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by sddfd 9y ago
Niantic seems to have expertise in Mobile Gaming from ingress. Which other company has? If your comment is based on this event, it seems unfair: Who else has successfully done an event with similar bandwidth requirements before? Also, my un
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by sddfd 9y ago
They are challenged, true. But does this impact his tweets? More importantly, I do not think Twitter is a good platform to present a statement /together/ with its challenges.
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by sddfd 9y ago
With power comes responsibility. I think they gladly pay the fine. What would be the nuclear disaster would be a low that requires them to share user interactions with other search engine operators, so they can also improve their results.
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by sddfd 9y ago
For the european market there is the product search engine https://geizhals.eu/ which is in all aspects better than Google Product Search ever was. However, when you search for a product on Google Search, for example, &quot
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by sddfd 9y ago
> Not only is search quality going down [...] How so? I like to think Google Search is constantly improving. Do you care to elaborate?
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by sddfd 9y ago
Ok my statement wasn't completely clear: in the current system there are by definition no wrong reviews
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by sddfd 9y ago
And a fear to introduce accountability for reviews: what if the review is technically wrong? With the anonymous system we have today, there are no wrong reviews.
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by sddfd 9y ago
Exactly. A compiler cannot guess what a programmer intended, but has to stick to the language semantics. Also, the article goes on to argue that uninitialized memory is used to seed random generators, which is generally undefined behavior.
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by sddfd 9y ago
If I understand correctly, there are missing features in the RLS? Why not improve the RLS?
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by sddfd 9y ago
I get your point. However, I don't think it is useful to consider a compiler to be a replacement for programmers. Compilers are tools for programmers. The more time a compiler saves a programmer, the better it is. I think there is a mi
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by sddfd 9y ago
Writing inline assembly to get SIMD performance is likely to cost immense time of an architecture expert and doesn't scale. So my point stands: If a compiler can't produce vectorised code, the compiler needs to be improved. Spend
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by sddfd 9y ago
The compiler should vectorize functions automatically, without user intervention. Writing assembly code to use SIMD instructions is a vote of no confidence on your compiler. If your compiler of choice can't do automatic vectorization s
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by sddfd 9y ago
Haven't read the article, but from personal experience I'd say yes.
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by sddfd 9y ago
You could try to get into the French system. They have more staff positions (permanent contract based) but of course at a lower salary.
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by sddfd 9y ago
Sounds a lot like someone who can't get into the game distribution market because of customer reservations that (should) also apply to stream. What all these companies have to accept is that valve was a decade earlier, and they have no
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by sddfd 9y ago
I think the windows store just did not fit the usage patterns: People were used to download stuff right off the net, or use platforms like Valve's Steam. On a chromebook-style laptop, expectations might be different. I personally don&#
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by sddfd 9y ago
QFT: Everything sucks if you do it badly.
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by sddfd 9y ago
This is a good explanation of what happens on the machine. However, most languages (C, C++, etc) have different definitions of what pointers are, and many operations that seem reasonable on the machine model are in fact undefined behavior.
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by sddfd 9y ago
As someone from a country with a fixed book price agreement, the pricing of college text books in the U.S. seems criminal to me.
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by sddfd 9y ago
The conclusion is not reasonable: what has competition in the credit card business to do with the end of the latest recession?
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by sddfd 9y ago
Great article. 100% agree. Especially the category theory example.
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by sddfd 10y ago
I wonder why they don't insert a small vertical space before each line with a bullet point in front. For me, this makes it much easier to identify the groups of lines that belong together.
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by sddfd 10y ago
We have the same thing here in Germany. It is good, but it could be much simpler, still.
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by sddfd 10y ago
I think part of the excitement is justified: computers can translate between speech and text, and text of different languages. On the other hand neural networks are most likely just one tool in a larger toolset that will be needed for gener
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by sddfd 10y ago
OK, everyone hates bad quality, I can relate. But `shortevity` also has advantages: If most of the consumers would not buy new phones every 2 years, innovation cycles would be even slower. The challenge is to deal with the waste responsibly
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by sddfd 10y ago
They are trying to kill windows 7/8.1 to get as much people to 10 as possible.
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by sddfd 10y ago
I know it's not a popular opinion, but they do the right thing. Fragmentation of windows versions is a huge problem, and this approach is the lesser evil. I liked Windows 7 best (who doesn't?), but I'm using Windows 10 exclus
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by sddfd 10y ago
Basically the idea is that a compiler that does partial evaluation and can generate extremely efficient code for higher-order functions provides a nice framework for Deals. I wouldn't call it reinventing the wheel.
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by sddfd 10y ago
The exact point is that instead of macros, higher-order functions are used.
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by sddfd 10y ago
Well, who says a programming language cannot provide a framework for DSL libraries? I like that iteration constructs, for example, can be implemented simply as higher-order functions. This way, the compiler already knows how to deal with th

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