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by pshc 15y ago
I think the author's definition of "fatally flawed" in this article is more along the lines of "this is an evolutionary dead end and I won't have anything to do with it in the long run" rather than "cannot work under any circumstance."
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by pshc 15y ago
Damn. This actually reads like Science, even though the frequent bolding makes it look like an SEO advice email. Guess I'll give the paleo diet a shot.
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by pshc 15y ago
>How is looping through an array or accessing its last element for a frequent operation? In languages without foreach or map I'd guess it's one of the most frequent operations. You probably work with the wrong kind of code to appreciate
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by pshc 15y ago
>How do you tell a C compiler that? You'd need dependent types and a compiler that understood exactly how much information in bits was required for a particular proposition, I'm guessing. I think this is the sort of thing (not using tri
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by pshc 15y ago
The cleanest version IMO is - (void) setFoo:(NSString*)bar { [bar retain]; [foo release]; foo = bar; } which harmlessly increments and decrements for self-assignment.
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by pshc 15y ago
The whitepaper is an interesting read. The "large data throughput" bullet-point is justified by the claim that no intermediary forwarding node has any idea whether it's talking to another intermediary node or the one of the actual endpoints
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by pshc 15y ago
Introducing a new image format won't "mess up" anything. And even if they were doing a stellar job with the video and audio tags, it would have no bearing on WebP.
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by pshc 15y ago
I could say the same thing about H.264. Why should we bother making better video codecs for general movie viewing use? Let it go. We can just add more data layers to Blu-rays. And it's not like JPEG or ASCII or UTF-8 or anything we use toda
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by pshc 16y ago
I'm kind of in the same boat. I'm evaluating it right now to see if it'd be suitable for iOS<-->server comms, but it seems more like something you'd use behind the server gateway. Thing is 0MQ gives you transparent auto-reconnection
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by pshc 16y ago
We shouldn't evaluate programming languages critically? How did we end up with all these excellent languages? Are all languages equal in quality, productivity, and economy of expression? Can't we simultaneously debate their merits and sol
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by pshc 16y ago
context is extremely important and very difficult to get right Yep... solving "context" 100% is equivalent to solving A.I.!
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by pshc 16y ago
Nice work on the title, it's done purely in CSS. Also the source contains numerous references to JFBI. Original product name? ;)
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by pshc 16y ago
This. The main hurdle is actually a UI problem: How do you make a structure editor with the ease of use of a text editor?
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by pshc 16y ago
BuyVM.net has some good-for-my-purpose VPSes for cheap, so long as you can get them "in stock" (whatever that means...). Lowest one is a 15 bucks a year(!)
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by pshc 16y ago
How about pshc.ww.com CNAME paulcollier.ca? Thanks!
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by pshc 16y ago
Haskell is high-level, fast, and its optimized machine code would be nigh impossible to decompile in my opinion. Unfortunately it'd be a bit of a stretch to write a large GUI app in Haskell at this point...
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by pshc 16y ago
You should have let marketing take over and built up unsustainable hype and corporate endorsement instead ;)
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by pshc 16y ago
cough Second Life cough
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by pshc 16y ago
Yep. Certain parts of Canada are big on hydroelectric dams.
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by pshc 16y ago
Damn. I'll do what I can.
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by pshc 16y ago
This event... it was made for me!
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by pshc 16y ago
Similar story, except it was a library book named How To Make Games. The whole book was an explanation of the mechanics of a cute little text adventure game, with full Basic source in the appendix. (The source was notoriously buggy and badl
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by pshc 16y ago
Since no GC is a given, a lambda with a closure maps nicely to the C idiom of a function pointer and a void* user data parameter.
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by pshc 16y ago
Their debugger searches for bugs exhaustively over all non-equivalent thread timings, but I can find no mention (in the paper or otherwise) of whether this will blow up with a large number of threads or amount of control flow; even the illu
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"The iPad is a LEGO set that can only be assembled into what's drawn on the box"(piorkowski.ca)
38 points by pshc 17y ago|33 comments
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by pshc 17y ago
mplayer!
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by pshc 17y ago
I agree with your post. That said, maybe the problem is the text. There are many artificial problems we create for ourselves by using strings for everything. Programming languages in particular have upper limits on expressiveness due to s
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by pshc 17y ago
Right now I'm migrating a Django-based newspaper website to CouchDB. Much nicer for storing articles. And I'm always working on my secret toy programming language.
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by pshc 17y ago
This is kind of an odd event. Canadians aren't particularly concerned with national identity, and tend to look down on patriotic grandstanding. But it is organized by Canadians, so maybe you feel differently when you're living abroad. (Thou
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by pshc 17y ago
Coincidentally, I had to write one last week as an assignment. It's kind of messy because I had to implement several heuristics for the backtracking search. http://pastebin.com/f4c385e8d

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