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by gHosts 8y ago
Yup. And while the rest of the world knew how to find a file size... how long was it before C++ cleaned that very very simple corner up? And if you look under the hood at the implementation of std::conditional.... I feel ill. The thing I li
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by gHosts 8y ago
A ringbox mailbox multi-threaded implementation. Whilst I'm sort of proud of the 'word at a time', always contiguous and zero copy aspects of it... the important bit is the metadata. All the optimization was really to allow m
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by gHosts 8y ago
You have three votes.... * Your democratic vote (local / and national) * Where you spend your money. * Where you spend your time. You cannot refrain from voting and all votes are counted. Vote wisely.
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by gHosts 8y ago
> Make notes as you read Make executable notes as you read. FTFY ie. Add in asserts or logs that check what you believe and log (or abort) if what you believe is false. Otherwise it's idle speculation that never gets falsified.
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by gHosts 8y ago
His book on coding theory was an epiphany for me.... ie. Most books on technical are hard to understand, not because the subject is so hard, but because most author's are crappy at writing books and explaining there field. Hamming is a
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by gHosts 8y ago
Did yer hear about the Wooden Engine? It wouldn't go.
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by gHosts 8y ago
Ahh, socat, the zombo.com of the networking world. Takes a log time to digest the man page, but once you have you can do anything.
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by gHosts 8y ago
> opening a bank account but for claiming various other essential services, such as healthcare and education. Where such services are provided by a functioning state maybe, but if they are, they also have a functioning currency and banki
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by gHosts 8y ago
> Our mission is to build a monetary system that creates the conditions of prosperity for all. Your web site basically says "Apple Pay", but without Apple. So how do you get from that to, "a monetary system that creates th
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by gHosts 8y ago
He is looking at the wrong metric. It's not how much disk space or ram it takes up. It's certainly not the amount of dollars/megabyte it burns. It's how much mind space of both the user and the developer it takes up. Ala
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by gHosts 8y ago
Ahh, the old old old saying, "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a stationwagon full of tapes" still holds true.
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by gHosts 8y ago
In NZ you don't tip, and we actively boycott restaurants that treat staff unfairly. I much prefer it this way.
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by gHosts 8y ago
> Participants completed an interview that included a 66-item semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire (FFQ), modified from a 61-item FFQ designed and validated by Willett and colleagues,16 at Visit 1 (1987–89) and Visit 3 (1993–95
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by gHosts 8y ago
> pretty doctrinaire about And that is the problem. I have met teams that have gone into analysis paralysis about which unit test framework to use. I have met teams where one of the impediments to unit testing was "we don't hav
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by gHosts 8y ago
> especially for pointless trivial stuff like HN comment threads. Since you never enter into a conversation you ensure all your replies are pointless and trivial..... ...except you will never know this. ;-)
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by gHosts 8y ago
Umm, that lead to a maze of twisty javascript heavy glossy marketing hype, all the same.... Any actual documentation and code examples of what it is? I couldn't get anything from the marketing speak as to what stORMi actually was... In
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by gHosts 8y ago
My uncle was a geologist, spent some time on an Asbestos mine... and it killed him. As user nemacol said above..... What an awful way to die. Really really nasty.
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Ask HN: What do you _wish_ Computer Scientist's would work on more?
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My starting point is this... Take the minutes of the last business meeting you had. Without even asking your boss, publish them on the open web. Here on Hacker News for example. After a day or so point this out to your CEO, telling him you
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by gHosts 8y ago
Really slick, really easy, really powerful. Combined with Evolution extension.. unbeatable. I have used SCCS, RCS, CVS, SVN, bzr, git, but hg is by far the least pain and most powerful I have seen.
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by gHosts 8y ago
Mercurial work flow is just so slick and natural and painfree.... Which noone has ever seriously claimed for git. Mercurial + Mercurial evolution outcompetes git rebase workflows in a really nice slick reliable package. Merges are so hassle
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by gHosts 8y ago
Could one resolve the problem by insisting that the properties that form part of the equality be part of all items in the class hierarchy. eg. Even though Point may not have a color instance variable, there is no reason why it can't ha
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by gHosts 8y ago
A long long time ago I tried every gradient optimization method available at the time on fitting a model to noisy / non-smooth data with many local minima..... and found all of them lacking in robustness. In the end the only truly robu
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Hmm.. Grrumble. I think he has the tail of something.... but hasn't stated it well. Personally I keep coming across code where the "design" as indicated by names and comments indicate one thing.... but the fact of the code in
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by gHosts 8y ago
I use to get about 2 a week.... then I went very low carb diet (keto) for weightloss.... and found the migraines massively reduced in frequency and intensity.... Dug around and found that this is a commonly reported side benefit of a ketoge
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by gHosts 9y ago
> All posts must be chosen at random, where each post has an equal chance of being included in the study (simple random sample) Well there is a massive bias straight off. Nobody arrives at a post at random, nor will the toxicity be unifo
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by gHosts 9y ago
Nah. Zeolite is just kitty litter. Swipe some from your cat.
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by gHosts 9y ago
> Does anyone suggest insulin spikes are good? Actually nice "case in point". I have seen evidence presented that it's not the spikes that are the problem, but the "area under the curve". ie. An insulin spike is
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> What about the Krebs Cycle? So if you look at the [Big Picture of the metabolic pathways in humans]( http://biochemical-pathways.com/#/map/1 )... what do you have? Fuzzily defined, extraordinarily complex tangl
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Indeed, Tinkerer vs Researcher is a false dichotomy. Far Better would be to compare Maker vs Researcher. How "Production Ready" is the result of both activities is the interesting question. How well covered with tests? How maintai

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