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by bjwbell 12y ago
I worked on the Intel integrated embedded RAM a couple years ago (before release)! It was tough getting the h/w bugs out. Are you using it in Windows or Linux?
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by bjwbell 12y ago
Compute on the GPU is unlikely to be unified in a meaningful way with the CPU in the near future. The GPU is a massive SIMD machine in contrast to the CPU. Even if you use the same language for both, the style of code & algorithms are v
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by bjwbell 12y ago
TL;DR Phase 1 trial with 166 patients shows promise (many promising phase 1 trials don't pan out in phase 2 or 3 trials).
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by bjwbell 12y ago
Just looking at the title of his book "Japanamerica: How Japanese Pop Culture Has Invaded the U.S." gives doubts to his objectivity.
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by bjwbell 12y ago
Associated NYT article http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/19/science/study-reveals-gene...
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by bjwbell 12y ago
Does anyone know of a real world game or app that uses geometry shaders? Everything I've read (including this) says they're good in theory but not so much in practice.
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by bjwbell 12y ago
I don't know with regards to the failures you saw. For the issues I see & fix most are in rust code. I didn't mean to sound aggressive, we really would welcome reports of safety issues. It's hard to know if servo /re
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by bjwbell 12y ago
I just pity the poor person who learns C++. I pity myself for having learned it.
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by bjwbell 12y ago
C/C++ is not like all imperative languages. Basic, Go, Python - those are more bog standard imperative languages. C/C++ are off in a world of their own with implementation specific behavior (compiler, arch, ...), undefined behavi
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by bjwbell 12y ago
Failures don't mean unsafe. If you could exploit those failures that would mean unsafe. Try it on servo! Me & other servo contributors would welcome it.
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by bjwbell 12y ago
- easily call C libraries, practically trivial. I hated using the FFI's in Java & C#. There's many things I don't like about rust but the above list make it very hard to beat.
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by bjwbell 12y ago
"don't get stuck" reminds me of the feynman method of problem solving: 1. Write down the problem. 2. Think very hard. 3. Write down the answer. Rich Hickey's Hammock Driven Development, https://www.youtube.com
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by bjwbell 12y ago
Interesting. I wonder with github today projects gain contributors significantly earlier, since doing a PR on github is soo much easier than contributing to a project in the days before github.
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by bjwbell 12y ago
Personally I don't think any team is disciplined enough to ALWAYS do it manually and the con-founder of "it works on my machine".
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by bjwbell 12y ago
Scratch is a real programming language! Programming isn't about how fancy the tools you use are. It's about what you do with the tools you have. I started out in nothing more than QBasic.
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by bjwbell 12y ago
Humbleness is good.
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by bjwbell 12y ago
FYI the project is still active, https://github.com/cil-project/cil That website for it hasn't been updated.
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by bjwbell 12y ago
2) no. 3) Get almost any job remotely related to computers and grow from there. My first job after university was as a temp doing data entry. It paid minimum wage (US). But I met a guy there that gave me a rec. for my next job doing progra
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by bjwbell 12y ago
One thing they all were was not true experts.
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by bjwbell 12y ago
I have to laugh, the question is now deleted due to your linking to it from here I'm assuming .
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by bjwbell 12y ago
I've been surprised by how helpful some of the devs on the mozilla #servo channel are to noobies NOT like other IRC channels I could name. In my experience smaller communities are nicer on average.
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by bjwbell 12y ago
FYI at least for Manjaro, they've been running with the pre-release versions of XFCE for a long time.
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by bjwbell 12y ago
+1 on that, it's awesome. Switched 6 months ago from Ubuntu & could never switch back.
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by bjwbell 12y ago
+1 on Manjaro. I used Ubuntu but got sick of their changing the UI EVERY couple years. Switched to Manjaro 6 months ago & it's soo much better. No crazy shit like Ubuntu's forked kernel (they had to backport Intel's BDW
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by bjwbell 12y ago
Wow, I wish the nyt piece mentioned the fletcher angle.
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by bjwbell 12y ago
Corollary, Steve Yegge's comment that monitoring and QA are the same thing in his Platforms Rant ( http://steverant.pen.io/ )
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by bjwbell 12y ago
At least doxycycline. Whether the results hold up in phase I/II/III clinical trials is still TBD, https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/study/NCT01590082 .
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by bjwbell 12y ago
The link towards the end of a coverity post [2010], http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2010/2/69354-a-few-billion-lin... , on real world static analysis users is a gem.
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Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Interview(youtube.com)
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by bjwbell 12y ago
TL;DR; strenuous jogging doesn't have health benefits. There isn't enough data from the study to support any stronger conclusions.

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