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by guru_meditation 12y ago
Gorgeous! :)
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by guru_meditation 12y ago
The winner of this contest built his own Linux-compatible system and wrote the kernel "designed to withstand zero-day attacks in userspace" from scratch(!) [1]. Linux binaries work on it without recompilation(!!). [1] http:/
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by guru_meditation 12y ago
I loved AK Dewdney's columns. The Core War [1] columns influenced me profoundly. Would love to see the mandelbrot printout scans :) [1] http://www.koth.org/info/akdewdney/
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by guru_meditation 12y ago
The footnotes in this article are fantastic. I used the inflation calculator [1] to convert 1960s prices to today's dollars: - Rental price: ~$20,000 / month - Purchase price: ~$1,000,000 (yes, a million dollars). So what you&#x27
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by guru_meditation 12y ago
I think the average viewer is a teenager with their headphones (Beats, maybe?) plugged into their cellphone. Even the cheapest headphones make halving the dynamic range obvious on typical top of the charts pop tracks.
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by guru_meditation 12y ago
The article author carries the same kind of exuberance I saw in people who discovered programming in the 1980s. I also read his amusing presentation on OpenBSD here. I don't really program in pure C anymore, but I liked learning about
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by guru_meditation 12y ago
The reason why it is extremely hard to engineer robust large scale AWS cloud apps can be summarized under the umbrella of performance variance : - machine latency varies more, you can't control it - network latency varies more
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by guru_meditation 12y ago
The examples look really scary. So far I understood Swift to be the next big thing in terms of hot programming languages with a functional flavor. Those more proficient with Swift, are posted screenshots manifestations of bugs or are we see
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by guru_meditation 12y ago
The LAGA link is gold. Wish I could give more upvotes. This paragraph I think gives context to both the HN thread author and the commenter: Geometric algebra as practiced today originated in the 1960’s. It is currently under vigorous develo
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by guru_meditation 12y ago
It looks to me like the authors attempt to develop a method to automatically make any program memoizable, similarly to how you can automatically differentiate a huge family of differentiable functions in your favorite symbolic math program
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by guru_meditation 12y ago
What do you think about Toptal? http://www.toptal.com/ I have a few startup acquaintances that are bootstrapping their startup mostly by churning out decent quality PHP for $30/hr . They could aim for higher paying tas
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by guru_meditation 12y ago
The Clarity Lab group reuses mature open source libraries for speech recognition, computer vision AND question answering. They link these into a whole using what appears to be a minimal amount of glue and then proceed to optimize certain co