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by jon6 14y ago
I just finished snow crash a week ago, I found it pretty mediocre.
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by jon6 14y ago
I didn't really follow the math here but is a simpler solution just to give different questions different points? 1. What is ...? (Worth 1 point) 2. What is ...? (Worth 2 points) It looks like IRT is for somehow determining the difficulty o
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by jon6 14y ago
Nice. I had this idea years ago but never implemented it.
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by jon6 14y ago
thank god this is on hacker news
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by jon6 14y ago
Random thought: what if you gave users a unique code that they had to email back to the server to identify themselves.
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by jon6 14y ago
Pointer arithmetic, what could go wrong?
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by jon6 14y ago
I stopped listening when she said 'code and data are the same thing in a functional language'. Well not really, code and data are the same in a homoiconic language, but really any language with sufficient reflection capabilities can mix cod
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by jon6 14y ago
I love how I can just read the bullet points and glean 90%-95% of what the post is about. So many blogs waste words.
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by jon6 14y ago
Syntax matters for people who are just learning a new language. When I was learning to program I thought about code in terms of the pascal statements I had to write. Now I think about more abstract ideas, about data flow and control flow. I
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by jon6 15y ago
The stackoverflow elites take their jobs way too seriously.
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by jon6 15y ago
I have a bunch of painful stories about using Arch but the best one happened most recently. I had some outdated package that I wanted to update so I asked in the #arch irc room how to just update that one package. I was told upgrading a sin
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by jon6 15y ago
> There's just a few simple rules here: > (1) don't call people d*ckheads (at least not in public) lulz.. http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=133141623921011&w...
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by jon6 15y ago
The second comment on that page says python owes its list comprehensions to haskell. Is that true? Did Guido (or someone from python land) look at haskell and say 'hm list comprehensions are cool, lets put them in python!' or was it more li
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by jon6 15y ago
I have used C and C++ extensively (10+ years both). I once tried to implement the C++ inheritance model in a C program (basically just fill up the virtual table manually). It was a complete nightmare, wrought with silly mistakes all over th
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by jon6 15y ago
--quote-- So I began to aggregate my commits into batches to push in the middle of the night. Unfortunately, that really slows me down. --end quote-- How is pushing a bunch of commits that much different from pushing each commit? Slows him
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by jon6 15y ago
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is." IMO its best to think about a problem for a little while until you come up with some reasonable solution, then hack it up, then revisit your origin
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by jon6 15y ago
Some users may experience a crash when moving bookmarks (681795). Seems pretty strange to proclaim a crash as something to be proud of in the 'whats new' list. Probably they mean this bug went away (thus the fixed tag) but then the text sho
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by jon6 15y ago
Same with chrome 18 on linux. I just tested chrome 14 on linux as well and it doesn't work there either.
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by jon6 15y ago
Thats true, but new modes can be added with switches similar to how gcc has -std=c89, -std=c99 and whatnot. Newer modes could disable old features and people could upgrade at will.
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by jon6 15y ago
The language looks ok. If they are going for world domination a more likely path seems to be evolving C very slowly. That is they should start from C and then every few years add a few new features and take out some old crummy features unti
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by jon6 15y ago
Tried this on 2.6.31.1 but it hung while waiting for the fd from the child. [+] Executing child from child fork. [+] Opening parent mem /proc/11045/mem in child. [+] Sending fd 3 to parent. [+] Waiting for transferred fd in parent
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by jon6 15y ago
This is a welcome addition to java but I wish they had chosen a slightly different syntax. My main gripe is that its not clear what the lexical scoping rules are. Most likely the variable declared in the try is only available in the body of
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by jon6 15y ago
If you don't want to install pathogen or vundle here is another simple way: ~/.vim $ git clone https://github.com/Lokaltog/vim-powerline.git powerline Edit your ~/.vimrc and add set runtimepath=~/.vim/powerline,$VIMRUNTIME
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by jon6 15y ago
Beta lives on in the Racket class system as (inner). http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/createclass.html?q=inn... )
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by jon6 15y ago
Pretty cool. I'm not super familiar with machine learning but from reading section 2 of their paper it sounds like you need to manually find a matching picture to the one you care about (the single positive) and a bunch of pictures that don
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by jon6 15y ago
This is not an alternative to the android ndk, right? I haven't had to use the ndk-gdb debugger so far (I just debug the native linux version) so I'm not sure if this project will help me or not. Maybe the system profiler is worthwhile? Any
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by jon6 15y ago
Oh sorry I didn't realize my poll came out as trying to seek advice. I'm currently in a PhD program in CS and I'm happy with it. I'm not sure what I would have chosen when I was just entering college though, not knowing really anything abou
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Poll: Software Engineering degree vs Computer Science
3 points by jon6 15y ago|8 comments
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by jon6 15y ago
Failure to use proper spelling in code is a cultural disease. Misspellings in English are looked down upon so why do we put up with it in code? Well I don't. The authors code examples go back and forth between spelled correctly and not spel
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by jon6 15y ago
-quote- Go and look at some Lisp, then come back – obj-c will suddenly look better :) Trust me, it grows on you. You’ll soon learn to see through the brackets – just like the green vertical text in the matrix, it becomes invisible after a w

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