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by jng 13y ago
The real value of someone being able to respond on the time-complexity of a given arbitrary function is that it shows they can build a good mental model of what goes one when the function is run. Building a good mental model of a program is
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by jng 14y ago
Fixing the orthography of English language comes to mind. If that so-obviously-improvable notation is impossible to fix, this one probably is, too. But good luck anyway finding something that helps students learn music more easily. It's cle
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by jng 14y ago
Can this be easily integrated into SVN, TortoiseSVN, and git?
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by jng 14y ago
Poor explanations such as this annoy me: "By replacing the initial R with an E on the first eight registers, it is possible to access the lower 32 bits (EAX for RAX). Similarly, for RAX, RBX, RCX, and RDX, access to the lower 16 bits is pos
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by jng 14y ago
That could be it. Still, the server is down, and Cloudflare is showing that it can't really do anything. Even if reasonable, it's pretty bad publicity for Cloudflare (at the very least, definitely not good).
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by jng 14y ago
I don't mean Nginx or Varnish are more hackish themselves than Apache. I could have said Apache instead of Nginx, but I think Back in the day, a "serious" application usually involved a large amount of quite homogeneous source code in a sin
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by jng 14y ago
As someone who grew up as a programmer with assembly language, C, and C++, learning the good practices needed to make a 1 million lines of code C++ application work and be maintainable: I've been equally disgusted by the evolution of progra
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by jng 14y ago
http://www.viemu.com/a_vi_vim_graphical_cheat_sheet_tutorial...
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Is your compiler throwing onions in the varnish?(jonbho.net)
1 points by jng 14y ago|0 comments
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by jng 14y ago
Developers are typically very bad software customers. As much as they could empathize, more often than not, they think they could do it themselves in a couple of weekends.
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How to be the LUCKIEST GUY ON THE PLANET in 4 Easy Steps(jamesaltucher.com)
1 points by jng 14y ago|0 comments
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by jng 14y ago
Ctrl-Shift-Alt-V will toggle ViEmu on/off to help with that.
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by jng 14y ago
Jon McCarthy's Elephant seems to be missing from the list.
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by jng 14y ago
I was just sharing that it didn't remind me of "odioso" until you mentioned it. In any case, "adioso" still doesnt sound good to my spanish-speaking ears, but I understand that's not the target market.
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by jng 14y ago
As a native spanish speaker: it reminds you much more of "adios" (goodbye). I didn't even think of "odioso", which isn't nearly so common. I even thought that they possibly based the name on the Spanish word "adios" (you say "bye" when you
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The undecidability of the halting problem is not very important(jonbho.net)
4 points by jng 14y ago|1 comments
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The HOW and the WHAT(jonbho.net)
2 points by jng 15y ago|0 comments
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by jng 15y ago
I'm the author of the article. Yes, the ending is anticlimatic, but the only reason is that I didn't want to "push" it on people. I just wanted to share my views. I thought many people would complain of fanboyism if I finished with a push t
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Live hard, pivot hard(jonbho.net)
18 points by jng 15y ago|2 comments
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by jng 15y ago
Programming will definitely remain hard and thought-requiring. I just don't want to waste another minute of my precious life thinking about edge-conditions at the start and end of a list or array. And I don't want anyone else to do so eithe
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by jng 15y ago
I'd say IF or WHEN we can make this work. It's a task for us all. I think both academic and practically minded developers need to collaborate, which doesn't happen often enough. Programming will remain tough and only doable for certain type
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by jng 15y ago
I totally understand and concur with the need for the tools to build bridges by rigorous design. I also think we can look for better tools to build bridges, if we understand better the seas and rivers we are crossing, and if we analyze the
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by jng 15y ago
You are right, I'm not intimately familiar with all the research out there and with all the details. I do think I have some useful things to add, that a "practical" angle is missing in many approaches, and that many attempts fail just becau
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by jng 15y ago
Yes I'm amazed with that too! And really enjoying it myself!
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by jng 15y ago
I know about that initiative! I think it points in the right direction. I think the approach they took based on DSLs and editors is what doesn't work.
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by jng 15y ago
This! That's why the halting problem is not an issue. Yes, it's impossible to solve in the general case. It doesn't mean it's definitely possible to solve it in 99% of your everyday programming work. Isn't that valuable? Isn't that worth an
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by jng 15y ago
Thanks Peaker. I know a bit about dependent types, and how complex types sytesm can help a lot. Indeed, the title is a bit over the top (or maybe even too much over the top!). Hopefully the attention will help get some extra hands & bra
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by jng 15y ago
Jerf, thanks so much for sharing your thoughts. I think I agree with all your views. They are taken from the real experience of trying those approaches. And I am grateful that you provide the feedback. I and anyone tackling this steep mount
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by jng 15y ago
Dusting, thanks for the suggestion, but I'm not looking for Haskell. It's not what I'm looking for. What I want is declarative, not functional. There is an inherent limitation in the functional approach, I hope to cover why that is in a fur
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by jng 15y ago
I will cover my approach to that in later posts in the series :)

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