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by tgflynn 4y ago
All biological life feeds on death. It's a self-devouring hell.
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by tgflynn 4y ago
I can't help but feel that the world would have been a better place if intelligence had arisen among felines rather than primates.
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by tgflynn 4y ago
Then a better way to describe the "second wave" would probably be along the lines of "sailors have been spreading cats around the world since about 400 BCE". I think I've heard of islands that had no cats until the
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by tgflynn 4y ago
> Researchers recently traced their spread around the world to their relations with farmers and travels with merchants and Vikings ... > Geigl’s team discovered that cats with a mitochondrial lineage from Egypt began appearing in Bulg
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by tgflynn 4y ago
Thanks for having the courage to post your very sane views in an increasingly insane world.
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by tgflynn 4y ago
Well if these issues are as universal as they say, continuing across decades and very different cultures and educational systems, then it seems likely that it's just an inherent fact about humans that only about a quarter of them are a
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by tgflynn 4y ago
Compiler optimizations existed 18 years ago.
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by tgflynn 4y ago
Well at least that provides more information than the OP's title or link, but since the paper is behind a paywall there's not much more I can say about it. It is odd that 1 got the smallest number of responses, since it's by
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by tgflynn 4y ago
Where in the paper is the distribution of answers over the four possible choices discussed ? The fact that the number of correct answers is close to what you would expect if the students were guessing randomly does not imply that the actua
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by tgflynn 4y ago
Facebook and, more arguably, Google.
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by tgflynn 4y ago
So if you ran benchmarks compiled using the best C compiler from 2004 compared against the best current C compiler on 2004 era hardware you'd see a factor of 2 performance gain ? That's possible, I suppose, but I doubt it.
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by tgflynn 4y ago
It seems like it's testing two very different things. If you choose the third or fourth answer it means you don't understand fractions at all. If you choose answer one it means that you either tried to do the exact calculation a
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by tgflynn 4y ago
> Less familiar are the more pessimistic laws, such as Proebsting's law, which states that compiler research has led to a doubling in computing power every 18 years. If that were true it would actually be quite extraordinary, but in
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by tgflynn 4y ago
> each discipline has a sensible set of tools IMO More like 4 or 5 distinct sets of tools and that collection changes every few years.
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by tgflynn 4y ago
I think the overabundance of choices is still a major issue but I think an even bigger problem is the growth in complexity of languages and development environments. C++ was already a complex language in 1998. Today it's probably at
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by tgflynn 4y ago
I'd say there's a big difference between someone choosing one of the first two answers versus the last two.
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by tgflynn 4y ago
That's much better than most states. With the typical big corp employment agreement in NY the only safe way to start your own project is to quit.
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by tgflynn 4y ago
> None of that is new. What appears to be new is the claim that they have FOIA documents describing radar tapes that show something hitting the plane. > Exactly zero of whom have ever seen a missile before and would know what one look
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by tgflynn 4y ago
Ah, yes, I see what you mean. That's probably one reason software developers (at least experienced ones) tend not to make good customers.
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by tgflynn 4y ago
> No one's calibrating their prototype roll-out according to how big or small they think they're going to be. I don't think that statement is true at all. My impression (mostly from being a long-time reader of HN) is that
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by tgflynn 4y ago
If it takes you 40 work hours to evaluate a product then it must be a tool that is central to your workflow, but in that case you're going to have to evaluate it somehow whether, it's free, free trial or paid.
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by tgflynn 4y ago
I'm not a "founder" in any real sense of the word but my feeling is that it depends on what market you're targeting. If your goal is to become a billion dollar unicorn, then yeah it's going to be tough to beat free
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by tgflynn 4y ago
I would think a platform for some kind of micro-consulting would be more interesting, rather than just question answering, because such questions may be so niche that you're unlikely to find someone who can just answer off the top of t
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by tgflynn 4y ago
According to wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numerals there doesn't seem to have been a great deal of consistency about this (ie. IIII vs IV) in ancient times. I suspect that the notion that there
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by tgflynn 4y ago
I would never accept poor code organization as a trade-off for performance. If using linked resources becomes a performance issue I would probably use a server side bundler, or write my own.
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by tgflynn 4y ago
I have a suspicion that your entire comment was intended as some kind of joke, but I'll address your points as if you are being serious. > Much better than any framework already. I doubt that. If my first attempt at a dynamic web a
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by tgflynn 4y ago
Being a neophyte at HTML5 web development doesn't make me a neophyte at software development, I've been doing that for well over 20 years. I'm always amused at people who make assumptions about who they're talking to onl
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by tgflynn 4y ago
I never used jquery since I never got very seriously into web development until recently but document.querySelector() seems to be about a nice a function for querying DOM elements as you could want.
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by tgflynn 4y ago
Only if they're clearly better than the abstractions I would come up with. Which is rarely the case, especially if most of these frameworks were developed in an ad hoc manner without deep consideration of what the fundamental problems
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by tgflynn 4y ago
The same information is used but there's a big difference between using it to make prettier photos versus reconstructing 3D scenes. The second application domain seems to have much more potential for revolutionary change than the firs

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