swolchok

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   by swolchok 17y ago

   > A machine language with the most important features of any modern CPU but without the ambiguities and trappings of any particular architecture. Could you elaborate? I'm not convinced that x86 looks like other architectures.
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   by swolchok 17y ago

   my gut says this is ridiculous given that it's asymptotically slower than insertion sort, selection sort, and bubble sort and doesn't take advantage of cache (through sequential access) the way those algorithms do.
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   by swolchok 17y ago

   Do you suppose they might've died from being crashed into a wall? Also, citation needed.
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   by swolchok 17y ago

   Tried out duckduckgo briefly. Switching to a Chromium alpha kind of killed that as there's no way to customize the search engine yet.
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   by swolchok 17y ago

   Ugh, the post decries valid SSL certs as meaningless. Thanks for contributing to the problem.
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   Rethinking Alcohol Use By The Emerging Adult(www2.potsdam.edu)

   2 points by swolchok 17y ago|0 comments
7. 757.▲
   by swolchok 17y ago

   I think this highlights a weakness of Arc -- while terseness is probably wonderful once one has Arc in one's brain, it makes things considerably less legible to everyone else. Contrast with presenting CL/Scheme to proponents of the other, w
8. 758.▲
   by swolchok 17y ago

   > Another alternative, used by lots of languages/libraries, is to maintain a cache of recently compiled regular expressions. Of course, this doesn't help when you have a loop that uses 15 regular expressions but it only caches the last
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   by swolchok 17y ago

   So you need a formal business structure to charge anyone any amount of money? I just made a proposal to advertise for a local business that will get me two figures per month if it's accepted, covering 25-50% of my current costs. I would rat
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    by swolchok 17y ago

    Having it with the Chromium builds on Linux, so I'd imagine it's the same on Chrome. Also the occasional GMail crash if I play around with attachments too much, but overall I'm already annoyed when I have to open Firefox to do Flash.
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    by swolchok 17y ago

    I see how you've cleverly perpetuated the policy by forgetting to make the methods public.
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    by swolchok 17y ago

    Even in C89, you can declare variables at the start of a block, not just at the top of a function.
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    by swolchok 17y ago

    Extensive use of Hungarian Notation ("i" before integers, "sz" before C-strings, and the kicker: "ob" before objects). No use of STL, using a hand-rolled dynamic array instead that grew by a constant size instead of doubling. Extensive amou
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    by swolchok 17y ago

    I don't mouse over the links when I'm scanning the front page to determine what is crap and what I want to read.
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    by swolchok 17y ago

    "some people want to pay" is not sufficient to justify implementing a "freemium lite" (term is my own) version as advocated in the article. How many people will pay? How much will they pay? Is the product of those two figures in the same ba
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    by swolchok 17y ago

    "Porn stars" is resultful, but not in any order of notoriety. "Measurements" is, surprisingly, an available column, and "Sexual Orientation" worked, although not suggested until I started typing it. (I wouldn't recommend searching for this
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    by swolchok 17y ago

    You probably want a "[pdf]" at the end of the title so the scribd-haters among us don't twitch and ignore the article.
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    by swolchok 17y ago

    Well, basic physics -- it already takes nontrivial time for signals to cross the die. If you make the die bigger, you're probably just going to be using that to add more cores, and the time for the furthest-apart cores to communicate is goi
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    by swolchok 17y ago

    I'm surprised that they didn't include the standard joke about natural methods of birth control: "You know what they call people who use withdrawal [or the rhythm method]? Parents."
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    by swolchok 17y ago

    I had a reply to this (see below), but reflection revealed that this is just a flame-baiting comment. Intel/AT&T is apparently a long-running flamewar. See e.g. http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&#38... . Origina
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    by swolchok 17y ago

    Aren't you going to need somewhat to actually calculate things? NAND would do it.
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    by swolchok 17y ago

    I think Knuth already had problems with that. P.S. Knuth is old news.
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    by swolchok 17y ago

    I was definitely under the impression that your work is still protected even if the copyright is not registered. It is interesting to know that registration is necessary to bring a lawsuit. If you can't protect your copyright, does it reall
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    by swolchok 17y ago

    My first guess was that shaking things up would hurt sports betting based on point spreads.
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    by swolchok 17y ago

    bash-completion does the argument thing as well.
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    by swolchok 17y ago

    I find it interesting that "spouse" or "significant other" was not in the "someone that you respect" list.
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    by swolchok 17y ago

    On the "grumpy" track: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=619739 (now get off my lawn.)
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    by swolchok 17y ago

    I've been able to get at gchat with XMPP for ages. Where's the news?
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    by swolchok 17y ago

    That makes me want to facepalm a bit. Do you work with open source software? Yes, but for ego boost and/or personal bugfix reasons.
30. 780.▲
    by swolchok 17y ago

    Downmodded for Reddit-snark.