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by bionsuba 10y ago
When I first learned about and took a look at haxe, there was no good documentation. Granted, this was six years ago, so it's probably better now.
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by bionsuba 10y ago
Hideo Kojima keeps getting proved right: But in the current, digitized world, trivial information is accumulating every second. Preserved in all its triteness. Never fading, always accessible. The digital society furthers
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by bionsuba 10y ago
"International Keyboard Support" And it only took them two and a half years!
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by bionsuba 10y ago
Sharp readers will note the tell for cognitive dissonance of deliberately misrepresenting my position twice in a row
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by bionsuba 10y ago
No, they shouldn't enter a market by trying to out do the established players at their own game. Microsoft didn't dethrone IBM by making a better mainframe.
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by bionsuba 10y ago
This outcome should have been obvious to everyone involved. The fact that it wasn't raises serious doubts about the Mozilla leadership. You can't compete with Android by being slower, less responsive, and ship with less features.
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by bionsuba 10y ago
I never said anything about Trump. We're talking about his supporters. You cannot make blanket statements about the intentions of tens of millions of people.
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by bionsuba 10y ago
> we're not all xenophobic Trump supporters, not even most of us If one wishes not to be generalized, that person should abstain from doing it to others.
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by bionsuba 10y ago
The sad truth is (in the case of Reddit anyway) that allowing people to freely publish their opinions on your platform hurts your brand and your advertising revenue. This is why /r/creepshots was taken down, despite being complete
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by bionsuba 10y ago
Fantastic article. I wonder if the clustering method can be used/is used by apps like Spotify to create a list of "related bands", as the graph at the end was fairly accurate.
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by bionsuba 10y ago
Yeah, but who cares? I'm not making a normative statement here, I'm simply stating the fact that no one will come after you if you do this. Companies and colleges say all the time that they're looking for a specific ratio of
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by bionsuba 10y ago
Yeah doing things without the user's permission is great. I just love it when my computer does a software breaking update for me. Microsoft: Enjoy the safety (and the ads), because you have no choice.
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by bionsuba 10y ago
"A racist billionaire[1]" Penn Jillette has a great saying on this (paraphrasing): "Unless the person has explicitly said they're racist, claiming someone is racist requires the power to look into someone's heart, w
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by bionsuba 10y ago
I, too read the article.
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by bionsuba 10y ago
No one ever said it would. There's a term for this (I forget it now), but what this person is doing is setting up an easy target to be torn down by creating a ridiculous opinion no one has. Then the author can be seen as the victor; it
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by bionsuba 10y ago
That's incredibly naïve. Python 2 will be around and have new software written with it for at least a decade to come. Keep saying "Python 3 is the future", that will surely make companies invest in switching. Meanwhile ford s
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by bionsuba 10y ago
Would you call a communist a hypocrite for buying food at a grocery store?
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by bionsuba 11y ago
I've seen this argument against crypto currencies before and I alway found it bizarre. Do you honestly believe that the government's ability to tax you is predicated on it's ability to see how much money you have in your bank
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by bionsuba 11y ago
"walter has not contributed a single patch to GCC i can find in the past 10 years (It may be longer, i stopped looking) :)" It's worse than that. Because LLVM and GCC are copy-lefted and his compiler has a proprietary backend
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by bionsuba 11y ago
In other words, the audience is completely emotional and is unable to see the good traits of someone because they don't like their politics. HN everyone
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by bionsuba 11y ago
80% of the article is still true. The biggest: * It's 2016 and PHP still doesn't have a module system, Python had one in '91, Perl had one in '94, Ruby had one in '95 * inequality operators still have no === equival
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by bionsuba 11y ago
"how do I know that the calculations aren't actually optimized away in all that code I can't understand? E.g. what happens if you make f0() return the means array instead of being a void function?" If you can't unde
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by bionsuba 11y ago
"Increase the array sizes by at least a factor of 100 to get anything meaningful." Ok, let's do that and see what happens: python -m timeit -s 'import numpy; data = numpy.arange(10000000).reshape((1000, 10000))&#x2
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by bionsuba 11y ago
you're benchmarking is python's speed of array instantiation vs. Ds mathematical speed. Its obvious that D will win. Not true, the D code also has the overhead of array initialization. std.array.array is called which all
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by bionsuba 11y ago
How is this clickbait? Did I in any way misrepresent the content of the article? If you don't like D and don't want to use it move on to the next item on the front page.
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by bionsuba 11y ago
As I stated in the article, I did not include the array creation in the benchmark in order to be fair to Numpy with its slow initialization times. The only python code that I benchmarked was the numpy.mean line.
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by bionsuba 11y ago
The benchmarked code is ALREADY a comiled C function called from Python and it still lost.
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by bionsuba 11y ago
I completely understand that for existing projects it might not make sense to switch, but as I say at the start of the article why you should consider D for your next numerical project.
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by bionsuba 11y ago
Considering that in the benchmarked example, only one like of Numpy code was used which already uses compiled C, I have a hard time believing that that would catch up to using all compiled code.
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Using D and std.ndslice as a Numpy Replacement(jackstouffer.com)
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