jganetsk

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by jganetsk 17y ago
"Scrap Your Boilerplate" in Haskell: http://www.cs.vu.nl/boilerplate/ You can do the same thing without macros. Granted, the compiler supports by generating code, so it is macro-esque.
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by jganetsk 17y ago
I used the Hopcraft-Motwani-Ullman textbook on automata theory and it was awesome. That's how I knew him, and it's enough for me.
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by jganetsk 17y ago
I'm not talking about Microsoft's general approach to conducting business over the last 30 years. Microsoft (and many other large software companies) prohibits their programmers from viewing GPL'd source code. This policy is based on the sh
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by jganetsk 17y ago
The essence of programming is to effectively get an automaton to do repetitive tasks for you. In the case of breathing, that is exactly what the autonomic nervous system is for.
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by jganetsk 17y ago
Miscommunication and bad programming are definitely tied together, but that says nothing about the link between good communication and good programming.
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by jganetsk 17y ago
Do you distribute the binary?
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by jganetsk 17y ago
Sometimes that makes a lot of sense. The GPL's viral natural can cause serious problems. for a business Everyone at Microsoft is banned from even looking at GPL'd code.
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by jganetsk 17y ago
The correct optimization would be one to minimize wearing out the disk. Essentially, something that would move hot data out from blocks that are in danger of being worn out.
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by jganetsk 17y ago
This is not impressive... it's just a bunch of iframes. How about stripping the styles of the results, and displaying some kind of visual diff.
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by jganetsk 17y ago
Jeff Atwood should be prohibited from ever putting the letter "N" next to the letter "P".
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by jganetsk 17y ago
Not much talk about Rhino, actually. But, a delightful rant nonetheless. Steve has a good way of summing up what's going on in hackerdom today.
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by jganetsk 17y ago
It's because of the self-referential, contradictory nature of Wolfram Alpha's answer. Kind of like trying to assign a truth value to the statement "this statement is false". By putting in "how to program", and having it misinterpret it as "
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by jganetsk 17y ago
I usually DO submit my comments, and regret it. This a tough crowd, and the system works very effectively.
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by jganetsk 17y ago
If an item belongs to multiple equivalence classes, then transitivity does not hold. In other words, if you show that the classes are not disjoint, then it's not an equivalence relation. 18x belongs in the 8x class, but 28x belongs in both
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by jganetsk 17y ago
Yes. Most of the people giving advice on this thread assume that programming is, ultimately, the right choice for this person. It might just be the case that programming is the wrong profession.
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by jganetsk 17y ago
I first read destressed as distressed , and wondered why anyone would want that.
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by jganetsk 17y ago
How do you know he doesn't have all 3?
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Ask HN: Why does TweetDeck consume as much RAM as my web browser?
5 points by jganetsk 17y ago|3 comments
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by jganetsk 17y ago
They also happen to be in the class of sequences that end in 8x and 28x... also definitely their own classes. So 128x is in at least 4 classes, 28x is in at least 3. Therefore it's not an equivalence relation.
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by jganetsk 17y ago
Ok. My other gripe with his argument is that these aren't equivalence classes. Let the string be 01b, where b is an infinitely long bit string. Then the string 01b belongs to equivalence class b, and also equivalence class 1b... and an elem
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by jganetsk 17y ago
I feel like the axiom of choice can't be used here. Let's say we have a infinitely long bit string, b. This equivalence class has an infinite number of elements in it! That is, there is an infinite number of strings with suffix b. b, 0b, 1b
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by jganetsk 17y ago
His concern is valid, and while I think that we should never go back to C++ by breaking memory safety, he makes a good point. His languages are not expressive enough to allow the programmer to do what he wants. More languages maybe should h
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by jganetsk 17y ago
Bacterial food poisoning can lead to various long-term diseases. Look up Reactive Arthritis, and Guillian-Barre syndrome. I speak from experience. Reactive Arthritis is not fun, and one can be genetically predisposed to it. But, it is true
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by jganetsk 17y ago
Vegetarianism is not isomorphic to healthfulness, but it is healthy. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10627874 There is much more research on the topic. It has also been shown that the same benefits arise from "flexitarianism", or limit
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by jganetsk 17y ago
The source of this slogan: http://www.michaelpollan.com/indefense.php Great book. Really informative read, and very convincing.
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by jganetsk 17y ago
I totally agree in that I don't expect anyone to get up in the morning and make their mission-of-the-day the optimization of jar. I am just surprised that no one has noticed jar behaving strangely. As a developer, I am frequently on the l
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by jganetsk 17y ago
I can't believe that no one's discovered this yet. Maybe this is a manifestation of the Python paradox. The kind of people using the jar command (Java developers) are the kind of people who just accept the limitations of their systems witho
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by jganetsk 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle-of-the-Night_Insomnia
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by jganetsk 17y ago
From the title, I thought he was talking about the practice of determining the market capitalizations for publicly traded companies. I was actually interested until I read the post.
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by jganetsk 17y ago
Where do you work?? I would love working in a place where I overhear things like that.

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