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by hazz99 8y ago
Ada has a lot of syntax, but also gains a lot in terms of functionality (and arguably readability, but I disagree) for those extra characters. Syntax for the sake of syntax is pointless, imo. Obviously there's a balance here - APL and
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Welcome to the Unicorn Club (2018, data-driven analysis of unicorns)(techcrunch.com)
1 points by hazz99 8y ago|0 comments
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by hazz99 8y ago
The Erlang BEAM VM is fantastic work of art, from what I've heard. I've tried reading the source, but it's all low-level optimized C code, which goes way over my head.
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by hazz99 8y ago
> I'm an infrastructure engineer (and love it), so I'd only consider joining in that role. I'm a student, and I think infrastructure is the place I want to be (interested in concurrency, distributed systems, Erlang etc).
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by hazz99 8y ago
Vim, or Notion.so. Notion is great software, and I'll recommend it to anyone who listens.
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by hazz99 8y ago
The red feels strong, but maybe that's the point. Do you have to track cookies - can you add an "X" to opt-out?
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by hazz99 8y ago
Disclaimer: I know nothing about construction. I think it'd be great to have some sort of automation in place for the simple & repetitive stuff (bricklaying), but it feels like we're a long way off from fully automated on-si
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by hazz99 8y ago
I quite like how Ada has "specification" files, which describes the methods (procedures, entries, functions), types and contracts for everything.
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by hazz99 8y ago
Real (non-CGI!) timelapse of the robot bricklayer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YcrO8ONcfY It seems like a cool concept. The real example is slightly different to the CGI mockup, so I think they still have a bit of work
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by hazz99 8y ago
I don't think this is a good idea. Most people would watch it over video, and we can already do that.
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by hazz99 8y ago
It's what I'm currently working on - I think its great, because you go really in-depth on each issue, or make a simple "just works" solution. It has taught me a lot of things in different areas.
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by hazz99 8y ago
Why not other cryptocurrencies that don't use POW?
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by hazz99 8y ago
Anecdotally, Google is almost unusable on Firefox and Tor. Long captchas on almost every web search. Makes sense I guess, but it's not fantastic.
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by hazz99 8y ago
Set up a website that does automated testing - i.e. you upload/push your project, and it runs the tests for you. Make it suitable for any user, not just yourself. You'll be running user code - scary stuff ;) Good way to learn a bi
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by hazz99 8y ago
“Saying that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about freedom of speech because you have nothing to say. It’s a deeply anti-social principle because rights a
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by hazz99 8y ago
Anything to do with a global internet will be game-changer, for better or for worse (I think better, but could potentially be a large monopoly) Self-driving cars will completely change our society. Personalised medicine might be amazing, bu
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I bought some awful light bulbs so you don't have to (2016)(mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
44 points by hazz99 8y ago|6 comments
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by hazz99 8y ago
What is the business model for accelerators that don't take equity? Are they all non-profits or government funded?
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by hazz99 8y ago
This is what I think - I can opt it at any time, and provide my entire medical history, but I can never delete my data. So I'll opt in when I need to.
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by hazz99 8y ago
10x the total parking spaces seems pretty damn huge to me, I've seen some big carparks.
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by hazz99 8y ago
Doesn't D just have message passing & mutexes? Which is fine, since D is supposed to be a better C. I wouldn't consider its concurrent primitives comparable to Ada. This is to be expected, since I don't believe they aim f
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by hazz99 8y ago
Not sure why I'm downvoted for this. I struggle to think of a "modern" imperative language that offers similar levels of safety and concurrency, aside from possibly Rust. Erlang is fantastic, but not imperative. Go has chan
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by hazz99 8y ago
> This is the whole point of the borrow checker which is to ensure data-race free code. That's awesome! I never knew Rust had safer concurrency. I'm quite keen to learn it - just waiting for the time.
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by hazz99 8y ago
That is an incorrect analogy. Semaphores are the "goto" statement of the concurrent world. Semaphores are not typed. They is no semantic connection to the thing they protect. Debugging concurrent systems with mutual exclusion enfo
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by hazz99 8y ago
I'm not a kernel programmer, and I haven't used Rust before, so take that into consideration. Some of my favourite things about Ada is it's approach to concurrency, which (I think) is far superior to other imperative concurre
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by hazz99 8y ago
> It's still an interesting effort, and it makes me wonder if we'll ever see a day when a significant portion of Linux is written in a safer language. I really hope Ada makes a comeback, especially in commercial kernel programm
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by hazz99 8y ago
Ah, I misunderstood. Cheers!
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by hazz99 8y ago
Google Photos does something pretty similar to this!
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by hazz99 8y ago
> If you eat 'well' but sit at a desk all day, calories in != calories out and you'll probably gain weight. How can this be true? Energy cannot be created - it has to come from somewhere.
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by hazz99 8y ago
You'll still get people complaining, it's the nature of user reviews.

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