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by gcv 12y ago
This is precisely why — for some products in some industries — NIH is a reasonable strategy for writing good programs.
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by gcv 12y ago
Because the learning process for medicine is completely different. 8-year olds armed with QBasic can make a computer do cool things. No 8-year old can study or even try out doing anything interesting in medicine by any meaningful approximat
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by gcv 12y ago
There's a difference between learning computation (how to make a computer help you solve problems), and all the bullshit you have to do to build software (especially for other people). The former involves timeless concepts. The latter
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by gcv 12y ago
Seeing as this is crypto software, is it a good idea to wait for a 2.1.1 bugfix release?
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by gcv 12y ago
The author wanted a build system which does not ultimately generate a bunch of Makefiles. CMake and GNU Autotools both rely on Make to do real work.
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by gcv 12y ago
I went camping at Snow Mountain in Mendocino Forest a few weeks ago. Not a drop of water anywhere, only dry stream beds. Extremely high risk of fire. No sign of mammals larger than chipmunks. Meanwhile, I'm sure this hasn't change
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by gcv 12y ago
> HTML+browsers have been carefully designed and optimized by people who know the intricacies of document rendering. You're joking, right? HTML+CSS requires heaps of workarounds to achieve the most trivial layouts. The people behind
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by gcv 12y ago
I wish the meme about the supposed superiority of "declarative" languages would go away. They have tradeoffs, like everything else. "Make" is also declarative — and horrific. TeX has plenty of warts by modern standards (
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by gcv 12y ago
Take a look at multiple cursor mode for this.
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by gcv 12y ago
Someone in Silicon Valley, a respected and very smart middle-aged CEO of a well-funded startup, once said to me that programmers over 45 either become CTOs or they probably aren't very good (and therefore not worth hiring). A generaliz
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by gcv 12y ago
> They didn't even bother intercepting his email at the network or service provider level. Is this a known fact? If I wanted to spy on a prominent dissident [1], I would use a variety of methods. Some would be intentionally crude, s
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by gcv 12y ago
> talking to you was the highlight of the weekend for me Sounds like attending was worth it for you, after all, and for the same main reason you noted in your post: networking.
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by gcv 12y ago
Have Airbnb guests been an actual problem, or is this a pure Not In My Building reaction?
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by gcv 12y ago
> The Shinkansen is expensive; with the rise of low-cost carriers, any train trip that takes more than two hours from Tokyo is less cost-effective than flying. Nonsense. Narita airport is about an hour away from central Tokyo (by one of
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by gcv 12y ago
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/nypd-stop-and-... FTA: "Shootings are up in East New York from 34 to 43 through Aug. 10, a spike of about 27% compared to last year. In Brownsville, shootings are
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by gcv 12y ago
So the Feynman article's title did change! I thought my eyes were playing tricks. Dear moderators: please don't do that. And when someone reposts the classic "You and Your Reseach" again, don't strip out Hamming&#
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by gcv 12y ago
You could argue that the original JKR work also portrays Dumbledore in a somewhat unflattering light. (He sent children after known dark wizards on multiple occasions, lied to Harry on several occasions, arguably stood by while Sirius was s
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by gcv 12y ago
I'm not sure you can realistically wire together pieces of functionality written in a statically typed language without understanding its underlying type system. Sure, by the time it compiles without errors the code probably needs less
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by gcv 12y ago
> every other character made into a drooling moron Professor Quirrel?
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by gcv 12y ago
I've always been curious about Jane Street. It seems like a too-good-to-be-true story. Picking an obscure but powerful alternative to C++ and Java for a highly-competent core team makes sense, and has been done by several banks. But ha
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by gcv 12y ago
The article says that SQLite may not be a good choice for large datasets. Assuming the other constraints (concurrent writes) are not a concern, why not? Assume a 750GB-1TB dataset of time series data, which fits on an SSD — what system woul
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by gcv 12y ago
I use it occasionally, even though magit has largely taken its place. In part, I like the way it ships the command-line git program: inside its .app bundle. Very clean and convenient if you don't fell like pulling in Homebrew or pollut
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by gcv 12y ago
The marketing copy doesn't mention local (or remote) filesystem integration. This doesn't look like a direct Dropbox (or Box or Google Drive) competitor to me — more like Microsoft SharePoint. Amazon does not seem to have gone for
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by gcv 12y ago
For languages with exactly one useable implementation, the distinction is rather academic. In the case of C++, as far as I know, every production-quality compiler produces code which runs circles around code produced by any Java compiler. I
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by gcv 12y ago
I hear that argument a lot, and yet I have never seen real-life software that runs comparably in Java and C++. For example, a few weeks ago, I was looking at some (fairly simple) data processing code backed by SQLite. The Java version was t
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by gcv 12y ago
Not the OP here, but briefly, the technique uses a little statistical cleverness and the ability to examine a running program to help identify which part of the Spotify program produces the unencrypted bytes of the track it is playing. It t
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by gcv 12y ago
I remember reading recently that the pay-per-play model of reimbursing artists from streaming services barely pays for anything except substantial hit tracks. A lot of the stuff I listen to on Rdio has barely a couple of hundred plays. So f
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by gcv 12y ago
It probably doesn't matter to the artists, but I wonder how much of that business went to streaming services, and how much to BitTorrent?
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by gcv 12y ago
Programming skills do not translate into solutions to big problems. The amount of education required to tackle something serious weeds out nearly all coders. Most programmers spend their careers writing code to someone else's spec, and
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by gcv 12y ago
I confess that I also do not understand the code in the article. (But I am still only a student of Haskell.) I can only guess, based on my own work with this idea of Cells-type programming, that the author means the following: Suppose you h

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