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by dasmithii 12y ago
Wow, I've been looking for something of this caliber for a long while. Thanks for sharing.
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by dasmithii 12y ago
I'm uncertain that I've ever checked for errors after calling fork. Thanks for providing an impetus to do so.
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Concurrent Garbage Collection (2013)(rubini.us)
6 points by dasmithii 12y ago|0 comments
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by dasmithii 12y ago
I wouldn't call it 'horrible', but rather, inconsistent with C++ and its target area. Zero-overhead abstraction is a key talking point of the language. Virtual-by-default would contradict this entirely.
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Non-Cryptographic Hash Function Zoo(floodyberry.com)
19 points by dasmithii 12y ago|3 comments
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by dasmithii 12y ago
You're correct. When fetched, modules are given their own directory and compiled locally (one directory per module/dependency). New projects are then scanned for dependencies, linked against pre-compiled libraries, and necessary h
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by dasmithii 12y ago
I hadn't come across ccan before your post, so my thoughts on it are fairly superficial. [warn me if I'm off track] From what I can tell, it's been around for a while, has countless modules, and probably is a better choice th
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by dasmithii 12y ago
[author here] I'm hoping to lessen the pain in dealing with tools like gcc and make/cmake/etc. More importantly, C libraries are scattered inaccessibly throughout the web, and Kit provides a central index of modularized units
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Show HN: Kit, a project manager for C(github.com)
10 points by dasmithii 12y ago|5 comments
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Dotbot: a tool for bootstrapping dotfiles(github.com)
1 points by dasmithii 12y ago|0 comments
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by dasmithii 12y ago
This reminds me a story of an old composer, John Cage. He's notorious for some really bizarre performance. For instance, he once sat for four minutes in front of an enormous crowd only to stand up and leave before making any sounds at
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by dasmithii 12y ago
Though more subtle, I'd say yes, there are both (1) people who enjoy software development regardless of its impact on the world, and (2) others with more utilitarian motives. Personally, I'm split. Though I idealize that genuine c
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by dasmithii 12y ago
It serves mostly as a litmus test against blatant predictability. As said above, sequential lines or otherwise obvious shapes would indicate poor randomness. I wouldn't evaluate a generator solely on the basis of a bytemap. But these v
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by dasmithii 12y ago
[author here] It's difficult to have meaningful discussion (w/ regard to randomness) when involving more philosophical principles. For those who believe wholeheartedly in a deterministic universe, the concept is utter nonsense. Th
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by dasmithii 12y ago
It seems to be an improvement from the notoriously poor rand() of PHP. (not confident in the credibility of this article) http://boallen.com/assets/images/randbitmap_computer.png
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by dasmithii 12y ago
I suppose the 100% CPU is (very) unnecessary. Maybe I'll include a variable sleeping time determined by current buffer values. That way, thread synchronization would be further disorganized, and CPU power wouldn't be wasted quite
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by dasmithii 12y ago
Interesting. Though sleep sort is obnoxious (& hilarious), I'm sure it could be of use in educational situations. It's both elegant and intuitive. Thought provoking, maybe?
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by dasmithii 12y ago
I've added a note in the readme. Sorry to have been misleading.
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by dasmithii 12y ago
[author here] You're correct. It's a horribly bad idea, and the thought I put into it was pretty minimal. Just a fun hack, really. I'll put a note in the readme.
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Race Conditions == Random Number Generation(github.com)
91 points by dasmithii 12y ago|50 comments
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Programming "paradigms" are a moribund and tedious legacy of a bygone age(cs.brown.edu)
4 points by dasmithii 12y ago|0 comments
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by dasmithii 12y ago
I'd love to help develop this (and experiment myself!). Is it open source? If so, where can I find the repo?
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Hello, World (webservers in each language)(rosettacode.org)
2 points by dasmithii 12y ago|0 comments
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Creativity, the religion.(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by dasmithii 12y ago|1 comments
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[Ab]using the C Preprocessor(altdevblogaday.com)
2 points by dasmithii 12y ago|0 comments
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by dasmithii 12y ago
Interesting how we sometimes prefer restriction to full-fledged freedom. Similarly, many of us find Twitter more pleasant that Facebook, which puts no limitation on post length. I suppose the minuscule details of life are better left in the
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ShowHN: Merging Reality and VR [video](techcrunch.com)
1 points by dasmithii 12y ago|0 comments
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by dasmithii 12y ago
I suppose my statement was a bit unfounded. Having just graduated, many of my friends have begun experimenting now that school's out (and schedules are less strict). Small sample size, I admit...
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by dasmithii 12y ago
I'm not well-versed in modern sleep research, but our habits today are shifting drastically for the first time. Because of electricity, we're no longer bound to the sun cycle, as species of past millennia have been, and the typica
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by dasmithii 12y ago
If scientific validity were our lone motivation, than yes, it would make sense to ignore these "slippery concepts," as you describe. But this is not the case. I, for one, dread the mechanization of human behavior, even if it may s

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