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by bnegreve 13y ago
Ok, well I agree. I mean global variables are not created dynamically. There is room reserved for them in the data segment which is initialized to 0. Can you give me an example where a global variable isn't initialized to 0? Your valgrind e
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by bnegreve 13y ago
But global variables are static.
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by bnegreve 13y ago
> I'M ARGUING AGAINST CONVENTIONAL WISDOM! PLEASE GIVE ME ATTENTION! I don't think it's like this, it's true that the article is a bit harsh, but it contains a lot of references that support the claim. Additionally I also came to the
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by bnegreve 13y ago
For the ones that don't want to read the whole post, the Truth is that the 3600 speedup claimed in this article: Commercial quantum computer leaves PC in the dust [1](HN discussion: [2]) isn't worth much. Quoting Scott Aaronson's post:
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by bnegreve 13y ago
> Never going to happen, I wouldn't be so sure. Advertisement industry uses a lot of tricks that are not really different from this one. Some people don't like them but most people don't notice or don't care. Another example is Facebook
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by bnegreve 13y ago
If I was a mother, I'd rather a simple phone call than flowers ordered online from a someone that consider it to be only a diplomatic gesture and hate the whole commercial logic of it .
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by bnegreve 13y ago
Maybe machine learning, trying to build models from examples is very common problem in ML. For example, regression [1] seems close. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_analysis
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by bnegreve 13y ago
I try to avoid rebasing everything all the time because it changes the commit dates which can be confusing when you are tracking some particular changes.
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by bnegreve 14y ago
Usually when something is not statistically relevant you can also prove it. I am not sure how you would do it in this case. It probably works to some limited extents: for example, I am sure they can guess rather accurately whether the can
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by bnegreve 14y ago
Isn't the fact that water absorbs waves and heats the main hypothetical danger for the brain?
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by bnegreve 14y ago
org-mode also does it.
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by bnegreve 14y ago
A cubicle or desk populated with toys that came from ThinkGeek I realize that it's a joke (or is it?), but I disagree with this. In fact, I have hard time to trust people that show any strong sings of group-belonging.
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by bnegreve 14y ago
Oh, ok I didn't know. So it is indeed a syntactical shorthand for simultaneously declaring a variable and branching .
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by bnegreve 14y ago
C++ contains a syntactical shorthand for simultaneously declaring a variable and branching on its value. if (MouseEvent *mouse = dynamic_cast<MouseEvent *>(event)) I think it is a complicated description and a complicated
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by bnegreve 14y ago
Isn't it weired idea to assume that friends are necessarily like mined in every aspects? I don't think any of my friends is liked minded like this. Most of them know things that I don't, or behave differently, that why I enjoy spending tim
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by bnegreve 14y ago
Yes, it's pretty secure against brute force. However if everyone start doing this, I suspect that we're going to have a lot of passwords like "I am hungry today" or even "car house hello red" which are both rather weak against an attack tha
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by bnegreve 14y ago
I agree, if you only pick words from the top 1000 most common english words it only takes 1000^4 = 1 trillion tries to crack a four words sentence. This is still quite a lot but much more reasonable than cracking a 8 chars random password
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by bnegreve 14y ago
This one in especially good: Specifying a set of forbidden passwords How can one spend time and money for this?
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by bnegreve 14y ago
> On this page you can see every single one of us. One by one. If you want to count them one by one at 1 per sec, you'll need ~220 years. Edit: I just noted that it was already mentioned in the counting all of us section...
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by bnegreve 14y ago
As the article suggests, science is a methodology, not a field of study. You can apply scientific reasoning to computers as well as anything else that is sufficiently stable to be studied. So computer scientist makes some sens... Computeri
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by bnegreve 14y ago
I agree with this, gud is at least as good as cgdb.
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by bnegreve 14y ago
> If you don't know what it is, why get involved in this discussion? To understand?
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by bnegreve 14y ago
> For anyone that doesn't understand that statement, I recommend taking a few years off work, I really don't, how do you define what is a waste of time and what isn't? Why eating is a waste of time and working isn't?
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by bnegreve 14y ago
I disagree: a larger memory footprint means that a smaller fraction of the data is cached. Since caches are up to 100 times faster, it does impact the reactivity of your program, in fact quite a lot.
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by bnegreve 14y ago
Only the last line is Comic Sans, that's the point.
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by bnegreve 14y ago
> It's akin to saying that pizza encourages eating it for every meal. I am also fine with passwords, but I really dislike useless parallels: Passwords have to be remembered and therefore having many different passwords cause inconvenien
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by bnegreve 14y ago
> What EU could do is to actively try to reduce their dependency to a single firm Yeah well, fighting IE's monopole is trying to reduce dependecy to Microsoft.
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by bnegreve 14y ago
I disagree with this kind of reaction: 1. I don't think it's useless, when companies raise their price they loose customers so Microsoft will probably be more careful next time. 2. If it is useless in practice, we should change the law but
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by bnegreve 14y ago
Yes, this is going to far. And I am not blaming the web designer for this, I am blaming the html standard that still hasn't decided whether web pages are documents or applications . Why does it even have a scroll bar if the behavior can
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by bnegreve 14y ago
oops, you're right.

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