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by hencq 13y ago
I think you might be thinking of this paper: A unified theory of garbage collection [1], which shows how most modern collectors are hybrids of GC and ref counting. [1] http://atlas.cs.virginia.edu/~weimer/2008-415/
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by hencq 13y ago
I know very little about React, so this might be a dumb question. I looked at the source for the example and it looks very nice, but I noticed the DOM is built using constructs like (dom/div ...). Is it also possible to use something a
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by hencq 13y ago
There seems to be a lot of anger in your comment, but it all seems to boil down to "my reasons for living in San Francisco are more valid than others'".
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by hencq 13y ago
Did you read the article? He covers Enigma explicitly and gives code-breaking as an example where spying is potentially effective.
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by hencq 13y ago
More discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6731322
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by hencq 13y ago
It is simplified, but it is also wrong. If you're looking for a simplified explanation, the article doesn't do too bad a job. China has lifted over half a billion people out of poverty in the last 30 years. Dismissing that as a si
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by hencq 13y ago
Completely agree. On Top Gear they have a segment where they have a celebrity drive a 'reasonably priced car'. They had to create a separate scoreboard for F1 drivers, because they are all so much faster than anybody else.
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by hencq 13y ago
I don't think there's anything wrong with that. It's just a different philosophy. Personally I like the ability for engineers to innovate in F1 more, but of course that varies from person to person.
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by hencq 13y ago
It does provide international roaming. At least in the Netherlands I have no problem using my pay-as-you-go plan. However, I had exactly your experience in China: I could only make emergency calls.
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by hencq 13y ago
As an industrial engineer I'm quite excited about this. I'm 100% sure there's tons of opportunities for improvements at most charities (heck, at most companies as well). One big aspect of the Toyota Production System is that
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by hencq 13y ago
Ha, same here. They called it a course instead of a degree here. Then again we had dismissive nicknames for practically any field I think.
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by hencq 13y ago
I don't know much about Kanban as a software development method, but from the description it seems more closely related to the original Kanban concept than the Kanban Method. Kanban (the card system) is mainly about controlling work in
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Nippy, a Clojure serialization library(github.com)
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by hencq 13y ago
If I read it correctly, his goal is to use the PyPy JIT. So what he's doing is translating the PyPy JIT (which is created automatically from the interpreter written in RPython) into javascript. Because he's using emscripten this j
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by hencq 13y ago
While it's certainly an interesting project, I wonder how practical it is. All javascript engines have powerful JITs and it seems like a waste not to use them, but instead to implement your own interpreter. I think the approach taken b
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by hencq 13y ago
Note that many providers are already active in multiple countries. For example Vodafone has business entities in the UK and the Netherlands, so those agreements should be relatively straightforward to set up.
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by hencq 13y ago
The article does talk about this though and effectively dismisses your "indistinguishable from magic" argument: " Japan had a nuclear weapons program. Several of the military men mention the fact that it was a nuclear weapon that destroyed
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by hencq 13y ago
The line is of course somewhat arbitrary, but it's meant to be at a level where people can barely feed themselves. While this varies from country to country, it's striking that it doesn't vary that much. It's also easier to market one (if a
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by hencq 13y ago
You make it out like this is a zero-sum game. As if lifting people out of poverty means other people (Americans and Europeans) will necessarily be worse off. I don't believe this is the case. More people with money also means a bigger marke
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by hencq 13y ago
Fair enough, but I think most economists agree on the problems with a gold standard [1]. This is moving off-topic, but it's interesting that this seems to be one of many topics where there's a rare consensus between economists, but the gene
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by hencq 13y ago
Isn't that exactly an argument why it had to be abandoned? The government couldn't increase the money supply, because dollars had to be backed by gold.
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by hencq 13y ago
It might be different, but it doesn't seem to matter much in practice. But fine, instead of comparing it to Greece, you could compare it to the gold standard. That didn't work so well either.
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by hencq 13y ago
The article does mention that cheese making produces sweet whey as opposed to the acid whey that Greek yoghurt produces.
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by hencq 13y ago
That's a fair point, but it's also exactly why these comparisons of software engineering to other disciplines never quite work.
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by hencq 13y ago
You might be surprised to learn then that you shouldn't trust modern cars. Car manufacturers don't test every part or component that goes into a car. Instead they rely on process control to ensure that said process delivers parts within the
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by hencq 14y ago
Ah interesting, that makes sense. Can miners set their own transaction fees? And related if I want to make a bitcoin transaction can I (or my software) choose which miners to use to verify those transactions? Or are those fees determined by
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by hencq 14y ago
Maybe this is a stupid question, but why is the mining needed at all? If we can keep subdividing them, shouldn't 1 bitcoin theoretically be sufficient?
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by hencq 14y ago
Yes, that's my frustration as well. What's worse is that the articles that are economics focused are clearly written by non-economists. They all seem to be very close to crackpot conspiracies about the global banking system and how fiat cur
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by hencq 14y ago
The article mentions that for optimizing out of bounds checks it uses constant lists or fixed length lists. Could it also optimize the check in a loop if it knows the loop ends at the end of the list? For example, in the article it mentions
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by hencq 14y ago
I don't think the HTV-2 uses (or used rather, since this was in 2011) a scramjet though, but uses a rocket engine. The HTV-3X was supposed to use a scramjet it seems, but that was cancelled. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Falcon_Projec

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