mtdewcmu

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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
I actually don't foresee another Hitler rising, because the first Hitler ruined it for all future Hitlers. I think what was most damning was the manner in which Germany lost the war. If I thought it was mainly Hitler's values and
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
Yes. But generally when things are frowned-upon, it's because they have something going for them. (If everyone agrees that something is dumb, there's no point in belaboring it.) Inlining is the simplest and most fool-proof way to
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
I think it had a little bit to do with the users being statistics professors, too. That might just be the ideal background for writing bug reports.
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
No guarantee that it even exists. There are only so many metals. Maybe someone will figure out how to make aluminum batteries.
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
It's not just a web service -- it's any web service. The algorithm is up to you. I'm not sure what value they're providing, exactly. Anyone can put algorithms on the web now: you write them in a standard language like PH
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
The creators already have the option of making their algorithms open source.
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
There's no reason to want a package manager to be non-deterministic (i.e., unpredictable). I gather that functional is meant to encompass more than those two properties; I just didn't want to list them all. What bugs me a little i
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
Interesting, especially that its quote-selection is apparently informed by actual linguistics research. It seems to do a pretty good job. I'm thinking that I might be able to adapt something like this to read HN links autonomously and
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
I recently wanted to give a command-line program the ability to wait for and respond to keypresses instantly, without the user having to type Enter. It sounded simple enough. Here's what you have to do to set this up: //
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
vim and emacs both trap Ctrl-Z in the terminal and implement custom behavior. If they didn't, I think, you would not be dropped gracefully into a shell prompt after pressing Ctrl-Z; instead, you'd be left with the terminal in non-
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
> In addition to standard package management features, Guix supports > transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package > management, per-user profiles, and garbage collection. It also offers > a declarative appro
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
>> We simply don't know. Exactly. We dont, but exercise studies are not treated with sufficient skepticism, as if the life-extending effect is so obviously logical that it's exempt from criticism. My thought experiment was m
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
I think it's not so much that the Higgs was logical; the difference with Higgs is that the Higgs was conceived as something testable from the start (I'm assuming, but it doesn't seem like a big leap, considering that particle
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
Well-stated. I think there are multiple related effects like this one that conspire to make spurious correlations extremely tenacious in practice.
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
I am skeptical of the widely-held view that induced exercise extends lifespan. To my knowledge, there has been no study that demonstrates the effect that could be considered definitive. The physiological mechanism seems like wishful thinkin
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
Archaic languages could be a source of jobs for really old programmers.
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
You were using punch cards in the 80s? I thought they'd given way to magnetic storage by then.
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
Programming in the punch card-era sounded better. When it was time to compile your program, you got to take a walk, and you met girls.
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
>> (although probably not C) C has good survival characteristics. The other language that I expect to last 1000 years is Javascript.
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
If a program is only doing a simple calculation and it's still running an hour later, you should probably suspect an infinite loop and not wait for it to stop.
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
I thought languages were Turing-complete, not machines. Languages don't have the problem, because they don't have to have their own memory.
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
The problem with analyzing programs in the context of a fixed memory limit is that you would have to revisit all of the proofs whenever the fixed limit was increased. If you can prove something true for unlimited memory, it's also true
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
Why is Miley Cyrus famous, despite an apparent lack of talent? She was probably famous before she was born.
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
Finding a language that doesn't have a Lisp and writing a Lisp for it is probably the most predictable way to get on Hacker News. What's left?
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
# a mutable path /ipns/my.host.com/some/file.txt This reminds me of AFS, which is old, but seemed pretty sophisticated. I've only personally seen it in use at CMU. This project has much broader aims than A
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
Have you spent some time writing your own programs or writing programs for school, sitting at a machine, working on code? That's what a lot of it is like. You can expect to spend lots of time on code written by somebody else, fixing it
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
>>The comparison with git is very shallow, seemingly based on misunderstandings of how git works. It does sound like they misunderstand (or misrepresent) the way git works. git is very flexible and its capabilities and limitations fol
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
It sounds like a classic Pareto distribution (as in 80-20 rule).
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
I'd like to see a non-minimalistic CMS in assembly language. That would be cool.
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
>>But who in their right mind would do the second one? Surely you jest. I don't know who, but their handiwork is everywhere.

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