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by dmunoz 13y ago
I must have misunderstood what was changing in rust re: pointer types. My understanding was that managed boxes using the sigil @ were being removed, and GC moved to the standard library std::rc::Rc. When I last read the tutorial, I read mas
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by dmunoz 13y ago
A bit meta, but for those who were not previously aware of Real World Tech, if you enjoyed this article then do dig into the archives. David Kanter does awesome writeups of (mostly) CPU and GPU architectures. I consider them a step beyond A
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by dmunoz 13y ago
Saying that Oculus is John Carmack's VR company is unfavourable to those who actually brought Oculus about. Carmack was hired fairly late in Oculus' history. Edit: You edited it now to say 'John Carmack & Co's VR com
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by dmunoz 13y ago
I missed the large discussion thread earlier, and I imagine someone there brought up something similar already, but I doubt it precisely what I am about to post. I'll make my more nuanced comment first. What about older threads? Someti
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by dmunoz 13y ago
er, what exactly did they do to make it "very convenient"? Their shaver looks very similar to a Merkur Futur [0], which has existed for ages and isn't considered by many to be the best safety razor. The cost for the razor is
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by dmunoz 13y ago
> although no discussion No surprise about that. I imagine a large portion of us completely ignore posts directly to youtube with no context outside of the title. Personally, I also wouldn't have shared around a video consisting onl
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by dmunoz 13y ago
Yes, I'm capable of looking them up. I was only pointing out which equations were hit upon during my education. Actually, one thing your post made me realize is that I did touch upon equation 6 in a fourth year algorithms class. I didn
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by dmunoz 13y ago
Interestingly, around the same time the book these equations were originally collected in (as pointed out in another comment, this is Ian Stewart's In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World), the book Nine Algorith
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by dmunoz 13y ago
For a bit of perspective about these equations: I only have a bachelor of science degree with a major in computer science. Mostly through my interest in physics and mathematics, and hence the electives I took, I have a somewhat intimate fam
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by dmunoz 13y ago
Forgot about that. The staff of the "new new Newsweek" did an AMA a month ago [0]. Interesting discussion under a reply [1] to this question: > Do you feel like you are able to avoid the reliance on fear-mongering tabloid journ
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by dmunoz 13y ago
Only tangentially related, but when did DigitalOcean redesign their website? I think my initial dislike is due to it being changed, but there are tons of minor usability issues that I never noticed on their old website. I'm happy to se
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by dmunoz 13y ago
Small question about Humble Bundle's usage of Stripe: what prompted the move from requiring only the CC, expiration date and CVV, to full name and address? I was disappointed to see that.
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by dmunoz 13y ago
I'm not sure I agree with this line of reasoning. The computation model of Prolog is fairly simple, relies on few primitive, and could be reimplemented in many language without much hassle. The abstract interpreter fits on a 1/4 p
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by dmunoz 13y ago
> Simple debugging. This is an area where AI techniques could be quite helpful. Detecting and explaining common syntax and runtime errors is a crucial step in teaching a new language. Tools which provide this type of support could increa
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by dmunoz 13y ago
He is blogging on a GitHub pages domain now: http://joearms.github.io/ The new syntax is described in the post "Big changes to Erlang".
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by dmunoz 13y ago
That's too strong of a critique. You can have just a handle on the stack, with the data on the heap. When the destructor of the handle is executed, it deallocates the data on the heap. This is what almost all resource holding library o
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by dmunoz 13y ago
Since the two main comments in this thread are unnecessary negative, I will point out the ongoing discussion in /r/cpp: http://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/1z1b1q/c17_i_see_a_mona... The autho
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by dmunoz 13y ago
C++ has strong opinions on why it is lacking finally [0], and D has both try...catch...finally, and scope statements e.g. scope(exit). Personally, I'm not sold that this is enough to argue for the removal of goto. I don't think go
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by dmunoz 13y ago
> Still, though, goto is considered so harmful that it's inspiration for "considered harmful" phrasing. It gets tiring constantly hearing this. We discussed it in depth 18 days ago [0]. I'm going to copy and paste som
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by dmunoz 13y ago
> A lot of detached homes in Vancouver at the $900k price range look like they are in bad condition and reflect the land value. So much so, that a game has been made about this, Crack Shack or Mansion [0]. [0] http://www.crack
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by dmunoz 13y ago
Apologies for claiming it was a founder, that was my faulty memory. I see now that he was head of marketing for some time at SpiderOak. I hope you get the licensing issues worked out soon.
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by dmunoz 13y ago
Interesting read. I remember Crypton being announced almost a year ago [0], and for awhile I paid attention the GitHub repo, but it really felt like a dead product. Looking back at the commit history, I'm not so sure why I had this imp
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by dmunoz 13y ago
> we use quantifiable work-sample tests as the most important weighted component in selecting candidates Can you speak to that a little? I'm reading it as either programming challenges in a real environment, or analysis of previous
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by dmunoz 13y ago
I enjoyed reading this article, but does anyone who doesn't already understand what they're saying understand after reading something like: "Play's reactive core and asynchronous libraries (e.g. WS) integrate seamlessly
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by dmunoz 13y ago
I really like lobste.rs' tagging system, and appreciate that it lets me focus on what I am interested in at that moment in time.
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by dmunoz 13y ago
Not much to comment on. See Scott Aaronson's "Eight Signs A Claimed P≠NP Proof Is Wrong". [0] [0] http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=458
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by dmunoz 13y ago
I found the same sentence strange. Is sacrifice no longer in the dictionary of reasonable action? Running around thinking you can mutually maximize "everyone involved" is a recipe for disaster.
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by dmunoz 13y ago
It's interesting to play around with this. There are 168 hours a week. Say you sleep for 8 hours per day. That takes up 56 hours, leaving 112 hours. If you legitimately work for 80 hours, that leaves 32 hours of downtime a week, or rou
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by dmunoz 13y ago
> So I train, and that means I'm an 80 hours a week guy. Doesn't follow. I consider myself to be on a similar path, perhaps with a touch less passion than yourself. I wish for my future work to be meaningful and beneficial for
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by dmunoz 13y ago
> Without Googling, name any famous developer from Japan. Or China. Or Russia. Many Ruby developers won't have a problem with this.

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