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by gruseom 13y ago
If you're accusing me of bias, my vanity would quite have preferred a different outcome :)
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by gruseom 13y ago
Of course those things have something to do with it! Who would ever say they didn't?
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by gruseom 13y ago
I spent Saturday digging out a basement with my son. The kid was a machine—for sure he did an order of magnitude more than I did. There's your 10x right there. If you can see it with picks, shovels, and a wheelbarrow, it's hardly
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by gruseom 13y ago
The only thing that's changed about Zuck is ... Pure projection. You can't possibly know such a thing. To be a public figure is to be a cartoon character in a lot of imaginary dramas. Elsewhere on the front page right now is a s
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by gruseom 13y ago
I'd forgotten that there's so little RAM to work with. It might be doable; the blocks I'm talking about are mostly very primitive operations. Do you think the benefits are valuable enough to be worth all the trouble of figuri
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by gruseom 13y ago
Interesting. That makes me wonder what architectures are (or used to be) out there that do support rapidly reconfiguring the cores. Obviously, if deploying the code is so time-intensive that you'd lose the benefits of the parallelism f
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Neandertals, not modern humans, made first specialized bone tools in Europe(phys.org)
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by gruseom 13y ago
Holy cow, that is very cool. I have a question about the GA144. How do you get the code to the cores? Once it's there, does it change at all?
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by gruseom 13y ago
So these are regular document fragments? I vaguely remember that we tried that and it didn't work nearly as well, but it's been a while. Building strings and using innerHTML is a very ugly Ah. Then you'll be dismayed to hea
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by gruseom 13y ago
Not at present, sorry.
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by gruseom 13y ago
Oh good. I had nightmares of not being able to still do this. Care to describe the bugs and workarounds?
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by gruseom 13y ago
Do you mean SVG document fragments? Can you explain in more detail or point to an example?
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Salinger Betrayed(lareviewofbooks.org)
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by gruseom 13y ago
What do they do? (I don't want to sign up to find out.)
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by gruseom 13y ago
My point about custom software might have been unclear. Here's what I meant. A one-off ticketing app is a classic example of software that would normally get developed either in a spreadsheet or as some custom app that a team would b
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by gruseom 13y ago
If you want to draw a lot of data, you have to use canvas. If you want to have vector graphics, you have to use SVG. What are you supposed to do when you need both? Good luck to you my friend We solved this problem for our domain by using
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by gruseom 13y ago
Isn't it a bit silly to blame Excel for a user's typing 20,000 instead of 10,000? Computers can't magically come up with the right answer from wrong input. You could argue that there should have been error handling or data va
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by gruseom 13y ago
Good point—there are more effects than just "learning about the problem" that carry over to the next time you write the program. Once your brain has imprinted on a particular design for solving the problem, you'll probably ca
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by gruseom 13y ago
This is very cool! I've sometimes wondered about doing that. An obvious question is whether this suffices to show Turing completeness. I think the answer is no: because Excel has a finite number of cells, there are programs that this T
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by gruseom 13y ago
For some reason I assumed that the experiment was to measure development time rather than program length. Obviously that wasn't specified, since you assumed the opposite.
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by gruseom 13y ago
I'm surprised that Conan Doyle was publishing Sherlock Holmes stories as late as 1927. I thought he had stopped long before that, since he hated the character.
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by gruseom 13y ago
But that doesn't account for the pet language effect. Also, whichever of A or B goes third would still have an advantage over the one that went second.
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by gruseom 13y ago
There's a problem with language productivity comparisons that Armstrong mentions: it's impossible to write the same program in two different languages. If you have the same team write it, their second try will benefit from everyth
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by gruseom 13y ago
Yes. I thought Demme would do something interesting with it and was disappointed. The only thing I remember is Robyn Hitchcock's cameo as an arms dealer, and even that was bad.
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by gruseom 13y ago
I never read the book but apparently it was a favorite of JFK's and he was instrumental in getting the movie made. That explains how something so politically edgy could have come out of Hollywood in 1962—it had the President vouching f
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by gruseom 13y ago
Cialdini's book is one of the best and most readable pieces of popular science writing ever. It's fascinating from start to finish, frequently hilarious, and pretty hard to summarize because there's so much cool stuff in it.
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by gruseom 13y ago
What you're saying makes it sound comparable to a compelling software demo that only works on simplified test cases.
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by gruseom 13y ago
Is anyone here familiar with this work? I would like to hear more about it. At a minimum, this article is very much better than the usual science blog filler—it contains signs of a genuine conceptual breakthrough. For example: “You can eas
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by gruseom 13y ago
Chuang Tzu is worth naming in his own right. His book may not be as elegant as the Tao Te Ching (is anything?) but it's great. He's also the one who came up with "Am I a man who dreamt he was a butterfly or a butterfly dreami
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When Memorization Gets in the Way of Learning (theatlantic.com)
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