kazagistar

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by kazagistar 13y ago
Is there a "Matlab: The good bits" guide out there somewhere? I think a style preference guide, made by an experienced programmer who worked on large matlab codebases would be valuable both for programmers who have to figure out h
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by kazagistar 13y ago
While the mathematics use a bounding function, I am not sure how vital this is to a self taught programmer who is just trying to get insight into some algorithm.
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by kazagistar 13y ago
Sure, but these days, Lua is almost certainly a better alternative, and actually provides neat things like first class function closures while maintaining it's simplicity.
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by kazagistar 13y ago
> The type checker is a tool that lets you query for information about your program. It's an immense aid to reasoning and a powerful sanity check against your assumptions. Sure. But it is a slower feedback cycle then a good IDE (whi
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by kazagistar 13y ago
Only sane way to reduce the risk of back doors is to have proper open architecture for at least the basic motherboard functionality, and then fully utilize IOMMU to limit what the devices can do. ... hahahaha, yeah right.
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by kazagistar 13y ago
Something being legal does not make it any less immoral.
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by kazagistar 13y ago
460 hours of practice seems like PLENTY of time to learn to do that.
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by kazagistar 13y ago
It is reasonable to expect a contingency plan. Is there any evidence of people using PRISM-style web scraping to influence politics in their favor? Not really, but that hardly means I trust the status quo.
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by kazagistar 13y ago
It means it costs producers a lot of money to not be labeled as GMO, making GMO default. That seems silly. I really don't see the problem with labeling GMO foods.
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by kazagistar 13y ago
Isn't abuse of power the most terrifying when it is used not for the extraordinary, but for the mundane? The very idea that police abuse of power is "mundane" in some way is disturbing.
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by kazagistar 13y ago
Thanks for the feedback. I guess the Edge/Rift might have to wait, oh well.
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by kazagistar 13y ago
The same way you learned to code: by doing it a lot. You might need to practice extra hard, and it might be extra frustrating, because you might have less talent in that area, but it is just a matter of going out and doing it, and then doin
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by kazagistar 13y ago
The over-thinking story is just one of many rationalizations. "I can't do well because I am too smart , see?" People get frustrated when they are bad at something. The options are to get better or not. It is tempting to rati
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by kazagistar 13y ago
> The label "Intelligent" as it applies to tech is slightly correlated with other traits like social awkwardness, spending 8 hours of your room locked in a room looking at fast moving flashing objects, inability to talk about a
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by kazagistar 13y ago
The label smart is very unhelpful. I am practiced in abstract problem solving, and I spend a good deal of time at it, so I am good at it. I am practiced at debate and dispute, and spend a good deal of time at it, so I am pretty good at it t
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by kazagistar 13y ago
I hear there is a cool device called the Oculus Rift...
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by kazagistar 13y ago
Increase the filing fee, to pay for better examiners directly? Patents that cost a few thousand dollars?
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by kazagistar 13y ago
If the patent office cannot do this work themselves, they should offload to the private sector: small bounties for prior work, paid out of a fraction of the filing fee. It costs a few hundred dollars to submit a patent... thus, they could e
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by kazagistar 13y ago
While Linus should not be saying that all civility and political correctness are fake, I think there is a valid point to be made. For many people, such things ARE fake, and they prefer environments without it. The key idea, though, is that
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by kazagistar 13y ago
I am not sure I understand. Is there enough similarity between the semantics of languages that a one-size-fits-all solution is even remotely possible? It seems more likely that it would be something that would not-quite work for every langu
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by kazagistar 13y ago
> We don't need the best and brightest teachers. We need the most passionate and dedicated teachers. Agreed. It is reasonable that people who did poorly academically will be the ones who have the best insight on how to improve acade