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by jcranberry 9y ago
If that's the case then they way Microsoft promoted IE before Chrome was the work of Satan himself.
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by jcranberry 9y ago
The way you phrase that makes it seem as if the language being slow is somehow the fault of hash tables when it's the use of dynamic linking.
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by jcranberry 9y ago
I hate combinatorics. Number theory and algebra are so beautiful and profound and I feel combinatorics just sucks out all the soul. Also strange that he cites Hersch, who, if I remember correctly became relevant during the post-modernism vs
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by jcranberry 9y ago
I have a friend who runs a hedge fund, not really insecure at all but uses templates vigorously. More stuff in compile time rather than runtime. In critical sections inheritance can be prohibitively expensive because of the use of lookup ta
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by jcranberry 9y ago
Only informative comment thread I've seen so far. I was wondering about this.
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by jcranberry 9y ago
I find vims block highlighting (ctrl+v) very useful, never noticed it being part of an IDE. That being said I don't think it's that big a deal but I've seen some fucking vim wizards churn out code faster than what's reas
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by jcranberry 9y ago
Yes, it is a search problem, but in the sense of a matching problem or finding maxima given a dataset. The parent commenter was illustrating the difference between the problems of having a paucity of data (applicants) and assigning an accur
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by jcranberry 9y ago
I found 2000 in the pocket of a thrifed suit jacket
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by jcranberry 9y ago
I got a BA from NYU and took a fair amount of grad classes and spent most of my time in CIMS. Firstly I'd probably want to hear what you think of as applied mathematics, because if you're talking about the field of applied mathema
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by jcranberry 9y ago
>"There is a general feeling in the pure math community that popularizing mathematics is betraying mathematics,” I don't think this is true at all. My experience with math professors is that they either would welcome more popul
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by jcranberry 9y ago
I think it's not far fetched to imagine someone with a paid subscription is subscribing to use it habitually as opposed to just having access whenever they clicked on a link via google.
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by jcranberry 9y ago
Aren't entrepreneurs already a class of outliers? I'd be interested to see if there's any research on productivity and how it's related to self-reported relationship with ones work or product and occupation. Probably the
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by jcranberry 9y ago
Perhaps you have never seen the trails of broken dreams leading out of introductory proof-based math classes.
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by jcranberry 9y ago
I'm not a particularly advanced student, but I took an introductory class using Lax and then later material with an algebraist professor and her notes. I struggled with both, but I found it difficult to understand Lax's material u
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by jcranberry 9y ago
What I find asinine is that the writer says substructural type systems (the concept which the names of the types are inherited from) are badly named, yet I'm somewhat dubious that he knows anything about them? I certainly don't, a
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by jcranberry 9y ago
I'm not particularly educated in this issue, but if you're going to use a garbage collector, why not just use a language with a GC that abstracts away memory management completely? Like, what would be the advantages over Java?