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by tacos 12y ago
Are you planning on getting work done? Or are you looking forward to digging into the source of yet another GNU tool that is stuck 20 years in the past? "One of the biggest new features for the Octave 3.8.x release series is a graphica
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by tacos 12y ago
No, here's where he plays with JavaScript: http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/convnetjs/ This is "on web where all books should be" and claims to "contain very little math" despit
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by tacos 12y ago
With all respect to this PhD candidate, if you're serious about this, you're not doing it in Javascript. And if you're serious about learning it, you'd plop down the $149 for the Home edition of Matlab plus the $45 for t
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by tacos 12y ago
This is a side effect of companies filling coffers via investors instead of via customers. If you're part of a high growth company with reasonable earnings, that sales multiple means you'll likely get a taste of the action. If you
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by tacos 12y ago
This is called confirmation bias. There are plenty of markets where IE retains > 80%. Many of us have chosen to avoid those markets, but they're out there.
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by tacos 12y ago
Look at the Hammond Novachord in the 1930s if you want to have your mind blown. And of course Western Electric. Both those companies achieved scale far beyond what most people can imagine today.
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by tacos 12y ago
Trust me ... you really don't. Stripped to shreds by the parent corporation. On last breaths, brought in an ex-Bain asshole who previously worked at the two worst hard drive companies (because music = hard drives, right?) who stripped
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by tacos 12y ago
Legal documents aren't tight programs rigidly followed to by a computer. They're rough sketches that Judges are given enormous latitude to interpret. Several bad things could happen here, not the least of which is that people avoi
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by tacos 12y ago
"Either way, it's beneficial to our entire community to find out what the judges think." Bold and inaccurate statement. There's a 100% chance that it won't be beneficial at all to "the entire community." A
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by tacos 12y ago
But they do not support a common right-bitshift operation, nor sign extend. Which is what both the compiler and the poster above you are trying to make clear.
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by tacos 12y ago
Y'know, I program in Ruby. I paid my dues in CoffeeScript. And I also studied computer science. And sometimes Knuth-style pseudocode beats jerking off in Ruby. This is one of those times.
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by tacos 12y ago
[snip] :)
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by tacos 12y ago
It took me about three seconds to find your city, address, consulting company -- and that you're a Pisces. Do you really live in a world where the spooks block HBO but can't figure out who you are from this post?
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by tacos 12y ago
Awesome. Now all they gotta do is stop treating strings like we're in a Pascal Intro to Computer Science class circa 1987 and we gots ourselves a kick ass development environment here. :)
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by tacos 12y ago
Let's add "Don't work with pedantic people for whom anything outside absolute positivity is a trigger." Many a startup has been killed by this sort of up-with-people go-getter, who, with a (usually dumb) smile undermines
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by tacos 12y ago
In C# the equivalent is "throw;" And that's not what this article is about.
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by tacos 12y ago
I've never been a huge fan of the "snapshot and pray" school of backups. This tool does it right and supports S3 and Azure storage (equivalent to S3). https://github.com/wal-e/wal-e Also: Azure SQL is $1
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by tacos 12y ago
I truly find this fascinating. That site has what appears to be a pokemon character wearing a drum kit, adds the line "Home: :Add Story: :Archives: :About: :Create Account: :Login:" and proceeds to quote the opening of the article
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by tacos 12y ago
Or I can choose to leave a comment on HN and raise the broader issue of lack of context, something that plagues a lot of tech bloggers. If the first words I see when I arrive on a site are "guest" and "flak," and then th
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by tacos 12y ago
And it's not like the author has a comment section so I can tell him there. Call me a dick if you like, but I'd love the web to contain a little middleground between mindless listicles and sentences like "Technically, the err
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by tacos 12y ago
An obviously smart guy who doesn't know how to tell a story OR provide enough technical detail to the curious. Who's the audience for this post? Script programmers who never had to turn a computer off and on because they popped th
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by tacos 12y ago
Not even C++ requires you to type a "useless float or char" ahead of a variable any more. But declaring something before using it offers a number of benefits with a JIT compiler in a VM. If you choose to use it, it's availabl
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by tacos 12y ago
I apologize that my attempt at understatement implied that he alienated the ENTIRE community, of which I am also a member, in perpetuity. Does your pedanticism extend to coding or design? We're hiring! Consider yourself lucky that the
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by tacos 12y ago
You're certainly free to keep typing this stuff however the irony is that we all understand RMS clear, consistent position on the matter. The issue is that, by his own admission, he doesn't understand the other side.
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by tacos 12y ago
He played this game with precompiled headers a decade ago and there's STILL barely any support for it in the GNU tools. When a debate around implementing precompiled headers ten years after everyone else gets them requires lawyers to
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by tacos 12y ago
Programmers are horrible at guessing branch prediction. It's a famous truism. And the only thing worse than guessing the branch prediction wrong would be moving the code farther away then adding a jump to it and back. The next level of
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by tacos 12y ago
Even the best coders often get this wrong. Let the profiler do it. http://llvm.org/docs/BranchWeightMetadata.html
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by tacos 12y ago
There are certainly more devs now than 20 years ago, and certainly more types of projects where the C#/.NET stack isn't appropriate, but I'm not sure your argument is valid beyond that. Microsoft's also making plenty of
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by tacos 12y ago
Also the reminder that a deterrent doesn't have to be perfect to be effective. Yes, you can easily find a crack for anything. That doesn't mean that the protection didn't serve it's purpose and generate a significant ROI
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by tacos 12y ago
Probably want the RF transmitting components outside the shielded amplifier chassis...

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