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by neeeeees 6y ago
Not sure why you’re getting downvoted. A little harsh and hyperbolic , sure, but their website has become an unusable joke in recent years.
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by neeeeees 6y ago
FLT_ESPILON is the bound on rounding error for certain operations. Plenty of numbers smaller than it can be represented in most floating point implementations
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by neeeeees 6y ago
Ah I see, thanks for explaining
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by neeeeees 6y ago
I may be missing something - why is tolower(c) incorrect here?
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by neeeeees 6y ago
I think it’s just a much harder problem than Netflix or Youtube recommendations - Amazon has at least 500 million products, and people aren’t buying individual products at the same scale as they watch videos. Has anyone with >1000 produc
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by neeeeees 6y ago
“Ever” in practice is usually a few months or years.
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by neeeeees 6y ago
Seems similar to this work out of Salesforce a few years ago: https://www.salesforce.com/blog/2017/08/salesforce-research-...
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by neeeeees 6y ago
This sounds like Fundamental Attribution Error: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_erro...
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by neeeeees 6y ago
The test suite is ultra important. Even in the unlikely case that you have an engineer who thoroughly understands the machine and language specs, you have a ton of existing, useful, programs that rely on under-defined behaviour in one or bo
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by neeeeees 6y ago
This is really a build system issue - ie figuring out which parts of the (mono)repo are affected by which change. Bazel, for example, depends on explicit, per-directory, BUILD files, and does a fairly good job of finding dependants.
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by neeeeees 7y ago
On the topic of haptics, I thought 3D touch was a gimmick, but LOVED it on my iPhone 6S. Extremely useful for previewing links, moving the cursor etc, and very intuitive. Then they scrapped it in favour of press and hold on the new iPhone,
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by neeeeees 7y ago
Very cool product, and could be useful for learning also. I suspect the fundamental [business] limitation of a tool like this is that those willing to pay recurring big bucks (medium to large software shops) tend to rely minimally on 3rd p
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by neeeeees 7y ago
Interesting suggestion! I'll definitely check it out. Looks like this, along with generics, will make the library a lot easier to write. Thanks!
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by neeeeees 7y ago
Thanks! I've updated the doc to Markdown as suggested by other commenters, so it is now available at https://github.com/neeilan/neeilang/tree/master/doc/Lang.md
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by neeeeees 7y ago
This main goal for me is learning and not developing a production-ready language. When picking the feature set, I wanted something like Java (OOP, GC, no arbitrary pointers) but without a VM. I think implementing TypeScript natively would b
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by neeeeees 7y ago
Not discouraging at all - that's a very valid point! Funnily enough, I wanted to try implementing an OO language because they are popular... I use them a lot, which makes it important for me to understand how they work.
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by neeeeees 7y ago
Just an itch to understand the tools of the trade better!
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by neeeeees 7y ago
1) LLVM IR is strongly typed, which makes it very challenging to implement a dynamically-typed language on top of it. AFAIK, there aren't many (any?) successful such implementations of dynamically-typed languages. I haven't used o
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by neeeeees 7y ago
Hi HN! I’ve been working on this language for about 4 months now. While not “complete”, it does have a number of nice features like virtual functions, type inference, etc. I reckon it will not be truly useful until GC is added, and that’s w
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Show HN: Neeilang: Minimalist OOP Language That Compiles to LLVM IR(github.com)
44 points by neeeeees 7y ago|18 comments
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by neeeeees 7y ago
That is correct, and I should have made that clearer. However, a lot of it’s features are implemented in Swift (via custom operators, overloading etc) in addition to compiler intrinsics. The point I had in mind was that a language like Swif
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by neeeeees 7y ago
Like a few others have mentioned, I do wonder how big the marginal return in baking in these features is. From a quick look, stuff like FASTA/BAM parsing, translation, etc can be implemented in C-land a la numpy, and called from Python
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by neeeeees 7y ago
If you're looking for something more entertaining than a reference-type grammar book, I'd recommend Dreyer's English. ( https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/232363/dreyers-engl... )
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by neeeeees 7y ago
I’ve always found Impossible’s “versioning” scheme amusing. One of my favourite burger joints recently shifted from offering Impossible v2 to v3 for their patty, as v3 supposedly resembled meat more closely. However, I thought that v2 taste
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by neeeeees 7y ago
I noticed something really interesting around the 2:09 mark in the video - the chimp taps a box, and goes on to the next one very quickly, but realizes that the initial tap didn’t register properly and goes back to fix it. I definitely comm
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by neeeeees 7y ago
A PM that worked on Excel in the late 2000s explained it to me like this: Most people use about 20% of the features in Excel - which should make it easy for competitors to copy, right? The kicker is that different people/industries ten
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by neeeeees 7y ago
What’s wrong with C#?
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by neeeeees 7y ago
If you haven’t read it already, I highly suggest Sam Smith’s “The Jordan Rules”. It’s really fascinating to see the tension that’s present behind-the-scenes even on a team that is super successful on the court.