jordigh

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by jordigh 8y ago
Elephant? Bit of a mixed metaphor, almost a malaphor, no? I'd say "tackle the behemoth" or "slay the dragon" instead. Elephants aren't usually tackled, they merely reside in rooms.
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by jordigh 8y ago
In Freenode's #mercurial, sjl said this about common lisp: <sjl_> CL code from the early 90's runs just fine on SBCL from a month ago <sjl_> But trying to run five-year-old python/ruby/scala makes me
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by jordigh 8y ago
Sorry, I'll try to do a better job to answer your question in there next time I see it.
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by jordigh 8y ago
I talk a lot in #emacs and I do treat it like a coffee klatch, but when people come with questions, I try to interrupt myself and at least address their questions. I like #emacs. It's like a gathering of friends who happen to use Emacs
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by jordigh 8y ago
I have a question about web design from a complete idiot: how do you do it? I mean, really, from scratch, how is it done? I have heard that people used to design in a graphics program (Photoshop, Gimp) what the website should look like and
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by jordigh 8y ago
By that definition, Babbage didn't write a program either. He didn't write opcodes. You still need a human "compiler" to translate Babbage's writing into something that could run on the engines. Btw, this human &quo
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by jordigh 8y ago
There is a very lucid graphical explanation of the hardware of the difference and analytical engines functions in a lengthy appendix to The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage. I really love this book and I can't recommend it
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by jordigh 8y ago
It really depends what you mean by "program". Would you argue that the Euclidean algorithm from two millenia prior was a program? Ada Lovelace was the first to realise that the analytical engine would perform arbitrary tasks and w
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by jordigh 8y ago
I rarely hear that anymore. I almost always hear "alumni" in all cases. I've tried saying to the librarians of my alma mater that I'm an alumnus and they repeat back to me, "oh, you're an alumni, sure, let me g
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by jordigh 8y ago
Story time! When Octave was getting a lot of traffic from the first Coursera machine learning class, when it was just Andrew Ng doing a course and before the Coursera org existed, we were getting a lot of novice users who would do something
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by jordigh 8y ago
Purism has always seemed a bit to me like snake oil. Isn't the baseband still totally opaque? Aren't there going to be blobs? Looks like they're going to be using a loophole to get the RYF certification: https://pu
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by jordigh 8y ago
> with a liberal license I hope Julia doesn't rely on inferior libraries just out of copyleft phobia. I would much rather use FFTW than FFTPACK or whatever other alternative they have in mind. FFTW is really best in class. I'm
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by jordigh 8y ago
And Matlab and Octave in turn inherited it from Fortran, which inherited it from classical numerical analysis. One-based indexing has a good, long history.
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by jordigh 8y ago
I always thought it should have become E3CS. I recall there's some old lisp manual that followed this kind of naming scheme.
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by jordigh 8y ago
Doesn't Uber do that auctioning too? They call it price surging. Typically only happens during events where there's a spike in demand, like a very popular concert, for example.
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by jordigh 8y ago
It's possible to give riders good, modern conveniences like being able to order and pay with a pocket computer app without breaking taxicab regulations. That is, it's possible to be a cab company with good service, a good fleet,
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by jordigh 8y ago
With Mercurial, I like that all commands can be abbreviated to their shortest unique prefix, plus some built-in aliases. So I type a lot of `hg up`, `hg pus`, `hg ci`, `hg pul`, `hg bo`, and so forth. Most of these are almost the same lengt
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How did you get it to run on a Gameboy?(20dollarlolita.tumblr.com)
172 points by jordigh 8y ago|24 comments
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Rust compiler cannot be built without test failures on Debian and Fedora(salsa.debian.org)
6 points by jordigh 8y ago|0 comments
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by jordigh 8y ago
I'm not famous or important enough to have a streak or reputation worth preserving. I have considered some situations in which I may reconsider owning a mobile phone. Besides not wanting to have a source of distraction always on and al
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by jordigh 8y ago
There's no shame in relying on the help of others and there's no hypocrisy either. I'm prepared to being unable to get a neighbour to let me use a phone. I can accept that. If I'm able to get help, that's great, and
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by jordigh 8y ago
I don't really have to rely on others to carry a phone. And when I do ask for help; I don't think there's anything wrong with that. Relying on each other is why we have society at all. There are also public phones that I have
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by jordigh 8y ago
It seems complicated to explain, but it's not something that really impacts me much. It really is an okay way to live and the benefits of not having a phone really outweigh the drawbacks for me. It's super-valuable for me to be tr
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by jordigh 8y ago
I email my family and schedule videochat. I don't have a GP. If I'm ill, I just go to a walk-in clinic. I can also schedule appointments online. When I was too sick to go out at all and due to a particular situation I didn't
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by jordigh 8y ago
I don't have a phone. At all. Whenever government things or banks ask me for a phone number, I just say none. Persistent computer forms that won't take no for an answer are fed the phone number of the company that is asking for
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How to Ignore Most Startup Advice and Build a Decent Software Business(rixx.de)
2 points by jordigh 8y ago|0 comments
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by jordigh 8y ago
Yes, I'm saying what it sounds like. The reason you should do that is because there's a sexism problem, and by talking about women without talking about them being women, we can normalise their presence. Let me add: there's n
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by jordigh 8y ago
The article isn't saying that we shouldn't focus on women in science or that we shouldn't be writing articles about them. It says we shouldn't emphasise stereotypes about their femininity, but it still talks about how we
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by jordigh 8y ago
Why wouldn't D work on microcontrollers? Runtime is too big? GC too difficult to avoid? Even in -betterC territory?
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by jordigh 8y ago
I also remember Scriptaculous which at some point got somehow merged with Prototype and became Protaculous.

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