bitmadness

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by bitmadness 9y ago
Anyone here have experience regarding Dell or Lenovo workstations? Which should I get?
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by bitmadness 9y ago
So, Python gets Quickcheck... 20 years after Haskell
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by bitmadness 9y ago
This feels appropriate: https://danluu.com/julialang/ tl;dr: Julia is a great idea, but with poor testing and quality control. Community is (apparently) a bunch of dicks. Just to be clear, I don't personally have
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by bitmadness 9y ago
I knew Jonathan Mattingly when I was an undergrad, cool guy
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by bitmadness 9y ago
Lol, Microsoft + Hardware... I think we know how this story will end
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by bitmadness 10y ago
Mike Pall is a genius, not much more to say tbh.
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by bitmadness 10y ago
Absolutely sickening.. Stallman needs to leave the crib and join the real world.
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by bitmadness 10y ago
The authors really need to clean this up, the English is awful...
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Go: should aliases be added to the language?(groups.google.com)
5 points by bitmadness 10y ago|0 comments
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by bitmadness 10y ago
This is exactly the main problem with Haskell. A stunning language with a lousy standard library. In my opinion, Haskell should offer arrays and maps as built-ins (like Go) and ship with crypto, networking, and serialization in the standard
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by bitmadness 10y ago
Hi Alan, I'm a CS PhD student at Caltech. What advice do you have for young computer scientists, especially for PhD students?
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by bitmadness 10y ago
Wonderful work! Keep it up!
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by bitmadness 10y ago
Any suggestions for secure mobos?
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by bitmadness 10y ago
What an ass
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by bitmadness 10y ago
Someone explain to me: Chez vs Gambit vs Chicken vs Bigloo. Which do I pick? Especially interested in parallel/multithreading abilities, standards compliance, and overall performance.
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by bitmadness 10y ago
I disapprove of investor's commenting on such cases. Sam has a conflict of interest in this case, and was not even present for the events in question.
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by bitmadness 11y ago
Erlang is glacially slow. Even on a 20 core machine, a multithreaded Erlang implementation will usually be trounced by a good singlethreaded C++/Go/Java implementation. All this stuff about multicore scaling is baloney - who cares
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by bitmadness 11y ago
"Writing computer code, or at the least being conversant in the firm’s program of choice, OCaml, is a requisite for all traders." nytimes... why u so noob?
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by bitmadness 11y ago
Lua is a beautiful language, I'm glad the switch worked out for you guys!
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by bitmadness 11y ago
He didn't say we need inequality, he said that some inequality was an inevitable byproduct of a robust startup ecosystem and technological progress. In other words, inequality itself may not be desirable per se, but it is a side effect
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by bitmadness 11y ago
Too little, too late, IMO. The world has moved to Ruby and Go for the web/cloud and Python for data analysis/scientific computing.
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by bitmadness 11y ago
I'm a (male) PhD student at Caltech, and didn't really believe gender bias was prevalent in academia till I spoke with female friends and learned about the kind of problems they faced. Believe me people, the problem is real.
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by bitmadness 11y ago
Fedora = best distro.
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by bitmadness 11y ago
This is interesting, but the benchmarks suggest that LuaJIT usually does as good, if not better. So there doesn't seem to be much benefit to the static types, at least performance-wise.
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by bitmadness 11y ago
Thanks for the informative reply. One thing I don't quite know: what is the package ecosystem like? Are packages generally up to date? Do people usually install from source, or use binaries?
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by bitmadness 11y ago
Anyone here use NetBSD? If so, what are your thoughts? Lack of USB 3.0 support is a turn-off for me... Will probably go with OpenBSD instead.
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by bitmadness 11y ago
That was back in 2002! I don't think he'd take the same stance now...