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by miloshh 17y ago
A culture of quality has a significant cost. This is justified if lives are at stake, but that's pretty much the only case where it's justified. Grocery stores also don't check each apple 3 times independently if it's not rotten. :)
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by miloshh 17y ago
Whether or not these concepts are really proven wrong, I would claim they're not that centeal to economics. The most central idea of economics is that there aren't enough goods for everybody to have what they want. Therefore, you have to di
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by miloshh 17y ago
Indeed, the main concept of economics is scarcity , not free market or anything like that. Actualy, the basic rules of economics are felt even stronger in non-free markets. I still remember when I was a kid growing up in communism, there w
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by miloshh 17y ago
Note that now he's not saying that GPUs are becoming margunal, it's the fixed-function pipeline he dislikes. The "software rendering" he calls for will most likely run on a GPU.
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by miloshh 17y ago
I think he mostly hopes for something like REYES for games, which would improve quality somewhat (motion blur and DOF look nice), but that's probably never going to become part of the fixed-function pipeline. That's why he's calling for a "
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by miloshh 17y ago
The Monsanto issue makes me think - might there be a place in the world for "open-source seeds"? :)
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by miloshh 17y ago
I agree with you - the article just implies that GM foods raise questions, but appears almost afraid to take a stand on those questions.
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by miloshh 17y ago
Do you have any concrete examples?
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by miloshh 17y ago
The only problem with that comparison is that Willie does not help Fats to get his fortune at all. However, software engineering heavily depends on and benefits from computer science.
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by miloshh 17y ago
Definitely Haskell. May I add one more resource for learning it that worked great for me, the official "Gentle Introduction to Haskell": http://www.haskell.org/tutorial/ For those already proficient with programming that just wnat to pick
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by miloshh 17y ago
OK, I see what you mean, but I would argue that P=NP is a question of a very different nature than CH. CH is a statement about the existence of an abstract infinite set, so it is not that surprising that its truth depends on your very defin
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by miloshh 17y ago
Well, even if a given logical theory cannot decide P=NP, it is still a well-posed problem. Either there is a polynomial-time algorithm for SAT or there isn't - no middle-ground here. But I agree, the blog isn't about this issue at all.
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by miloshh 17y ago
Of course, Google's infrastructure is great, whether MapReduce or GFS. However, if Bing gets to a point where their search results are clearly better, then Google will be in trouble, and no amount of screaming "we have a better infrastructu
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by miloshh 17y ago
Interesting hypothesis. However, isn't depression sometimes getting in the way of pursuing perfectly attainable goals? For example, finding more friends or losing a bit of weight are definitely not overly ambitious goals, but depressed peop
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by miloshh 17y ago
Agreed, I also don't see much advantage in word processing or spreadsheets on the cloud. The only thing I can think of is some light-weight collaboration, but more involved collaboration is better done using version control anyway. This is
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by miloshh 17y ago
Yes, and it is a weak point. My point, instead, was that FP does not break down when things get ugly; on the contrary, it gives much stronger guarantees on correctness. Of course, it takes effort to express the problem in the more restricti
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by miloshh 17y ago
The main benefit, as I mentioned above, is that if a pure function works once, it works all the time. This is captured by the saying "in Haskell, if it compiles, it works", which is surprisingly often true. If you have a function that moves
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by miloshh 17y ago
Oh, I agree with the strengths and weaknesses, and obviously I don't use FP for all my programming. But I somehow cannot see any functional programming hype. Where are the people heralding it as solving all problems? Even in a place like HN
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by miloshh 17y ago
languages that let you do short parlor tricks Quite the opposite - functional programming is becoming very appealing as a practical alternative for building large, multi-threaded, correct systems. True, it might be a bit more tedious to w
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by miloshh 17y ago
Oh yes, absolutely, but there's no reason why real-time would imply brown/gray color hues...
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by miloshh 17y ago
Downvoting because of disagreement is really getting out of control at HN.
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by miloshh 17y ago
Exactly,movie studios use pretty much the same lighting tricks as games - direct illumination with some ambient occlusion and color bleeding hacks here and there. Yet they do not look brown/gray. I think it might be because they have armies
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by miloshh 17y ago
So he says that games are becoming more realistic in most aspects, but not in the lighting. That is probably true, but there is no reason why that should cause the game to become grey and washed-out. Most CG movies and effects (from Pixar,
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by miloshh 17y ago
Plus the first source they cite is the "Heartland Institute". :)
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by miloshh 17y ago
1. Temperatures are clearly rising. 2. CO2 concentrations are clearly rising. 3. Well-understood physics suggests that rising CO2 should lead to rising temperatures. Does this make it 100% certain that we're causing global warming? Maybe no
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by miloshh 17y ago
Maybe by simply stretching the wire by the force of water movement (like pulling a guitar string up really hard).
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by miloshh 17y ago
The Intel Math Kernel Library is decent, and very fast. It has disadvantages - not optimized for AMD processors, not free (but the student version is cheap, and the free trial does not really expire).
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by miloshh 17y ago
I agree with both of you. I would advise Ph.D. not to take entry-level coding jobs, and employers not to admit Ph.D.s to such jobs. It will be a misfit, and everyone will suffer. I was just a bit upset at the dichotomy of "industry = respon
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by miloshh 17y ago
We are not disagreeing. Here you're referring to your position of leadership and responsibility that you have risen to after 30 years, but I was talking about code monkeys. "Do x, y, and z by the first of next quarter or you're out of busin
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by miloshh 17y ago
As someone just finishing Ph.D. that also had industry jobs, I can say most of what you say seems wrong. There indeed are plain old developer positions, consisting of e.g. making some frontend talk to some backend - most real-world corporat

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