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by thras 17y ago
Correct about RTTI -- and I don't think I used that improperly any place -- but "runtime type inference" is also something people talk about: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&...
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by thras 17y ago
Sorry, but people use the term this way: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&...
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by thras 17y ago
According to the very Wikipedia article you cited, there is no such thing as "runtime type inference" I can't seem to find that statement anywhere in the article. And it hasn't been edited since September. Also, why not google for "runtim
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by thras 17y ago
You generally plan on selling more than one.
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by thras 17y ago
Hmm. Check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_inference Type checking is a little different, and refers to some safety measures done at compile time that theoretically guard against certain types of errors. Scripting languages do
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by thras 17y ago
It seems to direct me back to a registration check page at ycombinator, which Firefox refuses to load because of SSL issues. XSS attack?
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by thras 17y ago
Type-inference is needed in C++ (and is already part of the next standard, you can enable the auto keyword with gnu gcc already). But it's needed for entirely different purposes than what scripting languages use it for: it's a feature for w
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by thras 17y ago
Now, although C++ is a perfectly fine "HLL" language, I'll grant you that other languages are easier to program in. But patchwork programming can be bad advice some of or maybe most of the time. Besides the issues of programming in a langua
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by thras 17y ago
A lot of that "baroque, redundant complexity" comes from standards committee's refusal to make things easier on programmers at the cost of any smidgen of performance. And for certain tasks, like the highly competitive video game industry, u
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by thras 17y ago
I think that best thing to do is look at 1) the libraries you'll be using, 2) what your team is proficient at, 3) what's worked for other groups, 4) optimization potential. If you think that Ruby/Lisp is your answer to the above points, go
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by thras 17y ago
I'm with you. Whatever you use, don't choose C++. Sure, everyone on your programming team knows C++ already. Yeah, your libraries are all written in it. And successful games have used it again and again. But if it's not one of the "cool" la
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by thras 17y ago
The patch has been out for a week. You've already got it if you're running Windows update. Firefox's reaction was all post-patch. Lots of things install themselves in your browser to work. Acrobat, Java, etc. (In fact, the add-in is mostly
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by thras 17y ago
The first link mentioned in the article was a very interesting read. http://timetobleed.com/defeating-the-matasano-c-challenge-wi... It's a fairly clear explanation. Before the language warriors come out in force, I'll mention that it app
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by thras 17y ago
First thing I noticed too. The sudo maintainers should modify visudo to do some checking for known "safe" apps versus "unsafe" apps.
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by thras 17y ago
Re-read the original commenter once you realize he was talking about information-per-word, not total information content.
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by thras 17y ago
I imagine that legal (and police) pressure was brought to bear, given the quoted content of some of the emails sent to customers.
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by thras 17y ago
You'd be surprised. The pirating scene on IRC has a far greater selection than Amazon.
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Ardipithecus FAQ(johnhawks.net)
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by thras 17y ago
I can read logarithmic graphs. And it took longer for my brain to pick out that feature in the second graph. Remember that there is always information trade-off going to a log-scale. In this case, I argue that the trade-off is not worth it.
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by thras 17y ago
Yes, the derivative is the inflation rate. If we want to talk about that, why not look at a graph of that instead? And assuming we can't for some bizarre reason, the log graph is better at comparing inflation rates, huh? So in which graph d
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by thras 17y ago
No, that's not a graph of inflation rate. That's a graph of price levels. It's not cumulative.
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by thras 17y ago
I disagree with the idea that the logarithmic graph is better. It makes it far harder to see the major (and most important) feature of the first graph: a period of relative stability in purchasing power between 1665 and 1945, followed by ra
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by thras 17y ago
Maybe it's regional. Regardless, Stephen Pinker discusses the intonation of "could care less" in The Language Instinct .
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by thras 17y ago
Browser issue? The colors seem to differ dramatically between IE and Firefox. In IE, it is quite readable. In Firefox, it hurts to look at. Same for Chrome.
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by thras 17y ago
What is the spam/gold ratio on ebay? The reputation system and the monetary charges do help to curb problem users. The problems are still there, but not as bad as they would be. Or as bad as they are on Craigslist. On the other hand, the
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by thras 17y ago
Where is the control group? They seem to have tested this cure for temporary Tinnitus. But I can easily see this being a placebo effect. Since this was a temporary condition they were trying to alleviate, would it have gone down to the same
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by thras 17y ago
Huh, they've got plenty of Asians and Jews already. What are they complaining about? Looks at article Oh, "underrepresented minority students." That's the code that colleges use to tell Chinese and Korean students that they don't get any
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by thras 17y ago
Here's .8 for academic success: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi... I'm sorry about the number for income -- everyone has it at a correlation of .3 to .6. I believe that I was thinking of Lynn's numbers for nat
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by thras 17y ago
Christmas already?
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by thras 17y ago
Impulse control is strongly linked with IQ. Also, which 0.8 correlation were you asking about?

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