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by stiff 15y ago
"you have a team or you don't" should be read in the context of the sentence it appeared in - I do agree there is a spectrum, the point was that you cannot somehow make a team from a bunch of people if they don't go along with each other we
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by stiff 15y ago
"team building" is like an arranged marriage - either you have a team or you don't, trying to force it doesn't yield any results and usually it's just an euphemism for being forced to do stupid things, most often to get drunk with everyone
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by stiff 15y ago
A static compiler has nothing to do with static typing, it is just a traditional compiler that passes through the source code and generates the final result of the compilation in one shot, as opposed to a byte-code JIT compiler. I guess the
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by stiff 15y ago
I doubt mathematicians commonly use zero as an index of the first element of a collection. Matrices and vectors which are closest to arrays are indexed from one. In the aleph notation aleph null is different from all the other alephs becaus
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by stiff 15y ago
Seems like I'm in the minority here, but just yesterday I found an off-by-one bug in my small project for my dissertation, that was sitting there unnoticed for months and I started thinking about how ridiculously stupid is the fact that zer
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by stiff 15y ago
I think Clarke's first law applies to programmers as well: "When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong."
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by stiff 15y ago
I found what you are probably referring to: http://www.paulgraham.com/arcchallenge.html I doubt this is in any way an established terminology, sounds again just like a very sloppy metaphor on part of the author - are complex pieces build
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by stiff 15y ago
Can you back up what you said with any link or quotation? I did not find any mention of the word "axiom" in McCarthy's 1960 paper ("Recursive functions of symbolic expressions and their computation by machine"). Google for "axiomatic system
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by stiff 15y ago
The term "axiomatic system" is consequently misused in the article. Probably the author had a "formal system" in mind, an axiomatic system is one in which one can deduce theorems from axioms and I don't think lambda calculus is such a syste
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by stiff 15y ago
I have just written a short blog post about this: http://www.stifflog.com/2011/05/15/why-is-rails-startup-so-s... I'm not that deeply in Ruby/RubyGems/Bundler internals to be 100% sure, but on the other hand I really can't see how it coul
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by stiff 15y ago
I have investigated this in detail and the reason for this is really ridiciulous - 80% of this time is spend on executing "require" statements and this is due to really bad design of RubyGems and/or Bundler. They both do their job by augmen
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by stiff 15y ago
There clearly still are performance problems in Rails 3.0.x that aren't fixed. I am just now in the process of switching an application to Rails 3 and I have recently spent 5 days of hard work trying to investigate a big performance drop af
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by stiff 15y ago
The only really interesting article on this page so far was the Andrew Huang's one: http://andrew.huang.usesthis.com/ 90% of the articles are almost the same - some kind of Macbook, software everyone knows about, "I wish it was lighter an
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by stiff 15y ago
I do not know Haskell enough to fully judge this, so maybe someone can correct me, but that seems _very_ minimal. From what I understand, it doesn't even have arithmetic operations, it "executes" incorrect programs without any error (try re
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by stiff 16y ago
It is non-deterministic in the sense that the program itself and its inputs are not sufficient to determine the program behavior, as the amb operator creates a set of "possible worlds" in which the same expression has different values. Of c
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by stiff 16y ago
Good OO design makes this relation very explicit in OO languages as well and they are means in the language to achieve it - using interfaces, public/private/protected, annotations like @Override in Java etc. Also, most object oriented APIs
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by stiff 16y ago
I got almost to the end of chapter 4, I have my solutions available on github: http://github.com/sztywny/sicp The Scheme community wiki is far from being the best resource for looking up the answers to the exercises. Eli Bendersky has a g
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by stiff 16y ago
I have long found the rave about smart covers a bit ridiculous considering what a very minor addition they are, but this description is just funny to me: "Just get the hinge vaguely in the vicinity of the left edge of the iPad and it acts l
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Calculus Revisited - a complete self-study calculus course from MIT OCW(ocw.mit.edu)
332 points by stiff 16y ago|44 comments
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What makes code testing worthwile?(stifflog.com)
1 points by stiff 16y ago|0 comments
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by stiff 16y ago
There is this "Working Effectively With Legacy Code" book by Michael Feathers that talks primarly about various ways of transforming very messy code to make it testable.
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Thinking in APIs(stifflog.com)
1 points by stiff 16y ago|0 comments
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by stiff 17y ago
It doesn't work this way, at least not for everyone (genetics), exactly because of the muscle loss that occurs when you decrease caloric intake. Of course you can prevent it in some ways, but then it is no longer just "subtracting 250 kCal"
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by stiff 17y ago
I agree with the general advice, especially with the Starting Strength recommendation, but the milk advice (also from this book), speaking from own experience, is a recipe for disaster unless you are aiming for a powerlifting physique, with
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by stiff 17y ago
On a related note, "On The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics": http://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/MathDrama/reading/Hamming.htm...
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An open platform for publishing applications(stifflog.com)
9 points by stiff 17y ago|3 comments
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by stiff 18y ago
I guess it's the white belt...
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by stiff 18y ago
If you need a "tutorial" on how to be a man from some guy claiming psychic abilities, you're surely not a man...