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by eslaught 8y ago
Thank you for voicing this concern. There is something satisfying at a deep, almost visceral level about Slack's UI/UX (whatever else you think about it's ability to search/organize information). As someone looking for a
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by eslaught 8y ago
Seems like an archive feature? Since you can go back to see the contents of front pages from previous days. But "Front Page Archive" doesn't necessary condense well into single word unless you're going to call it /a
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by eslaught 8y ago
> - I suggest going over some of the samples generated by the model. Many people react quite strongly, e.g., https://twitter.com/justkelly_ok/status/1096111155469180928 . Have you done a plagiarism search on tha
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by eslaught 8y ago
Right, "check into the hotel" makes me think you're going to examine it, like you're suspicious of it's going to be a good one or something. Similar to how you might say "I'll check into that" if some
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by eslaught 8y ago
Native speaker here. You sign in when you arrive at a fitness club, or when you take your child to daycare. It's a regular, reoccurring action that you use to indicate you've arrived. I wouldn't normally use sign in for a hot
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by eslaught 8y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwB_yblD5No
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Show HN: Share and Critique Each Other's YC 120 Application Videos
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by eslaught 8y ago
This is called explicit versioning [1]. But in my opinion the correct fix is the one suggested in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19138143 Windows is a great example: the number behind the name (7, 8, 8.1
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by eslaught 8y ago
Yes, it's called dynamic scoping, and for a long time it wasn't believed that the other option (what we call lexical scoping today) could even be implemented efficiently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scope_(c
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by eslaught 8y ago
Terra [1]. I used it to create Regent [2] specifically because it takes this approach. [1]: http://terralang.org/ [2]: http://regent-lang.org/
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by eslaught 8y ago
I actually wrote about this here: https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/rust-2019-towards-richer-l... In short, the biggest difference is that Terra makes it very easy to interact with the compiler at every level: I can in
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by eslaught 8y ago
There isn't enough detail on this page to really know what's unique about this language. However, I'd say in general that I don't think this area is "solved" at all, and there are a lot of open problems (or at
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by eslaught 8y ago
It's at least plausible they could open source the language without open sourcing the app at the same time. So they're not necessarily in contradiction.
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by eslaught 8y ago
> 100% overlapping with what I'm trying to do with Zig. I don't see any mention of meta-programming for V, which seems to be a big emphasis for Zig? This seems like a massive feature that at least I'd care about. I haven&#
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by eslaught 8y ago
I'm surprised no one in this thread has mentioned Hacker & Painters : https://www.amazon.com/dp/1449389554 This is the book that really got me into programing. I'd tried programming before, and had even
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by eslaught 8y ago
Personally, I found the research section more enlightening. It lists two papers which talk about their approach: https://vuvuzela.io/research
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by eslaught 8y ago
On the other hand, some branches like the Department of Energy are making a big push for open source. You can see how many projects Los Alamos has, for example: https://github.com/lanl And: https://github.com&#x2
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by eslaught 8y ago
Is there a good way to debug CMake build rules (especially in the presence of add_custom_command and friends)? I've got a case which builds differently in Make vs Visual Studio---in VS, dependencies get messed up and some files don&#x2
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by eslaught 8y ago
Sorry for the tangent, but this is one of the biggest missing ingredients in science fiction and fantasy today, in my opinion. It is really, really captivating to get into the head of someone who thinks differently from you at a very fundam
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by eslaught 8y ago
Interesting, good to know. I'm guessing third party channel support is probably close to nil though, so for my use case it probably wouldn't get me very far.
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by eslaught 8y ago
Compare to e.g. conda, where you get binary packages and no option to build from source at all. This basically means you get support for x86 and very limited support for PPC. Need ARM? Nope, no can do. Or any other slightly exotic architect
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by eslaught 8y ago
It's somewhat basic right now, but I developed a tool that you can use as an additional level of verification that your backups are working. https://github.com/elliottslaughter/integrity-checker
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by eslaught 8y ago
Sorry, my original post was geared a little too much toward things you're already working on---which I think is not actually what the YC 120 call is asking for. I think they're looking more for what you'd like to work on, and
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by eslaught 8y ago
I was thinking online, but offline could work too. We could even do both. Maybe we'll wait to see how the online version goes first? If that gets traction then we can see about organizing an offline version.
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by eslaught 8y ago
For everyone who's being cynical about this opportunity: This seems like a great way to practice pitching what you do and why it matters. Personally, this seems like an interesting exercise, regardless of whether you get in or not. For
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by eslaught 8y ago
I think the author significantly misrepresents the argument against copyright assignment. The issue is not the overhead, the issue is control. If you assign copyright to e.g. FSF then FSF has the exclusive right to relicense to whatever the
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by eslaught 8y ago
I use Pandoc with Pandoc's dialect of Markdown. My issue isn't in the final conversion step, it's that if I use an editor that isn't careful to preserve syntax it doesn't understand then the Markdown syntax itself m
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by eslaught 8y ago
Frankly, I have yet to find a good Markdown editor period, regardless of whether it's open/closed source or whatever. As far as I know all the Markdown editors I'm aware of only support subsets of the syntax in e.g. Pandoc, s
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by eslaught 8y ago
> [...] to be effective and enable other scientists success. I would reframe this slightly: What are the fundamental open problems in computer science that prevent our existing tools from working for scientists more generally? E.g. are t
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by eslaught 8y ago
Shameless plug: we're starting a new computer science research group at SLAC and hiring for full time staff scientist positions. You might think a CS research group is a little odd at a linear accelerator center, but one of the things

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