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by stiff 14y ago
The server itself seems to be written in Java: https://github.com/http-kit/http-kit I wonder what the factors were for not writing it in Clojure if Clojure is the target platform.
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by stiff 14y ago
This is pretty hilarious, from my brief experience with bioinformatics I can very well imagine someone writing the opposite rant, about CS people getting into bioinformatics not knowing sh*t about biology. I mean, browse through bioinformat
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by stiff 14y ago
Erlang is as much of a platform as it is a (pretty peculiar) language and its functionality does overlaps with the operating system, for example thread management (and in Erlang you tend to have thousands of threads as far as I understand)
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by stiff 14y ago
Agreed. Unfortunately it seems to be a common misunderstanding of optimization and things like machine learning, that you somehow have this set of almost universal black boxes that can apply to any domain without much thought. When you gain
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by stiff 14y ago
This is a general problem with asking masters in some discipline about the best way to learn - they almost always tend to recommend simply doing what they did, but they do not say "I did x, y and z", but "x, y and z are the best way to lear
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by stiff 14y ago
What is hard about using PostgreSQL?
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by stiff 14y ago
This is hardly surprising considering Go shares its creators with Plan 9 among other things. They have had this kind of attitude for years, see for example this thread where someone asks about some features in the Acme editor: http://9fans
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by stiff 14y ago
Good books, but not particularly good for hackers. I have the "The Elements of Typography Style" for example, it is certainly a classic, but it is written for people already familiar with typography to some extent, is very long and most of
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by stiff 14y ago
If you want to learn to apply grammars and parsers in practice I recommend the antlr parser-generator: http://www.antlr.org/ It can not only do the basic text->tree parsing from a file describing the grammar, but will also allow to sp
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by stiff 14y ago
It seems to me that in majority of cases suicide is simply the final symptom of a mental illness that was not or could not be treated and in that the situation is not that different from one in which someone dies for example from cancer. I
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by stiff 14y ago
This should have been an article about having made the wrong language choice for the project to be done, as an attempt of an objective evaluation of C it seems very confused in several places: Faster Build-Run-Debug Cycles [...] C has the
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by stiff 14y ago
As we should have learnt from the audiophile business, unless you are doing a blind study, people will write all kinds of BS about their impressions that tells you nothing about whether they really are able to perceive difference and whethe
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by stiff 14y ago
With one of my friends at the university we used to compete for a shorter/nicer implementation of each data structure in the algorithms class we were taking, and after using pointers-to-pointers in some previous cases (linked lists, binary
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by stiff 14y ago
Ah yes, you are right, thanks!
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by stiff 14y ago
I am not sure I understand what you mean. Word-splitting is performed by the "for x in y" construct, using the IFS variable, so by default if you have a file called "foo bar.mp4" the command line from the article: for i in *.mp4; do ffm
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by stiff 14y ago
"for i in *.mp3" doesn't work with spaces and some other "special" characters in filenames, see here: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/9496/looping-through...
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by stiff 14y ago
There are so many resources related to this topic that are so much better: http://norvig.com/21-days.html http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2011/Sep-06.html http://www.paulgraham.com/hamming.html http://www.paulgraham.com/college.html
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by stiff 14y ago
It's your study that gives you new skills, not the books, having said this, the following guided the most valuable learning experiences in my life: "What is Mathematics?" by Richard Courant taught me to think at a higher level of abstract
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by stiff 14y ago
Nice to hear your opinion, hearing some praise of the book I was wondering what similar-minded people think of it, I wish he just stayed closer to fields he is more familiar with, as you said.
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by stiff 14y ago
I found this the worst book from those three, time after time he describes an idea that sounds somewhat interesting and then every single concrete example he gives seems completely wrong, the more so the more real-world experience I have in
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by stiff 14y ago
I spent 30 minutes trying to convert my config from 3.4 to 3.5 and then gave up and came back to dwm, meanwhile it gained better support for multiple monitors, the only reason I used awesome in the first place...
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by stiff 14y ago
I heard this principle referenced in the context of objects such as presented in the post quite a few times already, for example there was a heated discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4013807 I explained back then why I c
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by stiff 14y ago
I think the importance of the Single Responsibility Principle is much overestimated by many people and introducing terms like "single-responsibilty objects" for what are essentially simple procedures is symptomatic of this. There are many p
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by stiff 14y ago
This seems to be a new trendy design pattern: wrap a single method with a class and claim you just discovered a pinnacle of object-oriented design since you respect the "Single Responsibility Principle"...
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by stiff 14y ago
Those lectures from Hamming are available online on video: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2FF649D0C4407B30&...
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by stiff 14y ago
For a while TCL was also the state of the art in web applications development: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOLserver
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by stiff 14y ago
I guess this might be stunning to some people, but even as early as before 1980 there existed people who did great science, and in some cases even great philosophy, and, oh horror, they did not always knew the Bayes theorem, decision theory
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by stiff 14y ago
Sad are the times when running your idle desktop environment with less than 400MB RAM usage is considered an achievement.
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by stiff 14y ago
If you are already well versed in SICP you might be interested in the advanced follow-up class to SICP from Prof. Gerald Sussman: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6.945/
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by stiff 14y ago
I think you are talking about a different thing than I do. I have nothing against demanding some rigour in reasoning very early on in mathematics courses, what I am concerned about is the purely formal presentation of mathematical concepts,

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