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What every programmer should know about memory: CPU Caches(lwn.net)
3 points by rw 17y ago|0 comments
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by rw 17y ago
See also: socialization, nature vs. nurture, anecdotes != data.
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by rw 17y ago
"Emotionalism is the antithesis of rationality." What if it is just embedded historical rationality? cf. evolutionary psychology.
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by rw 17y ago
The phrase "public domain" is even more concise.
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by rw 17y ago
If they're doing Gmail right, they are still making money off of you.
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Berkeley Statistician Reviews Taleb's "The Black Swan" (Jan 2009)(stat-www.berkeley.edu)
4 points by rw 17y ago|0 comments
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by rw 17y ago
I've noticed that when I ascend (descend?) into the land of proofs, I get annoyed with fuzzy imprecise human matters.
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by rw 17y ago
I recommend Project Euler as a complement (or replacement) to the competitions. PE is not timed, therefore you can concurrently solve the elegant challenges while working on other projects. Furthermore, there are no "levels of access": all
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by rw 17y ago
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by rw 17y ago
Well, maybe "reality" isn't interpreted :)
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by rw 17y ago
I said his opinion is bollocks. I'm claiming that using self-recursion just makes sense . The inability to have a recursive implementation of fib(n) is a loss in both expressiveness and readability. Recursion is fundamental to computer s
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by rw 17y ago
Recently GVR said 'no' to tail-call optimization. Why? Check out his blog post on it: http://neopythonic.blogspot.com/2009/04/final-words-on-tail-... As far as I'm concerned, when he says, "The one issue on which TCO advocates seem to agr
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by rw 17y ago
This is from 2005. Please put old article dates in the title.
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by rw 17y ago
Maybe an interesting question: what if those schedules were hard to make? e.g. they resulted from an expensive analysis of a traveling salesman problem.
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by rw 17y ago
Needs JS to work (there's no warning about that) and... this is awesome.
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by rw 17y ago
An interview with two of the developers: http://www.goodgearguide.com.au/article/315421/we_talk_devel...
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MenuetOS: Written in Assembly, fits on a floppy, has GUI(menuetos.net)
133 points by rw 17y ago|45 comments
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by rw 17y ago
What's your favorite language? Would you still be irritated if the front page was full of articles about that language? Personally, if the front page was littered with good articles on Scheme and Haskell, I'd be delighted.
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by rw 17y ago
I advise you to keep your criticism constructive, your opinions rational.
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by rw 17y ago
We can observe this as a natural experiment: what are the rates of street crime in Japan vs. the US?
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by rw 17y ago
I saw a great writeup explaining how it is cheaper to send an equivalent amount of data to one of the Voyager spacecrafts, than it is to send it by SMS.
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by rw 17y ago
That line is right between "Twitter copies" and "Twitter buys".
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by rw 17y ago
If you actually understand the paper, and can communicate that understanding, it will definitely be useful.
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by rw 17y ago
What do you think about reading academic papers and posting distilled versions to a blog? How about doing a reading course with a professor-friend of yours?
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by rw 17y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=665069
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by rw 17y ago
It's more of a gradient, not a strict inequality; cf. argument from parsimony, inference vs. deduction.
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by rw 17y ago
Check out Uzbl!
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by rw 17y ago
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by rw 17y ago
"Functional" as in...?
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by rw 17y ago
Is this DNA Prolog?

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