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by jpz 7y ago
Numerical computation is generally done on scripting platforms - Matlab for instance. After a few different options such as Octave, numerical computation in the free software space coalesced around Python. The Python ecosystem - it's c
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by jpz 7y ago
I agree with the criticism, and disagree with your counterpoint. There is no evidentiary record of this being "successful for centuries." After all, there are no written records. On the face of it, if you start a fire in a bushla
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by jpz 7y ago
Yes, I'm aware. I've written and maintained several of these systems in exotic derivatives space. Scale-out of CPU was required for these. These are not big data problems, however, by definition.
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by jpz 7y ago
Big data is about I/O not CPU I’m a C++ veteran btw and understand the point but big data is about how to process petabytes of I/O not how to consume CPU.
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by jpz 7y ago
He had a fair trial for the crime of jumping bail, and has been jailed for it.
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by jpz 7y ago
He is in jail for the offence of jumping bail. That Sweden dropped the charges doesn’t dismiss that offence. The UK spent 10s of millions on policing costs monitoring abscondment. It is entirely right that he is serving a sentence as for r
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by jpz 7y ago
We are all slowly dying. He’s not alone.
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by jpz 7y ago
The UK is not within the Schengen zone, and has passport checks for entry to and from the UK for that reason.
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by jpz 7y ago
He confined himself to a room. He skipped bail and was on the lam. Ridiculous for the UN to qualify this as the UK state torturing him - it denigrates the reputation of the UN.
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by jpz 7y ago
Does anyone else dislike the usage of the word "manifesto" in computing? It always seems to me to indicate a faith-based rather than evidence-based commitment to some train of thought. Seems strange to see manifestos discussed in
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by jpz 7y ago
The following call which is in MatrixOperations for instance is about cameras - I assume this is some scene-object type of logic regarding 3d graphics? That does not look like a general-purpose linear algebra library to me. public static Ma
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by jpz 7y ago
100% with you on this. I find the replies to your comment here remarkable. Namings should be descriptive not idiosyncratic. It might be just like the guy I spoke to last month that said he just makes everything public when writing Java. S
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by jpz 7y ago
What a great contribution.
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by jpz 7y ago
There's no discussion of cryptocurrency in this article.
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by jpz 7y ago
Isn't this off topic? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by jpz 7y ago
The main issue here is that they don't want the hassle and responsibility of breaking everyone's software each time they release a new system-level python. They have a problem deprecating python2.7 as it is, the smartest deprecati
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by jpz 7y ago
Type erasure on the JVM is still awful. Advocates and defenders have a variety of intellectual arguments to defend its awesomeness, but it doesn't "erase" its painfulness.
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by jpz 7y ago
This is a problem - I was getting 10-30 notifications a day - I've just switched off notifications for this app. It's a shame, as I'd like to be notified if some proper breaking news of significance actually happens. One of
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by jpz 8y ago
I appreciate the links. However - you need incoming revenue to maintain infrastructure as well as software. Wikipedia probably stands alone as a not-for-profit (as do, incidentally, government-sponsored services - so in the UK, BBC should
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by jpz 8y ago
Thanks - answers all my questions as to how this works :)
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by jpz 8y ago
thanks - new to me
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by jpz 8y ago
Try google :)
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by jpz 8y ago
For the very basics, Chapter 30 of Introduction to Algorithms has a very good stand-alone introduction to the topic of large integer multiplication via polynomials and the FFT. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction
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by jpz 8y ago
If you’re confused, welcome to how everyone felt. The nuances and abstract definitions made for confusion for the staff. I’ve forgotten what I knew about it, you may well be right in your definitions, however what was clear was that we ne
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by jpz 8y ago
There are commands and events in CQRS/ES - where you need commands and success reported from multiple subsystems from front end interaction, now you need a transaction coordinator for your “saga” Typically the front end needed to get a
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by jpz 8y ago
It is hard to separate DDD, Event Sourcing/CQRS - they seem to all be joined up concepts promoted by a small circle of people. I worked on a blockbuster project financed by a local billionaire in a Gulf State where the entire shebang w
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by jpz 8y ago
DoF design patterns is Java bollocks IMO. It's only Java developers and to a lesser extent C# developers that really go nuts for this stuff. Visitor is clearly a framework for expressing multimethods - thus one can say Visitor is mere
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by jpz 8y ago
I don't criticise him, I just think the structure of the project meant it failed to really launch. There are people like me (20y+ C++) that when certainly I think of D, I think of it being a closed project. I spent quite a bit of tim
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by jpz 8y ago
Ah, just looking at this. When I was looking at D back around 2005 it was a closed shop run by one guy - I had the feeling it did not take off because it simply wasn't an open enough project. It is a shame, as since then we've ha
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by jpz 8y ago
Matt Taibbi is a self-aggrandising conspiracy theorist and polemicist.

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