kaleidic

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by kaleidic 9y ago
Yes - that's right : people mostly shouldn't need to hold such high Bitcoin balances to buy things. What's in the way is the state interfering so you can't change dollars for Bitcoin with your bank and there aren't
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by kaleidic 9y ago
Money has three functions : unit of account, store if value, medium of exchange. Cryptocurrency isn't great at the first two, but if we presume the scaling problems will be solved then it is pretty good at the latter because it doesn&
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by kaleidic 9y ago
It's a big world out there. Would you ever imagine that D would be taking market share from... Extended Pascal? But there's a naval architect who designs great big ships with a 500k sloc codebase he is exploring porting to D. We
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by kaleidic 9y ago
Plus betterC and gpu target.
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by kaleidic 9y ago
Garbage in, garbage out. Github's language detection isn't perfect, and people in the D community simply aren't particularly focused on marketing and popularity contests. See here for example : http://www.mail-ar
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by kaleidic 9y ago
Or indeed https://github.com/kaleidicassociates/excel-d which schweiguy may find more appealing :)
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by kaleidic 9y ago
Auburn sounds makes audio plugins in D and share how they avoid using GC in blog posts. Not that bad even for audio. Sociomantic and Weka both do soft real time.
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by kaleidic 9y ago
Thanks for sharing. Friend of mine started a company called Resolver Systems to do that for Python (end result). Nice experiment but bad timing for launch just before the crisis. Have got some algorithmic and infrastructure things in D,
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by kaleidic 9y ago
See bachmeier work on D to R integration.
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by kaleidic 9y ago
On Windows it's fine, but same library packaging problems as for C++...
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by kaleidic 9y ago
Ios kind of works but is lacking bitcode on mobile devices. Lacking a bit wrapping of system and gui calls but for android see dlangui and Jni is not so bad. It's very practical to write libraries in D. Possible to write whole apps, b
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by kaleidic 9y ago
See Sociomantic 's Ocean library. But you don't need to go that far in practice in most uses. If you keep GC heap small, disable the GC in critical code paths, have threads that the GC doesn't get involved in, and use alloc
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by kaleidic 9y ago
It's much easier to generate code adapted to that cpu and machine in D because of compile time features. Plus it was an excellent team of a few people working for a few years that built mir. Actually I am joking - mostly one guy work
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by kaleidic 9y ago
Weka use D for making systems that store Petabytes of data in production. They don't really like the GC kicking in on that situation. So they write the first draft of code using the GC, and then for production make it not use GC - pr
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by kaleidic 9y ago
What kind of support problems did you have? I found the opposite. It was possible to get such a good level of programmer from the community I was better off having found them letting them go work for the D Foundation on rebuilding compile
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by kaleidic 9y ago
Hi... You have a superb blog. Somebody right now on forum is trying to port your hash map code BTW. Yes past is a shame, though it's momentum relative to itself that matters for a language more than versus others. If Go takes off fo
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by kaleidic 9y ago
There are many languages that fit certain general descriptions, but that doesn't mean that the experience of using them will lead me to think they are at all comparable in terms of how well they help me solve the kind of problems I fac
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by kaleidic 10y ago
You can write D without using the garbage collector, or more pragmatically disable it or have threads doing work that are not registered with the GC. Some standard library functions require the GC, but a diminishing number, and you are no
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by kaleidic 10y ago
Quite right, though the high water mark approach predates 2008.
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by kaleidic 10y ago
I learnt from Popper that the facts are theory - laden and from Feynman that science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. This whole attempt to control the discourse is doomed. There's no such thing as objectivity - ones unders
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by kaleidic 10y ago
There's a link between the process that elsewhere he mentions people need to go through to adapt there - developing a tougher skin is part of it, and that relates to learning to regulate amygdala activation - and current political que
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by kaleidic 10y ago
My background is from the hedge fund investment side (though I have been programming since 1983 and have been increasingly involved in tech the past few years) and I have found these principles to be invaluable. I try to reread them a cou
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by kaleidic 10y ago
Yes, well the little guy always wants to unseat the dominant player, and when there is some personal history involved, things get more mixed up (technical, emotional, manner of expression). In your shoes I would be irritated by that
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by kaleidic 10y ago
Note that I replied to a different version of the parent comment. Thanks for updating. Personally I started using zeromq, but was a bit disturbed by the experience of the saltstack guys with timeout problems and memory leaks. Probably
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by kaleidic 10y ago
Reasonable doubt is a legal term, not a scientific one.
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by kaleidic 10y ago
Pattern prediction is one thing. But what happens when your model is both unrealistic in ways that some people think matters and doesn't predict the shape of things in the future well at all ? (Anyone can fit the past)...
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by kaleidic 10y ago
It's not a question of whether humans have any influence (I think you would be hard pressed to find any serious scientist who would hold that position) but of the balance between human and natural factors. The set of people who hold d
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by kaleidic 10y ago
http://www.lhup.edu/~DSIMANEK/cargocul.htm But there is one feature I notice that is generally missing in cargo cult science. That is the idea that we all hope you have learned in studying science in school--we never e
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by kaleidic 10y ago
So disingenuous. Clarium was a bit ... volatile, but as I understand it generated 8 percent and change compounded returns over the life of the fund, and it likely wasn't that correlated with other funds in your portfolio, which means
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Dlang LLVM-backed compiler: alpha release for android(forum.dlang.org)
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