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901.
by norswap 11y ago
Well, that's the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average.
902.
by norswap 11y ago
His ideas are inspiring. But I'm a "mechanical" guy, I want to know how it works. Stop me if I'm wrong, but there seems to be very little on that front. If you look for instance at LightTables, which sort of scratch the
903.
by norswap 11y ago
I thought it was one of those who focused on encryption.
904.
by norswap 11y ago
I don't know Telegram, but if they know that terrorists are using them, it's probably not that secure.
905.
by norswap 11y ago
I wonder if many of our security issues are not due to poorly written software, and a big part of that is accumulating layers of cruft in exactly this sort of way. I would certainly write my own crypto (but not design my own encryption sche
906.
by norswap 11y ago
Extreme beginner (I saw a couple presentations). Yes probably neural networks more specifically. I understand that's where most of the excitement is nowadays and what seems to hold promises for the future. Simpler classifiers are easie
907.
by norswap 11y ago
Both, actually! Point is they are related.
908.
by norswap 11y ago
Well, it is for you at least. I guess the message is just: don't use advanced ML magic if you don't fully understand the consequences. Yes, things like interacting content discovery engines is almost impossible to stop. At least b
909.
by norswap 11y ago
This is going to be a very meta comment. You have been warned. The whole field of machine learning makes me kind of nervous. The problem is that the created systems seem kinda magical (quote Clarke, I double dare you). Even their creators d
910.
by norswap 11y ago
Point taken. I'll tentatively argue if all your functions can return null you have other problems to contend with, but what you said makes sense.
911.
by norswap 11y ago
Two things. First, why is it better than: String foo; if (parameter != null) { foo = ... ; } else { foo = defaultValue; } or even this, if you express all your transformations as a single expres
912.
by norswap 11y ago
Indeed. Go is very polished. The tooling is excellent. This stuff matters a lot.
913.
by norswap 11y ago
There is simply no excuse for not having generics. Node, nada. If you think that co/contra-variance is confusing (which it is, we need better materials to teach it), at least go the Dart way and make everything covariant by default.
914.
by norswap 11y ago
Sometimes, yes. But sometimes, you're just going to chafe at the restrictions. And then you start adding to your restricted language and you've created a monster. Case in point: every build system targeting the JVM. Most build sys
915.
by norswap 11y ago
There are no recordings, I asked. There's this presentation at the IETF: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp0Kr3B64tA These are not the same slides, but it should tell you all you want to know about Multipath TCP.
916.
by norswap 11y ago
And also: http://www.gobolinux.org/
917.
by norswap 11y ago
I guess the problem is making it pass for something it is not, i.e. real life.
918.
by norswap 11y ago
Nowadays there's also http://booksc.com
919.
by norswap 11y ago
Are they actually proud of having no generics? :o
920.
Iris Decentralized Cloud Messaging(bravenewgeek.com)
33 points by norswap 11y ago|8 comments
921.
Why do we need modules at all? (2011)(erlang.org)
79 points by norswap 11y ago|45 comments
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Practical Extensibility with Object Algebras (2012) [pdf](cs.utexas.edu)
12 points by norswap 11y ago|2 comments
923.
by norswap 11y ago
The technique he uses to represent data structures is lambda is called a "Church Encoding" (look it up online). A nice paper on how that may be used even in more common imperative languages: https://www.cs.utexas.edu&#x
924.
by norswap 11y ago
I like the idea. Here's another that seems similar to it: an immutable language wherein you could create a mutable, write-only copy of an object. After writing all that was required, the copy could be finalized, at which point it becom
925.
by norswap 11y ago
I've always heard: do one thing and do it right. It's the Unix philosophy, before it was totally disregarded. Urbit seems to take the total counterpoint of this advice, and I wonder whether it's a good idea. What I don't
926.
by norswap 11y ago
And for a longer collection of quotes: http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/79014.Yogi_Berra
927.
by norswap 11y ago
I always loved his whimsical one-liners. Thankfully, Jean-Claude Van Damme is still alive.
928.
by norswap 11y ago
Somehow I don't think we're going to see the fabled Japanese mechas run over Europe and the US any time soon :)
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A Lateral-Thinking Puzzle(linusakesson.net)
3 points by norswap 11y ago|0 comments
930.
by norswap 11y ago
Do they allow the commonplace idiom of casting objects to void* and then back to the original type? (That is allowed by the standard) And do they allow "overlay" casting where multiple structs are used to access the same memory re

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