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by rumcajz 8y ago
The problem with the C solution is that you'll get hanging pointers. Try using i1 after the code above executes and you'll get a runtime error.
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by rumcajz 8y ago
Can you give an example?
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State Machines and the Strange Case of Mutating API(250bpm.com)
55 points by rumcajz 8y ago|16 comments
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Russian Authorities Paint Dirty Snow White to Hide Effects of Pollution(newsweek.com)
1 points by rumcajz 8y ago|0 comments
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by rumcajz 8y ago
While that's true in theoretical sense, what we call "state machines" in the real world do have additional state. For example, TCP state machine has CWND. The same way, coroutines allow for additional state.
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Equivalence of State Machines and Coroutines(250bpm.com)
84 points by rumcajz 8y ago|37 comments
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Amazon faces boycott ahead of holidays as public discontent grows(theguardian.com)
10 points by rumcajz 8y ago|1 comments
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by rumcajz 8y ago
Before WWI, it used to be like that everywhere.
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by rumcajz 8y ago
If LHC is producing data that confirm our theories, then all the better, no? Maybe we should instead focus of different, under-reasearched areas of physics? Or maybe on different sciences?
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by rumcajz 8y ago
(3) declarative programming (e.g. SQL)
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by rumcajz 8y ago
They had "Plan 9 from outer space" figure in the lab. It may have inspired Plan 9 OS. Nice to see how these small details percolate.
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RFC 1087: Ethics and the Internet (1989)(tools.ietf.org)
2 points by rumcajz 8y ago|0 comments
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List of placeholder names by language(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by rumcajz 8y ago|0 comments
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by rumcajz 8y ago
While this is a great development, hosting AUTHORITATIVE text of the law at a private service (GitHub, owned by Microsoft) doesn't sound like a good idea. Consider what would happen if Microsoft decided to delete the repo. There will s
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by rumcajz 8y ago
I want a C t-shirt.
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by rumcajz 8y ago
I haven't meant resilience to the environment. I've meant resilience to change. In biological terms that would be mutation. In programming terms, is whether the program survives if a random person, unfamiliar with the code, modifi
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by rumcajz 8y ago
Is there a way to reconcile the two? If the stack is walked up automatically programmers aren't going to deal with errors explicitly. No?
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by rumcajz 8y ago
That's the theory. In reality each layer just passes exceptions from lower layers on, leaving the end user with a mess that cannot be handled in any sane way.
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by rumcajz 8y ago
Everybody agrees that simplicity is good. So more interesting question is: Is there anything desirable in complexity? One argument that I've got from biology is: The simplest possible system (code, living organism) is fragile. Any chan
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by rumcajz 8y ago
I like to pepper my code with asserts for that reason. But you can also get the case where the process crashes and get restarted in an infinite loop, so it's not a panacea either.
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by rumcajz 8y ago
No, it were actually pirates at fault of America not adopting metric: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/12/28/574044232...
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On Rigorous Error Handling(250bpm.com)
67 points by rumcajz 8y ago|56 comments
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by rumcajz 8y ago
> And as the engineers of synthetic life, she and her colleagues can easily incorporate controls or a kill switch that renders the cells harmless. That's a bold claim given how evolution routes around failures.
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Why Democracies Are Turning Against Chinese Influence(foreignaffairs.com)
78 points by rumcajz 8y ago|60 comments
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by rumcajz 8y ago
The article argues that Red Hat's business model was selling a "slightly better version of Linux". IMO they were rather in the business of being a professional scapegoat. Someone to blame when that scary open source thing goe
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by rumcajz 8y ago
In the end this boils down to the problem of interruptions. People often discuss the topic with smalltalk and such in mind: https://heeris.id.au/trinkets/ProgrammerInterrupted.png The code reviews go more to the core o
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by rumcajz 8y ago
As being from an artistic community and a programmer at the same time, I can empathize with both sides. However, it should be pointed out that there are really two different programmer cultures. There the corporate one, and then there'
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by rumcajz 8y ago
You can also split the dataset into two parts. Use first part to form a hypothesis. Register it. Then use the second part to confirm/disprove it.
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by rumcajz 8y ago
I think one of the problems is that it often doesn't feel like cheating. You have a hypothesis, but you don't preregister it. It lives only in your head. You do an experiment, you look at the results. They fail to confirm the hypo
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Unikernels: No Longer an Academic Exercise?(250bpm.com)
178 points by rumcajz 8y ago|108 comments

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