mtdewcmu

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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
I gave you my number, but you saved it in MongoDB. Call me, maybe?
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
>> New distributed, consistent systems like Google Spanner concretely demonstrate the falsity of a trade-off between strong consistency and high availability. >I am pretty sure that even Spanner becomes unavailable if a majority of
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
This was written by somebody with something to sell, and it sounds like it. I was hoping he would explain the misreading of the CAP theorem, but it ends by promising that future databases will be more powerful. Eventually, I guess?
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
Yeah. C is a boring language that barely ever changes. But I'm not sure there isn't wisdom in being dull.
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
Hacker News is auto-curated (at least partly). I'm not sure how much faith I would put in an editor, and projects like Ubuntu and Homebrew already act like gatekeepers. It would be valuable to come up with a good way of recording the o
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
This is basically a way of obfuscating your C code. If you want to write obfuscated code, C++ has extensive support for this. I think it's actually a strength of C to not have many features. It ultimately makes code more readable and r
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
I think I understand patents as well as any average non-lawyer. What I'm trying to do is make sense of the language used to describe patents. It's clear that people can't agree on what they are, because the Supreme Court keep
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
Ok, but what's actually protected is the idea behind the machine, right? A different machine that employed the patented idea would infringe the patent. Maybe what is meant by "abstract idea" is really "an idea in the abs
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
What exactly is an abstract idea? Is it possible for an idea to be concrete? From looking at examples, "abstract" seems to mean trivial. By trivial, I don't mean obvious or silly, I mean small; i.e. an idea that can be reduce
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
If you could show that seat belts save lives, which I think you can, then that's kind of interesting. In any case, I meant the question to be rhetorical.
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
So the consensus is that LaTeX is perfect, except that it's complex and hard to use. What's the evidence that recreating LaTeX from scratch will lead to something simpler?
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
I imagine Safeway didn't want to take on the risk of trying to solve tricky problems, e.g., with inventory tracking. It might have legitimately made more sense for them to be conservative, since they had an existing business to manage.
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
The filesystem, backed up by git, ought to be perfectly fine for serving text content. It will be interesting to see what happens if they add a lot of images and videos and git starts choking. The main benefit of adding a RDBMS in this scen
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
I'm sure they ruled out the more obvious confounding variables. All else being equal, you would expect a result like they got, based on the null hypothesis that expensive CEOs are at least average among CEOs, combined with the suspicio
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
I pretty much guarantee that if you ran the numbers with intent to profit off this phenomenon, you'd find that its predictive value is null. A commenter down below speculated that it sounds a lot like simple regression to the mean.
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
I'm not sure what lesson one can draw that could be replicated. I guess, nothing succeeds like success?
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
You beat me to it. Another way to state it would be that having a richly-paid CEO is a lagging indicator; or the companies with the resources to have a trophy CEO are likely already topped out and running up against the law of large numbers
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
>>It tried being a financial city in the 80s, then a tech city in the 90s, all the while it was growing as a medical city. You make it sound as if these trends were inauthentic. I think they were, in fact, organic outgrowths of the ci
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
True, and I think Apple's simulator turned out to be the right move.
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
When I started a new job doing iOS development, I was a bit surprised that Apple provided a simulator and not an emulator for iPhone/iPad development. An emulator seemed like a better choice, because it would be more realistic. Realism
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
>>The upside is that they're doing something innovative but if Bing really wants to steal marketshare from Google they have to improve on their quality, not on their speed. Well, there are two ways to increase bottom-line profits
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
The c and c++ apis seem to make things worse. The right solution for charset conversion seems to be iconv.
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
That helps put some things in perspective. Unicode is not a well-understood topic among programmers, I've noticed (at least in the US), and for something so important it's surprisingly difficult to find information. The distinctio
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
The problem is that C++ and ObjectiveC have overlapping purposes. The issue isn't that it's impossible to use them together. The issue is that you will have to have a strategy for dealing with conflicts before they occur.
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
How can you tell? If ants were able to understand the solar system, would you expect them to behave differently?
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
Absolutely. This star has an impressive feature. But it is the least observable of all such impressive features. Thus fitting the least impressive star. :)
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
I think you are right about separating the ObjC. C++ and ObjC don't play so well together, either, so if your primary language was C++, I think you'd need a plan around how to deal with ObjC.
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
I gave the vi mode a very short try, but it doesn't seem to make as much sense in a shell. If it has you accidentally deleting things, you might want to ask how much is it really worth. In vim you can undo.
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
I think there are some good, sound principles here; I've dealt with some to one extent or another, and I couldn't find anything to disagree with. I worked on a port of a large Java application to C++ on a different platform, and w
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
I thought that, too, when I saw that example, clearly in C++, after about 100 mentions of 'C'. I've encountered programmers that habitually refer to C++ and ObjectiveC as C. I suspect he has that habit.

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