mtdewcmu

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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
That sounds like a roundabout way of saying procedural.
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
This is a peculiar viewpoint. Kurzweil is a utopian. This accepts Kurzweil's premise that technology is accelerating, so it's not quite dystopian. Anti-utopian, maybe?
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
A static forum website seems like a contradiction in terms. Static means unchanging and forums must change by definition. I guess the author means the site will serve .html files? The site could not be completely static, because something m
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
It's converting an int to decimal, so there's an upper bound on how long the string will need to be. You could argue that the length parameter would be superfluous.
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
>> For the skeptic sibling comment -- there remains a non-negligible chance that aLIGO will see nothing. If it reaches its design specifications and sees nothing, it would force mainstream astrophysics to rethink a lot of widely-held
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
Reply from myself: the title has been changed, so it no longer makes that claim.
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
For the impatient, the truth: "When it comes back online, if the detectors reach design sensitivity, it's sufficient to make detection of gravitational waves from neutron-star inspirals probable. As both LIGO and Virgo are down fo
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
That would have played a role. No doubt.
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
>> Steve jobs (who stole it from Picasso, who took it from ?) said "Picasso had a saying -- 'good artists copy; great artists steal' -- and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas." That's fai
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
That idea might approach something useful if it was combined with memory for how various algorithms have done and the ability to optimize over time by choosing better algorithms. It would be sort of like a meta-algorithm.
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
Those capabilities are remarkable. There is so much software on the internet now that you can perform a kind of magic trick: 1. Envision what you would like software to do to help you with some task. 2. Figure out what software like that wo
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
Linking to line numbers is practically using goto, which is a coding faux pas. I'm sure they must be on the way out.
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
I think it would be more accurate to say that AIDS is a syndrome because it's defined as such. You can also speak of HIV disease[1]. HIV disease would be the disease associated with the human immunodeficiency virus. AIDS refers to a pa
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
It's maybe worth pointing out that syndrome is completely absent any value judgment (in keeping with the scientific tradition of modern medicine); it's literally just a combination of symptoms that occur together. From http:&#x
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
Your emacs analogy has issues -- vim is another programmable editor alongside emacs. And IDEs, especially ones like Eclipse, have similar complexity behind a graphical interface. Should languages be replaced, or is it better that they just
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
>> Apple decided against basing its graphics stack on X11 for sound technical reasons. and even still, X runs on OSX just fine, AFAIK (please correct me if I'm wrong -- anyone). The X server could stand to have been a little more
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
I learned Javascript from that book with around zero prior knowledge of Javascript as a programming language. So, to be more specific, I'd throw in that it's a perfectly fine book for a beginner to Javascript per se. It will proba
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
I haven't read Christensen's books, but the story Jill Lepore tells in that article sounds totally credible. Disruptive innovation is a theory of history. Given any historical event with winners and losers, it reframes it as a con
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
Indeed. The courts have ruled that it's almost impossible to slander or defame someone as famous as Bill Gates.
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
>> ...should put the lie to the notion that network-transparent display is in any wise essential. Beautiful, pixel-perfect, tear-free GUIs are much more important. OSX comes pre-installed with an X server, which should put the lie to
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
I was waiting for the big reveal of the solution, but it was this: "While traditional messaging systems tend to use one of the models described above ("broker" model in most cases) ØMQ is more of a framework that allows you t
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
Not sure if you'll come back and read this, but here's my current theory on structure. In a piece of software, there are many schemes by which you might organize the source code: - Organize by author of code - Organize by chronolo
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
Look for clues to what other people thought of the proof. Did the paper appear at a prestigious conference, etc? Your opinion will probably be predicted by other peoples' opinions.
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
Knuth argues that programming is a form of writing. I agree. Therefore, you should organize code like a book or article, since those are forms of writing that have benefitted from centuries of use and refinement. Even books and articles on
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
'static' is old. It must have meant something to Kernighan and Ritchie. I see no connection to the word inline in the C++ meaning. In C, at least, inline means inline. My guess is that the C++ inline got its meaning from the windi
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
Replying to myself/no edit link: The kicker about software architecture is that it gives bad advice about writing software. Now, it's true, the individual bits of advice are all over the map. They don't all agree. But the pre
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
Thanks for that. I always hoped that static C functions would not be generated if they are never called, at least. Which I can't see anything to prevent. It sounds like you've confirmed my intuition about inline in C, and I find i
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
Architecture is about designing buildings that not only serve their function, but are beautiful to look at. I think that's exactly why some people like "software architect." But, to me, "software architect" evokes g
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
Articles on software architecture are extremely boring. HN tends to vote up articles that are eye-catching and fun to read. Software architecture is focused on giving advice about things that are peripheral to programming, so by nature they
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
I'd hope that in the end, the efficiency of the routing matters more than templates vs macros. You will never finish anything if you pay too much attention to all the purists. Useful strings at compile time is a desirable feature beyon

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