sklogic

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by sklogic 10y ago
Exactly. I have not seen a new thing in many years. All the so called "new" things are simply rebranded decades old ideas.
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by sklogic 10y ago
Despite hating anything XP, I can strongly relate to this one: > When faced with a hard change, first make it easy (warning, this may be hard), then make the easy change. It aligns well with my natural process: for any problem, spend mos
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by sklogic 10y ago
There are bugs in compilers. Hardware faults. 3rd party library faults and inaccurate documentation. Good luck asserting these assumptions and factoring them in your designs.
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by sklogic 10y ago
C99 has 'restrict' keyword.
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by sklogic 10y ago
Do not put a value into a middle of a list. Read Chris Okasaki, "Purely functional data structures" for better options.
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by sklogic 10y ago
You can even implement this part of a compilation in your Lisp itself, with a little bit of a bootstrap.
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by sklogic 10y ago
> it is highly domain specific It is "domain specific" to pretty much all the domains in existence.
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by sklogic 10y ago
I guess for a majority of HN readers abstract algebra is not "esoteric", and type systems is a very hot topic indeed. Even those pitiful articles from the dynamic typing zealots are very often coming to the front page, so a high
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by sklogic 10y ago
Ok, I see, 'outlives' is much better. But I guess he's complaining about the very choice of the relationship names, not nitpicking about grammar. > abstract algebra is esoteric. How is it so? It's fundamental and esse
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by sklogic 10y ago
> It is so esoteric to begin with If abstract algebra is so "esoteric" for you, I'm afraid you should rather read Trump speeches instead of following HN. > I mean really, “outlives or equals to”? Suggest a better altern
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by sklogic 10y ago
If you did not read this already, you may find it quite entertaining: http://repository.readscheme.org/ftp/papers/ai-lab-pubs/AIM-...
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by sklogic 10y ago
For handling function call frames you may consider compiling your Lisp code a bit before interpretation - do an explicit lambda lifting with an explicit closure allocation. This way you'd be free to kill each frame after a call.
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by sklogic 10y ago
There must be a lot of entirely legal means of doing so. They overreached their authority enough for a proper punishment.
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by sklogic 10y ago
Time to take down RIAA.
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by sklogic 10y ago
FPGA to an ASIC is sort of like a breadboard to a PCB. A direct translation does not make much sense for the latter as well.
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by sklogic 10y ago
It takes longer to read , and this is what is important. And, yes, OOP is a filth.
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by sklogic 10y ago
> Including class variables? You mean field names? A paradigm where you have such a thing is _awful_. Seriously. And this is exactly one of the reasons why it is awful and why it leads to an unreadable and unmaintainable code.
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by sklogic 10y ago
Descriptive function names - yes, of course. With one function call per line. But long variable names?!? There is no place for such an abomination under this sun.
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by sklogic 10y ago
> 80 is an _awful_ width for code in a programming paradigm encouraging long variable names Which is exactly why all such paradigms are _awful_.
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by sklogic 10y ago
Under a severe pressure from a vocal and extremely tribal minority, of course. There are no technical reasons to do it.
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by sklogic 10y ago
This semantic argument that "is FPGA a real hardware" is pointless. All the same arguments that the "software" side can produce are also applicable for, say, a circuit built on a breadboard. Is this circuit not a "r
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by sklogic 10y ago
There are cases where referential transparency is essential, so it worth tolerating all the FP issues to get there. Also, there is a lot of cases where you need a total language with all its guarantees.
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by sklogic 10y ago
Did not you notice that goto bashing is out of fashion again this season? Mind updating your rant repertoire?
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by sklogic 10y ago
> Pseudocode is not code. Flowcharts are not pseudocode. Pseudocode is code, no matter what uneducated pitiful code monkeys would say about it. Take any textbook on algorithms, and they would be most likely written in pseudocode . Als
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by sklogic 10y ago
A mindless keyboard stomper is trying to say something about a "reality". Funny. Go, solve your "2+2" problems. Hope you have a high enough character-per-second typing rate for this.
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by sklogic 10y ago
For the virtual machines there is never enough disk space.
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by sklogic 10y ago
I'm more concerned about a budget here than a reflow. Cheapest Kintex 7 part is around £90.
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by sklogic 10y ago
> is there a chip that could convert the 1x PCIe 3 lane into a 2x or 4x PCIe 2 set of lanes? Never heard of such a thing, although it might have been really useful. > couldn't you just use the chip with PCIe 2 Did not even think
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by sklogic 10y ago
> Pseudocode has a definition, you can't just make one up I'm using exactly the same definition: pseudocode is a made-up language which may or may not vaguely resemble some existing language features. > Stacks aren't ju
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by sklogic 10y ago
Yes, of course, but this is already a little bit beyond the DIY budget I hoped for.

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