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by miloshh 17y ago
Indeed, seems like a single cloud.call will not give you any parallelism, you need many calls. So the whole parallelization challenge is left completely up to you. Still, this is a nice approach, and I'd like to see more companies in this s
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by miloshh 17y ago
Indeed, mastery of technology is the last thing that most blacks and Hispanics want to achieve in life. Why is this so is an important question and the answers will, sadly, often point to discrimination. But none of it has anything to do wi
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by miloshh 17y ago
I really like the trick of determining the identities of 3 gods with just two yes/no questions. Simple, just ask questions that might make their heads explode. :)
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by miloshh 17y ago
You have only 3 questions. If you formulate a hypothesis like "A is True, B is False and C is Random", with a naive approach you will waste much more than 3 questions just to test this single hypothesis (and statistically, it will be false,
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by miloshh 17y ago
This is a well-written story, and one that has been experienced by many people I know, often with less happy ending. Unfortunately, it is more of a general statement about the problems of the immigration system, rather than providing suppor
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by miloshh 17y ago
Indeed, the proposed terms are extremely strict and I would not expect more than a dozen companies a year to pass them. It is hard to imagine a scenario where it could be used other than an already successful company from abroad willing to
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by miloshh 17y ago
Malthusianism is fundamentally correct - if population increases exponentially, the point at which we don't physically fit on the Earth (let alone feed ourselves) is only a constant number of years away. Of course, (almost) no one believes
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by miloshh 17y ago
Yes, you're right, they're not "ancient" in any meaningful way. However, studying long isolated languages is still interesting, since whatever similaraties can still be discerned between (say) Indo-European and Andamanese languages were pre
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by miloshh 17y ago
Yes, #10 is a bit offensive, implying that he is in the top but you probably aren't. Also, it is rather unlikely that you can attain a huge productivity edge over others in everyday tasks like "take an old buggy codebase and add a simple fe
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by miloshh 17y ago
I think there was a lot of excitement about XML databases around that time, because they would let you store more complex structures in the DB, not less complex (like key-value). Somehow XML did not take off, not sure why.
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by miloshh 17y ago
It seems like, to have associativity in the sense of "(a+b)+c = a+(b+c)", you'd have to extend << to also become the string concatenation operator in C++. There are quite a few rules that need to hold to make it work...
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by miloshh 17y ago
It doesn't seem possible to consistently make "1 < 2 < 3" a syntax error in a language powerful enough to redefine <. (Including Haskell, where you could easily hide the Prelude definition and define your own, also changing the
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by miloshh 17y ago
Hmmm... but by the same argument, Ruby is also doing it right, by correctly crashing at runtime (there is no way for a language without a type-system and with redefinable operators to discover the error at compile time). Somehow the author
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by miloshh 17y ago
Rather than a number of languages getting associativity wrong, a simpler explanation is that the < operator is not associative. Mathematically, studying associativity makes sense for mappings of type A x A -> A, where A is any set;
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by miloshh 17y ago
There is a program called pdflrf that does this, and it is far from ideal, since most two-column papers have figures that span both columns. Another tool called PaperCrop does this right, but unfortunately only produces images as output; I
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by miloshh 17y ago
My point was indeed that performance can matter, and will matter even more in the future, since no apparent technological limit on network speed has been reached so far.
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by miloshh 17y ago
The reason why dynamic scripting languages are more appropriate for web applications than C++ is simply that the bottleneck is somewhere else - namely, the Internet is slow enough to make the performance of the server-side code irrelevant.
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by miloshh 17y ago
What about when you come up with a buggy algorithm? Did you do a bad job at inventing an algorithm, or a great job at discovering a wonderful, previously unknown (though incorrect) one? :)
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by miloshh 17y ago
Motion blur really is the reason film gets away with smaller framerates. A movie played on a computer's LCD screen (not interlaced) at 24fps simply doesn't look as choppy as a game at 24 fps on the same same screen. This is also the reason
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by miloshh 17y ago
Here the question is more like - what makes a teenage boy fall into the top 50% or bottom 50% of popularity? The guys in the top 50% most likely did not get there by extreme attention to detail or by wearing expensive accessories. Why is it
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by miloshh 17y ago
They have a player that you need to download. I did, ready to be blown away by recent advances in Turing test bots, but seems like we're still decades away from a program that could possibly pass the test.
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by miloshh 17y ago
Why does knowing it make you worse off? If you're a man, you're better off knowing it, because confidence can be increased by practice. If you're a woman, you're also better off, because you can better distinguish confidence from real skill
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by miloshh 17y ago
> it doesn't seem too extreme to expect similar support for Larrabee You have a point, but I think the reason NVIDIA doesn't open-source the drivers is the same as the reason Larrabee probably wouldn't open-source them - i.e. fear of
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by miloshh 17y ago
Not sure what you mean, NVIDIA hardware works great on Linux and I use it on a daily basis. Are you referring to the fact that NVIDIA's drivers aren't open-source? Well, there is no reason to expect that Larrabee's would have been. In any c
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by miloshh 17y ago
OK, some of these are really meant for technical users (hosting solutions, bug trackers, automated testing tools) but are the companies selling them actually doing badly because of oversupply? Or comparably worse to companies addressing the
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by miloshh 17y ago
You have a few examples of the oversupply of solutions for the technically inclined? No offense, I'm sincerely interested...
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by miloshh 17y ago
It seems that many of the review requests are ignored without any comment, as I learned by clicking on that link.
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by miloshh 17y ago
Well, that depends on the job... but indeed, the interviews most likely to ask these questions are exactly for the more pragmatic jobs. No university will ask prospective professors these things; instead, they will ask about what research t
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by miloshh 17y ago
Yeah, I agree it measures preparedness more than skill. Also, there is a difference between a great physicist with a playful mind asking those questions, and some nameless, annoyed interviewer whose only authority to ask such questions come
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by miloshh 17y ago
Oh, Haskell is also not used very often for those things. It's just my (outsider) perception that Lisp programmers frequently pick on C/C++ as inferior. Haskell programmers instead ask "what can we do to make Haskell performance closer to C

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