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by cdavid 16y ago
I think it depends. In general, I prefer using expression, but there are cases where using sizeof is better (where better may be clearer, more maintainable, etc...). I think casting malloc is useless in C (not only semantically, but from a
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by cdavid 16y ago
You missed the explanation: a char is always 1 byte, because in C the definition of byte is char. The wrong assumption is 1 byte == 8 bits.
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by cdavid 16y ago
The US outlier may be explained by other variable. For example, church attendance may be positively or negatively correlated with wealth, depending on the state, which suggests a more complex relationship, at least in the US. Besides being
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by cdavid 16y ago
I believe twisted was somewhat innovative in its space a few years ago, if you are willing to put it in the web development category.
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by cdavid 16y ago
To be fair, you would have to compare to what happens if it were not legalized under similar conditions in the case of Japan, but I agree with you that the cases where prostitution is legal does not pave well for extending it in general if
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by cdavid 16y ago
OTOH, I have lived for more than 6 years in Japan, which also have a culture of having things which look complex, and I think the OP is closer to what I have seen than Zed Shaw on that particular aspect. I still don't understand why, but Ja
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by cdavid 16y ago
Gender and sex are different things for once. I think many people who are against the usual "men and women are different" idea think that that most differences are a consequence of the culture more than genetic predisposition. Pushed to the
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by cdavid 16y ago
The law (and law enforcement) system is very hard to understand for a foreigner used to western systems - maybe one of the most weird thing. One of thee most surprising thing is how little respect law enforcement people get, and their total
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by cdavid 16y ago
Actually, that's not exactly true. The japanese system relies heavily on confession, and without the presence of lawyers. They are sometimes denied food, toilet usage, etc... for days. Several people sentenced to death following confession
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by cdavid 16y ago
Haskell I believe
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by cdavid 16y ago
a lot of machine learning is parametric statistics... and while I agree the term is really loaded, ML is different from statistics in its approach and the discoveries it made. For example, ML showed that some techniques are much more effect
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by cdavid 16y ago
In the same spirit, I once removed a chroot tree, forgetting I bind mounted /etc into it. It took me half a day to recover from that. Another one, even more stupid, is to recover a "backup" of /var, done without the proper rights to it. I n
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by cdavid 16y ago
You are making the assumption that the information quantity is a good measure of the complexity, which is far from obvious. It is also wrong in general for the genetic code (for example, many organisms have a much bigger genetic code than h
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by cdavid 16y ago
Another point worths mentioning is the recurring, bogus argument about GC, non-determinism and comparison with malloc. If you think malloc is any more deterministic than gc, you are kidding yourself: think about what happens when malloc giv
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by cdavid 16y ago
Prior art is not as easy to use as a defense as people usually think. On that topic, I found the talk by Andew Tridgell quite interesting: " You need to learn to read patents. And that doesn’t mean just the abstract. In fact, many people in
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by cdavid 16y ago
Is it too late to come in ? Would be it possible to know the approximate starting time (I would come from Kansai).
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by cdavid 16y ago
Those articles are sad. They are the equivalent of the crackpot in sciences, in that they ignore the most basic rules of economics. Discussing about whether taxes are a burden for business or not without taking care of tax incidence is at b
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by cdavid 16y ago
The complexity of the bureaucracy is indeed a bummer from what I could see when I worked in small companies. One company I worked for lost a lot of money just by not getting in time some forms for some tax/"charges" reduction. Concerning th
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by cdavid 16y ago
Are you basing this on facts ? Cost of living is indeed high (much lower than London though), but taxes are not so much higher than in many other countries in West Europe. You will need a French account manager from time to time so that you
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by cdavid 16y ago
Could you give examples of useful closures (actually multi-line lambda) ? I am relatively proeficient in python, and am learning javascript, and I really don't like how non trivial anonymous functions are pervasive in the later. I understan
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by cdavid 16y ago
With a DVCS, you don't need commit privileges to benefit from all the advantages of using a VCS in the first place. So even if you keep the exact same list of comiters, "second-class" contributors can develop things much more easily. It als
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by cdavid 16y ago
Redistributive tax system and welfare are not the same thing at all.
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by cdavid 16y ago
But a lot of data cannot be opened for various reasons (privacy being a huge one) - see netflix prize 2 cancellation in the ML field. There is also the issue of preventing competitor (other researchers here) to get a free ride on your work
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by cdavid 16y ago
Note that this does not seem to be shared by everyone @ Google, at least today: http://groups.google.com/group/unladen-swallow/browse_thread...
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by cdavid 16y ago
Picking the best actually makes a lot of sense when benchmarking in most cases. Certainly more meaningful than the mean or median. I am not sure gc is one of those cases, though.
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by cdavid 16y ago
I sincerly doubt that machine learning is CPU bound. Many things related to numerical computing are memory bound
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by cdavid 16y ago
I wished I could have taken exactly the same format, but unfortunately, the cabal format was not defined (no formal grammar) when I started this, and I needed reST support for some fields, which makes it a bit difficult. This also explains
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by cdavid 16y ago
I don't think you should use just now (it is marked as experimental quick clearly :) ). As for the advantages: - support for arbitrary installation scheme, like autoconf (e.g. you don't have to hardcode installation path to install data as
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by cdavid 16y ago
none of the tools you quote work well for the scipy community (where I am coming from). There are several reasons for that: - complex compilation is a drag with distutils - virtualenv is not very useful as usually advocated, because you do
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by cdavid 16y ago
I entirely share your view about working with system packagers. The current distutils infrastructure is really hard to work with (and I have considerable experience with it, as the main maintainer of distutils extensions in numpy for the la

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