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by dxhdr 10y ago
Having never had to lose weight, I also feel happy talking about this. You are conflating healthy with boring, which is an opinion but not a helpful one; I happen to disagree with it. A more useful discussion revolves around time. In order
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by dxhdr 10y ago
Tried Erlang? It's fantastic for everything except number crunching. The VM is basically an OS and makes a lot of sense for embedded devices. I remember reading about some guys programming drones with Erlang a few years ago, they demo&
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by dxhdr 10y ago
Best 3 books out of the lot that you can recommend? Thanks!
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by dxhdr 10y ago
It'd be nice to see font examples with syntax highlighting as well.
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by dxhdr 10y ago
Concurrent, preemptive socket servers with robust failure handling are "trivial" in Erlang. I'd say 10x productivity would be an understatement compared to other languages. Writing FPU code? 0.1x productivity would be generou
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by dxhdr 10y ago
This is following the suit filed by $96MM investor Partner Fund Management last month. http://www.businessinsider.com/partner-fund-management-sues-... And Theranos' announcement of shutting down their labs and firing 4
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by dxhdr 10y ago
Your github seems to be missing the code! require "tummy/version" module Tummy # Your code goes here... end
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by dxhdr 10y ago
I don't understand this critique of an outdated version of the language. Let's see questions written in C99 using stdint types. Dealing with integer widths is a non-issue. Yes, inc/dec operators take extra care. Structure pac
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by dxhdr 10y ago
Uh, what? I thought companies pay the recruiters a percentage of first year salary, or a flat fee, for the successful referral. The employee should not be paying anything.
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by dxhdr 10y ago
I've got a Dylos DC1100 Pro and it seems to work great, however I don't have a solid way of verifying the accuracy of its measurements. Supposedly it's one of the most accurate devices available at that price. Empirically it
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by dxhdr 10y ago
Mind sharing how your portfolio is organized?
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by dxhdr 10y ago
> taking the statements of the the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Homeland Security at face value Frankly, it's hard to do that in a post-Snowden, post-Comey world.
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by dxhdr 10y ago
I think it could use improvement. Look at https://api.slack.com/methods/chat.postMessage and explain how "as_user" makes any sense. And it gets more convoluted depending on other parameters used (IM channels,
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by dxhdr 10y ago
Agreed, that was the only sentence in the article that gave me pause -- a language having been used extensively for (failed!) attempts at A.I. does not make it a great A.I. language. Maybe we'd have general purpose A.I. by now if we di
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by dxhdr 10y ago
Isn't this mental model of time fairly common? If you don't picture the year as a circle or donut, what do you think of when considering the year?
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by dxhdr 11y ago
The only slow operations these days are L3 cache misses and transcendental function calls, around 100 cycles each. Optimize for that, not a 1 CPU clock cycle "bit twiddle."
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by dxhdr 11y ago
Ok thanks for pointing that out, I stand corrected. Regardless I think Python has reached a sort of critical mass of data science packages.
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by dxhdr 11y ago
It's the libraries like NumPy, Pandas, SciPy, Matplotlib, SymPy, and so on that make the difference. There's been a ton of work put into developing those Python frameworks for "data science" which don't exist to suc
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by dxhdr 11y ago
Someone should hack together C coroutines using Duff's device and throw it up there. It'd win handily, probably around 1ms. You've got around 100 million instructions to use in 1ms on that i7-4770 and no cache to hit, go nuts
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by dxhdr 11y ago
How about running this on a 36+ core machine? Testing parallelism on a dual or quad core isn't that exciting. Maybe we'd realize this benchmark isn't really testing parallelism but primarily sequential thread creation/de
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by dxhdr 11y ago
Minor clarification -- Erlang is not interpreted, it's compiled to bytecode and executed on the BEAM virtual machine.
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by dxhdr 11y ago
I don't understand the enthusiasm for this or the rampant forking going on. Most of these fall firmly under "let me google that for you." How do I check my Ubuntu version? How do I split a tmux window? How do I expand
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by dxhdr 11y ago
Swift is a neat language but unfortunately doesn't fix the extremely verbose and archaic-feeling NextStep libraries that make Objective-C a pain to read or write: let bar = foo.stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString(" ", withSt
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by dxhdr 11y ago
Okay, here's an extremely unscientific rebuttal to your sports analogy. There are 13,700 professional athletes in the United States [0], compared to 670,000 amateur athletes in the Amateur Athletic Union [1] (there are surely many more
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by dxhdr 11y ago
They aren't raising prices, however they are firing 16,000 employees: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-01-15/walmart-fire-16000-...
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by dxhdr 11y ago
"the technical companies in the bay area seems to be isolated from the hardships of the rest of the economy" There's a financial book called "This Time Is Different" that outlines the similarities between asset bubb
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by dxhdr 11y ago
If that were the case annual technology sales should be zero. After all, phones, PCs, and laptops get cheaper and faster ever year. If what you say is true, no one should buy any this year. Let's all wait until next year. Clearly this
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by dxhdr 11y ago
Just curious, how is nodejs nicer for distribution than a binary file?
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by dxhdr 11y ago
I half agree; it's easy to be cynical. Virtual functions can be a terrible idea... if they are in a hot path. Is EchoHandler::read such a path? Maybe, you really can't say without profiling. If anything using std::string is the re
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by dxhdr 11y ago
How about input fuzzing? Did you try crashing it and see how quickly it can recover? Unit tests? What about zero downtime upgrades? DDoS resiliency? Can it utilize all cores on a machine? Scalable? What are the median and max response times

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