cbsmith

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1. 3421.▲
   by cbsmith 14y ago

   > They hit an issue no-one really thinks about: resizing hash tables. No-one thinks about it, as it happens transparently under the surface, but for them, the few milliseconds it took to resize the hash tables would have enormously detr
2. 3422.▲
   by cbsmith 14y ago

   You're description of Haskell is accurate, but so often I find that encapsulation in Haskell is not all it appears to be. More often than not, you need to dig in to the implementation of the components you use.
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   by cbsmith 14y ago

   That's really an implementation issue, not a language issue. A C++ interpreter ( http://root.cern.ch/drupal/content/cint ) for example, doesn't process the includes any more than most of these others. Most modern C++ compilers of course hav
4. 3424.▲
   by cbsmith 14y ago

   Even the EDG guys who wrote that support for the export keyword feel like it was a really, really bad thing: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2003/n142...
5. 3425.▲
   by cbsmith 14y ago

   Actually, C#'s generics don't require a pointer indirection. It works almost like a hybrid between C++'s templates and Java's Generics.
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   by cbsmith 14y ago

   Sorted arrays are a common choice that I've seen people go to in lieu of std::set, but a proper B-tree implementation kicks butt compared to a sorted array for performance when mutating data, and actually an unsorted array tends to kick b
7. 3427.▲
   by cbsmith 14y ago

   Yes, it is a flawed language to have a declaration and the definition are all in one place together. What other language does this aside from Ruby, Python, Perl, JavaScript, Java, C#, Smalltalk, VisualBasic, PHP, Haskell, Lua...
8. 3428.▲
   by cbsmith 14y ago

   A technique can be both basic/obvious and not a course of action that everyone would agree upon. The surprise isn't that he didn't make the choice to do it that way. The surprise is that the choice didn't occur to him. The feedback would be
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   Beginner's Mind, on Demand(andrewskotzko.com)

   4 points by cbsmith 14y ago|0 comments
10. 3430.▲
    by cbsmith 14y ago

    s/The problem with comparability/The problem with composability/
11. 3431.▲
    by cbsmith 14y ago

    I think you missed the point. The problem with comparability is that you have the freedom to compose things however you want to. It's not exactly uncommon for "composable" build systems to be all but inscrutable to the next guy. The consis
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    by cbsmith 14y ago

    Honestly, make based projects are generally infinitely easier to parse and manipulate than Maven. Maven helps by providing a fixed organizational structure that is immediately familiar (and this is the advantage of being opinionated that I
13. 3433.▲
    by cbsmith 14y ago

    Badly written programs are far from an inevitable outcome with contextual tools. That is more a symptom of Maven's choice of a rather narrow context that has limited its appeal (that and all the ways it sucks ;-).
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    by cbsmith 14y ago

    I believe it is a function of the fact that you are "owning" the machine.
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    by cbsmith 14y ago

    Yeah, but one could just define a container format. It could have been done with protocol buffers in fact. I know, because I have implemented it.
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    by cbsmith 14y ago

    I think you failed to grasp the point of that decision. It's not about understanding the more complex technology. At least in the case of protocol buffers, they understood ASN.1. Implementing all that complexity comes with a price. If nothi
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    by cbsmith 14y ago

    I'm with you on this. When Thrift came out, it kind of made sense, because there wasn't really anything quite like it (closest I'd say was Hessian) in terms of the mix of simplicity, performance, etc. When Protocol Buffers came out, it kind
18. 3438.▲
    by cbsmith 14y ago

    I'll have to look at the prior reports, but this 3rd report is somewhat disappointing in terms of its statistical rigor. They do provide weightings based on optimal predictions for maximum accuracy with predictions for state tests scores, a
19. 3439.▲
    by cbsmith 14y ago

    If the only problem you have with header-only programming is compile times, might I humbly suggest that the problem you are actually concerned about is entirely somewhere else (hint: most language compilers are terribly unsmart about what
20. 3440.▲
    by cbsmith 14y ago

    Considering how many languages these days completely eschew the header/body paradigm, I'm not sure that "head-only" programming is such an obvious mistake.
21. 3441.▲
    by cbsmith 14y ago

    I'd say 1-3 are perfectly reasonable. If you want to get good, put in the time and you will be rewarded, but that's really a choice. #4... I think that might make a lot of sense with a weak or dynamic type system, but with a static type sys
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    by cbsmith 14y ago

    In case of patent lawyers, break glass and extract HAT-trie or crit-bit tree.
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    by cbsmith 14y ago

    Wow. Everything old is new again...
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    by cbsmith 14y ago

    > Sounds like that would screw customers up pretty bad if they don't realise the problem. I think there'd be a variety of ways to have the system to fail until the customer made some kind of adjustment that indicated they grokked that t
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    by cbsmith 14y ago

    Someone is doing it wrong then. Appealing to one's ego isn't the same as encouraging one to be egotistical.
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    by cbsmith 14y ago

    tl;dr: It's really hard to get high availability systems right, and we still run the entire service as a single colo. I can totally understand this kind of thing going wrong, but particularly given the service they provide, why not have a s
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    by cbsmith 14y ago

    At first I thought this was some bizarre reinvention of sql-mode, but looking more closely it looks more like an ODBC/JDBC for Emacs.
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    by cbsmith 14y ago

    This is ridiculous. For starters, in what world is vesting based on value to the employee? It's also more than a bit ill informed to think that time at a company is less "costly" for an employee the older they are, particularly when it come
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    by cbsmith 14y ago

    Drat. Just got hit by this. PS3 player is totally not working.
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    by cbsmith 14y ago

    > I think that any funny clauses in the contracts should be abolished and the worker/employer relations should only be regulated by law. That tends to work well in a one-size-fits-all well established world, but tends to work particular