mtdewcmu

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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
He might have wanted something written in a trendier language.
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
I was impressed by how well Quake III ran on Linux way back in the day. Gaming on Linux has a long pedigree.
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
Just an observation on ML-- If the key to making ML useful has been huge sets of training examples, then that shows that current ML algorithms are much worse than humans at generalizing from a small number of examples. That suggests that cu
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
It wasn't that confusing, but I guess it's not clear what the takeaway should be from the article. Since you started off by talking about apache's memory usage, it would have made sense to include a graph showing Caddy's
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
I think my main reason for posting was to suggest showing the equivalent bash so it was easier to see what the tool did. I just threw in the "looks potentially great" as a little sweetener. ;)
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
That's right. DOD has too much money. Apparently DOD tries to give money back sometimes and Congress won't take it.
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
This sounds like a ridiculous waste of time, but I guess it's worth checking out every idea, just in case.
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
I'm not sure about philosophy, but for physics, the most elegant expression of new discoveries is mathematical equations and numeric measurements. The words used by the original discoverer are not that important, because they just intr
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
It costs more to employ C/C++ developers than Javascript/HTML/CSS developers, so people are not going to recreate everything with bespoke C/C++.
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
This looks like potentially a great tool. It might be helpful if the author showed the code examples alongside the equivalent code in bash, so it's easy to see both what the example code is doing and how much effort is saved by doing i
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
How applicable do you think it would be to PHP?
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
A lot of people seem to use stdio even in C++. Having comprehensible error messages is related to being a simple language, IMO. C++ compile-time errors are notorious for being unreadable. I'm not familiar with the output of what(), but
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
>> "making startup time even worse than the JVM itself makes it unattractive Agree. Do you know if this can generate native code without any JVM dependencies? For instance, could I implement a C compiler that outputs optimized na
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
The chief benefits to pure C IMO are that it's more portable, compiles faster, and it's a simple and stable language. Writing C takes more effort in some cases, so it's a trade-off.
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
Do you agree that this is a major breakthrough, worth billions of dollars?
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
I wanted to play around with PowerShell, but the learning curve looked a bit too steep.
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
I can understand why notepad is simple. You can easily install alternatives, like notepad++.
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
I get that they want to push PowerShell.
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There are possible improvements that wouldn't affect the scripting language. *nix separates out the terminal (e.g. xterm) from the shell (e.g. bash).
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
They said themselves that PowerShell is not a replacement for Cmd...
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
If Cmd is not going away, why doesn't MS invest in it and make it more useful? It could learn a few things from xterm, bash, etc.
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
It would be a good idea to make a wiki, since the laws themselves aren't very readable.
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
I would call this the pathophysiology of burnout. I have lots of personal experience of this.
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
Wealth inequality is really an instance of homophily. Money attracts money. The rich get richer. Wealth inequality harms the economy, because as people get poorer they can no longer participate in economic activity. Businesses need consumer
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
It is a good idea to choose the person carefully. Think of it like choosing a lawyer or a doctor. The thing is, it doesn't have to be Obama. It could be almost any Democrat, like the Clintons, Biden, Harry Reid, or Nancy Pelosi. They a
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by mtdewcmu 10y ago
You don't have to make up all your opinions from scratch. Pick a person who you trust and who you think shares your values. For me, that could be President Obama. Whatever position Obama has on a given issue, I will find that position
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by mtdewcmu 11y ago
I was hoping that telnet was making a comeback. It feels like an old friend.
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by mtdewcmu 11y ago
It's kind of a bloated memory hog. It takes up 42kB.
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by mtdewcmu 11y ago
>> If you view the modern computer as an evolution of the abacus I'm not sure what value that has for predicting the future. You could view the airplane as the evolution of the chariot. Or not. Does it make a difference?
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by mtdewcmu 11y ago
I think technological progress is more like a logistic curve, with exponential-like growth at the beginning and then a leveling off. Look at technologies that have already had time to mature. The speed of airplanes grew tremendously while j

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