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by cmccabe 13y ago
It's silly to make blanket statements like "FPGAs have become as capable, or more, than GPUs." It depends on what you're trying to do! If you want to multiply big matrices, GPUs are great for that. A lot of scientific
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by cmccabe 13y ago
Aaaand... the first reply on HN is a bullying response telling the submitter to "get a life." Hilarious.
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by cmccabe 13y ago
In order for a programming language to get used: * it has to fill a need people have. * people have to know about it. * it has to have a mature implementation. Age helps with point #2 and #3. With regard to JavaScript, the web browser prett
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by cmccabe 13y ago
Python is 22 years old, Golang is 4 years old. Give it time.
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by cmccabe 13y ago
There are a lot of startups in San Jose.
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by cmccabe 13y ago
The capitol of California is Sacramento.
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by cmccabe 13y ago
Telling people to use 80 columns because "we inherited it" is just cargo-culting. Intelligent people will rebel against that. Instead, tell people the actual reasons why we use 80 columns. It is because your eyes have to physica
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by cmccabe 13y ago
You can use something like this: grep --with-filename -A 3 error $FILES | grep -C 3 description If that's not elegant enough for you, there are even tools like pcregrep that can do multiline matches. Don't uglify the code
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by cmccabe 13y ago
My first impression is that you don't know how to use the Google. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-nuts/Cl_D7PIi...
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by cmccabe 13y ago
Using grep with strings that span multiple lines is not a big deal. Use the -A and -B flags, as well as --with-filename. Widely agreed-on code standards do exist. Usually they are either 80 or 100 characters per line.
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by cmccabe 13y ago
It's not about the screen or the computer; it's about the primate sitting in front of it. Long lines are unreadable. That's why newspapers have multiple columns.
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by cmccabe 13y ago
Yeah, designing clear and well-written laws is a boring waste of time. Congress has much better things to do than that. We should just punish people arbitrarily based on "intent" and the shifting political winds.
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by cmccabe 13y ago
I could also read content from system files by using the advanced hacker tool "cat". I don't see what this has to do with exec.Command.
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by cmccabe 13y ago
It's very practical. It's called sales tax. Gasoline sales taxes are supposed to be used to maintain roads. In general, taxing income and profit is difficult to do fairly. It requires a really complex and invasive bureaucracy t
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by cmccabe 13y ago
exec.Command doesn't run a shell; it just executes the command. So yes, it's perfectly safe to have spaces and other shell metacharacters in there. Whether or not it's efficient here is another question, of course.
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by cmccabe 13y ago
A more obvious example is minified JS versus regular JS. Briefer? Definitely. More expressive? Definitely not.
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by cmccabe 13y ago
You probably want to live in the San Jose area. There are a lot of good neighborhoods like Willow Glen or Campbell. Get a place close to I-280 rather than US-101. 101 is not as well maintained and it's crowded all day. San Mateo is
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by cmccabe 13y ago
"Brevity and expressiveness are not the same." "Are you sure about that?" "Yes." Do I need to explain?
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by cmccabe 13y ago
The point that corresation is making is that none of the optimizations you did had anything to do with C++. You could have easily done them for the Go version, but you didn't. Then you put up a chart and said "this is why C++ is
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by cmccabe 13y ago
Are you sure about that? Yes.
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by cmccabe 13y ago
Please don't be disingenuous. We both know that using #defines, you can get a type which is exactly 64 bits on any modern architecture. The fact that long long and long int are a builtin types and int64_t is implemented in terms of t
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by cmccabe 13y ago
Some of this is questionable. For example, he claims that "by the 1980s... saving became passe" but that doesn't make sense. If anything, saving was useless in the 1970s and earlier, when inflation was out of control at mor
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by cmccabe 13y ago
Because it refers to http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-087
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by cmccabe 13y ago
Whenever I see the "worse is better" meme, I know I'm in store for a criticism of some engineering decisions or other by someone who doesn't understand the decision criteria. (And often, someone who was pushing an alter
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by cmccabe 13y ago
Here is how stdint.h on Linux conjures up the int64_t type. #if __WORDSIZE == 64 typedef long int int64_t; #else typedef long long int int64_t; #endif
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by cmccabe 13y ago
You're starting from a false premise, which is that Boost is good. In reality, Boost is stuff that either couldn't make the cut to get into the C++ standard library, or is so new that nobody knows whether it's any good or no
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by cmccabe 13y ago
You can kill yourself with almost anything, including water. Did you read the article? The whole point of it is that the dose of acetaminophen found in many pills in the US is dangerously close to the level at which liver damage occurs. Th
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by cmccabe 13y ago
MDMA would be a much better substitute for alcohol, since it doesn't cause long-term cognitive impairment or lung cancer. Of course, I don't encourage anyone to use drugs that are currently illegal, since what you're getting
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by cmccabe 13y ago
That's a good point. I don't really have any hard information on which is more dangerous in terms of ulcers. I find conflicting information online. One thing is for sure: you should NOT take either aspirin or ibuprofen on an em
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by cmccabe 13y ago
I don't subscribe to the belief that people deserve to die for not doing exhaustive research on the over-the-counter medications they take. You might want to rethink your position, since you apparently didn't do enough research y

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