socmag

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by socmag 10y ago
Huh, it's already in distribution. Presumably those shares are held by institutions who use those for investments in projects. That only the few can control which projects are invested in and compounded by [lack of] any semblance of &
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by socmag 10y ago
Not that I disagree with your sentiment, but it isn't quite so black and white. 6 men owning as much wealth as the poorest 50% of the planet doesn't actually mean much while ever they aren't keeping their money under the
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by socmag 10y ago
OkCupid you say? I got drugged by a woman on OkC as well. It was in Seattle however and no furniture removal was involved, but it was an equally bad situation.
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by socmag 10y ago
absolutely, I totally agree.
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by socmag 10y ago
In my personal experiences I've seen quite the opposite. Specifically, this kind of starvation mostly occurs only in synthetic lock benchmarks. In the real world, cores should be actually doing work in between spinning on cache-line
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by socmag 10y ago
So basically what it comes down to is the argument for building it in Rust is there are some excited people. And is funny you talk about community, since as the guys on slashdot and others pointed out, the community of people who can use an
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by socmag 10y ago
Absolutely correct.
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It is C.
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by socmag 10y ago
It is!
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Because again you are deviating from the industry standard completely portable lingua-franca language that is designed explicitly for precisely these types of problem spaces, and is perfectly in tune with the OS and existing standard librar
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by socmag 10y ago
Good! It's really awesome
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by socmag 10y ago
Yes, but we got into a heated discussion about Go earlier in the thread. And it got my blood pressure up. :)
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by socmag 10y ago
Sure, what you say is true but equally so or better for .Net or Java as well, plus they are generally faster and in the case of C# a better language imho. Why not them? You are right, the standard library is a pleasure to work with in Golan
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by socmag 10y ago
I totally agree that code should be written to be read. It certainly wouldn't hurt if people simply used a more literate programming style no matter what language they choose Far too many people think code as below is acceptable. This
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by socmag 10y ago
Totally agree, and Rust isn't a sane choice either even though the points you make are valid. Rust has some interesting features, but being C isn't one of them.
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by socmag 10y ago
I live and love in Amsterdam and Golang seems to be the quintessential hipster language for this quintessentially hipster city. Booking.com's soup du jour if you will. Basically, if you aren't using JavaScript in a web shop, and y
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by socmag 10y ago
Fascinating. So in some sense, and I'm just brain-farting here, the value of a piece is a weighted sum of all the possible squares it could occupy during move generation. Something like a rudimentary path trace. Now trying my best not
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by socmag 10y ago
Right, although I didn't mean castling into check. I meant tempting a greedy algorithm by throwing away a high value piece (which was always a weakness of early chess machines), although I realize the tree search would spot that. Also
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by socmag 10y ago
Great, thank you. Apologies for not going fishing for it myself. :+1:
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by socmag 10y ago
Good parent question and interesting links, thanks, will take a look. To follow on though, shoukdn't it technically be the case that piece values should in theory fluctuate based on current situation. For instance, my castle is worth
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by socmag 10y ago
Yes I'm quite excited as well. Building user land OS's is a fascinating (if not new) idea that I really love to tinker with a myself. It really would be nice if they can pull it off. Read through what I could find of the IPC code
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by socmag 10y ago
Retraining becomes a lot harder when the new bar is "become a big data scientist". I mean you mentioned the print workers who were hand setting typeface until quite recently. What did they do after their industry collapsed. Proba
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by socmag 10y ago
Performance numbers anyone?
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by socmag 10y ago
It seems to be a dump of a git "wiki" that is shared between a bunch of devs within the agency. The content mostly centers around typical wiki style documents where developers are chatting between each other and leaving useful sni
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by socmag 10y ago
“We’re at the beginning of this. Vive is the most expensive device on the market. It’s barely capable of doing a marginally adequate job of delivering a VR experience. We have to figure out all sorts of other problems before even the hardwa
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by socmag 10y ago
Yes definitely room for improvement. We're pushing at least 8 billion a day through our server. By the way GunDB looks really cool. Nice!
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by socmag 10y ago
Just for correctness sake, the quote from the article: "a post-API programming model" looks like it came directly from the source repo. https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/modular/+/master / ----------
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by socmag 10y ago
First of all I'd agree with everyone that if any new Web 3D API should come to fruition, it should be based on a Vulkan like state model. That said, from what I read of the proposal there were some interesting and useful ideas. So take
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Fantastic work Alex. I sent you email earlier when I saw this. It really is stunning, and yes microbenchmarks are very important to me and my product. I personally really do want to know how much every piece costs so I can budget memory cy
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by socmag 10y ago
Alright, Elsevier... As I see it, the reason this article is on Hacker News in the first place is that the community as a whole appreciates your publications. If the paywall is causing some kind of riot it's actually just a projection

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