swolchok

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811.
by swolchok 17y ago
Sure, but if you can identify that situation on a financial asset, you can go ahead and quit your day job now.
812.
by swolchok 17y ago
Well, the last time stevey got excited about a programming language, it was Javascript. Dig through his blog for the stuff about "NBL" (Next Big Language).
813.
by swolchok 17y ago
The rest of us saw that post too.
814.
by swolchok 17y ago
Thanks, dupe deleted.
815.
by swolchok 17y ago
depending on how recently you drank, it takes time for your body to absorb the alcohol from your stomach...
816.
by swolchok 17y ago
It knows: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=what+is+the+answer+to+t... http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=what+is+the+airspeed+ve... But it doesn't know "How do you get to Carnegie Hall?"
817.
by swolchok 17y ago
Need more than one example to call it intelligent. I tried "Am I mentally retarded?" (IQ test?), "Am I at risk for cancer?" (risk factor questionaire?), "Am I at risk for lung cancer?", "Do cigarettes cause cancer?" all without ANY results.
818.
by swolchok 17y ago
I tried P vs. NP, NP-complete, NP-completeness, and NP complete. IIRC, It only realized that the last one was in the field of computational complexity.
819.
by swolchok 17y ago
Why is "about" on its own line below the "menu bar"?
820.
by swolchok 17y ago
Game consoles have shown us how to raise the barrier to entry: only run signed code by default, and require a "license to code". The security class I was in last semester discussed this; it may not catch on for consumer PCs, but it's not in
821.
by swolchok 17y ago
Interesting -- I was contemplating a blog post that claimed that data plans weren't going to get really affordable (and thus be ubiquitous) for 3-5 years. Guess it would've been wrong.
822.
by swolchok 17y ago
Patently false. See: the last 5-10 years of open source. "many" may be accurate, "a majority" may be accurate, but "almost all" ain't accurate.
823.
by swolchok 17y ago
When you say that your ads get devalued, do you really mean that each click is worth less simply because it is less likely for a click to happen? This sounds silly to me, and I think you meant that impressions (i.e., your server costs) ge
824.
by swolchok 17y ago
This reads like the MBA-speak version of "make things people want".
825.
by swolchok 17y ago
Re: development time, you must have a pretty fast compiler. One big argument in favor of dynamic languages is the shortened edit/compile/test cycle; it's down to edit/test. Re: speed, I think the prevailing wisdom is "write the damn thing i
826.
by swolchok 17y ago
May be tangential, but: 1) I've never read of Lisp graybeards (or, actually, any graybeards) advocating testing. Ditto for open-source projects. Is the constant evolution and experimental nature of pg-style Lisp coding a replacement for tes
827.
by swolchok 17y ago
Am I in the minority in being unable to guess what this article is about from its title? I thought maybe "Magic" was some new programming language, and I didn't know that the PHP community (such as it is) hates Java.
828.
by swolchok 17y ago
Shouldn't that be [pdf] in the title, with a second [scribd version] link? If nothing else, it would've gotten me to visit the link sooner that way -- I hate scribd.
829.
by swolchok 17y ago
Yawn. It's a press release about yet another JS benchmark. Where's the beef?
830.
by swolchok 17y ago
Wish you'd add "(not Growl)" to title.
831.
by swolchok 17y ago
Perhaps next time you'll think harder about the likely reward for your work.
832.
by swolchok 17y ago
Great, now my browser can use even more memory! I suppose that could be mitigated if there was an option for the number of pages to hold open for the back button this way for each tab and window.
833.
by swolchok 17y ago
This just in: actually developing as a student makes you look better than Just Going to Class. Article doesn't really have anything to add beyond what you get by Googling computer science student advice (to use the first query I dreamt up).
834.
by swolchok 17y ago
I TAed the second programming class (EECS 280) at UMich for 5 semesters. The canonical reply to "is this code right?" or "my code doesn't work" is "how have you tested it?" or "how do you know it doesn't work?", to be sure that the students
835.
by swolchok 17y ago
Maybe the new accounts hate almost everything that shows up. Remember, we can't downvote, so lack of vote is the way to express disapproval. (60-odd days old here, would be on a downmodding rampage if allowed) EDIT: By the way, the lack of
836.
by swolchok 17y ago
I think it's time for a follow-up article on social news site crapspam.
837.
by swolchok 17y ago
Am I reading this wrong? It sounds like the article is complaining about decreasing , not zero or negative, profits from iPhone users, and wondering how carriers can maintain fat profits like the ones they get from text messaging. I'm not
838.
by swolchok 17y ago
No, GP's point is that there are garbage collectors for C++. I believe Stroustrup even mentions one in The C++ Programming Kanguage . Furthermore, you CAN tell the type of an object given a pointer to it, assuming it has at least one virtu
839.
by swolchok 17y ago
I believe it runs under WINE.
840.
by swolchok 17y ago
Wasn't this done over and over on Proggit?

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