greydius

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by greydius 11y ago
This sounds like an armchair-philosopher platitude to me.
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by greydius 11y ago
> No real intrinsic value. Not necessarily true. Gold is an excellent conductor of electricity and resists oxidation. Diamonds are good at cutting stone and concrete.
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by greydius 11y ago
If C++ is really so portable, then why don't you just compile openjdk to your other platforms instead of rewriting all the Java code?
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by greydius 11y ago
The human brain is probably the most efficient computational device ever and it runs orders of magnitude slower than modern electronic devices.
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by greydius 11y ago
This is a good example of the kind of content that my ideal Internet would be composed of. There would be no social networks, no comments or like buttons, no advertisements, no search engines. Every website would be substantial. It's
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by greydius 11y ago
Haskell has newtype for this purpose, with the benefit that the compiler removes the added overhead of the additional data type.
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by greydius 11y ago
QBASIC was my first programming experience. I fondly remember a little known function that would treat a string variable as an array of machine instructions and execute them. There was a nice library of graphics functions designed that way
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by greydius 11y ago
> ...and a few values such as false, true, and null . when are we going to learn from our past mistakes?
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by greydius 11y ago
> Each selfie has a 1 in 12,857,142 chance of causing you death That's assuming every selfie has an equally likely chance of causing death, which I think we can all agree is not the case. But yeah, it's extremely difficult for
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by greydius 11y ago
Safe by convention is a ridiculous notion. I think (and I know this isn't a popular opinion here, but I'll say it anyway) that C and C++ are dying horses; these 'modern' versions and 'best practices' are not a
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by greydius 11y ago
I've always felt the system of using property taxes to fund public schools (in the US. I dont know how other countries work) is completely unfair. Affluent, lower population (and predominately white) school districts are well funded w
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by greydius 11y ago
I also found this book to be excellent.
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by greydius 11y ago
This is a valid observation. Setting aside all the technical flaws with the C language, the fact that most supposed experts can't agree on best practices for even the most trivial usage details does not inspire (for me, at least) much
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by greydius 11y ago
> Eve: Stop talking, show me the code! I like Eve.
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by greydius 11y ago
1 (British pound per liters) = 5.69500061 U.S. dollars per US gallon Milk is a lot cheaper in the US. I usually pay about $4/gallon.
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by greydius 11y ago
Point taken. I've never done frontend work, but I can understand the value of a human tester when a complex UI is involved. The kind of work I do is very data-oriented and quite easy to get high coverage when the code is well written
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by greydius 11y ago
This was exactly the situation at a previous employer. There were twice as many testers as devs. I tried to advocate for comprehensive unit and integration tests and was met with a "if it doesn't work, the testers will let us kn
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by greydius 11y ago
It's interesting that you mention The Minority Report. I feel that one of the key themes of the movie (and the story it's based on by Phillip K. Dick) is the question of when someone actually becomes a criminal. That is, if some
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by greydius 11y ago
I think this is brilliant. Richard Prince is exactly the artist that the people paying for his works deserve.
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by greydius 11y ago
I'm too tall, unfortunately. But I am a white male, so I guess I'll just have to settle for a job as a CEO.
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by greydius 11y ago
And Frege was based on Haskell which takes the exact opposite approach: everything is pure/immutable by default, and extra effort is required to write impure code and mutable data. What if we had a plugin that worked this way? It woul
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by greydius 11y ago
> you're going to be miserable if I hire you to do ASP.Net and Sharepoint development That is probably true in general.
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by greydius 11y ago
Summary: the economy should be run like a Ponzi scheme.
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by greydius 11y ago
I worked through the book a couple years ago, implementing the data structures in Haskell. It was an enlightening experience. One of these days I'd like to go back and pay more attention to the analysis.
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by greydius 11y ago
Working through MacLane & Birkhoff's Algebra. I used to study Japanese, but Ive been slacking on that pursuit.
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by greydius 11y ago
> In the land of big-O, a factor of only 2 is considered not very exciting In the land of solving real-world problems a factor of 2 is extremely significant, especially when you're trying to get the most performance out of a power-c
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by greydius 11y ago
I'm most productive at work before lunch. I like to get in before 8 am and leave around 4pm. This leaves a lot of time in the afternoon for whatever.
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by greydius 11y ago
I love Haskell, but the existence of a bottom type throws all run time guarantees out the window. import Control.Monad ex1 = Just 1 :: Maybe Int ex2 = undefined :: Maybe Int inc = liftM (+1) main = do putStrLn .
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by greydius 11y ago
Aside from the color screen and faster processor, these new Nspire calculators have no new features except gimmicky stuff (No one is going to buy a calculator because they need a 2"x2" spreadsheet). Even my TI-89, which I bought
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by greydius 11y ago
I don't understand what patents have to do with it. The prize is for scientific discovery, not practical use of said discoveries (i.e. inventions). I mean that's sort of the point, right? Inventions already have a financial inc

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