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by eliben 9y ago
Wow, it's great this book is now available online for free! It's definitely one of my all-time-favorite programming books - my own copy is well worn by use. It's not exactly cutting edge AI in 2018, but the general programmin
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by eliben 9y ago
I wonder if we really don't need AI. It's not like we have amazing ideas on how to save the planet and reverse global warming realistically. Sure, there _are_ ideas but the costs seem comically high. Maybe AI could help us do that
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by eliben 9y ago
The alternative hypothesis was the "two-hit" idea of multiple changes accumulating in DNA over time, so it's not a trivial topic to study.
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by eliben 9y ago
Stack Overflow pops up plenty of "new grad" level jobs all the time, for example https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/155829/google-software-engine...
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by eliben 9y ago
On disk size != memory footprint though. It may occupy 11MB as a binary but allocate way more than that at runtime. [nitpicking, of course :)]
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by eliben 9y ago
Hey, we definitely have seasons here - like now it's "raining once a week and sorta cold in the morning" season. Summer is very different ;-)
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by eliben 9y ago
Isn't "taking more risks" simply survivorship bias? A-priori, you weigh every risk and try to minimize your chances of getting hurt (physically, financially, etc). But in hindsight, realizing that nothing bad happened of cou
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by eliben 9y ago
If this* isn't the very definition of a public bubble, I don't know what is :) * Neophytes buying whatever they can put their hands on, because... mania
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by eliben 9y ago
The actual title is "Inside Airbnb’s Russian Money-Laundering Problem", which is more suitable IMHO, as it highlights this is a local issue in Russia, not AirBnB as a whole
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by eliben 9y ago
There's plenty of land in Australia which is absolutely not desert. Also there are cities built in deserts these days.
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by eliben 9y ago
What I find most amazing about this is Australia being the 10th least population dense country in the world [ https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_popul... ]. It's very interesting to ponder how
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by eliben 9y ago
Did it? With FF 56 on Ubuntu lately I have to restart Firefox once in a day or two because its memory usage balloons out of proportions (> 1 GB for 4 open tabs) and it starts getting sluggish. It felt speedier a few months ago
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by eliben 9y ago
FWIW, the series concluding at https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2017/adventures-in-jit-compila... build a Brainf*ck JIT in pure C++, then using LLVM, then in Python using PeachPy
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by eliben 9y ago
I was reading through trying to find out whether this is a joke... [There's a nice subreddit for things like this called r/nottheonion/]
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by eliben 9y ago
Aren't very high sales for a store expected? They don't manufacture (most) stuff - they buy it for X, sell it for X+Y%, so better economy = more consumer spending = higher sales for stores. The real key for Amazon is how good th
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by eliben 9y ago
When Medium started, I was amazed that people would just donate their content to Medium instead of owning it. Now I hope these people are amazed too...
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by eliben 9y ago
Tragedy of the commons - it's a ubiquitous and powerful economic principle.
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by eliben 9y ago
Awesome, thanks for sharing!
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by eliben 9y ago
It is dense and difficult to read, I agree. But it's also very insightful, and hence recommended. I agree with the other comment that listening to difficult books is generally easier than reading.
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by eliben 9y ago
Golang certainly affected the way I think about programming, having learned it after ~15 years of programming experience. FWIW, I think most language can affect thinking - but the degree varies.
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by eliben 9y ago
To a first order of approximation, for this task it doesn't matter. Both are good options. I do recommend reading SICP while at it; using Scheme for SICP is easier than using Clojure. On the other hand, Clojure is more production-ready
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by eliben 9y ago
Go is verbose ? I'm surprised to hear that, to be honest. Can you say what it's verbose in comparison to? What production language/framework has terser concurrency with the same expressiveness?
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by eliben 9y ago
> 1.5x - 2x speed Since I mostly read non-fiction I find 1.5 a bit too fast if I want to really comprehend stuff without hitting replay all the time, so I just hear all books at 1.25 and it works well for me.
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by eliben 9y ago
Audiobooks are a great way to increase your book intake considerably. "Reading" while washing dishes, other house chores and commuting can easily get you through 2-3 extra books a month (depending on the length of the commute :)
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by eliben 9y ago
Economics 101 - because there are too many of them? There was demand; with demand, supply found its way into the market. As often happens, supply then overshot demand which led to lowered prices which led to shrinkage of supply. ... none of
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by eliben 9y ago
Serious question: if I just run a simple blog with static HTML hosted with Apache, do I really need HTTPS? Will I be penalized by not having it?
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by eliben 9y ago
Not every person looking for a job has to "beat off recruiters" - some folks would be happy to hear from any recruiter, I imagine
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by eliben 9y ago
Take a look at https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/master/src/clj/cloju... TL;DR: Clojure supports multi-arity functions (sort of like operator overloading in C++, but overloading for the n
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by eliben 9y ago
In Python 3 functions like reduce were moved to the functools module, not removed from the language.
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by eliben 9y ago
Thanks, this is the kind of feedback I most enjoy getting :-) Glad you found it useful!

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