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by copper 15y ago
Not that it makes a difference, but I believe R6RS provide first-class environments, too: http://www.r6rs.org/final/html/r6rs-lib/r6rs-lib-Z-H-17.html Edit: After looking through the Racket docs, I believe I was referring to were its name
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by copper 15y ago
Strangely, I do that too. I tend to blame my education :) Amusingly enough, (though not strange, if you consider its origins) Haskell uses the British spelling. Off the top of my head, the colour types are defined in the Data.Colo u r modul
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by copper 15y ago
I dunno, doesn't $370 seem expensive too? I went through a few of these things[1] back in the day, and even now a new one should cost about the equivalent of $50. They're fixed gear, and likely not feature comparable, but they comfortable e
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by copper 15y ago
I wonder if you could ask if the old problem sets for CS 229 could be made available without requiring a Stanford id?
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by copper 15y ago
This is why I rather enjoy discussing horrible hairy corner cases like this - there's always something I've overlooked :)
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by copper 15y ago
I'm interested in knowing what these are - barring an alignment-related weirdness, I can't think of any reason to do that.
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by copper 15y ago
Hm, I'd rather pay the cost of having to add a virtual keyword in a few places (easily found using the equivalent of g++ -Wnon-virtual-dtor, and you do ship C++ code that is warning-free, right? :) rather than have to deal with up to eigh
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by copper 15y ago
The y' mode appears to have an unstable solver that's very useful :)
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by copper 15y ago
> Virtual functions are "costly" too, but C++ has them and it's considered poor form to not declare your destructor virtual. It's a bit more subtle than that: a virtual destructor is only required when the class, or its base classes, al
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by copper 15y ago
> C++ has too much stuff going on behind the scenes. (Like hidden object copies, potentially bloated operators, etc.). The thing is, C++ is usually good about not charging you for features you don't use - and with the reasonably good de
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by copper 15y ago
attrib +h at the cmd prompt, the file properties in explorer would have a checkbox for this too
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by copper 15y ago
Thanks, thats interesting. It seems unfair to use the HFT to create stability, and then penalize it for that. I suppose that can't be fixed easily, though.
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by copper 15y ago
> I.e., if an HFT pushes accenture up from $0.05 to $1.00 and sells at $35, following which accenture eventually goes up to $40, they run the risk of having their $1.00 buy trade broken. Then they are stuck with a short sale at $35, whi
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by copper 15y ago
> free(*ptr++) Yes, of course - that's what I thought I'd written. Clearly not :)
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by copper 15y ago
Function calls seem right - particularly if they're badly written. Also, this macro might give curious results when passed in ptr++ . While this is C++, I've actually seen this particular construct: delete new SomeClass(...); used as, b
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by copper 15y ago
Very nice - isn't the HN title a bit misleading, though? I was under the impression that it would find my pulse rate :)
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by copper 15y ago
If you don't have an easy way of installing boost, it becomes complicated - just to compile one program. That said, boost is a dependency that pays off in terms of programmer time if what you're doing is complicated enough (in other words
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by copper 15y ago
Or Shriram Krishnamurthi's Automata via Macros - a beautiful little nontrivial example of Scheme macros: http://www.cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/sk...
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by copper 15y ago
Hm, It can be a real problem if you have the joy of working with old C++ code: the initial codebase might have had its own string type, and then some more classes added by long-gone programmers who thought the earlier types were slow , and
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by copper 15y ago
Yes, I'd hope so too :) There should be quite a few people who've successfully engineered microbes and plants (by extension, fungi), but for the others, I was wondering just how many candidates there could be.
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by copper 15y ago
OT (and I'm sorry), but I couldn't resist when I saw this requirement: > Candidates should hold a PhD or equivalent and have successfully engineered an organism -- plants, fish, microbes, worms, fungi, it doesn't matter, as long as it w
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by copper 15y ago
Google's T V Raman is a personal hero. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/business/04blind.html
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by copper 15y ago
So, something like taking some time off before you start at the new job would be frowned upon?
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by copper 15y ago
As I understand it (I'm looking for a job in the US too), if you switch jobs, the new company more or less needs to redo all the paperwork that the old one has done; and yes, being self-employed is not an option. I also believe - but am not
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by copper 15y ago
If I can offer my own reaction as a guide, I'd find the list less rude if I could trust it was written by someone with an actual record of successful management. I've known a few people who talk this way, and had a past record of turning pr
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by copper 15y ago
I might agree about the better person being basically irrelevant, but I've seen a lot of projects run into the ground by assholes - I guess my basic point is that being an asshole is only weakly positively correlated with being a competent
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by copper 15y ago
Indeed. In my defense, anecdotal evidence: quite a few people in what we call the super-senior citizen bracket (yes, really) do pay taxes, and more than a few of them don't speak English.
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by copper 15y ago
I've met more than a few recruiters who do that here too. In fact, I think I have even worse stories to share: one recruiter who shall forever remain in my email blocklist took my resume, promised she'd ask me before sending it to any compa
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by copper 15y ago
The API does offer an import OPML option, so I assume the website does too. Unfortunately, I've gone and forgotten my newsblur login/password combo, and so can't verify that for you.
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by copper 15y ago
The rules are similar, and a bit more generous if you're female, or above a certain age. As for the other part of that statement, you'd be surprised at how many people in that bracket can speak English - at least well enough to use a cell p

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