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by beza1e1 17y ago
I can't see a relationship between polymorphism and structural pattern matching. Both could be label "dynamic dispatch", but the mechanism is very different. While polymorphism can be implemented efficiently via vtables, i don't know of a m
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by beza1e1 17y ago
Dynamic dispatch is not syntactic sugar for a if-cascade. It is normaly implemented via vtables. If you try to do this in a language without polymorphism (e.g. C) you have to do this by hand and keep track of your vtable layout (third funct
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by beza1e1 17y ago
I think the point is to think-and-talk instead of think-and-rewrite.
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by beza1e1 17y ago
What kind of code was that? It sounds like churning out boilerplate stuff in flow state. The passive one should be able to join to debug failing unit tests and to listen to your thoughts.
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by beza1e1 17y ago
I don't think system simulation is possible. The dreaming tests essentially work by prooving that you can't keep much "state". Learning by repetition is something i heared repeatedly. I have no personal experience, but it seems to be a Matr
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by beza1e1 17y ago
17 years later: Plan9 is going nowhere. That commercial spin off Vita Nuovo ( http://www.vitanuova.com/ ) is quiet. The Linux and Solaris monolithic kernels are still strong. Minix3 doesn't really progress ( http://groups.google.com/group/m
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by beza1e1 17y ago
>>> 1.0e400 == float("inf") True I don't know, if there is a difference. Maybe the interpreter can evaluate 1.0e400 a little faster?
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The Automatic Rule-Based Time Tracker(joachim-breitner.de)
27 points by beza1e1 17y ago|4 comments
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by beza1e1 17y ago
If consciousness is computable then it is also computable by a Turing machine and a computer. Consciousness is computable, if there is a formal model. The core question is thus: Can we find a formal model of consciousness (aka intelligence)
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by beza1e1 17y ago
rabidsnail was probably talking about a "formal definition" not a short description in a dictionary. The key to artificial intelligence is to develop a mathematical model of intelligence/consciousness. Something like "An intelligent being i
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by beza1e1 17y ago
Is there a short description of the algorithm anywhere? I'm too lazy to read the code.
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by beza1e1 17y ago
To calculate something like "60% heart failure chance" right after birth doesn't seem to possible to me. Too much depends on environment, bad luck and habits. That "60%" would have a deviation of 50 or something and be nearly useless. That
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by beza1e1 17y ago
He did search for "zag" in Gmail. Right after "zbuds" and before "headset".
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by beza1e1 17y ago
Lately I had a task suitable for Wolfram Alpha. Calculate the inflation factor in Germany from 1973 to today. The data is available. Alpha shows a diagram: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=inflation+rate+Germany I can't figure out how
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by beza1e1 17y ago
I would call it a surplus of skills, but a surplus of paper. The problem is that the paper you get at the end of your higher education isn't worth that much anymore. Experience is still worth something, though. So an employer is better of t
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by beza1e1 17y ago
Yes, especially if he is an only child, i think team sports would be better. The childs dedication is inspiring, though. I'll do some push-ups now.
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by beza1e1 17y ago
I'd think of a design like a file cabinet with every drawer being its own fridge. This way you can even set different temperatures. The stacking is variable so suitable models for every kitchen should be possible.
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by beza1e1 17y ago
I think the author misunderstood "Worse is better". Worse is not better because it is somehow more attractive to users. It is a better strategy, because by releasing early you get additional resources to continue building the big vision. Co
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by beza1e1 17y ago
The question is about how we distribute our wealth fairly. The fairest method would be: Who creates the most wealth, gets the most wealth. The current method is: Who negotiates the highest salary (founders and passive income excluded), gets
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by beza1e1 17y ago
Your processors fetches a whole cache line at once anyways, so it isn't more memory reads. The memory address needs to be aligned to 16 byte, though.
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by beza1e1 17y ago
I use a handwritten list, but this ssh host completion looks like the killer argument for this feature.
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by beza1e1 17y ago
I believe it's a myth that "most" IE6 are corporate environments. The diagrams about IE6 work day-weekend fluctuation wasn't that big. I expect at least half of the active IE6 users to be users of the category "installed Win XP and doesn't
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by beza1e1 17y ago
It's not the packaging, but Fabric (and Capistrano and friends) all look like shells scripts to me.
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by beza1e1 17y ago
It probably is the researching/browsing king of people. Sometimes when i find a good article via HN and i go exploring for more good stuff from the same author/website. This leads to more interesting things, which i could submit to HN.
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by beza1e1 17y ago
Hm, looks like a feature to me. The problem i see is that all the images are loaded at once. Lightbox loads the big images on demand.
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by beza1e1 17y ago
"The user must trust the server that is hosting their identity" That's true with DSNP, but given current p2p technology it should be possible to create a social networking application without data on servers. Where is my Facebook-on-XMPP de
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A Beautiful Race Condition(mailinator.blogspot.com)
25 points by beza1e1 17y ago|6 comments
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by beza1e1 17y ago
What happens if some the subscriber can't be reached? What if delivering takes to long? Why should the server do the distribution? A "post message" could return a list of subscribers, instead. More work for the client, but more transparency
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by beza1e1 17y ago
Writing your WebApp in Lisp or another trendy languages like Scala, Clojure, Erlang, etc. is a nice story for viral marketing, because the communities around those languages are desperatly looking for "killer applications" and "success stor
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10 Lessons Learned in 22 Years of Bootstrapping(timberry.bplans.com)
2 points by beza1e1 17y ago|0 comments

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