slashnull

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   by slashnull 12y ago

   I had Legos, K'nex, Meccano, a lot of Legos, Capsellas, lose PVC pipes I screwed around with in the bath, some roller coaster ball thing I forgot the name of, two spaceship things featured in Lego mag, and probably another modular to
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   by slashnull 12y ago

   TVTropes (to a certain, ludic, extent) and especially c2 convinced me that the conventional wiki + opinions formula occasionally works really, really well. In the pretty eerie context where everybody's passionate about the subject, t
3. 63.▲
   by slashnull 12y ago

   http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CodeGenerationIsaDesignSmell Obligatory
4. 64.▲
   by slashnull 12y ago

   I am profoundly scandalized that they edited 500 pages out of this monument. Give them to me. Now. I need them.
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   by slashnull 12y ago

   I was briefly exposed to this doctrine at school, so I hope dropping the following buzzwords help: POJO, Java Persistent API, Java Enterprise Beans, Gang of Four Design Patterns
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   by slashnull 12y ago

   I'm completely addicted to rationalist blogs these days (for better or for worse). Currently bingeing http://slatestarcodex.com , and many, many of the blogs he links to. In a completely different category, I enjoy war repor
7. 67.▲
   by slashnull 12y ago

   Intercal is the reason I just chuckle when people say brainfuck is an esoteric programming language. And also why I cry when people create languages that are one simple regex away from brainfuck and call those esoteric. Soo also: Malbolge
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   by slashnull 12y ago

   The weight of the empty stage definitely is something I overlooked. Thanks for the answer!
9. 69.▲
   by slashnull 12y ago

   Okay, but, doesn't it, like, at least double the amount of fuel needed for a launch? Also, there is something about using the same engine on every stage to gather more data per launch, but iirc different engine profiles are used for di
10. 70.▲
    by slashnull 12y ago

    Cool tech is only cool when used to build cool products. Crazy obvious, I know! But it is a thing I learned this year.
11. 71.▲
    by slashnull 12y ago

    1) it was a rant that I needed to make 2) what the exact fuck is "programming aptitude" anyways? The article defines it as "having good grades in a CS program". Which is part of why I needed to rant against CS education.
12. 72.▲
    by slashnull 12y ago

    At least you understand the nuance between a computer and an OS. This is a pretty arcane piece of knowledge, these days.
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    by slashnull 12y ago

    "Programming"? What kind of "programming"? What "ability"? Ability to write space-O(my_god * n) sorting algorithms? Ability to duct-tape queries to an ill-documented SOAP webservice and upsert the return into a
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    by slashnull 12y ago

    Less Wrong is a tentacular, all-encompassing organism that uses the word "rationalism" and "bayes theorem" in subtly overloaded senses as aesthetic ideals, life goals and in general as meliorative qualificatives. It&#x27
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    by slashnull 12y ago

    It think it most definitely is . Nearly all open-source software projects either the source or at least a specification/standard for the upcoming software very early. OSS doesn't begin with closed alphas of closed software and a
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    by slashnull 12y ago

    Thankful because I got to spend vast swaths of copious free time hacking away in my room on two decrepit computers that were given to me by friends, almost all expenses taken care of by my parents despite my dwindling school results, during
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    by slashnull 12y ago

    eighty three rpm wow For some reason I'm fascinated by how slow this thing is, but it seems obvious, with the size and all.
18. 78.▲
    by slashnull 12y ago

    Holy cow this looks awesome
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    by slashnull 12y ago

    Eclectic energy
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    by slashnull 12y ago

    I don't know how heavy are the planned weights, but it sure as hell will be heavier than 10 tons.
21. 81.▲
    by slashnull 12y ago

    Did they just pull a reverse xkcd 624?
22. 82.▲
    by slashnull 12y ago

    My bad
23. 83.▲
    by slashnull 12y ago

    awwww yiiissssss
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    by slashnull 12y ago

    JavaScript actually has a pretty small number of type primitives; I'd say that the bad rap about JS's typing is due to the absolutely mind-boggling type conversion rules (which are nevertheless part of the specification). Even if
25. 85.▲
    by slashnull 12y ago

    ... said the monk, sitting cross-legged with an air of zen inner peace ; ) I think it all boils down to considerations of idealism vs. realism, in the end, and yes, I have to admit, I managed to get a sort of big picture understanding of
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    by slashnull 12y ago

    With the nuance that C forces you to deal with those never use these hacks in order to do anything non-trivial. I can't see why anyone would go and mess with CPython's internals like that in production code. Other than for nef
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    by slashnull 12y ago

    Another comment that just occurred to me: JavaScript becoming gradually typed is an interesting reflection of the recent history of the optimization of JavaScript interpreters, which consist of deducing where semantically dynamic objects be
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    by slashnull 12y ago

    True. So, with element of answer 1) ruled out as Lua is also dynamic, and 2) ruled out by your evidence, remains 3. Python's object model can lead to inefficient memory access
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    by slashnull 12y ago

    I agree that the facilities to express function composition are woefully insufficient in nearly all languages besides ML derivatives, and that nearly all of the recent frameworks and techniques to express concurrency rely heavily on functio
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    by slashnull 12y ago

    Short answer: because it doesn't JIT