mtdewcmu

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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
I agree; the top answer sounded simple, but it wasn't simple at all to understand. I think there's more to the FT than you get from a working knowledge of how it's applied to audio, though. In other words, there's unders
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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
True-- Correlation does not imply causation. But-- Correlation implies publication.
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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
Noble, but it sounds risky. Don't you need false results to pad your CV to keep up?
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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
It shows that people want birds, but they had grown tired of the anger of angry birds. This bird speaks to now.
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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
Definitely. And there are programmers that love code for its own sake, rather than for what it does. They seem to be motivated by "what would another programmer think if s/he saw my code?" -- rather than, "what will the
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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
>>Commits are patches. True, more or less, although you won't find any actual patches as such in the repository. Internally, git's storage is a lot like a backup system, and if you export a patch, it's generated on th
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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
Well said. I feel that complaints from users should always be taken seriously. The fact that a piece of software is better than what came before doesn't mean that it can't have flaws, and can't be improved upon. I don't
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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
I imagine that the spouses of psychopaths would give those kinds of explanations for staying marriedf they were asked. But a psychopath would seem to be a poor choice for a parent or a spouse.
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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
A psychopath doesn't experience normal emotions, so they can't have a deep relationship, and they don't know what one is supposed to feel like. When I read Without Conscience, I was surprised to learn that psychopathy is a
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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
I'm curious to get some people's reactions to this guy: he mentioned his dangerous actions more than once; do you think he's truly dangerous, or just exaggerating? After he kept mentioning it, I was curious and a bit skeptica
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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
Psychopaths are known for being very good at getting people to agree to things; they are described as very glib and superficially charming, which is why they excel at being con men. So it doesn't seem hard to explain how they manage to
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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
Biology was far luckier in general, in that biology is a much better subject for scientific inquiry than psychology. Good science has to work very hard to keep subjectivity and bias at bay; they are constantly and insidiously trying to cree
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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
To get a decent depiction of psychopathy, one really needs read a book like Without Conscience, by Robert Hare. Psychopathy is truly bizarre. You have to consider that this article was coming from a psychopath, and psychopaths have certai
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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
>It is, as it makes very easy to blow your leg off. I have never seen a bug-proof programming language. If a language lets you do anything at all, then it will let you write bugs. So I don't see it as a weakness that C allows you
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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
std::sort in C++ is known to be faster than qsort() in standard C, because C++ templates allow the comparison function to be inlined. I find it doubtful, though, that Java has a generic sort method that regularly outperforms qsort.
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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
There are probably lots of people writing bad code in C, I'll grant you that point. But that isn't a property that's built into the C language itself. I think you are attacking a straw man. My original point was just that it&
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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
There is a theoretical benefit in being able to optimize at runtime. But, in practice, these advantages are virtually always too small to outperform code compiled statically.
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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
I'm not sure I follow what you're talking about. Operating Systems are tangential to the point, though. When I said all useful programs halt, the kinds of programs I meant are the kind used to prove things about computation. Those
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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
>> Has it been proven that the ability to write undecidable programs confers expressive power such that you can't have one without the other? Yes. Can you provide a reference? >> It seems self-evident that running foreve
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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
There is nothing about pointers that makes them unusually hard to keep track of. If you are prone to goofing on pointer arithmetic, then you're almost certainly going to run into problems even if you never use pointers, because arithme
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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
Yeah... C's dynamic dispatch can be slow or fast. It's up to you, because you get to write it yourself.
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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
>>fast startup That's a real improvement. >>programs in C usually do much less with more code than high level languages Ok. So? >>Once the project gets really big and complex, C starts to get slower and harder to
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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
Has it been proven that the ability to write undecidable programs confers expressive power such that you can't have one without the other? It seems self-evident that running forever can't be useful, so you should be able to say WL
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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
Right... In Windows and OSX you have to do the same thing fairly often. It's called "force quit" or something like that. Otherwise you'd sometimes be waiting an eternity for programs to get themselves unstuck. If a progr
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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
The joy of C isn't just in writing it. It's also about getting back a program that runs unreasonably fast at the end. Sometimes you really can tell.
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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
Good point. For better or worse, iOS is native code, and you could potentially write C or C++ that targets both.
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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
It would be tragic if dogfood workers were forced to eat dogfood.
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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
The industrial revolution is a vast subject, much of which happened in Britain and the US from the mid-18th to 20th centuries. Yergin's The Prize is a fascinating look at how oil took it into high gear. I highly recommend that book.
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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
Agreed. I think a pardon from the Queen is a nice gesture. Of course, it can't take back the wrong. But it is a nice gesture.
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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
I agree, that number does sound kind of high. The number of deaths per rifle would likely follow a heavy-tail distribution: a few rifles would have extremely high numbers, and most would be have extremely low numbers. So the average would b

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