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by evmar 8y ago
For hidden Markov models (which only look into after you get the basics), I recall that this widely-cited paper (perhaps the original?) is pretty readable. From the title it looks like it's about speech but ignore the speech parts and
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by evmar 8y ago
Chrome on Windows uses CreateProcess, and Windows came first, so Chrome is mostly architected around an approach that would fit posix_spawn better. However, fork has some benefits that I went into here: http://neugierig.org&#x2F
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by evmar 8y ago
As an American with little access to trains, I was excited to try a sleeper train from Vienna to Poland. But I was disappointed to find that it was pretty uncomfortable -- lots of stopping and ringing bells throughout the night.
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by evmar 8y ago
This is my story too. I am not in the Apple ecosystem (I use mostly Linux) and don't really buy tech gadgets (e.g. I use an old phone), but I got a cheap iPad for a long trip where I wanted a map with a long battery, expecting to not
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by evmar 8y ago
This is still common. I recall the anecdote that there is one US state where one in four people have no teeth, due to getting them all pulled, though I can't find the data now. My wife is a dentist. One of her classmates told the sto
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by evmar 8y ago
Language design should not be determined by "votes".
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by evmar 8y ago
"absolute" is a bit of a funny qualifier to use here, given the many soundness holes in TS. For example (included with --strict): https://www.typescriptlang.org/play/#src=class%20Base%20%7B%... (I like TS, I
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by evmar 8y ago
I find this an interesting question as well. I am a senior Googler and my old friend is similarly senior at Amazon. He told me that Amazon culture is much more transactional: you're hired to do a job, you do the job for pay and the c
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by evmar 8y ago
I couldn't quite follow what the article was saying about "anaytical paths", but I think they're talking about spurious correlations. I worked on a stats app. We referred to the problem of finding correlations from data
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by evmar 8y ago
It was a great post, sorry to only have written a criticism! I vaguely recall there was some issue with the Babel emit of enums, but I can't remember it well enough to even remember whether it was fixed or not.
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by evmar 8y ago
They wrote: "The TypeScript compiler could theoretically perform bundle optimizations based on types and you are missing on that by having a separate emitter and type checker." Actually, this isn't true, and it's a funda
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by evmar 8y ago
This is how http://neugierig.org/software/c-repl/ worked. (See "How it works" in the README: https://github.com/evmar/c-repl/blob/master/README )
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by evmar 8y ago
TypeScript has a similar problem, where depending on some compilation flags you end up inheriting their license on your compiled output. I've been trying to get them to fix it but it is stuck in lawyer limbo: https://github
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by evmar 8y ago
I clicked 'performance' on that page and it says 1.5% over the last five years. Am I reading it wrong?
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The pattern of "I am a skeptic, eventually I was desperate enough to read the book despite that, and it genuinely helped me" has happened to more than one person I know. The standard testimonials is of the form "I thought it
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by evmar 8y ago
In one text adventure whose name I forget, you're stuck in a maze, and [spoilers] as you wander around helplessly at some point you start getting hot. If you take off your shirt to cool off, the game responds something like: "ah,
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by evmar 8y ago
TypeScript's type system can do it: http://www.typescriptlang.org/play/#src=%0D%0A%0D%0Atype%20A...
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by evmar 8y ago
Someone rewrote ninja from scratch in C at one point and it's shockingly tiny. (No tests = no extra abstractions to make testing possible.)
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by evmar 8y ago
No, sorry. And I also mixed what Ninja actually does with some random observations in that comment. Ninja does use some database-like things, but they are just in a simple text/binary format. It's actually been long enough that
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by evmar 8y ago
In Ninja I sorta stumbled through some of the same issues described here. I eventually realized that the interesting question is "does this output file reflect the state of all the inputs" and not anything in particular about mti
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by evmar 8y ago
You could just as well typo the ".SECOND" in the above. Plenty of existing JS APIs do the stringly thing here, so the proper thing for a checker to do is just check the strings. Try putting your cursor between the quotes here and
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by evmar 8y ago
ASLR loads segments into random places, but it doesn't split the heap up. Memory allocators typically (always?) arrange things contiguously for ease of management.
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by evmar 8y ago
In case anyone else was wondering, it appears that MBTA here refers to a Boston transit agency.
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Even if you don't sign a CLA, can't someone take an Apache/BSD/MIT-licensed work and make a closed source form of it? The license effectively just requires them to mention where the code came from. Whether you signed a
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by evmar 8y ago
I recently wanted to render some graphs and found there are a confusing variety of options. In particular https://github.com/dagrejs/dagre/wiki seems to be layout focused and then plugs into a bunch of other syst
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by evmar 8y ago
Yes, but you are describing how a lisp programmer would expect things to work. As my comment was saying, I was exploring whether a verbatim translation of C syntax works as sexeps, and where it fails.
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by evmar 8y ago
I tinkered a bit (as many others have too!) with a lisp syntax for C, just to see what it'd feel like. That is, exact C semantics (so not inventing anything) but sexpressions. What I remember struggling with is that it was surprisingl
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by evmar 8y ago
Unfortunately, to take this approach you generally need it to be a new language, so it doesn't have existing ecosystem baggage to carry along, which means it is less likely to win on another axis you often care about: developer famil
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by evmar 8y ago
As far as I understand it, every sound language eventually has to fall back to runtime checks to maintain soundness in tricky cases. For array covariance I know that Java/Dart eventually use runtime checks on array accesses to verify

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