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by fizixer 11y ago
Highly recommended (though the Gary Kildall bit is very short): - A movie: Pirates of Silicon Valley ( https://youtu.be/BI-nzUIYIX4 ) - A documentary: Triumph of the Nerds ( https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis
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by fizixer 11y ago
Swiss watchmaking will definitely survive. (See also: flint-knapping)
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by fizixer 11y ago
> You use concurrency because having multiple execution contexts at "the same" time is useful, even if they are merely interleaved by the thread scheduler on the same core. E.g. an IRC server: having a thread per socket, blocki
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by fizixer 11y ago
Rob Pike gave a feature-length talk on the very topic of 'concurrency vs parallelism' and although I gave up 20 minutes in (I don't think I was getting what he was trying to say), I assume there might be a notion behind what
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by fizixer 11y ago
Fun fact: what's common between Rob Pike, Bjarne Stroustrup, Larry Wall, Guido van Rossum, and so many other language inventors? They're all C programmers!
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by fizixer 11y ago
I saw the TLA+ talk [1] recently and was surprised there was no discussion of code-generation. Once you've spent a significant effort in writing and verifying a formal spec for a program, there should be an automated mapping between it
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by fizixer 11y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_to_eleven
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by fizixer 11y ago
In some sense pointing out 'text'ness of the text tools is the wrong thing to do (e.g., 'text' is something that contrasts with 'binary'). All of Excel, LabView, Scratch etc (as jamii pointed out in the other c
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by fizixer 11y ago
The key paragraph "The projection is visualized as ... pictured as below." is very ambiguous, and completely missing the explanation of how the data was split into red, blue, and indigo clusters.
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by fizixer 12y ago
> ... no one understands why it’s true. That's an unwarranted claim. Various quantities of interest of complex systems more often than not follow certain statistical distributions. This is especially true about natural systems. Flip
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by fizixer 12y ago
I'll just leave this here as a tribute: https://vimeo.com/113142476
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by fizixer 12y ago
> ... Wright’s group instead turned to the Templeton Foundation, ... Unfortunately, I have to stop reading at this point. (In case anyone doesn't know, this foundation is motivated by religiously-conservative ideology, although I&#x
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by fizixer 12y ago
You didn't provide the source of your MIT study but that's okay because: - I didn't provide any source either. - But more importantly, I'm well aware that there are studies out there that grossly overestimate the informa
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by fizixer 12y ago
What really matters is if we've made enough hardware progress to allow us to develop strong AI. And IMO the answer is a resounding 'yes'.
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by fizixer 12y ago
Personally I'd like to be able to use a system that has human-readable C as a backend, along with the idea of 'semantic C' that I've discussed a couple times in the past. Anyone with me on this? Past comment: https:&#x2
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by fizixer 12y ago
Question from a JS layman: React is great in comparison to what? vanilla JS? Angular/Backbone/Ember? JQuery? any other *.JS? Also is this a good direction for "mobile first" approach? What about platform independence? (i
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by fizixer 12y ago
Here's the truth about the medical profession, based on my internet search over the last couple of years as an enthusiast on this topic. It's a sleeping giant. It's like the mechanical engineers of 1880s who had the idea of t
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by fizixer 12y ago
I tried to create a detailed response to this but in the end I gave up (also I have other things to tend to). Please. It is not okay to keep supporting an idea until the minute the counter to that idea becomes available, when you'll be
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by fizixer 12y ago
You want to "take on the end of life", you want to "redesign death"? you want to be radical? and that means putting the metaphorial mirrors on the gurneys, and creating an iphone app "After I Go" and "refo
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by fizixer 12y ago
"Smart" text editor should help with parentheses. Two ideas come to mind: - It should be aware of S-expression grammar, and actively monitor what the user is typing. (Think of it as an s-expression expert watching over your should
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by fizixer 12y ago
I remember him (either in the QuakeCon 2013 talk, or one of his writings) mentioning that all these years he was so busy he never got a chance to have his lisp enlightenment. I think he might be having it now.
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by fizixer 12y ago
Not sure which of my questions you're referring to. As I replied to others, saying "bar() is invoked" is not only not obvious, it's incorrect. bar() may or may not be invoked.
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by fizixer 12y ago
> ... the compiler is allowed to do literally anything ... and yet he makes the claim that "bar() is invoked" which is not only incorrect (bar may or may not be invoked), but also misleading for C newbies who are actually tryin
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by fizixer 12y ago
> ... MAY assume ... and therefore his claim: > ... Turns out, bar() is invoked even when x is the null pointer ... is incorrect (bar may or may not be invoked) and misleading for C newbies, without any mention of the subtleties o
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by fizixer 12y ago
Too much of a coincidence! Did he make sure the behavior he mentioned is uniform across all ISO standards? What is his source for coming up with a certain answer to a certain piece of code? any of the standard documents? K&R book? gcc o
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by fizixer 12y ago
He's discussing subtle points of the C language and yet there is no mention of which compiler he's using, whether the results might be different for different compilers, hardware platforms, and how they correlate with multiple C s
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by fizixer 12y ago
I had a long debate on multiple forums recently regarding the almost uselessness of OpenGL in presence of something like OpenCL, especially when OpenGL does its job (as a graphics library) in a very crappy manner by trying to be part-framew
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by fizixer 12y ago
You seem to be coming from the opposing view of that of the article, that coding 'is' the new literacy. I was more challenging the article's claim that modeling is the new literacy, which I think isn't. As to whether cod
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by fizixer 12y ago
- Coding is not the new literacy. - Neither is modeling. - Neither is externalizing mental models or whatever. It's not the human obligation to become more and more creative and resourceful, when less creative activities become less an
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by fizixer 12y ago
Two questions: - ARM licenses its designs so that would make their SoC design not open-source (both CPU and GPU)? (a sub question: they didn't specify in the main page who made the Mali. ARM doesn't make chips itself). - By "

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