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by jaekwon 12y ago
There's really nothing about a typical map operation that makes it any more parallelize-able than a for-loop, in the presence of closures.
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by jaekwon 12y ago
Well this is how I'd write it in Go: descending_squares := []uint{} for x:=4; 0<=x; x-- { descending_squares = append(descending_squares, uint(x*x)) }
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by jaekwon 12y ago
I've written in both paradigms and I mostly agree with the Go team. That it blows your mind blows mine, and I suppose it's good that we have these choices so we don't have to agree. Could you show me a code snippet of maps a
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by jaekwon 12y ago
Haven't read the paper or anything, just judging that quote out of context: I think it's folly to try to differentiate a "law" from a "principle". That said I'm taking his words out of context. He's
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by jaekwon 12y ago
I can't tell if this article is mostly genuine, or whether it's meant to push all the buttons to sell more tickets for potential space travelers.
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by jaekwon 12y ago
Pilot wave resonance/nonresonance from the two receivers of a Bell's inequality experiment may affect the behavior at the source leading to a kind of Monty Hall problem observed as QM. Are we certainly capable of firing a singula
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by jaekwon 12y ago
Because it's an oxymoron? If the "worlds" interact, then it's actually one world. If they don't interact, then it doesn't matter. It's like dynamic programming. It's just one way to look at the proble
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by jaekwon 12y ago
How is that misleading? That's typically how one fails to pay their debts -- by priority.
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by jaekwon 12y ago
Maybe it works if you imagine everything moving, and stasis is simulated by running in circles?
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by jaekwon 12y ago
Hmm, I tried to find some damning quotes but I couldn't find any. I think I was skimming the book "Code" and read parts out of context that made it seem like he was arguing in favor of something, when he wasn't. Well, l
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by jaekwon 12y ago
I read some earlier books of his that espouse a global internet content monitoring scheme for the sake of enforcing copyright. Draw your own conclusions.
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by jaekwon 12y ago
By publishing the paper you essentially invalidate it, as people take advantage of it. Happens time and time again in any market.
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On sidechains Bitcoin-maximalism and freedom(blog.pebble.io)
1 points by jaekwon 12y ago|0 comments
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by jaekwon 12y ago
Oh, well, Denmark and sugar beets then :) The paper shows a practical use of secret sharing and secure multiparty computation to discover the market price of a commodity. Not sure how secure it is, but it's interesting. It's not
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by jaekwon 12y ago
Hard to respond to that considering you could be making a jab at several things -- either altcoins, or crypto in general, or all of money and securities as we know it. Fix your jab and I'll respond with a quip.
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by jaekwon 12y ago
None are working yet. They're being developed. No centralized checkpoints.
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by jaekwon 12y ago
Just... stay tuned :)
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by jaekwon 12y ago
You don't need mining to secure a consensus ledger. People just think that way because so far mining is the only way it's being done with any level of security. There are a couple of algorithms based on academic research that are
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by jaekwon 12y ago
There are two ways to secure the blockchain with a guaranteed level of security. Proof-of-work, and proof-of-stake. I use the second term very broadly, and I'm not referring to the consensus schemes that NXT or BitShares use. Anybod
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by jaekwon 12y ago
This works well for system resources, but what about custom objects destructors?
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by jaekwon 12y ago
I just updated the go-modeldb library, for anybody who wants to use a non-ORM solution. https://github.com/jaekwon/go-modeldb You can see it used extensively in this sample application: https://github.com&#x
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by jaekwon 12y ago
Most of it was due to "business cycle"? What does that mean?
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by jaekwon 12y ago
Your observation appears to be consistent with a declining rate of people who want a job but don't have one.
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by jaekwon 12y ago
Hmm interesting point. If you're going to be missed, you should say bye first.
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by jaekwon 12y ago
I like Erdos's interpretation of death, and probably suicide as well. It's an action of "leaving". I'm OK with that, and I hope one day to leave with assisted suicide rather than be forced the burden of staying desp
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by jaekwon 12y ago
That's not surprising because YC is the Ivy league of incubators.
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by jaekwon 12y ago
I write Go on a daily basis, and the lack of generics support is really not high on the list of problems that I encounter. I think it's a great tradeoff between C & say Java for the kind of programs that I write -- backend server
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by jaekwon 12y ago
Are there any controls in the study to account for the possibility that staying up late chronically induces those traits of narcissism/psychopathy? Seems like the obvious hypothesis given the correlation.
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by jaekwon 12y ago
This study seems to be overly optimistic about the ability to control the outbreak... thus projecting 25K cases by the end of 2014 yet only projecting 140K cases overall.
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by jaekwon 12y ago
I just logged onto #hackernews on freenode. My god, it's full of avatars!

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