jamesmiller5

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by jamesmiller5 12y ago
I believe tilde notation is meant to bridge the gap between a pure mathmatical behaviour analysis and realistic expectations when using an algorithm. Analysing an algorithm and determining that say for 2x input size expect 8x resource usage
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by jamesmiller5 12y ago
This was also posted on The Witness blog if you'd like to see more comments. http://the-witness.net/news/2012/12/mapping-the-islands-walk...
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by jamesmiller5 13y ago
Interesting point. I doubt go would let something as low level like struct padding bubble up into the language though, perhaps there could be some kind of library level "Unsafe" field annotation, though I'd prefer the compile
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Pointer magic for efficient dynamic value representations (2012)(nikic.github.io)
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by jamesmiller5 13y ago
I was pretty upset with it's performance as a writing pad, having 100ms response times, maybe even higher. Even if I didn't have 3 week battery, I'd prefer <35ms draw times so it feels 1-to-1 with the input.
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Building a Ray-Tracing 3D Renderer from Scratch Over A Weekend(superjer.com)
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by jamesmiller5 13y ago
This is a subjective example but... In the last 6 months I've been prescribed medical cannabis and after trying it for the first time in my life I was able to understand and analyze both film and music more in-depth. For example, altho
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BioShock Infinite Lighting (solid-angle.blogspot.com)
198 points by jamesmiller5 13y ago|43 comments
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by jamesmiller5 13y ago
One of the harder exercises I had attempted in my linear algebra course was the "connected tanks of water and salt". After searching for the solution, I found this awesome resource that combines linear algebra, differential equati
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by jamesmiller5 13y ago
I found this rebuttal to be quite a good read as well. http://plover.net/~bonds/bdksucks.html
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by jamesmiller5 13y ago
I too was put off at first when Arch moved from rc.conf to systemd as I found rc.conf simpler to use, though I trust there was a good reason to move as they are pretty good at managing the distribution. Rachel mentioned why binary logging m
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by jamesmiller5 13y ago
Jeff Weiner, CEO of LinkedIn gives a great explanation of the differences between empathy and compassion as well as why you need both to successfully manage and ultimately help others. http://www.linkedin.com/today/post
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by jamesmiller5 13y ago
If you found this article interesting I highly recommend the documentaries "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace" and "The Century of the Self" both by Adam Curtis. A number of points in the article were covered
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by jamesmiller5 13y ago
"...'Is the bottom getting out of poverty?' Going from next-to-nothing to twice that is so much huger than going from being a one-billionaire to a two-billionaire," Brand said. And, thanks to the sharing and s
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The Eerie Playground: Videogames and Autism(escapistmagazine.com)
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by jamesmiller5 13y ago
I have also had a great time using `ddd` which is a lovely front-end for GDB. It's memory visualizer has helped me tremendously when learning complicated data structures.
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Matrix URI's [1996](w3.org)
1 points by jamesmiller5 13y ago|1 comments
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by jamesmiller5 13y ago
Is it just me or does the announcement time seem strangely late at night? Wouldn't a company normally announce something like this during business hours, assuming a US target market?
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by jamesmiller5 13y ago
There is cgo which allows one to call into C controlled code. That to me is best of both worlds, working in Go when I need to and memory control when needed as well.
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by jamesmiller5 13y ago
Actually, I found it to be one of the best links that has come up in the last few days on HN. It, to me, is a critical look at what ways these amazing tools created by the tech community are used for. For example, reading the comments about
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by jamesmiller5 13y ago
I haven't seen anyone mention binary space partitioning since using quake3's bsp toolchain a few years ago. http://www.mralligator.com/q3/
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by jamesmiller5 13y ago
A majority of what you said is true and needs to be openly discussed with the long term goal of equal and abundant opportunity for all. I caution the definition of feminism is "to become superior to everyone else" as it is just pl
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by jamesmiller5 13y ago
The points covered about "postive-thinking industry" are also brought up and elaborated on in the RSA Animate: Smile or Die[0] I can't speak for all Influencers authors but Jeff Weiner in particular has a great and realistic
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by jamesmiller5 13y ago
Thought I'd share this comprehensive 36 chapter SDL game programming tutorial series, though it is for SDL 1. http://lazyfoo.net/SDL_tutorials/
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Gödel, Turing and Cantor: The Math(skibinsky.com)
132 points by jamesmiller5 13y ago|25 comments
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by jamesmiller5 13y ago
At first glance it reminded me of this counter argument which warns about using `dd`, especially on a failing drive. http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2011/12/11/cloning/
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by jamesmiller5 13y ago
I believe that is a common misconception. Concurrency enables parallelism but it isn't a requirement. The golang community has lectured about this at length: http://blog.golang.org/concurrency-is-not-parallelism
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by jamesmiller5 13y ago
I was curious if a simple fix for the bug would be wrapping a `defer` statement around the anonymous function. It seems only arguments are evaluated when defering, not blocks like I had assumed. http://play.golang.org/p&#x2F
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by jamesmiller5 13y ago
After thinking a bit about your examples it makes me appreciate the keyword: the range clause's strictness guarantees iterating only on a certain `range` (self-duh) hence why it's not just called `iterate`. I found myself making s
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by jamesmiller5 13y ago
Seriously, this demo is amazing and quite informative. I think the original title is a bit bland though, something like "WebGL: How, Where, and What to Draw" would have explained what the slides are about much better.

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