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by reeses 14y ago
Vimeo has room to improve, but I think it's a smart move to take the "premium" route compared to YouTube. I don't like publishing to YouTube unless it's recorded on my phone. If they tried to compete with YouTube toe-to-toe, they'd probabl
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by reeses 14y ago
You said the worst three letters for self-diagnosis. "DSM" generates more "Hey, that's me!" than horoscopes. Now that IV will be out of date and available at every used bookstore for $5, expect a run on them. (Or buy up every copy you ca
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by reeses 14y ago
My BS armchair psychiatric definition of ADD is that it was useful when our genetic forebears had to be "distracted" every minute or so to be aware of the need to attack or protect themselves or their social units. It's one of those hypothe
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by reeses 14y ago
Amen. Mens sana in corpore sano. Or ^anima if you want to remember it every time you lace up your ASICS.
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by reeses 14y ago
Meds. Even if they say the chance of it working is 60% in your case, work with your psychiatrist who handles depression, anxiety, and other conditions as well as ADD. Feel free to shop around until you get the guy who can read you on the
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by reeses 14y ago
Org-mode. Make capturing painless. Omnifocus Quick-Entry is good too. And Intuniv is awesome . Gotta go, I hear a western scrub jay squawking outside.
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by reeses 14y ago
That's a great technique. It's a good application of most prolific writers' advice about writer's block: just write, dammit! I've taken it as a sign that I am officially "old" that this article was stunningly obvious. I remember being int
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by reeses 14y ago
Instead of two hemispheres, split your brain into quadrants with high bandwidth and referential locality for task memory. Also, try to figure out a way to harness hormonal "intelligence" for general purpose cognition.
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by reeses 14y ago
This was my immediate reaction. Pain experiments, as described in the article, are a necessary "evil" in many animal experiments. Human trials have the same conditions, with both the pain of treatment and the suffering of being in the "co
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by reeses 14y ago
It started so well, as a tool to harness collective 'intelligence' to digitize text while preventing spam. Now you're right, even the bloody accessible (audio) versions are useless. It's as if a dozen poltergeists are whispering in your e
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by reeses 14y ago
Everyone wants the citation. Good point. :)
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by reeses 14y ago
Plus, as it is relatively simple to perform tail call elimination with iteration instead of reusing the frame in many (most?) cases, static analysis can classify those cases and hygienically rewrite those functions. Most attempts I've seen
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by reeses 14y ago
Normally, this would be 60 minutes for homework, five minutes in TeX, eight hours, fifty-five minutes trying to get that effing figure in the right place. Of course, it never helps that the 8:55 is usually after midnight. If your department
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by reeses 14y ago
It all started downhill when the GDI was integrated into the kernel.
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by reeses 14y ago
Server Core does have a GUI as its primary UI. What confuses people is hearing that the interface is a command line. You still have a window (unless you're remote) and a handful of utilities, but they just don't run under the Explorer des
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by reeses 14y ago
That's what the parent poster is saying with "(I'm just talking dart vs. JavaScript, not dart2js generated code vs JavaScript)". If you look at the graph, the top line (dart vm) is running about 400-500 "Runtime Score". V8's moseying alon
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by reeses 14y ago
Editor? I do not think that word means what you think it means! Emacs is an abstraction layer for a non-preemptively threaded virtual machine, one application of which involves editing text, sound, video, images, etc.
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by reeses 14y ago
Thanks. I really needed that in my head.
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by reeses 14y ago
Absolutely. "MinWin" sounds so appealing people jump to the conclusion that it's running in the Azure farms or in other MSFT data centers. The next logical step from this assumption is that it could be a product. It's almost unfortunate t
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by reeses 14y ago
"MIMD hasn't been shown to scale, and its not locking that is the problem, but I/O and memory." We're going to have to disagree on this one, as we have some obvious examples in favor of MIMD scaling on the TOPS 500. SIMD is just a tool for
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by reeses 14y ago
Google Scholar is pretty good for indexing the major libraries/journals, but you still run into the paywalls in places. It also turns up copies of paid papers that someone has stored in a public web/ftp server. Usually it's a student obvio
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by reeses 14y ago
Our annual budget includes about 7% allocated to subscriptions and memberships and we're still stuck with guessing from abstracts and citations whether individual papers will be worth it. I'm OK when they're $10-15, but more than that and
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by reeses 14y ago
Rasmus has clearly stated that PHP's ugliness is a feature. http://osdir.com/ml/php.devel/2002-10/msg00704.html He freely admits that he is a crappy programmer who can't write languages. His goal was to re-use code because he hated (hate
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by reeses 14y ago
Unfortunately, with any native code interaction, whether explicit FFI/NIF or implicit (RNG, clock, etc.), your threads can still mingle state. In a single process, you're still limited by the memory virtualization capabilities of your under
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by reeses 14y ago
SIMD is a specialized form of parallelism. It is not the only definition of the term. It should also be clear that task parallelism (or concurrency from your perspective) has not had the benefit of billions of engineer-hours focused on imp
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by reeses 14y ago
I think in this case they're relatively interchangeable terms. Rather than a SIMD vectorization of a task, you are applying a MIMD solution to various parts of a task. You can typically get more of an immediate boost with SIMD on current h
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by reeses 14y ago
Fortran (especially ancient, wheezy Fortran) lent itself to supervised automatic parallelization because of its lack of dynamic arrays. It was "easy" to vectorize code at compile time when you had so much information about the runtime expe
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by reeses 14y ago
TLABs are a partial step in that direction at the JVM level. You could also use object pools/factories keyed to the thread. Those are the first two "ghetto" hack solutions I can think of that wouldn't require significant code changes on a
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by reeses 14y ago
Obviously, you can do the same things in Java, as people have demonstrated with alternative languages that target the JVM. It's the expressiveness at the language level that is really the "magic". For example, doing the equivalent of OO is
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by reeses 14y ago
We've been doing it in Java since the nasty old days of RMI or "our own weird RPC over HTTP implementation". Lots of lightweight services with a supervisor to manage them and a directory to find them. Now it's even easier with ESBs. Write

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