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by delhanty 8y ago
Looking for a job in Tokyo? Sign-up for HN Tokyo Slack [0] and check-out the #_looking_for_staff channel. NB. No professional recruitment agents allowed. [0] https://hntokyo.io/
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by delhanty 8y ago
>Generics in c++, c#, scala, java They're not all the same though are they. C++/CLI had both compile-time generics (templates) from C++, and run-time generics from the CLR. And they could be complementary at times. For compile
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by delhanty 8y ago
Furthermore, the New York Times and friends are competitors with Facebook, Google et al in the market for online advertising, so their interest in taking down Facebook comes across as self-serving. For myself, I'd like to see a 95% con
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by delhanty 8y ago
It definitely sounds like a step in the right direction. This is from Stephanie Hurlburt's Twitter a while back. Ah, game industry culture and drinking. I don’t drink. I also feel unsafe being in a mostly-male group when they’re
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by delhanty 8y ago
Just for future reference for me or anyone else on HN: I found the George III inlaid mahogany bureau referenced in the story on the Gorringes (Lewes, UK) website [0] and saved to archive.org/is [1][2]. The sale price was £70, and the p
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by delhanty 8y ago
OT - sorry >On the other hand, because I live in rural Japan and am only really friends with the people who live near me, almost all of my friends are over 70 (I'm 50). I'm in a pretty similar situation ... guess from your prof
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by delhanty 8y ago
>but not as the second arm of a binary choice There very clearly are two parties in a binary situation, and it is implicit in what you wrote: A. The unpaid programmer who created the new language. Apparently, because she/he neglige
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by delhanty 8y ago
You introduced B: >if you are going to let other people run their production systems on what you throw into the world But in fact, if we talking about "production systems", it's usually companies, rather than people.
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by delhanty 8y ago
Which is more immoral, A or B? A. An unpaid programmer choosing to walk away from their open-source project. B. The world's richest companies running their production systems on open-source, but failing to adequately fund development.
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by delhanty 8y ago
>it means that once your programming language gains adoption beyond some people playing around with it you can't just walk off and say that it isn't your problem Assuming that you don't work for them and that you don'
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by delhanty 8y ago
That's actually better than the situation in C. In C, debug `malloc` may very well behave the same run after run. Then you move into production, and release `malloc` behaves differently to debug `malloc`. Suddenly a latent bug that was
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by delhanty 8y ago
>if your program depends on the stability of hash-table enumeration order, you're doing something wrong in the first place The point is not all programs are correct. If you're trying to reproduce a bug that occurs in the releas
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by delhanty 8y ago
Clarification: I though this was well know, but apparently it isn't, so I'll explain it. `malloc` doesn't have to give you the same pointer the next time the program is run - and sometimes it doesn't. In that case, the o
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by delhanty 8y ago
>There’s nothing non-reproducible about this. No that's false. See my clarification above.
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by delhanty 8y ago
Generally, hashing pointers in C or C++ is a bad idea anyway. Unless, you have a particular love for debugging non-reproducible behavior that is.
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by delhanty 8y ago
The referenced link to the original work on Facebook code looks more suitable for HN: https://code.fb.com/ai-research/unsupervised-machine-transla...
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by delhanty 8y ago
So with the laws, how do we know when we're done? For example, we had Newtonian Mechanics and that looked good for a couple of centuries, but then it turned out that it was too simple and we needed to add more laws.
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by delhanty 8y ago
Sorry, I don't understand this point. If a model of the universe was completely correct, wouldn't it have equivalent complexity to the universe and hence not be a model?
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by delhanty 8y ago
Probably it's not nuanced - John Deere like to do this sort of thing too. See my comment from March 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13929078
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by delhanty 8y ago
It appears that someone having read your comment here has left a horribly abusive comment on that memorial page now under the handle "Screw You Bob". > ... The Hacker News army is here. "Screw You Bob" you do not spea
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by delhanty 9y ago
Hey thank you! I really appreciate it that you took the time to write that out.
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by delhanty 9y ago
Thank you - very useful summary. >I say standardish Haskell because the sweet spot in my experience is a few lightweight GHC extensions but mostly shunning some of the seriously experimental stuff in the language. Are you able to say whi
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by delhanty 9y ago
See also "Never cross a river that is, on average, 4 feet deep." ad nauseam by Nassim Taleb.
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by delhanty 9y ago
It's good to have you here! HN benefits from the perspective that you bring. Plenty of other people must value your comments too, because you've accumulated a karma of over 5000 points in about 4 months - say 15,000 points a year
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by delhanty 9y ago
Thanks for the outreach Scott!
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by delhanty 9y ago
Can see you found out how to sign-up for the HN Tokyo slack, so welcome #Sukotto! For anyone else reading who wants to join there is an auto-invite here: https://hntokyo.io/
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by delhanty 9y ago
From Waimanalo, Hawaii cloudflare times out: test1 test2 test3 test4 test5 test6 test7 test8 test9 test10 Average 192.168.50.1 154 ms 157 ms 154 ms 154 ms 154 ms 154 ms 156 ms 158 ms 15
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by delhanty 9y ago
Right! Does anyone here who develops on iPad use any of the of the Vim apps, e.g. iVim? [0] > iVim was inspired by and based on 3 projects: > > vim - the official Vim repository > > Vim port from Applidium >
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by delhanty 9y ago
Fair point, that's more precise. You're clearly better informed than me. The following quote from Steve Troughton-Smith in the article that I linked was enough for me - I'm not going to beta test Swift for Apple either. >
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by delhanty 9y ago
I don't think you're the only one. Steve Troughton-Smith, Michael Lauer, Dan Leivers, Peter Molnar, Todd Thomas, Ian McDowell, Simon Wolf, Marco Arment all didn't seem (2017-10-04) in a particular hurry to adopt Swift. [0] h

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