nialv7

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by nialv7 10y ago
It always amaze me how many people is 'discovering' the C switch statement for the first time.
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by nialv7 10y ago
Why is everyone trying to write everything in JS nowadays...?
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by nialv7 10y ago
What about split the simulation into small, < 30 seconds chunks?
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by nialv7 10y ago
This is of course a really good thing, but I feel this is not enough. The browser has increasingly become universal platform. On the one hand, this means applications written for browsers are automatically cross platform. But this also make
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by nialv7 10y ago
The fear that Google Voice would be cancelled soon has always been in me. (There apps hadn't been updated for a long time). This news is a relief.
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by nialv7 10y ago
In a sense, the terrorists had already won. They succeeded in planting fear in our heart.
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by nialv7 10y ago
You define a variable the same way you would use it. int *a -> expression *a has type int. int *a[10] -> *a[_] has type int. int (*a)[10] -> (*a)[_] has type int. int (*a)(int, int) ->
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by nialv7 10y ago
Obviously we cannot modify this code base and then redistribute it. But what if we only distribute the patches? Would there still be legal issues?
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by nialv7 10y ago
Introduction to the Theory of Computation by Michael Sipser. Constructing Turing Machines is real fun.
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by nialv7 10y ago
I wasn't talking about this particular compiler. I meant "in theory, a compiler would be able to see".
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by nialv7 10y ago
I really feel like I'm going lengths in order to satisfy the compiler. The compiler should work for me, not the other way around. Why do I need to manually create a scope when the compiler can see that variable is never used again afte
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by nialv7 10y ago
The rail doesn't have to be profitable itself (which is a benefit of being state-owned). The more important thing is the bigger picture, is how much economic advantage it generates.
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by nialv7 10y ago
If you've been to Tokyo or Shanghai/Beijing, you would know the New York public transport system is not well developed at all.
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by nialv7 10y ago
Likely to be the fairing.
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by nialv7 10y ago
Clearly NASA & FAA know a lot more than you and most of us do. If they choose to let SpaceX continue launching their rockets, there must be a good reason behind it.
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by nialv7 10y ago
Except now Google would have to maintain TWO massively complex project. Also they kind of just did what you suggested with Duo,Allo and Hangouts.
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by nialv7 10y ago
Funny how they are using Mac in their demo video, while the browser only supports Windows.
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by nialv7 10y ago
D does have zip, enumerate, cycle ( https://dlang.org/phobos/std_range.html ). It doesn't have a universal collect like Rust, but you can create arrays from ranges using array(). And if the target container/col
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by nialv7 10y ago
> 2. The Rust frontend has historically abused the LLVM backend badly, by feeding it large amounts of barely optimized code. This is being worked on, but it's going to take a while. That's what I heard 2~3 years ago.
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by nialv7 10y ago
> 3. Iterators. Never seen a language do them so well with so little overhead. The focus on zero-cost abstractions really shines here. Try some D, maybe? :)
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by nialv7 10y ago
Strictly speaking, it needs to handle an infinite number of edge cases _in a very limited amount of time_ Machines might not be able to, humans definitely can't.
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by nialv7 10y ago
> They need to reliably deal with an almost infinite number of edge and corner cases, each quite different from the last. It doesn't need to be perfect. It just needs to be better than average human drivers. Sure there will be cases
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by nialv7 10y ago
It must be my social awkwardness... After thinking about it, I realize I do treat the interview process like a controlled experiment. And I was twitching the knobs and see if I would get better results...
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Ask HN: What factors affect the result of an interview?
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by nialv7 10y ago
I think I would attach a PGP signature to my reddit posts from now on....
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by nialv7 10y ago
I got an idea. Current machine learning techniques should be advanced enough to detect trolls. What if we have a community that is completely moderated by an unsupervised AI? The good thing is that the AI can be completely open: how is it t
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by nialv7 10y ago
> We have worked around limitations Why not try to fix those limitations and push to upstream?
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by nialv7 10y ago
I wanted to say that whether a system is self-aware depends on how you interpret it. Then I realized this argument also works for "me". Under whose interpretation am I self-aware? Or does the mind come first?
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by nialv7 10y ago
Well I would agree that undefined behaviors are unavoidable. Indeed, if you insert checks into your code to completely rule out UB, that will have a huge impact on performance. On the other hand, I don't agree passing tests is enough.
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by nialv7 10y ago
You can choose a random oracle by choose a language by random. Here a language means a set of strings.

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