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by bstamour 11y ago
Thank you for this link. I was actually unaware of the site guidelines. I'll be conscious of them going forward.
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by bstamour 11y ago
You're not trolling, but you are being an ass. Tons of tech can be cool for the sake of being cool, without users in mind.
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by bstamour 11y ago
One of the issues faced in super computing isn't just raw horsepower or more cpu's, it's latency. It's not enough to just connect a ton of machines via ethernet, you need specialized hardware to provide high-throughput s
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by bstamour 11y ago
I had it done about 6 years ago. While I wasn't completely under, I was given Valium beforehand and therefore didn't really give a shit about what they were doing. Also, because of the freezing, I didn't feel a thing. I just
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by bstamour 11y ago
I had my eyes zapped about six years ago, and it's been nothing but positive for me. Like the author said, the procedure itself was painless (and very fast, a few minutes per eye). I had the surgery done early in the morning, and after
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by bstamour 11y ago
Does Rob Zombie know about this? :-)
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by bstamour 11y ago
Devil's avocado: if they're truly CS fundamentals, then they should be baked into you good and deep during the course of your college education. It shouldn't be painful at all.
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by bstamour 11y ago
You can use bc interactively just fine, no needing to pipe anything. $ bc 3+4 7 ^D $
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by bstamour 11y ago
I practice Isshinryu, a particular style of Karate. We place about equal emphasis on traditional aspects of Karate (empty-handed forms, or "katas", traditional weapons, etc), as well as in sparring. While we do occasionally get th
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by bstamour 11y ago
I practice/teach martial arts 2-4 times a week. People pay me to hit them, and that's why it's so cool :-) Joking aside, it's a great way to stay in shape, and the people at my dojo are fantastic - they're like a se
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by bstamour 11y ago
Found the person who only read the first few paragraphs.
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by bstamour 11y ago
I haven't really heard much buzz about C11 since its release. I don't mean to sound snarky (I'm really curious): does anyone really use C11 at all?
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by bstamour 11y ago
In the martial arts community we call this "praise, correct, praise."
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by bstamour 12y ago
"A Tour of C++" by Bjarne is also a nice introduction to modern C++. It's essentially a select few chapters from TCPPPL4 that covers the fundamental bits of the language.
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by bstamour 12y ago
I thought so too, but then I reminded myself that my laptop has a 256 gb solid state drive. 6 gb for a fully loaded system is pretty small in comparison.
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by bstamour 12y ago
What you described is basically slackware. If you install the whole image (roughly 6 gb) you get a working desktop machine that's easy to keep up to date (just run slackpkg update once in a while). Yet when it comes to tweaking, it&#x2
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by bstamour 12y ago
All of that is hardly prerequisite for using modern C++ on a day-to-day basis. You can get away with just reading "A Tour of C++" and the Effective C++ books. If you want to start writing highly generic libraries with the intentio
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by bstamour 12y ago
For anyone interested in applying Dempster-Shafer Theory, I suggest checking out Subjective Logic [1] as well. One of the issues that pops up in DS-Theory is that the traditional method of belief combination tends to assign lots of mass to
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by bstamour 12y ago
Maybe a kind of torus?
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by bstamour 12y ago
Ah yes, you're right. I always forget about bottom.
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by bstamour 12y ago
Can you expand on this? I'm genuinely curious.
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by bstamour 12y ago
The only thing I can think of that's wrong with Haskell's functors is that they're more specifically endofunctors, or am I missing something else?
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by bstamour 12y ago
I found the typeclassopedia to be really helpful after I'd been programming in Haskell for a few years. It really helped tie all of the types together, but a part of me thinks that it might be a bit overkill for someone who's just
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by bstamour 12y ago
I still use C++ because it not only allows me to write high performance code, but also allows me to easily express high level ideas without worrying about too much overhead. I can write generic algorithms in terms of monoids and semigroups
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by bstamour 12y ago
Modern C and modern C++ are closer to siblings now, with the parent being K&R C. Each has added features that the other has not embraced, and writing code in one like you would in the other is a recipe for pain and suffering.
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by bstamour 12y ago
> In application development, you seldom have the need for maximum speed in all your coding. And always worrying about such things as what is addressed by this small enhancement, is a pain. That's what my comment was addressing: In
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by bstamour 12y ago
You won't need this enhancement in C++ if you just use `std::vector` or `std::array`.
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by bstamour 12y ago
I have two on the go. In the middle of moving houses so it's been about a week or so since I've picked up either :S 1. Prelude to Foundation by Asimov 2. The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene I've read the Foundation series in
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by bstamour 12y ago
I'm not sure either. The first thing that came to mind was "programmable logic controller", but that makes no sense in the context :S
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by bstamour 12y ago
Very few people care about any kind of computing - they care about the end result. Between embedded systems, servers and systems programs, and infrastructure, the modern world basically runs on C and C++.

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