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   App Academy: Free nine week iOS course(hashmaplabs.com)

   62 points by ruggeri 14y ago|40 comments
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   by ruggeri 14y ago

   I like a lot of Chris's projects, and clearly the community loves this one, but I don't yet understand whether this is open-source? I'm not sure that the language in the FAQ really means anything; at worst, it sounds deceptive. I'm fundame
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   by ruggeri 14y ago

   Hmm. I disagree. It's a small community built on trust. The cautionary tails I read on HN have changed the way I do business. I don't see anything unprofessional about going public. Think of it as a bug report :-) If there's a code of
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   by ruggeri 15y ago

   Hmm; no, I really disagree with this. The opaque car market does tend to increase revenues for dealers, but no one has explained how it incentivizes them to provide a better product. How could it? Car purchasing may well be a multi-dimens
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   by ruggeri 15y ago

   Column-stores are a big part of the technology described in Google's Dremel paper ( http://research.google.com/pubs/pub36632.html ); they used a column-oriented format to build a system to support interactive queries to big datasets.
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   by ruggeri 15y ago

   Got my donor card in the mail today!
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   by ruggeri 15y ago

   That's one of the main things I like about functional programming: a lot of logicy code smells can be factored away into reusable generic functions like, in this case, List.pick. Likewise, engineers who have at least played with FP tend to
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   by ruggeri 15y ago

   Thanks; upvoted! I think I'm beginning to appreciate that concurrent marking is tougher than I thought; specifically, I can see how it can be hard to prove an object is unreachable. So I imagine the marking side is where the difficulties
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   by ruggeri 15y ago

   I enjoyed this basic introduction to GC; upvoted. What I'd look forward is further discussion of incremental and concurrent GC algorithms. Until then, does anyone know what makes concurrent GC non-trivial? It seems like it shouldn't be to
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    by ruggeri 15y ago

    ^^ This is why I call it a lynch mob.
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    by ruggeri 15y ago

    Time to betray some serious virtualization ignorance; when do people use QEMU outside a datacenter (presumably for mapping multiple virtual machines to one physical machine)? How often does one need to run binaries compiled for another mac
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    by ruggeri 15y ago

    Probably not, but relevance is only one dimension. I enjoyed this far more than any of the flood of bitcoin articles we had a whiles back.
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    by ruggeri 15y ago

    Good point. If the island has WiFi you can look it up on Wikipedia :-)
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    by ruggeri 15y ago

    Did anyone else feel this was a poorly written article? Maybe I'm obtuse, but I found it _very_ difficult to understand. I felt like the writers were too busy sexing up the article to focus on explaining what's going on here... It sounds
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    by ruggeri 15y ago

    I think a lot of the discussion (including the accepted answer) is missing the point: how, _in the presence of competition_, is the theater able to profitably price discriminate. The competitive assumption is supposed to imply that price s
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    by ruggeri 15y ago

    Seven days and counting. I'm tired from holding my breath for months now.
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    by ruggeri 15y ago

    Interesting. The article is a little unclear about why not any lambda will work, which is what motivates the eigenvalue problem. In case others are/were likewise confused: assume you've been given the influence of all but one of the vertic
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    by ruggeri 15y ago

    I was watching some older Andrew Ng Intro to ML lectures [1], and found Gilbert Strang's linear algebra [2] movies super useful as background. You'll definitely want to feel strong on linear algebra before taking the class. [1] http://aca