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by codexon 16y ago
Some companies or managers keep track of LOC, bugs/loc, commits, or even screen/keyboard activity... If it is not automated, the managers usually keep a mental note.
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by codexon 16y ago
I might be a little tired at work, but I'd rather have the awake-and-creative me for myself. I don't get paid enough to give them that. Wouldn't your company notice that and complain? Most software companies I know expect their employees
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by codexon 16y ago
My guess is that Facebook wants to sell personalization and credits as a service. Once a few YC startups become successful, Facebook will showcase them to legitimize their "product". Big companies will want to join in, and then Facebook wil
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by codexon 16y ago
Am I the only one here who finds the dailywtf sometimes extremely depressing?! Take the stories with a huge grain of salt. Many people have complained about their stories being hugely exaggerated before being published. Alex Papadimoulis
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by codexon 16y ago
What he means is that it was better to go through the wake-up call earlier instead of losing millions of dollars and man-hours on a language controlled by corporate interests.
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by codexon 16y ago
I just explained to you the reasons why you are wrong which you have conveniently disregarded. Instead of rising up to the challenge or admitting failure, you make broad sweeping generalizations like you could learn 99% of any CS concept in
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by codexon 16y ago
How do you know the problem doesn't exist? Even if you are pre-computing it, wouldn't you like it to go faster, like encoding a video or rendering a ray-traced scene? There are an infinite number of polygons. Of course caches are important.
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by codexon 16y ago
Why is it invalid? Your original comment made no mention of "practical real-world problems". Who gets to decide that? Is implementing a video codec not a "real-world" problem since only a handful of people have experience with this? What ab
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by codexon 16y ago
Um, what? This is like someone challenging me to implement merge-sort, and then I give him the solution to bubble-sort saying that there's "no reason to optimize" until necessary. Granted the cases where Chazelle's linear time algorithm is
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by codexon 16y ago
As a software developer, there isn't a single programming concept / architecture / algorithm / etc that I can't learn in less than a day. Can you implement this algorithm in less than a day then? http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~chazelle/pub
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by codexon 16y ago
It got me my next job (which was minimum wage) which started me down the path, a few years later, to a 'real job' with real pay. It's all relative. When everyone starts having 2 unpaid internships or related work as a kid paid under the t
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by codexon 16y ago
I just checked two of those term deposits and they both require Australian residency. Can I get one of those without living in Australia?
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by codexon 16y ago
Zed is probably right that poll is faster than epoll when all descriptors are active. There's no reason to doubt this since epoll has a callback for every file descriptor, while in poll, the OS only has to fill up an array of flags once per
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by codexon 16y ago
One thing Tom had learned at his previous venture, Gravatar, was that offering a resource intensive service for free was a losing proposition. Is anyone else wary about the continued existence of gravatar? Even though it was bought out by
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by codexon 16y ago
Isn't it obvious that being surrounded by people you like will give you a better mental state? And conversely, being with people you hate gives you a bad mental state. This says nothing about your true qualities.
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by codexon 16y ago
He does it because he is biased towards something he has already spent years on his PhD candidacy and many hours on writing libraries already. If he completes his PhD, it is likely that he will try to get a Haskell job. Just because he wrot
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by codexon 16y ago
Why do you object? I just proved to you the legitimacy of my arguments while you still stand by Don's complete denial?I think it is very off-putting that anything remotely negative about Haskell is usually met with snide comments questionin
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by codexon 16y ago
The only thing I ever saw Don Stewart "bombing" were factual evidence. This is not surprising coming from someone involved with Haskell. Do I really need to point to you the bug ticket that it was only 8 months ago that you could use some
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by codexon 16y ago
Dons, I know you are devoted to Haskell and will not take any criticism of it lightly. But I am not your enemy. I am willing to praise it myself when it is more suitable. Not when you try to spin it. You and your supporters succeeded in bom
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by codexon 16y ago
The default behavior was to statically link to libgmp. I don't know about you, but making people's programs GPL by default doesn't exactly inspire confidence in the industry.
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by codexon 16y ago
I outlined some of the problems a while ago: http://www.codexon.com/posts/why-arent-functional-languages-... Short version: Haskell is harder than C while being slower and uses more memory. The main implementation GHC, comes with GPL conc
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by codexon 16y ago
I was arguing using your incorrect assumption that the topic of the discussion was "which one could you live without", and tried to explain that the necessity to live was not the sole criteria for measuring the degree of fundamentality. I m
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by codexon 16y ago
Maybe it is __less__ fundamental, but the point of this discussion (which you are confused about) is that it is __still__ fundamental. Maybe you won't die, but humanity wouldn't exist without it. And don't pretend that most people don't hav
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by codexon 16y ago
Uh no. What you quoted was the reply. This is the original discussion. Sexual love is a human need as fundamental as food and shelter.
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by codexon 16y ago
Tibetan monks can survive in 40 degree environments just by meditating. http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2002/04.18/09-tummo.html Does this mean that shelter and clothes are unnecessary? No. Just because a handful of people are able to
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by codexon 16y ago
It does, unless you somehow escaped the influence of thousands of years of human evolution...
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by codexon 16y ago
He needs to indicate sarcasm explicitly. There are people on the internet so misinformed that nothing is too outrageous for them to believe.
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by codexon 16y ago
If you are going to nitpick about this: as long as you procreate, you could die the next day due to lack of food and shelter and humanity would continue to evolve in this manner as it has been for thousands of years.
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by codexon 16y ago
If I was writing for the lowest common denominator, I would be writing about lolcats and celebrities. The problem is that even the high-brow audience coming from Hacker News and the programming subreddit (where most of my audience is from)
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by codexon 16y ago
I blogged, and I haven't gotten much out of it even though I have over 500 rss subscribers and showed up multiple times on the front page of HN and Reddit. 1. I have not become a better reader. In fact, it made me more impatient because of

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