ... but they may feel the difference without noticing.
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    by beza1e1 17y ago

    I don't think OOP is meaningless. It's just diffused by too much talking. For me OOP essentially means polymorphism and here is an article i wrote about that: http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/oop.html My Haskell knowledge is superficial s
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    by beza1e1 17y ago

    While you can evaluate elegance and simplicity in your head that doesn't work for edge cases and side effects. That's were talking and writing and sketching are helpful. I don't encounter much code where i can hack with the flow. Mostly the
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    by beza1e1 17y ago

    You can't betray the processor, though. At least of x86 you would need to write condition = x < y and a compiler would create a conditional jump.