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by sfpotter 10mo ago
C's support for modularity is actually rather strong. This PDF gives a good overview of the basic techniques available: http://www.metamodulaire.org/Computing/modular-c.pdf It may not be immediately obvious how to
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by sfpotter 10mo ago
The fact that it does appear to be so difficult to scale things up would suggest that the argument isn't silly.
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by sfpotter 10mo ago
Disagree, actually. Having spent a lot of time publishing papers in those very journals, I can tell you that just browsing a journal is much less conducive to discovering a new area to dive into than going to a library and reading a book. I
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by sfpotter 10mo ago
You're reading a lot into my ellipsis that isn't there. :-) Please read it as: "who knows what you'll find if you take a stop by the library and just browse!"
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by sfpotter 10mo ago
It may well be. Books have tons of useful expository material that you may not find in docs. A library has related books sitting in close proximity to one another. I don't know how many times I've gone to a library looking for one
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by sfpotter 10mo ago
I had a completely different response reading the sentence. I've been programming in C for 20+ years and am very familiar with exactly the problem the author is discussing. When they referred to a "static variable", I underst
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by sfpotter 10mo ago
Totally fair. Just wondering if there was some specific motivation for being able to do this... "For fun" is valid, IMO. ;-)
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by sfpotter 10mo ago
What's the use case for a language like this? I used to very down on C++ but have stopped caring quite so much... Just using C++ and restricting oneself to templates seems like a better bet than this. Or you could use D and have a la
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by sfpotter 10mo ago
Networking involves more than just letting people know you exist. I'd say that's borderline useless. Actually networking requires building real relationships with people. For me, that means continually meeting new people who do th
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by sfpotter 10mo ago
Fun fact: some spectra are discrete, not continuous! And some have both parts. Depends on the operator...
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by sfpotter 10mo ago
Go ahead. Write a math paper with your proposed new notation with hyperlinks and submit it to a journal somewhere.
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by sfpotter 10mo ago
The issue is that having concentrated wealth and having concentrated people's attention are not separate things.
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by sfpotter 11mo ago
Can anyone provide a comparison of this book to Nocedal and Wright's book?
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by sfpotter 11mo ago
Whoa. Who's this guy? Sounds like he might have some answers to some of my questions!
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by sfpotter 11mo ago
I don't disagree that it's an accurate portrayal of reality. And of course, as I made clear in my post, I don't know if they're actually a burnt out nihilist. My issue with the article is maybe more that the perspective
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by sfpotter 11mo ago
I've read a few of this guys posts now and have consistently been rubbed the wrong way by them. I think I know why now. It's not that he's wrong . His analysis is reasonable and straightforward. I think it's that the ba
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by sfpotter 11mo ago
Ah, man, thank you writing this. I read through bits of it and found his writing really crazy making, and have had the same response to other articles of his I've seen on here. Your response sums it up perfectly.
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by sfpotter 11mo ago
I'm thankful that I don't actually have to read the whole thing.
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by sfpotter 11mo ago
FYI: OpenNURBS runs fine on Linux, and is actually only supposed to be an (the) open source implementation of Rhino's .3dm file format. It is stripped of much of the functionality required of a full fledged CAD kernel (the rest is prop
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by sfpotter 11mo ago
IMO, higher order continuity is a red herring. You can make something approximately high order continuous (say, to 10+ digits, or whatever you like) piecewise much more easily than enforcing mathematically exact high order continuity. Once
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by sfpotter 11mo ago
One interesting and sort of unhappy artifact of CAD is the adoption of B-splines and NURBS as the primal basis for modeling. The whole point of B-splines is that they are the obvious basis for maximally continuous splines of a certain degre
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by sfpotter 11mo ago
But this is from an annual report published by Copenhagen on the economic effect of bicycling on their city... so very much the opposite of what you're suggesting. Despite the possible adversities you've listed, there is the state
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by sfpotter 11mo ago
Not really a dupe. That's an article written by Zorin which reads like an ad/press release. This is reporting on that.
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by sfpotter 11mo ago
I drink 2-3 cups of coffee a day (or double espressos) and have done so for about 20 years. Usually the first thing I do when I wake up is drink coffee. When we had our first child over three years ago, my wife said she wanted me to stop dr
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by sfpotter 11mo ago
I think this sentence: > But matrix multiplication, to which our civilization is now devoting so many of its marginal resources, has all the elegance of a man hammering a nail into a board. is the most interesting one. A man hammering a
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by sfpotter 11mo ago
I'm not sure if you're just spamming this response all over this thread or if you're replying to what I wrote, but I do actually think there's a connection. I've also read and love this book, and it does push back o
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by sfpotter 11mo ago
Yeah, but what were they doing with these tools?
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by sfpotter 11mo ago
Yup. There is certainly an element of strategy that enters into it. Doubling down on a single programming language or piece of tech is probably not a good idea. Maybe doubling down on a niche field or subject is...
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by sfpotter 11mo ago
Fair! Personally, I'm not sure how you can get good at something if you aren't at least a little in love with it. Here's another take: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75Ju0eM5T2c
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by sfpotter 11mo ago
It is? I often find that I work really well with people who are highly adaptable generalists. They help me get random things done that I'm slow at, I help them get highly specialized things done that they're slow at.

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