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by smosher 14y ago
I'm guessing you are somehow in love with javascript and invested in seeing it succeed. In the discussions regarding asm.js I often see this tack taken by the folks who are opposed to it as a solution. Many people have an obvious hate-on
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by smosher 14y ago
I am getting the feeling that marketing asm.js needs to emphasize a few things: - It is JS. - It is effectively an IL for every JS backend. - It is constructed to contain proven equivalences with familiar models in advance. To me these po
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by smosher 14y ago
I have met only one person who has taken such an amount. He has permanent tunnel vision as a result, so I find myself suspicious. Certainly not a practice I would recommend.
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by smosher 14y ago
> no luck on the Linux front, although they seem to offer WebDAV access You can always use davfs, it worked out for me: http://linux.die.net/man/8/mount.davfs
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by smosher 14y ago
There's a simple solution to that: use Ackermann instead. It measures the same thing and is a function of its own time complexity to boot.
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by smosher 14y ago
Where do your examples say they're pointers? They don't, it's inferred in my examples. Like I said, if you need them, you can use whatever sigils you want. They can go in front of the types as usual. How would you express this using your
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by smosher 14y ago
Two examples come to mind: [FooType] and: Slice<FooType> If you think you must, apply sigils. The position of the brackets in the Go version is atypically bad for readability.
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by smosher 14y ago
Not just Go. But in Go a lot of problems could be solved by doing things the Erlang or ML way... then there's the new problems they've invented, like enforcing things that don't matter instead of things that do.
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by smosher 14y ago
I'm curious what times you get with an iterative version, or at least using a LUT. As-is, this mostly benchmarks the stack (admittedly that is an interesting datapoint.)
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by smosher 14y ago
Pointer arithmetic is an important feature in languages like C, but languages like Go don't really want it. The language domain doesn't call for and it plays havoc with the GC.
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by smosher 14y ago
Lately, the biggest complaints about PL design seem to be that they didn't take enough inspiration from ML-family or Erlang.
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by smosher 14y ago
Well, you could say the exact same about every currency. There is an online market (of goods) built around BTC because of its particular properties. This market wouldn't exist without it. You can't sub in barter or gold or most other form
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by smosher 14y ago
I still don't buy it. I disagree on many points, but the easiest to argue is that it does, in fact, have inherent value. At its most general, that value is in allowing people to make exchanges they wouldn't otherwise be able to make. In par
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by smosher 14y ago
I think the most damning part is that 'go' is a common verb.
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by smosher 14y ago
Load the beans from underneath using a detachable tray with a mesh inlay which will is used to pull the beans in. (If you must go all out, put a bob that opens a trap in the bottom of the tray so they can't get the water near the machine if
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by smosher 14y ago
I haven't gone too far into it yet, but the workflow seems to be select a tape for remixing -> download track(s) -> add/modify track(s) -> upload and update the tape to match what you had in your own multitrack. So you do get th
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Tapes.fm [beta] - A Music Collaboration Service(tapes.fm)
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by smosher 14y ago
Rightsholder, n: a person who owns the rights to other people's work. A similar case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbaland_plagiarism_controver...
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by smosher 14y ago
I remember a lot of mental illness and suicidal folks. Many were people I had good conversations with. A lot of the time it felt like family.
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by smosher 14y ago
Small world. I remember quitting K5 after it filled up with people I couldn't call friends. Take care.
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by smosher 14y ago
My suspicions only grew when I read the first comment thread on that post. It's a bit disturbing, but the actual slights all seem to be coming from the guy imagining being slighted.
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by smosher 14y ago
I never got that impression from that comic. It's not funny because some people are idiots, it's funny because it's revealing a language barrier. The punchline is about typing discipline wars, not about camp B's fragile ego.
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by smosher 14y ago
The phrase "concurrency patterns" tells me we are not yet talking about the concurrency-oriented language of the future. This is in the sense that patterns usually deal with the weak spots of the language, and lo, we must build weird constr
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by smosher 14y ago
Oh sorry. The way you spoke of MIT was probably meant to be the tell but I hope you don't blame me for missing it. (I do know some disturbingly brilliant people from MIT... I also have had occasion to meet some people who are disturbingly n
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by smosher 14y ago
Distributed denial of service attacks are very difficult to deal with (I have dealt with—read: suffered through—several each year for the past ten years on and off.) Often there is little to nothing you can do within your network to improve
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by smosher 14y ago
There may be a problem, no matter which side you approach it from. Suppose the prosecution makes an offer, they're willing to go lower, but only if they think the defense will accept. The defense then rejects the offer, perhaps with the imp
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by smosher 14y ago
I can't echo this sentiment enough: If you have a vulnerable application anywhere, on any port it will be found and compromised. If anyone needs convincing, here's how it will go down: - Google will help them find you. They'll search for
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by smosher 14y ago
Sorry, I don't see that. Try reading the part I quoted. I think you're conflating my criticisms with that of someone else. Yes, C abstracts the hardware, and always has. That's the point I made in the first place: its memory abstraction i
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by smosher 14y ago
It doesn't matter, his description is still the same kind of nonsense in line with having a VM. I get the feeling that he thought the thing he meant to say is actually the thing he said.
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by smosher 14y ago
C as a very thin virtual machine is a common conception and not an incorrect one--C runs on many systems with noncontiguous memory segments but presents it as a single contiguous space, for example. C does no such thing. That is the job o

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