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by grok2 8y ago
The insertion sort conversion example makes Rust look intimidating and verbose as compared to C :-).
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by grok2 8y ago
What's your approximate age (or age range)?
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Our cancer preventing genes revealed(pursuit.unimelb.edu.au)
2 points by grok2 8y ago|0 comments
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by grok2 8y ago
Making every feature a plugin is hard -- it requires that the original implementation expose everything possible in APIs to be take advantage of by a plug-in.
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by grok2 8y ago
So, not the German "Das"...I was aware of -betterC, but was curious about Walter referring to it everywhere of late as DasBetterC.
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by grok2 8y ago
What is DasBetterC?
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by grok2 8y ago
That's true -- for the first time, I learned about a Roman emperor called Trajan during whose time, it seemed from the animation like the Roman empire was the largest it has even been in Europe! How come the history books don't fo
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by grok2 8y ago
Thanks for the extended explanation. Lots of things to chew on. Yeah, I am unhappy that they are focusing Dart more on the client side (another reason, I didn't look too closely at it) -- focus like that is probably good for language a
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by grok2 8y ago
Can you explain why you think the type system in Dart is great (or point me to something on the web that does this) -- AFAIK, that has never been made a selling point of the language. (I have been considering Dart for a while, but haven&#x2
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by grok2 8y ago
The home page of the Pyret programming language [1] is great in this regard. You get a feel for the language and also get to see some quick comparisons with other languages. Too bad that it is targeted to be a pedagogic language -- it seems
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by grok2 8y ago
In most cases, atleast in middle-class America, life is a prison of your own making. I think a lot of people hope for an external agency to magically take them out of their current situation, when, in most cases the only agency that can hel
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by grok2 8y ago
Apparently Bacillus Thuringiensis is used to genetically modify some kinds of plants/seeds like corn/potato/cotton etc, so the plants become naturally resistant to certain insects/worms. But these insects/worms are
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by grok2 8y ago
"It has been suggested by some vitamin D researchers, for example, that approximately 5–30 minutes of sun exposure between 10 AM and 3 PM at least twice a week to the face, arms, legs, or back without sunscreen usually lead to sufficie
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by grok2 8y ago
A little while back, there was this submission to hacker news that didn't get much traction/attention, but which was about a research study that seemed to suggest that Vitamin D deficiency was a symptom of an underlying problem an
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by grok2 8y ago
It's hard to keep up with advances in scientific knowledge -- this paper seems to hypothesize that Vitamin D deficiency is a symptom of inflammation in the body rather than the cause of any issue and recommends not supplementing with V
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by grok2 9y ago
Yeah, why is this not happening or maybe it will happen and it is too new to say yet. Or maybe for the contract workers the convenience of working to their own schedule out-weighs other considerations.
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by grok2 9y ago
After I switched to Firefox 59 beta on Windows (7 upgraded to 10), I see the following issue all the time. When accessing finance.google.com in one tab and etrade.com (internal page) in another, if I am on finance.google.com and if it refre
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by grok2 9y ago
Some comments with the caveat that I have used Rust only for a short learning exercise a while ago and I don't fully understand programming in Rust (and found it tough going), but I think the problem is not about being able to understa
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by grok2 9y ago
The -betterC option in the D language makes think that switching to D (instead of C where it would be used) would be a painless way to use a better language with an easy transition path for programmers used to C. The D language folks should
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DLang's betterC mode improves on C(dlang.org)
2 points by grok2 9y ago|2 comments
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by grok2 9y ago
I found this use of the Myo (to control the robotic arm of an amputee) really cool -- it seems like they found a life-changing use for what might have ended up a cool toy -- http://developerblog.myo.com/meet-the-man-with-a-m
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by grok2 9y ago
I referred to the double colon as something I saw used with IPv6 to indicate a sequence of 0's. I wasn't aware that inet_aton supported all these forms and the regex I provide won't parse them. It seems like inet_aton support
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by grok2 9y ago
In IPv4 addresses, as far as I know, this is not done -- it is only IPv6 addresses that use the double colon to indicate a sequence of zeros.
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by grok2 9y ago
Yes, you are right...the following better? https://regexper.com/#((%5B0-9%5D%5C.)%7C(%5B1-9%5D%5B0-9%5D...
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by grok2 9y ago
I created this instead: https://regexper.com/#((%5B0-9%5D%5C.)%7C(%5B1-9%5D%5B0-9%5D... The repetition count seems to be displayed off-by-one though.
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by grok2 9y ago
xdiskusage?
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by grok2 9y ago
Loved this -- you called these "side-projects", but in general, this is "life" :-)....you do a lot of incidental "stuff". Specially when you have kids.
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by grok2 9y ago
Product management, sales, marketing etc coupled maybe with some business school training. Sometimes these are better paths into management, because you get sufficient product knowledge to help you understand the nitty-gritty details of wha
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by grok2 9y ago
The excruciatingly long article didn't seem to explain how the industry "outwitted" the government or even "wrecked" the do-not-call list. Not sure what the title was about.
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by grok2 9y ago
The problem when quitting is that you have to optimize for the worst case outcome. Not every employer is understanding and considerate. The default behavior in a lot of larger companies is to terminate someone as soon as possible if they&#x

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