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by kscaldef 17y ago
> (note: this post is mostly about data-parallel programming, or other parallel optimizations for computational performance purposes. There are other reasons to use concurrency, but I’m not sure my argument will hold in most of those ca
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Not only is it a silly benchmark, the implementation and methodology is awful. The Ruby code is at a huge disadvantage because it recomputes the whole sequence from scratch every time. The Ruby and Haskell programs print the answer, while
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by kscaldef 17y ago
I certainly applaud you for thinking that who she associates with is irrelevant, but I'm telling you that there are many people less enlightened. I've probably heard as much gossip about her personal life as discussion of her technical cho
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by kscaldef 17y ago
> There are a long list of successful women who are taken quite seriously all on their own. Leah Culver springs immediately to mind. That's interesting, because Leah Culver is someone who I've frequently heard discussed in the context o
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by kscaldef 17y ago
You might be surprised. I used to think I would never get rid of any books. At some point after N moves and a decade of my decor being dominated by bookshelves I decided I no longer needed to own every book I had ever read in my life. I
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by kscaldef 17y ago
I'm lost. What's the connection to pornography?
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by kscaldef 17y ago
It's rather ironic that the submitter went and changed the title, isn't it?
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by kscaldef 17y ago
This is undoubtedly because filibustering isn't what it used to be. Once, you had to actually hold the floor of the senate to filibuster. It was difficult and disruptive and not something many were willing or able to pull off. Now one si
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Personally, I would skip the loafers. IMO, grown men tie their shoes. Instead, have a pair of wing-tips and a pair of unadorned or cap-toe oxfords.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Either your shirts don't fit, or you're tightening your tie more than you need to.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
True bespoke clothes are quite expensive, but you can get made-to-measure clothing for only a small premium over off-the-shelf. (And once you factor in alterations, perhaps not any more expensive).
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by kscaldef 17y ago
In my experience, grades in grad school were a pure formality. You were there to do research not classwork, but the college required grades and you needed a B average to stay enrolled, so half the class got As and half got Bs. As long as
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Well, good luck with that approach, I guess. Personally I care a lot more about the quality of the food, the quality of service, the cleanliness of the restaurant, the ambiance, the price, ...
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by kscaldef 17y ago
I find it curious that you assume it's the child's mother giving him poor guidance in how science works.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Polls and bar graphs are part of the current curriculum standards for first grade mathematics, so I don't actually find that suspicious. I do suspect that letter had an adult proofreader / editor, though.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
It's worth pointing out that the 4 graphs on the page have different normalizations, which makes naive comparisons between them misleading.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
No, people in open relationships post fewer status updates with "happy" words. They also post fewer status updates with "unhappy" words. So, we might be lead to conclude that people in open relationships choose, for whatever reason, to ex
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Reminds me of the equally poorly considered geek pickup line: "Hey baby, can I measure your space-time curvature?".
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Einstein's Love Equation, or don’t try to be cute, just buy a Hallmark card(abstrusegoose.com)
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by kscaldef 17y ago
While I agree with others responding to this comment, my major complaint with my Roomba and Scooba is the ongoing maintenance. If I don't thoroughly disassemble and clean the robots after every couple uses, they will stop working. Hair and
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by kscaldef 17y ago
No, not really. I did lots of interviews while working at Yahoo, and groups I worked in always made a hire-no hire decision within 24 hours of interviewing someone. Sometimes the lead up to an interview might stretch out, and sometimes sa
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by kscaldef 17y ago
It might be good to read the whole discussion, particularly noting what I personally have said, before making conclusions about what I want.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
That delay until the next garbage collection is a big caveat. While you might get away with this for file handles in some situations (honestly, I'm not sure that File#close really guarantees a write to disk anyway), it makes this technique
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Yes, you can absolutely specify a destructor which will be called when a lexical / local variable goes out of scope in Perl or C++ (just to name the most well-known languages with this feature).
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Sure and I understand all that. My comment was just that the examples in the article are perhaps not the best ones to use because they are simply replicating what other languages do with lexically scoped variables, and users of those langu
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Thanks you, that does make sense. Can I suggest adding that explanation to your article so it's clear that the example actually does do more than simply switching on a singular requested format? (I'm actually curious in practice how often
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by kscaldef 17y ago
I don't feel like any of these are particularly compelling examples, particularly if you are familiar with more languages beyond Java and Python which are used for comparison in the article. In both the file handling and mutex example, bloc
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by kscaldef 17y ago
"It was during this time that I stopped worrying about the details of my computer and worried more about what I could accomplish with it: browsing the web, listening to music, doing email, and writing papers." This is really the division.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Really? That's the example you want to use. First thing I see on that page: get / 'orders' >> :orders > :index with route / :slug / 'order' >> :orders do get > :show put > :update end get {'i
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Okay, but it's not really all that clear that "sum.should == 3" is actually any more readable than "assert(sum == 3)". (Do you really have non-programmers reading code over your shoulder? I can't think of any case in a 10+ year career wher

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