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by gngeal 13y ago
My memory may be faulty, but isn't this also a significant material in K&R? That would make it almost as old as dirt.
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by gngeal 13y ago
Is this architecture going to face the same issue? Why don't you just recompile?
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by gngeal 13y ago
Wouldn't a creation of the equivalent of a permspace and instructing said tools to ignore it mitigate the problem?
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by gngeal 13y ago
"To an intelligence agency, a well-thought-out weakness can easily be worth a cover identity and five years of salary to a top-notch programmer. Anybody who puts in five good years on an open source project can get away with inserting
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by gngeal 13y ago
Think about how "direct manipulation" programming fits into a source control / branching workflow, for example. Trivially. Since virtually all currently used languages form syntactic trees (the exception being such beasts a
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by gngeal 13y ago
Do you think that quantifying your life actually has some benefits? I was never totally sold on that claim. You've never had an ECG done?
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by gngeal 13y ago
I'd also bet 5$ that in 20 years the changes won't be as dramatic as the 80s-00s shift. Thare's been a "dramatic change" between the 80's and 00's? If so, I must have missed it. I look at, say, IBM 1620
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by gngeal 13y ago
What makes you think that a "low-level programmer" can't do time-to-market stuff? That's like saying that a professional writer and proofreader can't fire off a quick SMS to his friends (sometimes with a typo, but n
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by gngeal 13y ago
Alan Kay seems to think along similar (though not identical) lines these days. The sheer inertia of ordinary programming language implementations means that by the time you get to use it, you may realize that something "slightly differ
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by gngeal 13y ago
Or use SQL, which is a lot more powerful than APL How could that possibly be true? What does "powerful" mean? Certainly not that it can compute things that APL family languages can't, and the design of APL/J/K etc
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by gngeal 13y ago
If it's based on crime statistics, this software would be heavily oriented toward black communities. So what? On what else than crime statistics do you propose to build a predictive system for crime? It doesn't matter which comm
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by gngeal 13y ago
The page says "Libramatic runs on multiple platforms including Android devices and any internet-enabled computer" .
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by gngeal 13y ago
This is something that will make large portions of your target audience twitch. Exactly, this is for literrate people!
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by gngeal 13y ago
Does that mean that you're not allowed to view the page on your mobile device either? Is that supposed to be some sort of a silly artificial restriction?
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by gngeal 13y ago
it takes 300 pages for him to get to the point of developing simple algorithms of the type you meet in the first chapter of an algorithm textbook That's impossible; Discipline of Programming has only 217 pages of text. Surely you&#
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by gngeal 13y ago
How do you propose to make exceptions work in the presence of large number of cooperating goroutines? As in, there's no implicit control flow the way you have it in "less-threaded" languages.
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by gngeal 13y ago
"The biggest thing nature did to fight climate change..." ...has always been the absorption of CO2 in the rocks of the Earth's crust. Or hasn't it? Well, this process is still working, but it won't be working fo
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by gngeal 13y ago
The idea of never free()ing and then taking advantage of that with a dumb allocator to get better performance is pretty clever. Doesn't Erlang do something like this with processes? What about doing scratch heaps for data with limite
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by gngeal 13y ago
Vtune is even able to do power consumption analysis these days. ...on AMD machines, too? (Not to mention mobile development on ARM.)
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by gngeal 13y ago
Why would I care if it's portable or not? I've never understood the mentality of "but it's not portable". If something isn't not portable, you put #+ and #- on top of it. I'd rather go for "straight-f
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by gngeal 13y ago
Why would I save "a representaion model" when I can simply save the process/thread state?
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by gngeal 13y ago
Yes. But now _every_ mac user and plenty of other people have a typed assembly compiler on their machines! Really? Where? Which one? The last time I looked, TAL was only a proposal.
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by gngeal 13y ago
There's no valid direct technical reason other than financial resource constraints to justify compiling to C (... or JS, for that matter) instead of a more suitable and expressive IR/bytecode. How does one do call/cc in LLV
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by gngeal 13y ago
Not necessarily "forced", but I was certainly much uncomfortable. A brick and mortar type of school is good if you need access to equipment and labs, but fortunately, my interests don't include practical nuclear engineering o
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by gngeal 13y ago
Can a person get the same quality of education from online courses as traditional courses? Can those courses be graded and accredited in a way which means something to employers? What about the overall success of http://www.ope
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by gngeal 13y ago
I learned more from the clubs I joined and/or formed in university than I did from the lectures. However, it's great for schizoid people who may not have the same options that you had.
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by gngeal 13y ago
Well, actually speed was a design goal for Common Lisp. It might have been one of the design goals, but it wasn't the ultimate design goal (which, I believe, was making a convergent compromise dialect to rule them all), otherwise cer
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by gngeal 13y ago
Did Samsung, in fact, distribute the code in Android devices? If the answer is "yes", wouldn't that make it GPLd?
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by gngeal 13y ago
Ruby does have support for callcc, which most lisps, specially the fast ones like Common Lisp, don't, since it is a pain to implement a fast one without implications in your whole language. Gambit-C is one of the fastest Lisp impleme
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by gngeal 13y ago
it's the language design. All that dynamism and runtime reflection is really a performance killer. So why are Lisp and Smalltalk, which are equally dynamic and reflective, even faster?

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