sifoobar

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by sifoobar 8y ago
It's not that easy. A modern C++ compiler will have all sorts of issues with fundamental C idioms, and depending on C++ is a very different story from depending on C.
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by sifoobar 8y ago
Sure, the interop is unmatched. What they don't share is mindset; C is all about keeping it simple, I don't even know what C++ is about any more, but it sure isn't simple. Many fundamental tricks that are routinely pulled in
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by sifoobar 8y ago
C++ has about as much to do with C as Java with JavaScript these days though. It's just not an option in many cases where C is fine. I've gone back and forth the last 20 years or so, and have plenty of experience with both languag
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by sifoobar 8y ago
The same "logic" could just as well be applied to prostitution. What is it about your life that's worth more than theirs? A pile of money? And wouldn't that blood do more good in a blood bank where it could help people w
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by sifoobar 8y ago
Not an expert, but as long as there is no way of knowing WHAT it is the algorithm is learning it seems to me that it could never work reliably. It might look perfectly reasonable until you hit one of the triggers the algorithm used to segme
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by sifoobar 8y ago
It was worse than that, I relocated to another country for the job and they had just helped me setup a four month apartment contract. I was informed that they liked to go surfing together during the interviews. It just turned out that bobbi
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by sifoobar 8y ago
And no doubt the mob will punish you for it. Still, thanks for showing some courage and integrity, it's rare in these times. Yep, started getting red itchy patches on my palms from resting them on the laptop so I moved to a stationary
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by sifoobar 8y ago
It's mostly wireless antennas, from my experience. Distance helps a lot. It's not like I was secretly wishing for this to happen. It sucks enough without having people spitting and laughing at you to mask their own ignorance.
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by sifoobar 8y ago
But then, you have no idea who I am or what level of introspection I'm capable of. Assuming thousands of people are just imagining it because the people who sell the crap and their hangarounds told you so doesn't make you look ver
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by sifoobar 8y ago
I used to have no issues at all with EMF; not that I was very healthy, but I didn't feel any effects. Then I stopped entirely for six months while I lived in an ashram out in nowhere doing Yoga all day. And sure enough, after coming ba
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by sifoobar 8y ago
God bless his/her soul :)
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by sifoobar 8y ago
My favorite cultural fit failure was trying to opt out of the weekly mandatory surfing lessons, barely got my wet suit off before I was called to a Friday morning meeting with the founders and told to grab my stuff and leave quietly. No mor
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by sifoobar 8y ago
I think the real problem is that it's a lot more convenient to add logic capabilities to whatever language than to squeeze the entire solution into Prolog's limited view of the world. I know there are extensions and whatnots to bu
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by sifoobar 8y ago
But it's still pretending, solving canned problems with right/wrong answers is not the same as doing the real thing. You'll get completely different behaviors out of most people. I wouldn't be surprised if plenty of whit
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by sifoobar 8y ago
I get what you want, it's the same thing everyone else wants. That doesn't imply it's possible to get it. What we're doing is pretending it works, it's not the same thing. When I'm working on solving real probl
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by sifoobar 8y ago
I'm curious, how much Common Lisp have you written yourself. Because what I'm reading between the lines is that you consider modern Java to be pretty much equal to Common Lisp in power, and that doesn't make much sense from h
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by sifoobar 8y ago
A good candidate for what? I've been through enough interviews on both sides. The only thing that will tell you anything of importance is paying candidates to perform real tasks. If doing algorithms on a whiteboard is part of the job;