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by smosher_ 12y ago
Did he? I was under the impression he wasn't approved to write C at Google when Go was initially being developed. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/21/ken_thompson_take_ou...
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by smosher_ 12y ago
At some point you'll end up with breakage unless doing this _causes_ the subclasses to implement the initializer with super (if not already present), not just require it. I don't really like that, but it might actually work. You s
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by smosher_ 12y ago
That's fair. I had been assuming you'd use ITCM for tight loops regardless but I can't recall whether you can do that on GBA now that I think of it. As for copying data around, yeah, if your emu can't copy data to/f
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by smosher_ 12y ago
Some of these are definitely deliberate. #1. The memory mirroring is IIRC a normal part of the hardware involved. Executing mirrored code? I can't think of a good reason to do it other than to trip someone up. #2. You might do this i
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by smosher_ 12y ago
> it's definitely an asymmetric game. This. The crackers have to deal with whatever measures were taken by the authors. On the other hand, the authors have to deal with all of the measures available to everyone interested in crackin
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by smosher_ 12y ago
I think you misunderstand. The Smalltalk is this: exampleWithNumber: x "[ *wall-of-text elided* ]" | y | true & false not & (nil isNil) ifFalse: [self halt]. y := self size + super size. #($a #a &
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by smosher_ 12y ago
I don't find Smalltalk's syntax bad per se, but I think there's too much of it. When I see it, my eyes glaze over. Not because I don't understand the concepts behind what is being represented, but because I have a hard t
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by smosher_ 12y ago
The unsafe calls to C all seem to be in the gmp^H^H^Hpidigits benchmark. It's unrealistic to avoid gmp in this scenario.
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by smosher_ 12y ago
I feel like that misses the point. Anyway, there's no point in arguing it I guess.
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by smosher_ 12y ago
In that case it sounds like a difference of opinion. I'm not sure what is meant to be undesirable about do-notation when the alternative here is an unnecessary early return, which has always rubbed me the wrong way to be honest.
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by smosher_ 12y ago
> How would HKT help with this? > If unwrap() works for you, why not use the try! macro [...] I was under the impression that the whole `try!` situation would become nicer with HKT. It wouldn't solve the problem you've ident
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by smosher_ 12y ago
I wish there was more substance to the Rust section. Most of it is in strike-out and the remaining text has more to say about how you would do things in OCaml than Rust.
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by smosher_ 12y ago
Yeah, I'm just trying to describe the above poster as reasonable before other readers jump on the opportunity to white-out the comment for no good reason.
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by smosher_ 12y ago
Fwiw I think we were all disappointed when all that work and attention on a promising mechanism for having it both ways ultimately came to nothing.
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by smosher_ 12y ago
No argument here. The problem I have in practice is images are so often lacking, or they start you off with an alien universe full of preconceptions rather than just a collection of tools. This isn't an inherent problem, but it seems t
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by smosher_ 12y ago
> Image-based bootstrapping was useful, but too monolithic. I feel that. I have no problem with images in theory, but history has made me flinch at them. > As it is, I'm disillusioned with the open source and software research fi
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by smosher_ 12y ago
You describe me by directly contradicting my own statements. Now you're telling me I am lying about myself just so you can paint me as some particular kind of bogeyman? You could have had this conversation without me. Try accusing a ma
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by smosher_ 12y ago
> No, I was agreeing with his rejection of your post. That's kinda nasty then, with the name-calling and all. > The rhetoric you air is the damaging, poisonous kind that encourages disrespect to artists as living human beings bec
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by smosher_ 12y ago
I think you meant to reply to me. Let me clarify: I do think profit is great for motivating the production of art which is not a thing that I value in and of itself. I don't think it's best for the art. In fact, I find art that
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by smosher_ 12y ago
> Then we don't live even in the same world. By taking into account how much people has the economical means to just "make music for the sake of it", I'd believe that a very small proportion of all artists actually do
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by smosher_ 12y ago
That is true but my point is: that's not the whole story. There are other solutions to be discussed. The point I'm making is that there is a way to care about music where DRM is entirely valueless. I'm not saying you need to
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by smosher_ 12y ago
> > called for some sort of unobtrusive, universal DRM -- and if you care about music, you should too > I don't see the reason for the downvotes. Perhaps because this reads like "you have to want DRM if you care about mus
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by smosher_ 12y ago
No kidding. (How is this even news?)
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by smosher_ 12y ago
I happen to have both editions handy. Some sub-sections seem to be 30%-50% rewritten. A big change is there are lots of graphics. 2e seems to be improved, but it's hard for me to estimate how much of an improvement it really is.
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by smosher_ 12y ago
You've lost me. Nobody described the South Park episode that way. Honestly I think you just want to be mad about something and you found a trigger.
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by smosher_ 12y ago
Which description are you referring to? I don't think anyone described that bit as humor. In the show it was used to portray how vile commercial sabotage can be, even to the consumer. The grave realization is that while the chosen situ
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by smosher_ 12y ago
South Park is a better show than you give it credit. They frequently explore serious issues in earnest and I have often felt the gravity of the message outweighs the humor in its presentation.
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by smosher_ 12y ago
Can't edit: on topic, accurate response -> downvotes. Stay classy HN.
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by smosher_ 12y ago
> If we are comparing this to visual information, perhaps it would be best to draw parallels with video. But it isn't. We perceive pitch more like we perceive color than how we perceive motion. "Motion" in audio is well be
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by smosher_ 12y ago
The argument is fine for listening to a finished product but those absolutes in the post have some hidden assumptions that don't hold in all real-world scenarios. That probably sounds like BS. Hear me out. A common practice for DJs is

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