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by eliben 9y ago
Thanks for the comment. I totally agree that Python can express this with its functional primitives as well. I was simply using it to show an "imperative style", and Python is my favorite executable pseudo-code. [P.S: I'm a
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by eliben 9y ago
... it will if you annotate it with (2010) ;-)
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by eliben 9y ago
Scale in what sense? I'm genuinely curious. Isn't this mostly a network/storage/memory bound problem?
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by eliben 9y ago
Penicillin probably saved at least tens of millions of lives, and other antibiotics even more. Yes, some strains of bacteria are developing resistance, but even today antibiotics are saving many many lives every day.
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by eliben 9y ago
Right. I'm saying the linked blog post can be improved significantly by spending a paragraph on explaining this. Otherwise it just sounds like magic.
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by eliben 9y ago
Interestingly, the term "reference type" has been removed from the Go spec in 2013: https://github.com/golang/go/commit/b34f0551387fcf043d65cd7d... Yet some semi-official sources (like The Go Progra
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by eliben 10y ago
This is only true in the strictest interpretation of what "JIT compilation" means. Check out the Aycock paper -- http://eecs.ucf.edu/~dcm/Teaching/COT4810-Spring2011/Literat... -- for a broader trea
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by eliben 10y ago
Can you clarify what you mean by "copying everything"? A good thing about BF, IMHO, is that its syntax is trivial to the point of almost non-existence, and that its memory model is C-like.
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by eliben 10y ago
Well, this "one area" has significantly larger population than the whole of NZ, but I take your point. I think you're trying to point out the low salaries of SW developers, because I find it hard to imagine homes in non-centr
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by eliben 10y ago
> In NZ, the median house price is 5 times the annual salary of a senior dev. In our largest city, it's 8 times that Depends on what you mean by "senior", but that's not very far from the situation in the Bay Area
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by eliben 10y ago
The OP sounds like sarcasm to me :)
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by eliben 10y ago
Did you actually go into the link? This is tech for parents, not for kids. Yes, "when we were young" we didn't have this. Long live freedom! But "when we were young" we also didn't have two-click-access to pedo
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by eliben 10y ago
That history was supposed to cover lightweight markup languages like MD. Otherwise of course the history goes way back :)
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by eliben 10y ago
If you try to ignore your bias against the person , it's actually admirable that someone can change their mind on a controversial topic instead of digging heels in stubbornly.
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by eliben 10y ago
Well, quite obviously unless you're genetically identical to your parents - you have "evolved". Congratulations.
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by eliben 10y ago
> "It's stellar performance" Am I the only one deeply troubled by Popular Mechanics articles making this ugly it's/its confusion in 2017. Is this really going to become a thing now?
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by eliben 10y ago
> Meanwhile Twitter struggles at implementing the most requested feature for many years - to edit Tweets I thought that the immutability of tweets is a feature, to be honest.
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by eliben 10y ago
Nope, I was just curious so I looked at the blog archive and saw you actually published them all
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by eliben 10y ago
Kudos for writing a compiler-construction walk-through without running out of steam after the parsing part :-) It's a shame this is where most tutorials end, since codegen is often much more interesting
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by eliben 10y ago
I like lists like this for discovering books I haven't heard of. I don't make an immediate buy decision based on appearance in a list, and will do more research. But it's a nice way to run into something you didn't run i
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by eliben 10y ago
I'm not sure I see what's wrong with this. The author obviously invested work in this and provided a resource others may find useful. You're free not to buy books through their affiliate links.
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by eliben 10y ago
Does the computer-ness of the AI give it advantage in poker w.r.t. counting cards, at which humans are imperfect? Or are humans perfect enough these days?
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by eliben 10y ago
I imagine if this was discovered in, say, Argentina, then there'd be a good chance of some Argentinian scientist participating in the discovery. Call it the anthropic principle of archeology :)
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by eliben 10y ago
I'm not sure what it means by "degree"? 9th-grade level math and reading? [referring to the first couple of paragraphs in the article]. That's hardly what is usually meant by a "degree".
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by eliben 10y ago
Does anyone here know which companies are looking for software engineers to help with this kind of stuff?
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by eliben 10y ago
Thanks for the extra info - very interesting. I'm always curious about whether these trials were followed later on as well. I mean those 27 of 29 patients, what is their state now? Still healthy? And how long ago did this trial occur?
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by eliben 10y ago
Some apple vendor, probably
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by eliben 10y ago
Because emitting efficient target machine code is a non-trivial problem? ... but also because the LLVM framework is very generic. This is both a blessing and a challenge. You can implement a new target by writing much less code (due to thos
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by eliben 10y ago
I wouldn't call CamelCase naming a design pattern, but I agree that a large project should stick to consistent coding guidelines - which LLVM does [ http://llvm.org/docs/CodingStandards.html ] Any particular style g
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by eliben 10y ago
This should be filed for safekeeping... you know, for the next time a journalist laments how grossly overpaid programmers are.

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