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by cannam 10y ago
Ah, not even a full-blown case of FOMO will induce me to read TechCrunch.
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by cannam 10y ago
Yep, hundreds of comments on the original post, 300+ submissions on the new Apply tab on the top nav of the site -- and I'd missed it completely as well. Even though I read this site far more than I should do. Of course somebody has to
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by cannam 11y ago
> Does anyone have a link, by any chance? C. Northcote Parkinson, 1955. http://www.economist.com/node/14116121 "A glance at the figures shows that the staff totals represent automatic stages in an inevitable in
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by cannam 11y ago
Cross-platform development is bad now. I mean yes, I totally agree that the late 90s were really bad for portable C++ development. You couldn't trust the compilers, you had limited faith in the libraries, rewriting the container clas
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by cannam 11y ago
What do the other half say? (Honest question. I'm very interested in the question of the approachability of functional languages)
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by cannam 11y ago
A British scientist and mathematician known for two fine books, both of which are available to read online. "Sustainable Energy - without the hot air" ( http://www.withouthotair.com/ ) does the sums on sources of su
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by cannam 11y ago
Interesting seeing Rupert Brooke's "swimmers into cleanness leaping" associated with American attitudes to the Second World War. I associate this poem's bright naivety with European attitudes to the First World War, and
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F# has possibilities(thebreakfastpost.com)
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Language-independent conceptual “bugs” in novice programming (pdf, 1986)(web.stanford.edu)
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by cannam 11y ago
I made the mistake of clicking on the link while my kids were playing Minecraft PvP in the next room. Cue anguished shouts of "I'm lagging!" for the 30 seconds or so I spent staring at the loading icon.
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by cannam 11y ago
As someone who likes to "get under the hood", I'm used to grumbling about developers these days who just glue together existing frameworks. But the real cause of my dissatisfaction is that I find it harder to glue togethe
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by cannam 11y ago
Quite exciting I think. This is an embedded module built on the BeagleBone Black, designed for audio synthesis and processing, with real-time Linux, support for Pure Data patches, and audio and sensor I/O. It comes from Andrew McPherso
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Bela: An Embedded Platform for Low-Latency Interactive Audio(kickstarter.com)
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by cannam 11y ago
So do I, and the best I can get is about 3 Mbit down, 0.4 up. Openreach have "no plans" and Virgin don't cover the area. I imagine central London is tricky to cable, but still.
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by cannam 11y ago
I love the Barbican as well. These big concrete cliffs and plains remind me of the countryside in some remoter bits of the UK. It's telling though that so few people go there. To walk east from Barbican tube station, you can either go
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by cannam 11y ago
Apple keyboards are annoying like that. On a "normal" British keyboard, the '#' is unshifted and is just to the left of the Return key. My habit when I have to use a Mac is to switch to the Australian mapping, which is t
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by cannam 11y ago
The delightful accumulator tower north of Tower Bridge (Royal Mint St) was demolished at the start of last year -- to make room for some exclusive, majestic luxury apartments. spit Photo (not mine) of the doomed building here: https:&#x2
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by cannam 11y ago
It also has surprisingly good speakers - might be occasionally tolerable to do some of this stuff without headphones.
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by cannam 11y ago
In 94 I got a job (my first in London) at a small company that made software with and for SGI workstations, and despite all this computational power they still used a 386 with Trumpet on Windows for their only internet connection. It would
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by cannam 11y ago
How does REDUCE compare?
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by cannam 11y ago
Also a fair point, and I take your implication that the effect of a change to the outer loop syntax would probably be lost in the noise. It just struck me that using ref cells and loops feels like a concession to writing Javascript-style co
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by cannam 11y ago
In the (nice) immutable map example on that page, a reference cell is used & updated each time something is added to the map. How would the JS output differ if you built the map using a fold or similar, without any refs?
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by cannam 11y ago
Other compilers for ML-family languages to Javascript: SMLtoJS (whose site at http://www.smlserver.org/smltojs/ perhaps ironically seems to be down at the moment), which compiles the full Standard ML language (though n
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by cannam 11y ago
I don't think anyone argues that bigger phones shouldn't exist, that they don't have plenty of good uses, or even that they shouldn't be more popular than smaller ones. I can think of more advantages of a bigger phone (f
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by cannam 11y ago
I occasionally rewrite Python+NumPy signal processing code in C++ for purposes of packaging and integration with native apps, so I read these examples with an eye to how they compare with typical C++, rather than with NumPy. They compare ve
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by cannam 11y ago
There really aren't small phones out there. I use a Nokia Lumia 620, a slow, 3-year-old phone with a 3.8" screen. Twice now I've dedicated a week to using only a larger phone (4.5-4.7", so not big by today's standar
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by cannam 11y ago
Yahoo used to run largely on FreeBSD, at least up to the mid 2000s. Wonder whether they still use it.
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FFTs in JavaScript(thebreakfastpost.com)
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by cannam 11y ago
Same here. Even though I suspected the odds were against me, I couldn't bring myself to identify phrases with their final notes missing as "correct". There's probably a moral about pedantry here.
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by cannam 11y ago
Not that many options I think. A classic is Larry C Paulson's "ML for the Working Programmer", although it's (a) apparently a bit divisive (see e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9667264 ) and (b)

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