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by tagrun 12y ago
When I moved to another country from Japan, I couldn't carry over my account (which is associated with my e-mail). Their customer support simply doesn't exist (yes, seriously), so I had to kiss goodbye to that account. It looks cu
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by tagrun 12y ago
> The von-Neumann level nature of the machine really doesn't enter into it, though. It does enter when you try to execute the code; which is a translation from declarative to imperative (assembly). > To extend your analogy to the
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by tagrun 12y ago
Can't say it's surprising. The von-Neumann architecture computers and their assembly languages are imperative. Functional programming language structs are just unnatural. Being computationally universal, one can simulate one using
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by tagrun 12y ago
Xamarin is selling licenses to proprietary gamedevs for quite a while now. That may put a dent in their business.
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by tagrun 12y ago
In academia the situation is arguably worse. There are gender-based quotas forcing us to favor less capable women over more capable men (capability is objectively measured by education and publication history). Now, I don't care what t
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by tagrun 12y ago
> Why is Internet Explorer leading with HTTP/2 implementation? Leading? Firefox and Chrome already support HTTP/2 already (and SPDY, the basis for HTTP/2, for a long time now), just not enabled by default.
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by tagrun 12y ago
They are composite particles and we know exactly how they behave: like fermions. They are not Majorana fermions, and nothing about them is mystery. I explained how you're totally confusing things somewhere else in the thread.
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by tagrun 12y ago
Here's a simpler version: What these people have done is a way of arranging some electrons such that they behave like Majorana fermions (a fermion [particle] whose anti-particle is itself).
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by tagrun 12y ago
Physicist here. You are confusing things. Having rest mass or Pauli-exclusion principle has nothing to do with qualification of being an anti-particle. Z boson, for instance, does have mass and is its own anti-particle. > It's bas
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by tagrun 12y ago
> For a particle to be its own antiparticle, it would have to have spin 1/2 This is wrong. Being anti-particle has nothing to do with a particular spin. Photon is anti-photon (which by the way has spin 1).
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by tagrun 12y ago
> You mean like the photon and, iirc, all the other neutrally charged elementary particles? You are missing the point. Photon (and every such other elementary particle that annihilates itself we know) is a boson. Majorana fermion is a f
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by tagrun 12y ago
Even the best minds were not always perfect (at some point, he thought positron could as well be thought as an electron going backward in time ---which we today know isn't the case). This is a quite similar story: ghosts have the wrong
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by tagrun 12y ago
It's just the Kronecker product or tensor product: (vector)⊗(Hermitian conjugate of the vector). It's not null unless the vector itself is null.
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by tagrun 12y ago
If you going to pick nits like amateur philosophers and don't like the name Occam's razor, let me put it in more direct terms less open to "weird" interpretations so that hopefully you'll see what I'm saying: &
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by tagrun 12y ago
There is nothing simpler or more elementary than the quantum mechanics we already know on that page. Don't take his word on how quantum mechanics is thought. While we don't teach undergrads it, there is a conceptually simpler appr
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by tagrun 12y ago
> It's L^2 in finite dimensional spaces also The concern of "is this thing square-integrable" arises only in infinite dimensional spaces. Inner product of all $\mathbb C^N$ where N in finite is finite. There is no point
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by tagrun 12y ago
It is L^2 for infinite dimensional Hilbert spaces like position or momentum, where quantum states become functions. For finite dimensional Hilbert spaces such as spins, quantum state is a complex vector rather than a function, and the &quot
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by tagrun 12y ago
Note that there is just a consensus that a supermassive blackhole is at the center of galaxies --it's a "maybe, presumed, likely", as it is with just any other black hole. If you check the wikipedia page you link, it says: &g
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by tagrun 12y ago
This almost sounds like a case of the pot calling the kettle black. The author speaks with confidence that black holes do exist, but he is actually referring to inconclusive data open to interpretation as proof. Blacks holes are yet to be o
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by tagrun 12y ago
Mel Gibson is probably crying right now.
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by tagrun 12y ago
> The implication from reading the article is that [...] The implication you inferred from reading the article is that... I think there reason is that there a misunderstanding here caused by a cultural gap. The Practice of Programming
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by tagrun 12y ago
> But you can't deploy your Go to iOS. And? iOS and Android supports are on their way in case you're not following recent developments. In case you're interested in writing programs for mobile devices, there's already
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by tagrun 12y ago
As you have discovered the hard way, trying to write Java in Go is not productive.
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by tagrun 12y ago
> What is with Go supporters ? I don't understand why if I don't use Go then I am not solving real world problems and instead building over engineered monstrosities. What is with you? The article is talking about languages , n
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by tagrun 12y ago
You sound confused. Denying the existence of a problem and not wanting a particular proposed solution are not the same thing.
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by tagrun 12y ago
Sounds like either they're not aware of Retroshare (uses Qt for GUI), or they think developing in C++ is too much of a hurdle. It's peer-to-peer, uses web-of-trust, completely encrypted, already has chat/mail/"www&q
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by tagrun 12y ago
You're comparing apples and squirrels. You probably wanted to say Linux or more mature than Hurd despite its 1 year head start, which is not as dramatic.
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by tagrun 12y ago
Maybe he was paid by Microsoft to defend IE :)
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by tagrun 12y ago
I can't see it happening even in a far future except maybe for some artificial microbenchmarks. Java programs use a lot of memory, and since everything is allocated on the heap garbage collection is an issue, impacting real-world progr

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