lambda_cube

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by lambda_cube 15y ago
Yes, if it's true, it is (it's PG's assessment). But since they wrote an interpreter for Lisp in C++, they couldn't have been that afraid, at least not all of them. I guess that's what they "gained", that only a few adventurous of the engin
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by lambda_cube 15y ago
You mean like when SCO sued IBM? If SCO didn't have a case they wouldn't have brought suit, right?
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by lambda_cube 15y ago
> Brian Harvey's Scheme lectures at Berkeley [...] unfortunately they're gone now I clicked around a little bit at Berkeley's site and found this: http://webcast.berkeley.edu/playlist#c,s,All,3E89002AA9B9879... It's looks like it shou
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First GStreamer 0.11 out, GStreamer 1.0 looming on the horizon(blogs.gnome.org)
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by lambda_cube 15y ago
Thank you Reginald. You always make me think, more reliably than any other writer about software. You pose interesting questions and have interesting viewpoints and discussion related to those questions. I hope you feel proud about this abi
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by lambda_cube 15y ago
That depends on what you want to do. If you want to do things with text, especially transforming text, Perl is IMO opinion better at that task. Perl has been the scripting language for me, but I'm thinking of changing to Python because of N
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by lambda_cube 15y ago
Whatever you can do in one Turing complete language you can also do in all other Turing complete languages. The point isn't what you can do, the point is what tasks are easier, simpler or faster to do in one language compared to another l
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by lambda_cube 15y ago
I understood it as rarer than a free quark, as that was the way it meant sense.
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by lambda_cube 15y ago
Nice to see some experimentation. :) I tested all 2^31 non-negative integers, which is 2147483648 values. If I remember correctly, the value that was wrong was large, probably between 2^30 and 2^31. Java is pretty fast and I think this took
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by lambda_cube 15y ago
> I was doing a linear scan, and I know that that is artificial. May be artificial :). Don't forget that your application is the best benchmark. If it uses linear access you can take advantage of that. Let's just say that linear acces
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by lambda_cube 15y ago
Thank you for that little trick. Even if it doesn't matter for this case I will remember it for later. I know I've read stuff like that before, but I haven't learned enough of that part of discrete math to really understand why (but it se
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by lambda_cube 15y ago
Yes, but the two best solutions don't. The other solutions are mostly for educational purposes, I guess. One of #9 or #10 is the one that should be in some utility library.
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by lambda_cube 15y ago
How were you accessing the lookup table? In a linear or random way? If you did it in a linear way, locality and prefetching will help performance for your lookup table. The great thing about #9 and #10 is that they are just as fast when the
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by lambda_cube 15y ago
This will probably give the wrong answer for some integer. I have tried something similar in Java. Since it was three years ago my memory is a little hazy. I was working on a parallelizing compiler written in Java (but not for Java) and I
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by lambda_cube 15y ago
> if I didn't read Hacker News I'd be sitting there hitting refresh a bunch of times Then I know some things that may help you in the future. At the bottom of almost every page at Last.fm there four columns of links. In the column named
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by lambda_cube 15y ago
Sure, all managers answer to another manager, except the CEO. But it's also normal to delegate responsibility when it comes to hiring and working assignments in projects. If you're sufficiently high up in the manager hierarchy (which should
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by lambda_cube 15y ago
I thought that was deprecated a long time ago. When I learned Perl in 2000 I remember I read not to use that "feature". Apparently it was just not recommended, for a very long time.
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by lambda_cube 15y ago
The point of preserving insertion order is not to be able to treat hashes as arrays. It's to get deterministic and repeatable iteration order between different runs. Java has LinkedHashMap and LinkedHashSet if you care about iteration order
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by lambda_cube 15y ago
ATI and NVidia surely cares about driver stability. Who would buy their graphics cards if the games kept crashing all the time? ATI and NVidia didn't have to care about security before, since the only applications that could access the driv