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by paulajohnson 11y ago
From what I've heard, it sounds like this is really "new method of counting trees produces much bigger results". The new estimate may be better, but it may not. Paul.
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by paulajohnson 11y ago
Reading the paper, they don't even have an actual material. This is a theoretical result about the kind of material that ought to work. Which is a step forwards, but not a breakthrough.
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by paulajohnson 11y ago
Thanks for this. A couple of points: 1: I'd have rated Haskell's concurrency as "best in class" thanks to its STM implementation. Other languages do have STM, but AFIAK only Haskell provides both efficiency and safety th
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by paulajohnson 11y ago
In addition to learning the stack, you will also need to learn their processes for basic stuff like making changes: how do they match up the reason for a change (new requirement, bug etc) to the actual delta in their repository. Do they use
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by paulajohnson 11y ago
While this is likely true it doesn't detract from Christensen's point, which is that the steam shovel companies went out of business because they couldn't switch. The steam shovel companies saw hydraulics as toys, or a sideli
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by paulajohnson 11y ago
His idea of a holiday was to knock a chimney down in Blackpool in exchange for a new boiler while his family went to the beach.
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by paulajohnson 11y ago
As I understand it the point isn't to prosecute for those drugs, as the recipient would have the defence of no guilty knowledge. Instead its to justify the search warrant, which merely requires probable cause that the drugs are on site
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by paulajohnson 11y ago
And here I thought I was going to learn something about their software engineering.
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The Dick-pic Test for surveillance(theguardian.com)
2 points by paulajohnson 12y ago|0 comments
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by paulajohnson 12y ago
I wrote a rebuttal of the "blueprints for software" analogy a couple of years ago. http://paulspontifications.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/software-h... TL;DR: Source code is the blueprint for software. Howeve
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by paulajohnson 12y ago
At a cursory reading, this looks like a re-invention of the Haskell notion of monads for error handling. Briefly, monads function as a kind of "overloadable semicolon". For error handling it lets you say that if any step fails the
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by paulajohnson 12y ago
Feynman loved logical puzzles, and knew lots of them off by heart. What would actually have happened is that the interviewer would have got as far as "there are three light switches..." when Feynman would have interrupted by recit
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by paulajohnson 12y ago
No, the other 99% is project size.
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by paulajohnson 12y ago
1% is not the "spread" (whatever that is), its the proportion of the variance in bug fixes that is attributable to languages. The other 99% is attributable to the number of commits (i.e. projects with more commits have more bugs.
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by paulajohnson 12y ago
The statement by the authors that the language effects are "small" is very strange: the only non-language "big" effect they found was that projects with lots of commits have lots of bugs, and that 99% of the bug count va
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by paulajohnson 12y ago
I can have it done next week if it doesn't have to work. And of course this is a false dichotomy anyway.
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by paulajohnson 13y ago
Find a new job first, then quit. Its a lot easier to find a job when you already have one.
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by paulajohnson 18y ago
<i>It's a hard problem to which I have only a partially satisfactory answer... but I digress.</i> On the contrary, you touch the heart of the matter. You say what you are doing is "hacking", with the implication that there
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by paulajohnson 18y ago
How much original thought is going into the floor plan of the next McMansion to be built? Or the next 3-storey steel-framed office block? Are these truly developed from scratch by deeply original thought every time? I admit I have no exp
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by paulajohnson 18y ago
So where do you think the "design" comes from?
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An Under-Appreciated Fact: We Don't Know How We Program(paulspontifications.blogspot.com)
33 points by paulajohnson 18y ago|28 comments