mtdewcmu

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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
Check out the nasa link. The colors are not entirely accurate.
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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
Well, compiling an empty file is a piece of cake. An empty file is valid C, just not a complete program.
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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
A minor point, but important to understand: the error came from the linker, not the compiler. It compiled just fine.
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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
XCode comes with profiling tools. It's not easy to stray outside of Apple's own development tools.
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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
You shouldn't read that as "second best book," it's "best second book," i.e. reading a more introductory book would be a prerequisite to reading K&R.
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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
Complicated code speaks for itself.
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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
A more conservative rule would be not to use C where security is a concern, unless you know what you're doing. When you're writing the kind of software that's an invitation to hackers, like a web application, you should favor
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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
Ah. I have not yet looked too far into how yxml works. I never came up with a perfectly satisfactory solution to the zero-buffer problem myself, but you've hit on a lot of the things that make it a hassle either way. It's almost i
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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
I didn't make myself clear. I meant assume in the mathematical sense, as in, to take as an axiom. If you do a science experiment, you are assuming that you will get back a repeatable result, and you won't be measuring something pe
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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
I was interested in yours specifically because it's the only one I've seen that doesn't buffer (almost). You might as well drop the last little buffer and be completely bufferless. Then it will never cause an error or block,
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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
"Probably is not deterministic" is not quite the same as " provably is not deterministic." Physicists have opinions on a lot of things, but I don't think they can fundamentally answer this.
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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
This looks interesting. Is it brand new? I've seen parsers with similar names, but, of course, almost all short letter combinations containing xml have been used, so that's expected. It doesn't allocate or buffer, so when it
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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
I'm probably taking Feynman out of context here, but I think philosopher is almost right, and Feynman is being a tad pompous. I think it's necessary to some extent to assume that the same conditions always produce the same resul
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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
It's a good question. I was wondering that myself when I was writing the comment. Either the kernel would have to restart it or it would bring down the system, because no other process would have a parent.
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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
Unix is polytheistic and depends extensively on unseen deities, called daemons, so atheism is not strictly possible. The init[1] daemon is the first daemon which is begat directly by the kernel and it creates daemons for other purposes and
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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
To be taken seriously, it will have to target javascript eventually, of course. Perhaps you might as well go there directly and just get it over with?
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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
Hmm. Like codes in bytes, I guess, as a way to pick low-hanging fruit in an interpreter. It just never occurred to me to think much of the bytecodes themselves as the most salient piece. Perhaps bytecode is the best word to describe anythin
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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
I always thought of myself as good at math, but I had an unexpectedly hard time in required freshman calculus courses en route to a CS degree. I think the source of all of these paradoxes is that math is too broad a thing to be simply good
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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
I never thought of bytecode as its own class with its own identity before. I guess you could say that a lot of the web runs on bytecode. Maybe 99% in fact, if you include bytecode that was passed through a JIT.
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The liberal/conservative divide in software development(plus.google.com)
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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
I'm sure you would want the compression done by the database and not the filesystem, since there are many ways to do compression to fit specific applications, and the database knows what it's trying to do. I read a little bit of t
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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
I think the point of the argument about functional programming is that you can't defend a stance of absolute rejection of all things non-functional, because that kind of world could not exist. Similarly, an all-object world does not ma
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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
I had no idea that Microsoft did that kind of research. Maybe this is connected to Bill Gates's philanthropic work.
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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
Next chapter: "Eco-conscious" stickers start showing up on store-brand ammonia in the Bay Area, and the Stanford start-up quietly lays off two employees and liquidates. More seriously: what these two companies need to do is merge.
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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
There are lots of machine learning papers in there, and lots of papers about mobile, search, social networks, etc. This one seemed a little out of place: "Taking Stock of Toilets in Bangalore’s Government Schools: Status, Challenges an
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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
But you're motivated to get to the end, aren't you? If not, you must have had a hard time in school.
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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
I'm pretty sure that the kind of engineering that designs circuits to do things in hardware that you'd normally do in software can't be that much different than writing software. A title that I find more ridiculous than softw
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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
A tried and true method to create motivation to learn something is to sign up for a class that you'll get a grade in. You can take college courses without being in a degree program. Otherwise, I have no idea. I was internally motivated
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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
Oh, I think I see what you're saying. So calling them named pipes is inaccurate, then. If I'm not mistaken, using features of the /dev filesystem would be dependent on Linux, then. Either way, it isn't really a very robu
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by mtdewcmu 13y ago
Presumably those would be domed cities like you see in futuristic predictions from the 1960s. That's why you can measure their volume and predict the percentage that will be dedicated to pipes to carry waste heat from computers.

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