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by bloaf 10y ago
I'm talking about things like Emacs and Vim, not just the core Haskell packages.
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by bloaf 10y ago
I've always just thought we'd make a system where storing some extra information was just the price of entry. That is, in order to torrent the papers you want, you need to first share an extra gigabyte or so of papers chosen via
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by bloaf 10y ago
Engineering grad student here: 1. Learned to code some C# in an attempt to distribute some of my simulations to other computers. Had a great time and managed to get something good enough up and running. 2. Tried to pick up Haskell because
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by bloaf 10y ago
>Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of ‘touching’ a man’s heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it.
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by bloaf 10y ago
IMHO they compete on performance at that price point by throwing more electricity at the chip.
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by bloaf 10y ago
This is one thing that bugs me. The editors and environments haven't been improving dramatically. Emacs is 40+ years old at this point, and still as hard to learn as ever. The 1970s Unix-like OS is still at the core of most dev-en
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by bloaf 10y ago
Mental illness is not a good excuse. For example, Terry Davis wrote an entire operating system from scratch despite having schizophrenia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TempleOS
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by bloaf 10y ago
I have ideas for crazy things. Here are some: Make a Wikipedia for code. Not a wikipedia about code, but a Wikipedia where the pages are the code. No references to outside tools/libraries, all the functions are either in the bas
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by bloaf 10y ago
Thanks for that, Wolfram Alpha was the first comparison I thought of. Gapminder was the second. http://www.gapminder.org/world
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by bloaf 10y ago
Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software - http://math-atlas.sourceforge.net/
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by bloaf 10y ago
I think people actually have some of the AI timelines backwards. To me, jobs like accounting and other financial services are much lower hanging fruit for AI than bricklaying, truck driving, or plumbing. The reason being that financial se
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by bloaf 10y ago
1. I was just curious if, by implementing the CLR, they have effectively implemented a VM for CIL in their OS, not if they reproduced Inferno. 3. My question was how close it came. In other words, what else would your OS need in order to b
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by bloaf 10y ago
I love this article: https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2013/07/28/ruins-of-forgo...
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by bloaf 10y ago
I've been reading around to try to get a clearer picture of what is going on under the hood in Microsoft land. Essentially, I'm curious what it would take to build an OS like Inferno, but that provides the CLR as a VM for CIL ins
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by bloaf 10y ago
As an outsider looking in: programmers, fix thy tools. My first introduction to programming was QBasic in the 90s, and I had a great time making little pictures, beeps/bloops, and text on the screen. I then moved on to some basic Fort
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by bloaf 10y ago
I feel like I must be on crazy pills for suggesting that the designer's deliverable should be something like UWP XAML documents. I wouldn't necessarily expect them to do any fancy data binding, but they should be able to at least
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by bloaf 10y ago
See also: http://smallbasic.com/
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by bloaf 10y ago
I've had a feeling, recently, that there should be some maxim that goes something like: Don't put yourself in a position where the lawyers are the only ones on your side.
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by bloaf 11y ago
If they wanted a more apples to apples comparison in the hardware department, they probably should have added $600 to the monitor price[1] and paid for it by using the same CPU as the iMac (i.e. a 6700k) [1] http://www.amazon.com
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by bloaf 11y ago
I've been thinking about this sort of thing for a while now. I can't help but think of things along the lines of "good fences make good neighbors." Essentially, I feel like we've built ourselves digital houses that
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by bloaf 11y ago
Seriously? The sum total of my undergrad programming experience was a Fortran/Matlab course and I was able to write a FizzBuzz implementation when I first heard about it. As an outsider, the idea of a professional programmer not bein
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by bloaf 11y ago
There are whole communities of people dedicated to answering this question [1] and most of them seem to think that they'd be content with $40k/year in passive income. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/financialinde
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by bloaf 11y ago
https://pchiusano.github.io/2014-10-11/defensive-writing.htm...
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by bloaf 11y ago
>Somewhere there are still peoples and herds, but not with us, my brethren: here there are states. A state? What is that? Well! open now your ears unto me, for now will I say unto you my word concerning the death of peoples. A state, i
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by bloaf 11y ago
That's part of the reason I think there should be an informal forum-of-science or wiki-of-science where scientists are allowed to submit less rigorous/developed ideas. Where people can say things like "this paper isn't
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by bloaf 11y ago
We'll just replace our eyeballs.
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by bloaf 11y ago
See also Ghost in the Shell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poKi7YyuamI
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by bloaf 11y ago
Why the hell would you even think to plot 2^Log2(x) instead of just x?
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by bloaf 11y ago
I'm not so sure about this. If I had to guess, I suspect things will go like this: 1. Scientists get a really good understanding of how learning works. 2. One third of the philosophers claim that their philosophical ideas are vindicat
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by bloaf 11y ago
Yes. They should. It is in the best interests of humanity to make the knowledge obtained through research available to anyone looking for that knowledge. There is a clear consensus among scientists that the current publishing model is a

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