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by tokipin 18y ago
can't help you there, but i have to say i'm very curious about CUDA. the "billions of little cores" parallel architecture seems good i think it's because it gets straight to the heart of parallelism. when you only have two or three cores/
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by tokipin 18y ago
true, but it's not as straightforward when the things you're stealing are whole applications
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by tokipin 18y ago
check out Steve Yegge's video/transcript about dynamic language optimization in case you missed it: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/05/dynamic-languages-st...
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by tokipin 18y ago
i love you too
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by tokipin 18y ago
the difficulty with a large assembly project is that you have to write a lot of well-named and well-designed macros and subroutines and otherwise create your own modularizations, otherwise it will be completely unmanageable. the main dif
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by tokipin 18y ago
note the word "prematurely." of course you have to follow the rules of the language, but being inside the box of the language from beginning to end will limit your creations
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by tokipin 18y ago
yes, and there is the implicit APL way of iterating. the point is to recognize that they are all instances of the same thing i'm not talking about java. i'm talking about structures -- problems, their domains, and the machinations that ca
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by tokipin 18y ago
when programming, if you keep your mind on the structures and on the problems themselves instead of on the language, you'll naturally reach points where you will demand that the language do X. sometimes the language will be able to, and it
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by tokipin 18y ago
my final project for electronics engineering required a large assembly program. that was incredibly discipline-demanding. though nothing countless macros and subroutines couldn't solve. also met VHDL in that major all the web things, CSS
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by tokipin 18y ago
nay, not Haskell. F# though (using it right now on a small app that i plan on selling, hopefully it makes me enough money to support my starbucks addiction.) actually i've been meaning to play around with Haskell because it has a lot of s
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by tokipin 18y ago
maybe i'm an incredible genius or something, but give me a week or two and i'm writing code at an advanced level in any language. it's pretty easy. it more or less involves making an actual project in that language, which cold turky sink
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by tokipin 18y ago
personally i don't like the 'one way' mantra that Python is designed by, because it seems to imply a couple things. 1, the language is probably not as flexible and powerful as it could be. and 2, the design goal is similar in nature to th
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by tokipin 18y ago
i heard the file stuff was an issue with the initial vista, but it was cleared up by SP1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Windows_Vista#File... that link also mentions that file operations on Vista may seem to take longer becau
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by tokipin 18y ago
i thought Vista would run poorly on my 3 year old comp since my $300 graphics card committed suicide some time ago and i'm forced to use the terribad onboard graphics. but recently i installed it on a spare harddrive and it runs smoothly, A
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by tokipin 18y ago
i wonder if this is due to the nature of PageRank. eg when you search for some words that you intend as direct, Google sends them through PageRank where they're stretched, weighted, and pulled apart by the Graph of the internet, whereas Ya
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by tokipin 18y ago
so in other words, try to be like maddox. though maddox is a different beast, and actually has sensibility
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by tokipin 18y ago
when i arrived at a chicago airport recently, there was a poster thingie saying "home to 90 nobel prize winners..." i thought holy shit that's a lot O_O i remember China only having a handful. we have here in just one shitty city an order o
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by tokipin 18y ago
i think that for people who only use simple programs, all the OS's look the same (except linux, which can't seem to get rid of its shoddy gestalt.) i think for these people, the external design of the computer as an appliance makes a big d
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by tokipin 18y ago
maybe they forgot what account they were on
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by tokipin 18y ago
Arc's is: (let foo 0 ...) (and what rkts wrote, due to Arc autodestructuring things.) the multi-bind is with certainly things can be renamed, but personally i feel that if you don't go the extra mile for your users, someone else wi
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by tokipin 18y ago
CL is pretty ugly. Scheme isn't so hot either. it's the reason i stayed away from lisp in general for a good half year until Arc came out. it's like these languages had a chance to be pretty due to lisp's streamlined syntax... but they r
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by tokipin 18y ago
that image was probably from here: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001080.html
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by tokipin 18y ago
i heard callcc and eval were on the table for modifications due to their effects on performance. anyone familiar with the details?
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by tokipin 18y ago
Andale Mono for me. it's very "lightweight" and beautiful. i would use Courier New generally, but after using Andale, it's surprising how heavy and hard to parse Courier is
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by tokipin 18y ago
funny. i helped a friend of mine recently with their C++ homework. in their school C++ is the introductory programming class. i likened it to trying to drive a manual car up and down san francisco without first learning to manage the whe
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by tokipin 18y ago
that's often pointed out regarding his Special theory of relativity, and in fact it seems like it's used as "proof" that original ideas can't exist. but while it may be true in the case of the Special theory, people conveniently stop short
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by tokipin 18y ago
tell that to einstein
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by tokipin 18y ago
i thought it was some sort of mathematical sorting mechanism
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by tokipin 18y ago
i wonder if performing a restart... something like what The Architect from The Matrix talks about... i wonder if simply restarting the entire software would help a bit. in other words, deleting the entire database and starting from scratch
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by tokipin 18y ago
exactly. i imagine lots of people, even practitioners, see technical fields as rigid robotic type things. but to me, when i'm working on a program or electrical circuit or whathaveyou... to borrow a line from Eminem, it's like smearing bl

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