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by norswap 6y ago
This is the content for the first two weeks. It will updated regularly - probably every week starting from next week (I'd put it all out if I had it, but planning and recording these things is an ongoing process!) As for the context, t
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I plan to show how to emit Java bytecode - the advantage being that you don't have to write your own GC, and you benefit from the JVM JIT compiler. I think in general the backend is much easier (especially if you don't have to do
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I'd say parsing is easier when you know how to do it, but getting to understand it the first time is harder.
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Lecturer here - we will definitely cover some other topics, including semantic analysis (type checking, etc), code generation, basic optimizations, ... I still expect parsing will be the major part of the course, maybe 50%? There are some g
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Speculation: They might be afraid of a GME-style short squeeze. They also might be waiting to see if the stock starts dipping to jump in.
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> Nearly all of the information there is also available in the public documentation of whatever the question asker is asking about anyway. In the absolute that may be true, but even if a low percentage of those are not available elsewh
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by norswap 6y ago
You must be really fun at parties.
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Here is a decent selection of top articles: https://medium.com/handwaving-freakoutery/top-slate-star-cod... I didn't write this, but I second most of the selection.
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Maybe so. But there's also a ton of legit criticism of Maven for how inflexible it is. Doing any sort of custom task requires addons. Gradle also sucks, but at least you can script it much more easily.
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My concern is not for my data (because I don't care, not because I trust in Google's goodwill and governance), but Google has a sad history of mismanaging their smaller side projects. I pray that this time, it's different, bu
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by norswap 6y ago
I had the same reaction, I heard similar accents in old pieces of media - even by some people that are still famous today (though mostly dead).
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Personally, what I find mind-boggling is the inability of Google to capitalize on Map's potential. If improved, it could concurrence at least TripAdvisor and Yelp easily (and maybe Booking too, if they were willing to invest in custome
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by norswap 6y ago
Google employs 100k people. It's entirely possible some of them are assholes on completely different parts of the political spectrum. (But yeah, it's clickbait.)
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Apple, who sold hardware because they had the best software, now sells software because they have the best hardware. Funny how things change.
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I also expect there's a lot of "oh no evil finance people profiteering out of water!", which is of course a gross misunderstanding of what futures are. Futures are useful if you're a farmer: it helps you precommit to a c
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Seriously. > Any normal person would have given up already. They’d been funding the company with credit cards. They had a binder full of credit cards they’d maxed out. I'm all for being gritty, but that sounds entirely the wrong thi
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But surely if you depend on those packages, you can maybe track (or just collect) their versions, then get the same versions in another package manager (possibly via pinning). Though my experience with package manager is that dependency man
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I'm wondering, what ties you so strongly to a single OS? Nay, to a single Linux distribution? I have a hard time imagining, and the only scenarios that come to mind are those where things have gone awfully haywire. I'm sure I&#x27
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> To these snakes, people are nothing but numbers to squeeze revenue out of. Spreadsheet sociopathy. If every single consultant and banker disappeared tomorrow, we would be better off. Who's the sociopath I wonder?
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I'm getting a lock of kicks out of the comments here. Clearly, many people don't get it's a joke (but at the same time, based on a survey whose purpose is probably not to make that joke in the first place (1)). I'm consi
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by norswap 6y ago
The context you're missing is literally the first sentence and googling "thiel question". Please put a little more effort before shooting. Lazy web: The Thiel question is "What is something you believe and that nobody ag
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This got me to read "Why I am Voting for Kanye West" by Rob Rineheart (1), and now I am REALLY confused. (1) https://www.robrhinehart.com/why-i-am-voting-for-kanye-west/
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Ruby doesn't have to be slow anymore! https://pragtob.wordpress.com/2020/08/24/the-great-rubykon-b... https://speakerdeck.com/eregon/running-rack-and-rails-faster...
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Prediction markets ain't that great either: https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2020/10/18/predictit-presidenti...
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It's supposed to run a Mac, why isn't it a general purpose CPU? What specific workload do you have in mind? I could use it for web browsing, programming, media editing...
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My personal rule is "never go to sleep with a stash on the stack". They are for short terms manipulations, but it's easy to make mistakes with them and lose data (dropped stashes don't show up in the reflog for instance)
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Just a counterpoint, my Brother printer was very difficult with a VPN a family member had to use (after using the VPN, I couldn't use the printer anymore, short of rebooting and reinstalling the driver). Every other printer we've
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by norswap 6y ago
Surely that number is not right - probably lacking two digits?
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There's probably research on that.
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Chrome unlikely to support XPath 3.1(github.com)
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