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by cwzwarich 15y ago
Is that really true? How does reluctance to take antidepressants compare with reluctance to take medications with similar side effect profiles?
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by cwzwarich 15y ago
Millions of people are on antidepressants too.
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by cwzwarich 15y ago
> One thing that was a little annoying was their discussion about purpose of undefined behavior. That is, I don't believe "undefined behavior" in the C Language exists for speed as such. Rather, undefined behavior is machine-specific be
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by cwzwarich 15y ago
The problem with a MOP is that it is so general that it is possible to do anything and thus impossible to reason about anything. Kiczales gave an interesting retrospective talk where he talks about this subject and more: http://bc.tech.coo
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by cwzwarich 15y ago
> Well, you can choose any two of: 1. Fast (less run-time), 2. Safe (cannot crash), 3. Simple types (None of the advanced type hackery). Many choose 1+3 or 2+3, but advanced types let you choose 1+2 which in many cases is remarkable and
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by cwzwarich 15y ago
In an unsafe language like C or C++, you would just assert that the two containers are the same length and use parallel iterators. The type system here lets you optimize away some of the overhead of using a safe language, but it doesn't let
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by cwzwarich 16y ago
Has Harper actually done any real programming of significance? I am an "industry programmer" who has a pretty strong theoretical bent (have a math degree rather than CS, have read most of Harper's papers on the type theory and semantics of