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by timtadh 16y ago
I agree. It is very difficult to figure out where and who to show your code too. When I applied to undergrad 5 (or was it 6?) years ago I applied to CMU. I submitted with my application an "abstract" about some software I wrote. The softwar
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Not to belittle those whom the school system is the failing, but he wasn't in the school system. The blog post notes there was no school close enough for him to go to. It could be since the area was rural the majority of the kids engaged in
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I think it is ok to include ff4 considering it will be released tomorrow.
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by timtadh 16y ago
I have written BTrees and B+Trees in Go[1]. I wrote a Top Down Predictive Parser[2]. Currently a friend and I are writing a distributed network simulation.[3] I also maintain a fork of the gobuild project (a build system for go) which I hav
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by timtadh 16y ago
I wrote a implementation of Ternary Search Trie[1] in Python and found that for insert/update/delete I could get my performance to be on the same order to one order of magnitude slower than python built in dict. Considering that Tries offer
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by timtadh 16y ago
>Context-independent grammars probably are. No they are not. Recursively Enumerable grammars are however. A context free grammar can't be turning complete because it can be decided with only a PDA.
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The issue with this study in the context of the OP is this study discusses middle class vs poor. The OP discussed high class vs middle class. The main assertion of those who have argued against the OP is that high class vs middle class does
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Correct. For those that don't agree see the Incompleteness Theorem. It was once thought (by Hilbert no less) that computers would one day be able to derive all mathematical truths for us. Alas, G\:{o}del came along and ruined all of those g
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by timtadh 16y ago
I agree. This strikes me as non-news. Side-jacking is a bad thing. We get it. Use VPN, use SSH tunneling, in general don't be dumb when using an open network. If possible use the https version.
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by timtadh 16y ago
DUPE: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2189121 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2189183
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by timtadh 16y ago
It is by Dijkstra. Did you really think that it was going to be new? If it was by Dijkstra did that really matter?
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Assigning Meaning to Programs by Robert Floyd [1976][pdf](eecs.berkeley.edu)
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by timtadh 16y ago
My university tried this and got sued for it. These things are not yet ready for prime time because they are not accessible enough for those with disabilities. here is the results of the court case: http://www.ada.gov/case_western_univ.htm
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by timtadh 16y ago
Posts like this annoy me. It only gives details about the symptoms of the virus and gives zero details of the infection vector. What does this virus exploit? How does it take control of the computer? Is it a root kit? Does it have a C&C
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by timtadh 16y ago
I successfully used Scala as prototyping language for the first time recently. It was nice. I kinda liked it. But, I will have rewrite what I did in it soon because the VM startup cost for scala is too high for what I want to do. The lack o
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Borders Files for Chapter 11(bordersreorganization.com)
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The Free Software movement is a religious movement and the GPL is an expression of their belief system. See my comment above and: http://blog.hackthology.com/interpreting-the-free-software-m...
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The issue here is you disagree with FSF over the meaning of the word free. Don't worry this is a common occurrence! To RMS free means freedom to use software without violating his "golden rule." RMS believes that if a neighbor wants to use
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by timtadh 16y ago
What? Source? I haven't heard of this before. That makes zero sense. Do you have any actual information about this?
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Check out the comment thread below the post for the recruiter in question responding to the post. Some choice tidbits: >> I think you are taking this out of proporion, Caius, and calling someone a "cunt" does not a good impression m
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Screwtape Letter #32: Is Go a Functional Programming Language?(mprescient.com)
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From the road map it looks like their main focus will be on product polish. They will be adding some features to the system. These features seem to cluster around "Web Platform" features (ie. HTML5, CSS3, Social stuff, etc...) and continued
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This would be nice as my skill set didn't match your categories that well either.
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Or rather: It is good enough because it has smart students. The dept. has issues but the students are excellent.
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I am sorry but this was a pointless article. You can down vote me now.
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How to Start a Community(blog.hackthology.com)
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If I am not mistaken, this language's main target is the web. As such it targets both server side programming and client side. It will run on multiple stacks on both sides. Desktop application programming doesn't appear to be the target of
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by timtadh 16y ago
Actually two of my favorite apps ever are on linux, Amarok and Digikam. However, in full disclosure I haven't used Mac seriously in a while. I am sure there would be things I would love on it but for the most part I am very happy with the a
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by timtadh 16y ago
As I said, it depends on how slow you want your server to respond to a given request. For instance, you could set X so high that it takes a minimum of 1 second to respond to a request. That is probably not necessary. The real answer is you
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This is why I mentioned it. It provides improved time guarantees for your users with out needing another library.

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