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by throwaway17_17 7y ago
I think it’s worth pointing out a few exceptions to what are decent critiques. As an aside, I agree that these three capabilities, along with first-class functions are essentially the commonly bullet pointed marketing keys for Scheme. TCO -
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by throwaway17_17 7y ago
I would say that if your only problem with Scheme is the lack of static typing, as opposed to the litany of other complaints that are popular, then Typed Racket is a serviceable language. I would say it’s type system is at least equal what
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by throwaway17_17 7y ago
It’s a small semantic nitpick, but I think that you have to qualify the domain of conversation in stating: ‘neither “compiled” or “interpreted” language families ... has a slam dunk performance advantage over the other.’ If this is universa
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by throwaway17_17 7y ago
You are correct about the 25%. That was a mistake (for anyone else looking, the 45% was a decrease in the executed instruction amount from stack to register. Correction aside, I, at some level, agree with you. The question of appropriatenes
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by throwaway17_17 7y ago
I’d say calling a stack-based VM terrible is overstating the case a bit. In [1] the number seem to bear out that converting from stack-based to register-based yields an average, adjusted performance increase of approx. 25%. Also the transit
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by throwaway17_17 7y ago
At the rates of return Alphabet experiences, along with such a large share percentage held by a ‘smallish’ group of founders/early supporters, many of whom are apparently credibly stated to have engaged in very similar behavior, I doub
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by throwaway17_17 7y ago
Curious, are the downvotes on this comment for the comment which I assumed was sarcasm, or for the fact that a non-qualified sarcastic comment is of a type of discussion HN rules discourage?
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by throwaway17_17 7y ago
I can understand the general philosophic argument for ‘worker’ solidarity, but in practice that is not how unions work. Union represent professions and then those unions often pool resource under a larger labor umbrella. It is why the the S
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by throwaway17_17 7y ago
But there in lies the problem. Most of the discussion opposed to union come from the actual software engineering aspect, but the unionization proposals are attempting to cover the multitude of sub-professions that compromise game developmen
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by throwaway17_17 7y ago
The following is a genuine question (not a flippant remark): Is there any way to have those concepts be portable across ISAs/architectures. I don’t think those types of ops are exposed in LLVM-IR or GCC’s various intermediate levels (b
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by throwaway17_17 7y ago
Most likely the ‘legitimate non discriminatory reason’ rule would be applied. Meaning the employer or prospective employer needs only provide an ‘honestly held’ reason for the practice. Although, the Federal Circuit courts are split regardi
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by throwaway17_17 7y ago
I’m genuinely uncertain as to how your data is being collected if you are not using these services, and again I’m not trying to argue or disagree with the underlying thesis that tracking/spying is a net negative, but I do want to under
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by throwaway17_17 7y ago
I am not trying to be antagonistic, but how is anyone (particularly the assumed tech-savvy users of HN) forced into the ‘spying.’ When you use these services the cost is the monetization of your data. FAANG isn’t even attempting to hide it
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by throwaway17_17 7y ago
I have read through the comments already posted and the comments from the previous HN discussion linked also. I can’t help but feel like I got something completely different from this article than everyone else. I am convinced that Chisnall
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by throwaway17_17 7y ago
Does anyone have a good strategy for archiving and downloading the textbooks from aimath.org? They are all excellently formatted in HTML, but I am not certain what the best way to get the complete book would be.
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by throwaway17_17 7y ago
I can not seem to find any energy to be against Google here, a 21 year old individual working at one of the most prominent and successful business in the world, making more money per year than a vast amount of the global (not to mention nat