proemeth

14 ms·

31.
by proemeth 17y ago
Another battle won for copyright lobbies. This bill as no upside for British society, neither for consumers nor for companies. >libraries and universities could not be exempted That sentence made me tick, reminiscence of autodafés.
32.
by proemeth 17y ago
The first solution costs you the memory of a pointer, though it does not modify data like the 2 others. If one wants some sort of referential transparency, one kind of solution can pose more problems than the other, depending if scope is le
33.
by proemeth 17y ago
That's where a language's documentation intervenes. Some have a very small and simple core (Scheme) with well-defined behaviour. Topic treated as well in the famous law of leaky abstractions : http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LeakyAb
34.
by proemeth 17y ago
When the industry comes to term with this and offers a convenient service, people will be ready to pay for it.
35.
by proemeth 17y ago
>Articulating why a design is good is substantially harder than coming up with a good design. Yes, and slower. Trust is good, though in a professional environment one will be expected to motivate their choices with a rational argument..
36.
by proemeth 17y ago
This article covers mostly how _performant_ (as in fast/resource savvy) parallel programming is hard. Though robust parallel programming can be tricky too, and the way you "[Avoid] race conditions" will have an impact on performance. So the
37.
by proemeth 17y ago
Provocative tagline. It's worth noting that most open source users do so not to avoid paying, but for more idealistic and teleological reasons.
38.
by proemeth 17y ago
Very similar topic to this post from today: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1147767
39.
by proemeth 17y ago
He was Polish, despite his parisian history, hence his famous mazurkas.
40.
by proemeth 17y ago
Good article. A thought on the "Science is/isnt based on faith/ a religion" : for people who don't have the capacity to falsify scientific theories, science can be similar to a mysticism. Especially with complex theories, experts are equiva
41.
by proemeth 17y ago
I expected an article on the limits of python syntax, but this is the description of some lolcode-style language.
42.
by proemeth 17y ago
Unfortunately it seems you can copyright numbers. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1045150
43.
by proemeth 17y ago
Link to a related post analysing meritocracy : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1103408
44.
by proemeth 17y ago
I think what's disguised behind "anarchy" is communism, civil rights movement, maybe unions movements and zionism too.
45.
by proemeth 17y ago
It is pretty big. If someone has time to digest all this, I'd love to read some summary.
46.
by proemeth 17y ago
In the wake of "Up in the air", nice film I recommend, that opens a few doors without being over the top. Just enough to start your own thoughts. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1193138/
47.
by proemeth 17y ago
Did Descartes really die of _cold_? http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/14/rene-descartes-p...
48.
by proemeth 17y ago
It seems the personal computer democratisation really started with graphical interfaces. Casual users don't have time to learn how to use command line, let alone programming.
49.
by proemeth 17y ago
And the nice concept of cookie stuffing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cookie_stuffing
50.
by proemeth 17y ago
It links to a Reuters post : http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLDE61824V20100209
51.
by proemeth 17y ago
Nice strategy but exposed to forex risk. Some got burned when the JPY rose by 30% compared to USD and so did their USD-denominated-equivalent debt.
52.
by proemeth 17y ago
Indeed. The more interesting fact in this paper is how China is picking up with the US in number of papers.
53.
by proemeth 17y ago
Nice remark on how the need for a "powerful" IDE is a code smell. The need for the IDE reveals that some abstraction the language should provide but isn't has to be handled by something else. No such problem with macros.
54.
by proemeth 17y ago
Mathematics would be regarded as a science. Though this seems open for debate : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability#Logic_and_mathem...
55.
by proemeth 17y ago
$1 + 2.9% : "Square can afford to give away the dongles because they will be banking 2.9% of each transaction." Not so cheap.
56.
by proemeth 17y ago
Illustration of the concept: http://hestia.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c5c9b53ef01156f5cd7129...
57.
by proemeth 17y ago
There exist 3 kinds of lies. Correlation does not imply causation.
58.
by proemeth 17y ago
Risk aversion does not have to interfer with rationality like the author seems to suggest. We can fit the utility function to take risk aversion into account.
59.
by proemeth 17y ago
How do I submit new buzz-words?
60.
by proemeth 17y ago
This looks like an accounting stunt. In most countries, banks have to value their assets using fair (market) value. States' financial arms should do the same.

More ›