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by jpfr 8y ago
> A "no deal" outcome, which is clearly bad, is still the best thing brexiters can actually deliver. It could go much much worse than just "bad". The UK imports a lot of food from EU neighbors. In case of a hard Brexi
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> EU member states will still want UK money. Those shiny Euros the UK is coining? Seriously, the banking services provided by the city will move to Paris and Frankfurt in no time. Outside the EU, London has zero structural advantage or l
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by jpfr 8y ago
No need to censor your private thoughts. But beware that many engineers have seen broken promises by management at some time in their career. So they are difficult to convince that this time it’s different.
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Consulting and “product engineering” are very different in the culture they require to be successful. From your description it sounds your culture is consulting heavy. Read the books by Rands to understand the difference. And his blog posts
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What management thinks is irrelevant to morale. What the engineers believe management thinks is relevant. Your last sentence seems to prove a point here.
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Engineering Startup => Karlsruhe
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Very similar arguments were made over 100 years ago. And then the WW1 broke out. Dan Carlin gives the relevant background quite good. https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-50-bluepr...
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What are the advantages of using the Plan9 compiler versus TinyCC? https://bellard.org/tcc/ https://repo.or.cz/w/tinycc.git
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The Bible for these things: http://www.treesmapsandtheorems.com/pdfs/TM&Th-samplepages.p...
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Neural networks are all "nonlinear function approximation". Last I checked, the state-of-the-art in all the fields you mention is some variation of deep neural network. Not to be despicable. On the contrary, function approximation
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by jpfr 8y ago
Have you tried LuaTeX? If you use plain TeX (without requiring extra LaTeX files), you should only need the binary. LuaTeX is the successor of pdfTeX. Much improved. And it can use your local .ttf/.otf/... font files out of the bo
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I do not agree with the sentiment that all CLA are evil. Yes, CLA that transfer all ownership to the project are bad. But many CLA are in place to protect the project from bad actors . For example companies suing the project because an e
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They had to make some very unlikely connections. Look for the jumps in their analysis where they suddenly know what to Google for. Because of what? A photo from somebody in Chechnya that looks not at all like the guy they want. Could be th
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We had the perfect term early on: informatics It is also the official term for computer science in many cultures. Mostly in European countries/languages.
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embedded.fm recently had a great episode with the guy who hacked TI calculator protections. Apparently they could brute-force the keys required to build custom ROMs. https://www.embedded.fm/episodes/259
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There is a huge class of non-linear problems where gradient descent (with line search) is guaranteed to find the global optimum: Convex optimization problems. And within convex problems there is a hierarchy of "difficulty": LP ⊂ Q
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Such functions can’t exist. The “C” void is expressed by the unit singleton. So it is |a|^1.
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This is a great project! Sadly SE has a focus on ePub and similar formats. These are impossible from a typographical standpoint. Text in ePub reader apps always comes out with a ragged right or impossible word breaks. Latex with the microty
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The guile-emacs branch afaik did not use precompiled byte-code. So startup took ages. Guile itself is making huge progress. There's ongoing work for JIT compilation as well. Andy Wingo drives this work. And he brings a lot of experienc
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> Time will tell if this is a blip or a trend. Which (measureable) criterion needs to be fulfilled so that you would acknowledge this as a trend?
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The technology behind this (and Apache Arrow in general!) are really cool. The HN submission title is much more clickbait than the actual content deserves. Any algorithmic improvement (in terms of big-O runtime complexity) can be scaled up
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> The idea that simplicity (which I'm pretty sure that nobody in here is using to specifically mean "the lack of cyclomatic complexity") can be measurably improved but that correctness cannot is incorrect. Have you seen a
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We reached the maximum thread depth. >> Simplicity is a much better goal for the day-to-day work. Because it can be tracked, measured and evaluated for every individual change. >How does one purport to measure simplicity? There&#x2
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by jpfr 8y ago
That's... literally what the author said. If your solution is not simple, it will not be correct or fast. Correctness may be the end-goal. But correctness is absolute. So it is a bad performance indicator to set as the goal. Y
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Correctness is achieved by simplicity.
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Your example is a case of premature optimization. That is not what the author is concerned with. The problem are not the programs that obviously do not work or who break in a very visible fashion. Programs whose deficiencies are known can b
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Jupyter notebooks seem to be the modern form for literate programming. People are writing entire books in the literate style: http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/rlabbe/Kalman-and-Bayesia... The style is similar to
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Development is still going strong. This is the active code repository of TCC: http://repo.or.cz/w/tinycc.git
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You might appreciate the original implementation of awk. Good engineering everywhere. https://github.com/RetroBSD/retrobsd/tree/master/src/cmd/awk
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If desired, I can comment your document over a private channel. In that case, please give a short heads-up when ready. Note that I am not directly affiliated with WG14. So take my comments with a grain of salt.

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