onan_barbarian

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by onan_barbarian 14y ago
Given that the poster says "my ultimate goal is to build a general artificial intelligence" I'm not sure that facility in any given programming language (or the lack thereof) is the poster's biggest problem.
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by onan_barbarian 14y ago
It's amazing how many column-inches, irate blog posts, etc. can be generated by a off-the-record "sources close to the deal said that the deal was worth $X million" remark from one source. Having seen this for a Y Combinator exit (no names)
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by onan_barbarian 14y ago
Go's compiler toolchain is not "very young". Go's compiler toolchain is derived from the Plan 9 C compiler and is a decade older than modern gcc (4.x), which has substantially rewritten its optimization framework relatively recently with "G
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by onan_barbarian 14y ago
You have to wonder about someone who has interviewed with "about a dozen" YC companies and turned them all down for the same reason. If the pattern is that obvious, what's he doing going back for interviews 4..12? In a shock development, ap
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by onan_barbarian 14y ago
Nonsense. I stand by my point; that while copper and zinc are both important trace elements, paleolithic man could not practically have gotten them through consumption of tubas.
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by onan_barbarian 14y ago
This is also patently wrong; a paleolithic human could not have subsisted on a diet of tubas, as they were not invented until the mid-19th century.
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by onan_barbarian 14y ago
Agreed on most points. And to be honest, if you're a real customer of Google (we use them for our business) you are treated worse than the "free service" (where you aren't the customer, you're the product). Our work accounts have a fraction
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by onan_barbarian 14y ago
Pretty irritated at the way Google takes moderately successful services that can't possibly cost them all that much to keep running and puts them down the memory hole, to foster the happy illusion that everything that everything that Google
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by onan_barbarian 14y ago
Sorry to interrupt the bitching about the UI of the website, but... I would nominate a working familiarity with: Non-trivial graph algorithms Serious distributed systems design (ie. building something where anything and everything can fail
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by onan_barbarian 14y ago
I read this with genuine interest, only to discover that the way to "foster a female friendly company" is to contact this person to hold a "Femgineer Forum" at my company. Fantastic. Because nothing raises confidence more than zero content
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by onan_barbarian 14y ago
As long as it's possible to work around this, it's OK. I have far too many 'academic conference' emails (no longer an academic, so I don't want them) where it's hard to unsubscribe because I'm getting the email from a chain of forwarded add
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by onan_barbarian 14y ago
I suspect you're missing his point, possibly wilfully. Regardless of whether you agree with it or not, his criticism is that the content of the "how to be a hacker" essay in question is almost nothing more than thinly veiled self-descript
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by onan_barbarian 14y ago
Possibly the best thing ever said on the topic of this essay is from the infamous Dabblers and Blowhards post: ---- I blame Eric Raymond and to a lesser extent Dave Winer for bringing this kind of schlock writing onto the Internet. Raymond
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by onan_barbarian 14y ago
I like this rhetorical technique: completely alter the story then craft an argument based on your version of the story. In the less artificial world (where orchards are not usually created out of barren moonscapes)- it's always a little odd
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by onan_barbarian 14y ago
Speculation down both sides is independent of SMT and if I remember correct there were proposals to do this - especially where the branch predictor "knew" it wasn't doing a good job on a branch (no point going down both sides of a 99.9% pre
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by onan_barbarian 14y ago
This is really a case of 'your mileage may vary'. Some people's problems will be fixed by a bit of exercise, some won't. This is true whether or not you can pull 350 or 530, and/or do chins. As an old man by gym standards, I have both been
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by onan_barbarian 14y ago
I saw this in Sydney. I kind of hated it. What we have here is someone who drops a hundred thou a year on Lego and builds realistic 3D sculptures by gluing the pieces together into suspiciously realistic computer-generated forms. It would h
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by onan_barbarian 14y ago
It wasn't really just naming conventions. Having a second name for something that already existed - not to mention having the 'brontosaurus' being made from some bogus parts, eg. a skull of another dinosaur - is more than a simple naming
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by onan_barbarian 14y ago
From the article: "In 1984, a compilation of ps.c, the source to the Unix ps command, was observed to #include <sys/stat.h> 37 times by the time all the preprocessing had been done. Even though the contents are discarded 36 times wh
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by onan_barbarian 14y ago
> Sigh. I dream of Mathematica being open source. I dream of a world where people don't compulsively fantasize that for any given piece of software, it should be supplanted by some other piece of software whose main differentiating feat
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by onan_barbarian 14y ago
Very cool. A C/C++ version (also mildly abandoned around the same time) was done by Robert O'Callahan, a very smart guy... Worth checking out and it would be nice if someone could pick it up and develop it more actively. http://code.google
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by onan_barbarian 14y ago
It's almost beyond parody: "when you have trust in everything you own, you don’t have to worry about anything. It’s liberating and an amazing feeling. My life was markedly better because of it." Right, because sane people would otherwise sp
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by onan_barbarian 14y ago
IMO one is better off training to _do_ something rather than acquire a external physical characteristic. Most of the people I know who train consistently and have impressive physical achievements (a) enjoy training and (b) train for intrins
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by onan_barbarian 14y ago
The funny thing about this list is that a few of the items, while intended as satire, are actually spot-on. Especially item #1: "But the rate of source code commits continues to grow proportionally with the number of engineers. This is in
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by onan_barbarian 14y ago
I reached the same conclusion ("Go is boring") myself, but with a different flavor. After having spent a great deal of time in recent years doing things like GPGPU and a _whole_ lot of SIMD programming (not to mention a lot of use of the ST
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by onan_barbarian 14y ago
These kind of extremely simple loops are exactly the sort of thing where almost _any_ language can optimize things into levels of performance that approach hand-tuned asm (which itself isn't always the way to go for anything complex, but fo
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by onan_barbarian 14y ago
"massive brain drain of engineers & tech entrepreneurs" Bollocks. There is a massive amount of self-promotional noise coming from a medium-sized group of people going over to the US, not all of whom are that much or a loss to Australia.
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by onan_barbarian 14y ago
Alexa seems to show that they've moved up about 165 Alexa ranks to be the 775th most popular site on the Internet, and their users use the site for an average of 3 minutes. Looking at the trend it looks like they're just a bit past a early-
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by onan_barbarian 15y ago
There are many, many bogus things about this post. First of all, I'm ready to stab myself in the eye every time I have to see someone they only hire "A" players. This is getting tiresome and unbelievable - I don't know of any startup that h
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by onan_barbarian 15y ago
It's hard to see how the linked TechCrunch article and this article: http://www.startupsmart.com.au/cash-flow/99dresses-shuts-dow... ... can both possibly refer to the same company. At the very least, the prior shut-down of 99dresses has

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