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by oddity 9y ago
Who would have thought that a little bit of close-mindedness might be good for something? Imagine trying to convince an AI of the future to give up deeply held, almost religious beliefs because the designers wanted to mitigate this problem.
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by oddity 9y ago
I'm not sure "functional programming language" means the same thing to any two people. Just like "object oriented programming", it once labeled what might have been a very precise idea, but has since been bundled a
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by oddity 9y ago
Messageable nil has a special place in my heart, but as a default mode of operation, it's certainly a fun way to hide bugs.
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by oddity 9y ago
Oh, upper management is even more paranoid than that. It's what made this such a strange move for the company.
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by oddity 9y ago
Surely, they'll all realize that it takes courage to embrace the office layout of the future? Jokes aside, this was a problem five years in the making, and as far as I can tell there was no secrecy about the plan. I'm surprised t
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by oddity 9y ago
Kayvon was my undergraduate thesis advisor as well as an instructor for a class I took while there, and it's hard to exaggerate how fantastic he was. I second your recommendation.
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by oddity 9y ago
I don't think the description as minimal was intended in any formal way. It's informally minimal in the sense that it features less complexity than more well known languages like C or Fortran. A formal notion of a minimal languag
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by oddity 9y ago
It generates FreeBSD executables directly. >The compiler translates from T3X9 directly to FreeBSD-386-ELF. It does not require any assembler, linker, or other additional programs. I suspect that it can be ported to other 32-bit ELF Unixe
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by oddity 9y ago
I'm tempted to think that Rust doesn't really impose a new paradigm over resource management so much as it standardizes and enforces the common conventions of C++ resource management. A major pain point probably is that people nev
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by oddity 9y ago
There are honest reasons why a news outlet might take a strong interest in a group of stories. A journalist might have become interested in a story early, and his immediate collegues then followed once it started picking up steam, for examp
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by oddity 10y ago
The common objection I've heard to geo-engineering projects is that they are incredibly difficult to reverse should the need present itself due to detrimental effects discovered part-way along. Does this objection still apply to the c
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by oddity 10y ago
Agreed. Given the current infancy of VR and the fears of incompatibility amongst consumers, it's nice to see the major players set up some stability for the VR space.