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by todd8 9y ago
I have to agree. There seems to be more and more political/economic discussions here with which most of the posts seem to be from another planet. The more non-technical the discussions, the more strongly and obnoxiously held the positi
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by todd8 9y ago
Money-Laudering is sometimes confused with different crimes because, in the modern world, it is often a necessary adjunct to financially motivated crimes. Criminals often do business in cash and can't report it on their income taxes. M
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by todd8 9y ago
Thanks, my mistake. You're right, there are n(n-1)/2 arcs in the fully connected graph (K_n).
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by todd8 9y ago
A fully connected graph of n users contains n*(n-1) links if users don't connect to themselves (I would describe this as polynomial growth in the number of channels, a lot better than exponential). A chat broker that acts as a switchbo
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by todd8 9y ago
Comments here seem to indicate a lack of familiarity with IBM's contributions to our field. I used to work at IBM (as an OS architect) and I just thought that I would provide a few interesting tidbits of IBM's history. IBM designs
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by todd8 9y ago
I don't. Why do we want or even trust government to decide for us that a company is too big and needs to be smaller or that a company should conducts it business in the way that the government wants it to. As long as a company isn&#x2
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by todd8 9y ago
It does cost him. More people would know of MINIX and more would have heard of its creator. More people would buy his books, hire him for consulting on OS design, etc.
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by todd8 9y ago
The domain (uswitch.com) along with the word "Transducers" really threw me off. It's about clojure not electricity!
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by todd8 9y ago
I've always felt comfortable programming in Lisp or Python, and I don't seem to miss strong typing very much. While programming Java though, with it's extensive library of functions, the more intelligent autocompletion provid
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by todd8 9y ago
They are very common here in Austin. The woman working at the counter in the Post Office wears one and the last couple of doctors I've visited wear them. How common are they? I'm not sure. The fact that they have a distinctive app
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by todd8 9y ago
Blizzard is suing, see https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/307689/Blizzard_takes_Ch...
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China's Latest Blatant 'Overwatch' Rip-Off Is Its Worst (Best) One Yet(forbes.com)
1 points by todd8 9y ago|1 comments
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by todd8 9y ago
Make sure you use an editor, like emacs, that really understands lisp and the parentheses won’t mater. The auto indenting with lisp makes working with it syntactically just as easy as python.
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by todd8 9y ago
When asked about what I do, I say “software”; to further clarify that I’ve found that comparing it to the roles in the auto industry helps people understand what you do: manager, engineer, designer, repair person, customizer, etc.
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by todd8 9y ago
Yes, well, once upon a time in the dark ages, we didn't have HN or even the Internet to spend our time on. At home I didn't have a computer, no one did in the 60's or early 70's. I did have a few books so I read a lot in
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by todd8 9y ago
Neither Algol 60 nor Algol 68 were very good choices, but it was basically them or FORTRAN which were used back then in published algorithms. Algol 60 was the forbearer of most modern programming languages. However, implementations of Algol
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by todd8 9y ago
We "see better" than the optical system of our eyes allow. Image processing happens to the signals from our retinas before it arrives at the visual cortex and especially before it arrives at higher levels within the brain. This me
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by todd8 9y ago
The idea of traveling forward and back in time in a debugger has been around for a long time, even before the era of modern programming the idea was explored and implemented. I recall conversations with people working on this in the 1970&#x
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by todd8 9y ago
I’be cut back on rice, brown and white, organic or not because of the high arsenic levels. Arsenic causes cancer. https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2015/01/how-muc...
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by todd8 9y ago
Yes, but the point is that flipping a single bit can change a value dramatically. While using 64 bit ints for example programs are likely using a limited range of values and flipping a bit in say the middle of the int will change the value
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by todd8 9y ago
That is how we coded. TECO, my first editor, requires keeping ones code in your head while typing in edit instructions. At 300 baud a teletype was pretty slow to print back the code that you had typed, so every dozen or so line edit command
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by todd8 9y ago
Remember that one-bit errors aren't necessarily small errors. A single one bit change when working with 64 bit floating point can result in a very large difference in value. 0b01111111111011111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
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by todd8 9y ago
About unforseen consequences. I really enjoyed the original movie Bladerunner; watching it recently, it was interesting to see that while there were ubiquitous video phones, there were no cell phones at all in the movie--flying cars yes, ce
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by todd8 9y ago
I was just watching my daughter writing a program in Java using eclipse. It's frustrating to watch a relative beginner editing using a combination of the mouse and the keyboard--it's so slow.
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by todd8 9y ago
One of the very best features of Emacs is it's built in help system, faster, more convenient and more accurate than most program wikis or on-line documentation. Emacs is too big to learn every one of the 7000 or so functions, one learn
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Keyboard.io – Reports from the field on new keyboard(blog.keyboard.io)
1 points by todd8 9y ago|0 comments
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by todd8 9y ago
I found one of the conclusions of this study particularly interesting: desktop apps using Electron ran much faster than JavaFX apps!
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Cross-Platform Desktop Development (JavaFX vs. Electron) [pdf](lnu.diva-portal.org)
5 points by todd8 9y ago|1 comments
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by todd8 9y ago
For an idea of how amazing org-mode tables are see this youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTJVLJd_gz0 Jump to 2:20 where the table editing starts. Just wow.
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by todd8 9y ago
It does look easier, but in practice one edits org-mode docs in Emacs so typing the three keystrokes s<[Tab] at the beginning of a line produces: #+BEGIN_SRC #+END_SRC The cursor is left at the end of the first line where

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