hacker_9

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by hacker_9 10y ago
Take from the rich, give to the poor.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
This is cool, but still is affected by the same local vs global scope problem that all bottom-up algorithms suffer. The NN will piece together small snippets (local scope) to produce large snippets and then larger snippets and so on. The pr
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Isn't that just Lisp?
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by hacker_9 10y ago
So 1 second is slow now? That's faster than most web pages I visit. What's the actual problem here? Because I don't see one.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Is it just me, or is this a predictable answer from someone who works exclusively on an operating system? There is no innovation needed in his job, everything has already been made by MS, Apple etc, he just has to take existing ideas and fi
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by hacker_9 10y ago
From the article: "Chrome 42 introduced code caching — a way to store a local copy of compiled code so that when users returned to the page, steps like script fetching, parsing and compilation could all be skipped. At the time we note
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by hacker_9 10y ago
"Precompiling JavaScript? Every few years, it’s proposed engines offer a way to precompile scripts so we don’t waste time parsing or compiling code pops up. The idea is if instead, a build-time or server-side tool can just generate by
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Only problem is their tutorial code is all broken, I had to visit the github link to find what was missing and add it in.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
I don't think you are getting it. Here is a custom type in C#: public class CustomType { public int A; public int B; public CustomType2 C; } At runtime this will mean any instance of this type is 32bit * 3
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Integers are hardly the worry. Any custom types the user makes are the problem.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
> Speed improvements from a common runtime and bytecode are certainly welcome, but if they are possible with WebAssembly, they are also be possible with plain JavaScript Nope, a static language will execute faster than a dynamic language
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by hacker_9 10y ago
I agree that I wouldn't change your current tooling, as the cost isn't worth it. JSX isn't that great . But even though it turns that HTML into function calls, there is still an expectation of how it will work: i.e. those fu
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by hacker_9 10y ago
I'm a C# guy and even I would say the JSX is far more readable there. I'm sure there's a law somewhere that says the less abstraction the better, that can be applied in this case.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
True but you don't train a neural network out of thin air; the data has to come from somewhere. I expect it would require radically new laws that target AI.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
I will never disagree with advancing software, because at the end of the day if we don't, someone else will. But I do disagree with companies taking advantage of the laws. There is no privacy law at the moment that bans Facebook from s
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Oh dear I hope that isn't him, rather embarrassing.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
You may be interested in the movement against facial recognition [1]. [1] https://cvdazzle.com/
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by hacker_9 10y ago
"If you're not paying, you are the product" It used to be that the law couldn't catch up with the fast change in technology, now it's us the people that can't keep up. All my friends using Facebook don't c
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Integrated Development Environment, Built in package manager, massive maintained ecosystem of libraries, fastest compiler in production (after lisp languages), compiler as a service, full runtime reflection and emit capabilities, three
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Even then they will war on, because the task of converting all libraries to another language is such an immense undertaking. Really we need an AI to do the transpiling job, then assign performance and maintainability scores, so we can objec
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Actually the main bashing point was C# is Windows only, and of course Windows isn't hipster. Anyway with .Net Core all of that goes away, and for Windows only users (90% of the market) it doesn't make a difference. Also why is it
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Because that is what they have been doing with C# and VB for the last couple of years? The compilers are open source and anyone can write a language feature request on GitHub [1]. [1] https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Probably the big one is non-nullable types [1], aka 'The Billion Dollar Mistake', which would break everything. [1] https://gist.github.com/olmobrutall/31d2abafe0b21b017d56
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by hacker_9 10y ago
I learned on VB.Net maybe ~15 years ago now, and back then all the english like 'end sub' and 'end if' really really helped me understand the code. Honestly languages that used brackets looked like voodoo to me at the ti
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Honestly I wish decent transpilers existed in life so I need never use another language.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
That's the exact opposite of what it means. Additionally F# already is the best-tooled functional language on the market as far as I can tell, so I look forward to whatever is coming to make it even better.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
So a drag and drop UI designer, followed by a simple binding to a model code behind with literally the words 'Text={Binding Name}' is apparently making 'easy things hard'?
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by hacker_9 10y ago
This is why I keep a notebook next to my bedside - I have my best ideas just before sleep or upon waking.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
> The nature of "what makes something funny" is one of those questions that is actually really hard to answer when you get into it. All humour can be explained by an incorrect connection in the brain being corrected. For exampl
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by hacker_9 10y ago
I agree. The other day I had to dive into the libigl [1] matrix structure (for those that don't know, a matrix is basically a 4x4 grid of numbers). What I found was over 10 levels of inheritance, along with rampant template use and mac

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