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   Rowhammer(en.wikipedia.org)

   3 points by bshanks 10y ago|0 comments
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   by bshanks 10y ago

   Here is a scifi short story in which a machine is built that allows anyone to directly perceive mathematics similarly to music. The mathematician inventors hoped that this would increase the popularity of math but the opposite was true: ht
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   Quaint: a C-like language with first-class resumable functions(github.com)

   4 points by bshanks 10y ago|0 comments
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   MOST page loads will experience the 99% server response latency(latencytipoftheday.blogspot.com)

   1 points by bshanks 10y ago|0 comments
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   by bshanks 10y ago

   I agree. I think a similar situation obtains in academia. Economically, reusing the existing academic infrastructure to fund FOSS development would be a perfect fit, because both FOSS and research are "public goods". But the succe
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   by bshanks 10y ago

   I agree with the main point of this article but in terms of its analysis and prescriptions I think it gets two things backwards. (1) Most scientists seek fame as a means to the end of getting tenure and funding, not the other way around; if
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   by bshanks 10y ago

   I'm curious about which language features or tooling do other languages have that make them better at dealing with dependencies than Haskell?
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   Interactive Top Programming Languages 2016 from IEEE Spectrum(spectrum.ieee.org)

   2 points by bshanks 10y ago|1 comments
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   by bshanks 10y ago

   A big problem with Reddit is the first-come, first-serve nature of claiming subreddit names. In theory anyone can start a new subreddit to provide different moderation, but in practice /r/news, /r/bitcoin, /r/p
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    by bshanks 10y ago

    I've enjoyed a Vi-emulation keymapping that i made where the primary movement keys are on the home row: https://github.com/bshanks/viperre I also use the Colemak keyboard layout, so i made two versions of the mapp
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    Remote only(remoteonly.org)

    4 points by bshanks 10y ago|0 comments
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    by bshanks 10y ago

    Thank you pas for this link (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12025929 )
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    by bshanks 10y ago

    Thank you 0xmohit for this link (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12025529 )
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    Why Python Is Slow: Looking Under the Hood (2014)(jakevdp.github.io)

    142 points by bshanks 10y ago|77 comments
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    A JVM Does That? (2011) [pdf](azulsystems.com)

    224 points by bshanks 10y ago|165 comments
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    The Society of Mind(aurellem.org)

    4 points by bshanks 10y ago|2 comments
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    by bshanks 10y ago

    Similar to the opportunity cost model, Minsky proposed that boredom with tedious tasks is a guard against getting stuck in an infinite loop: http://aurellem.org/society-of-mind/som-6.13.html
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    by bshanks 10y ago

    One solution would be for (some) individual contracts to be programmed to have "curators" with an expanded role. These curators would have dictatorial powers (via a supermajority vote of the curators) to nullify and replace the en
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    PocketCHIP: Make Games (with PICO-8)(docs.getchip.com)

    2 points by bshanks 10y ago|0 comments
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    by bshanks 10y ago

    "One patient died, which puts the potential for death from this procedure at around 4 percent, and severe infections after stem cell treatments — the kind Molson picked up, or worse — are also common."
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    A Study of Modern Linux API Usage and Compatibility [pdf](oscar.cs.stonybrook.edu)

    4 points by bshanks 10y ago|0 comments
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    by bshanks 10y ago

    Merely knowing that something often or even usually fails is not enough information to conclude that it's a bad bet -- in order to compute that, you also need to know how much money it makes when it succeeds. For example, if you expect
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    A-Frame (look at this on a smartphone)(aframe.io)

    1 points by bshanks 10y ago|0 comments
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    by bshanks 10y ago

    By way of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11791636
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    Posix Abstractions in Modern Operating Systems: Old, New, and Missing [pdf](roxanageambasu.github.io)

    2 points by bshanks 10y ago|1 comments
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    by bshanks 10y ago

    One solution would be to have "curators" with an expanded role. These curators would have dictatorial powers (via a supermajority vote of the curators) to nullify and replace the entire contract. However, they would promise to do
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    by bshanks 10y ago

    thanks!
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    by bshanks 10y ago

    I'm interested in exploring what makes a build tool good. Which design choices does SBT choose that makes it amazing?
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    by bshanks 10y ago

    I'm interested in exploring what makes a build tool bad or good. What do you dislike about SBT?
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    by bshanks 10y ago

    I'm interested in exploring what makes a build tool good. What does SBT do right and what do the others you mentioned do wrong?