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by mietek 12y ago
Interesting opinion. What are the applications?
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by mietek 12y ago
> I suspect that this goal is fundamentally incompatible with having goroutines or a similar built-in concurrency story Not really. Here’s an example of writing shared libraries for C in Haskell: https://github.com/miet
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by mietek 12y ago
We already have a systems programming language with a garbage collector. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=367177.367199
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by mietek 12y ago
Have programmers stopped representing monetary values using floating point yet?
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by mietek 12y ago
Which languages multiplex green threads over OS threads in a non-transparent fashion, exactly?
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by mietek 12y ago
There is not much to say which has not already been said. I think it is sad that so much effort is going into projects which do not advance the state of the art. First Go, now Rust — these high-profile projects draw people’s attention awa
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by mietek 12y ago
What a disappointment.
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by mietek 12y ago
FWIW, I do use make. I could not deal with gulp’s issues[1], so I wrote a little thing of my own, just to quickly whip up websites for my projects[2]. [1]: https://github.com/gulpjs/gulp/issues/651 [2]: htt
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by mietek 12y ago
Your comment reads like something I might have written myself, down to the concern about the heat death of the universe. However, I have had one additional thought. Have you considered a scenario in which our universe may be virtualised?
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by mietek 12y ago
We need to fix this, and we need to start yesterday. “Yes, we did it, we killed the dragon today. But damn, why did we start so late? http://www.nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon.html If you are in a position to fund things
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by mietek 12y ago
Not everybody needs a job in order to live a fulfilling life. LoseThos is working—he is doing God's work, as he would gladly tell you.
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by mietek 12y ago
And yet... https://github.com/processone/android-wave-client Stale, but it is out there.
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by mietek 12y ago
I am sorry to say, people still die around you every day, and you still do not know whether you will be next. We would do well to keep this in our minds. “Yes, we did it, we killed the dragon today. But damn, why did we start so late? http
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by mietek 12y ago
> Which means that mechanical turkers (mostly women) teach computers to do what engineers (mostly men) cannot on their own program computers to do. This is an infuriating article, but the above sentence really stands out. Phrasing the
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by mietek 12y ago
So, I wanted to give Azure a try. I created a new Microsoft account, and signed up for an Azure free trial. Unfortunately, I cannot even load http://deployto.azurewebsites.net , as there appears to be an OAuth failure: Sorry, b
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by mietek 12y ago
Give me a shout.
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by mietek 12y ago
It would have been nice to mention that the Turing bombe was an improvement on the earlier “bomba”, invented by the Marian Rejewski. The Beeb even attempted a recent article about it: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine
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by mietek 12y ago
There are many interesting easing functions to play with, primarily due to Robert Penner: http://www.robertpenner.com/easing/
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by mietek 12y ago
If this was indeed the case, then instead of removing the article, they could have published an amendment, avoiding the entire sell-out/censorship angle.
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The Bipolar Lisp Programmer (2007)(lambdassociates.org)
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by mietek 12y ago
You could say mobile VR is a necessary step towards AR (augmented reality). http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/abrash/why-you-wont-see-hard-...
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by mietek 12y ago
I'm also interested in long-term studies on modafinil. Please let me know if you find any. As for the sleep patterns, I've found sporadic use of melatonin to be quite helpful: http://www.gwern.net/Melatonin
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by mietek 12y ago
Check out Flinto — no templates, but excellent for adding interaction to hand-drawn wireframes and prototypes.
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by mietek 12y ago
I was thinking racks of Alcatel-Lucent and stacks of Sagem, but perhaps you have a point.
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by mietek 12y ago
What about "48. Telecommunications equipment and telephone sales"?
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Build System Shootout(github.com)
3 points by mietek 12y ago|0 comments
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by mietek 12y ago
Very cool. Thanks.
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by mietek 12y ago
Is there no way to create a clean instance, with a fresh OS installation, without having to use someone else's snapshot?
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by mietek 12y ago
You suspect? You see it all the time? http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html
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by mietek 12y ago
Also interested in finding out what the puzzle was.

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