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by bshanks 6y ago
Plaintext project management systems. For individuals, we have todo.txt and orgmode. But what if you have a small group, and you want some or all tasks to be assigned to various members of the group?
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by bshanks 6y ago
Transpilation platforms. There's a lot of new programming languages being written, but few people want to use a programming language without many libraries. One solution to this is to host the new language on an existing platform/
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by bshanks 6y ago
Wikis as discussion forums. Not wikis for encyclopedias, not for collecting notes on some topic, not for notes within an organization on how various technical infrastructure works, but rather wikis for discussing topics, coming up with idea
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by bshanks 6y ago
Governance systems. A lot of resources are allocated by institutions, and institutions have a lot of power over our lives. There is a decent amount of research comparing and analysing existing governance systems (e.g. comparative constituti
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by bshanks 6y ago
Information overload. There is now lots of information available online but there are only a few systems for prioritizing/sorting it. For example, if you are a software developer and you want to continually learn about new software dev
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by bshanks 6y ago
This is celebrating their Nature publication today. Here is the preprint: https://deepmind.com/research/publications/Mastering-Atari-G... https://arxiv.org/pdf/1911.08265.pdf
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by bshanks 6y ago
Neat, thanks for making this! Another tool I would like: find books that I am unlikely to read, but, if I did read them, likely to rate highly.
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Is Ruby 3 Three Times Faster?(codefol.io)
1 points by bshanks 6y ago|1 comments
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Linux Kernel Management Style(kernel.org)
1 points by bshanks 6y ago|0 comments
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by bshanks 6y ago
Yes, it's unrelated. The author says "The central notion of JIT is a well-defined intermediate language called Medium Internal Representation, or MIR. You can find the name in Steven Muchnik’s famous book “Advanced Compiler Design
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Memory Pool System by Ravenbrook(github.com)
42 points by bshanks 6y ago|3 comments
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A light-weight JIT compiler based on MIR (Medium Internal Representation)(github.com)
62 points by bshanks 6y ago|14 comments
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by bshanks 6y ago
The most radical solution would be to grow revenues without growing the company Some investment firms already seem to be able to grow revenues without growing the number of employees. Growing revenue without growing employees is probabl
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We need less powerful languages (2015)(lukeplant.me.uk)
84 points by bshanks 6y ago|82 comments
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Files Are Fraught with Peril (2019)(danluu.com)
103 points by bshanks 6y ago|59 comments
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by bshanks 6y ago
If you were doing a green field redesign, how would you want Python to fix the core problems?
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by bshanks 6y ago
I like the idea of having some sort of easy-to-see marking. The specific realization in terms of a green hat might be non-optimal, because green hats have an unfortunate symbolism in Chinese culture.
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by bshanks 6y ago
If the destination of sov is specified to always be tflags, then you may as well combine add and sov into one instruction, with tflags implicit: addsov t2, t1, t0
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by bshanks 6y ago
Thanks -- does he have a post summarizing his recommendations for government practices that promote cost control?
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Typedefs(typedefs.com)
121 points by bshanks 6y ago|50 comments
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Minicompiler: Lexing(christine.website)
13 points by bshanks 6y ago|0 comments
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Language Design with Leo White(signalsandthreads.com)
103 points by bshanks 6y ago|8 comments
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Julia: Dynamism and Performance Reconciled by Design (2018)(dl.acm.org)
94 points by bshanks 6y ago|114 comments
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What's Wrong with C++ Templates? (2003)(people.cs.uchicago.edu)
50 points by bshanks 6y ago|42 comments
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by bshanks 6y ago
Thanks
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by bshanks 6y ago
Thanks, but that still doesn't find any of those links.
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Ask HN: Search engine for discussions about a URL?
2 points by bshanks 6y ago|4 comments
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by bshanks 6y ago
Just out of curiosity, what are the some off-the-shelf SOMs that you would tend to reach for/recommend?
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by bshanks 6y ago
Just out of curiosity, in your opinion, which are the major SOMs that you would consider for a 5+ year expected run lifetime?
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by bshanks 6y ago
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/327649 ("Julia: Dynamism and Performance Reconciled by Design") section 4.2.1 shows how multiple dispatch enables a library to compute the derivative of another pr

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