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by norswap 9y ago
Bell Labs, Xerox Parc, nuff said.
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The Secret Lives of Tumblr Teens(newrepublic.com)
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by norswap 9y ago
You know who I trust less than Google, Facebook and Amazon? The U.S. government. Also "nationalize". The author seems blissfully unaware of the existence of other countries where said services operator (about 200 of them!).
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by norswap 9y ago
I'm pretty sure everyone that watched "How I Met Your Mother" were doing so for the jokes, not the plot. It wasn't even really a narrative at all, more like a smattering of teasers. But you're right, not all plots a
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by norswap 9y ago
I'd be curious to know which conclusions you think the author has reached. And you're probably being downvoted because your criticism is neither specific nor substantiated, and fairly snide besides.
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by norswap 9y ago
Interesting to see no mention of Fooled by Randomness either in the article on in the comments. Isn't that the central thesis of that very influential book?
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by norswap 9y ago
It seems increasingly likely to me that the whole academic model is on the verge of existential crisis, and headed towards profound transformations. I'm curious to see where this leads. Hopefully someplace better than before. (I shoul
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by norswap 9y ago
Of course, but while still being itself. Just like you would like to be personally successful, but won't sell your soul or betray your principles for it.
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by norswap 9y ago
It's been a while so I don't remember specifics. However, after looking around, it seem the category "Patterns of Success for the Working World" ( http://calnewport.com/blog/archive/ ) captures w
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by norswap 9y ago
D's objective is/was not to be popular but rather to be exactly what it is: a better low-level language. From what I can gather, it succeeded pretty well at that, lacking maybe some hype. The recent open-sourcing of the toolchain
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by norswap 9y ago
While I sympathize, that would be forgetting all that the net and online-ness has done for me. I would be a fundamentally different (and, in my current estimation, worse) person if I didn't have the net. It's been an engine of per
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by norswap 9y ago
While I'm fond of "deep work the idea", the book was a real disappointment. It's mostly selling the idea instead of explaining how to do something with it. I followed the author's blog for a while, and I'd say
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by norswap 9y ago
This Rod guy looks like to be a real terrorist, wow. I'd be so scared if he lived in my neighbourhood.
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by norswap 9y ago
It's sort of schizophrenic to want to make a shame list, and then redact out the company name. Unless it was edited by a moderator? (I sure hope not.)
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by norswap 9y ago
It isn't Pareto-optimal in the long run either. Pareto-optimal doesn't mean "optimal" or perfect. It just means there is a way to increase the satisfaction of someone without decreasing the satisfaction of someone else.
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by norswap 9y ago
There's a word for that kind of error: the situation is not pareto-optimal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_efficiency
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by norswap 9y ago
No. They will do too little, too late. Just like the lambda that were slated for Java 7 and came in Java 8. Now they're talking about value types, but it will be for Java 10 at the soonest (Kotlin doesn't have that either btw). Th
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by norswap 9y ago
Isn't Rust niche safe low-level (mostly GC-less) programming? I think it is, and the hoops you have to jump through to guarantee that safety are really at odds with what I would call "power".
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by norswap 9y ago
I was at Curry On! but missed that talked. Everyone kept telling how good it was so I watched it as soon as it was put online. While Matt's (medical) story is truly inspiring, the link with the other (CS) part is really dubious to say
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by norswap 9y ago
The decision for Firefox to move to web extensions is stupid. The only reason I'm still using Firefox, which is technologically inferior (1) to webkit-based browsers are its high quality addons. (1) Slower & crashes more, just more
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by norswap 9y ago
Kotlin is essentially Java with some sugar sprinkled on top. That's its strength: the semantics & the concepts are the same. I also never said Kotlin will replace Java, but that it will gradually grow to the detriment of Java, whic
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by norswap 9y ago
If the language designers keep their heads, Kotlin will slowly eat away at Java. Java itself is never going away: it's a Fortran or Cobol situation, only maybe three or four orders of magnitudes bigger. Xtend never was alive, and it&#x
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by norswap 9y ago
It's all in the README above. But basically each node can have up to 32 (2^5) children. Instead of allocating an array of 32 elements in each node, you have a 32-bits bitmap where the nth bit is set only if the corresponding children i
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by norswap 9y ago
This is really cool work by Michael, a collection of configurable data structures. Underlying most of them is CHAMP - a compressed hash array map trie. Essentially it's a trie over the hash of the objects inserted in the map. It's
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by norswap 9y ago
I read it, and it's full of platitudes. Useful platitudes, to be sure -- if the book is a revelation to the reader, the reader probably did well to pick it up. Nevertheless, this is not the stuff that helps create the kind of deeper -
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by norswap 9y ago
> As wide-ranging as these various entrepreneurial ventures may be, they all have one thing in common – not a single one of them would get funding in a competitive private capital market if it weren’t for massive (and I do mean massive)
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by norswap 9y ago
As someone else said: search results. But also I never saw a link ON Stack Overflow point to said documentation. I wasn't even consciously aware of it, even though I must have seen the announce when it launched. Really, I don't kn
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by norswap 9y ago
> Imperative collections are harder to reason about, especially for inexperienced programmers. That's a blanket statement that is completely unsubstantiated. In expect that, in reality both have strength and weaknesses and it depend
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by norswap 9y ago
So I guess the vitriol didn't have the time to subside after all. Some interesting points, though.
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by norswap 9y ago
twice as fast ... in some benchmarks

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