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by vilya 17y ago
If research is successfully commercialised, then the government is already getting money back through taxes on the company.
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by vilya 17y ago
There's already been quite a bit of work on applying technology to contract law relating to contracts (primarily, but not exclusively, financial contracts). There was a discussion about this on Lambda the Ultimate a while ago, if you're int
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by vilya 17y ago
How about putting the commands into a Makefile and running it with make -j 4? Easy! For a more heavyweight alternative, there are lots of solutions around for running batches of commands across multiple machines. For most/all of these, mult
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by vilya 17y ago
Couldn't agree more. One of the problems I always had with math textbooks was that you had to read them as a narrative rather than using them as a reference to dip in and out of. The reason being that most examples or formulas would use sym
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by vilya 17y ago
To some extent Fermi looks like more of the same, only bigger and faster. What's really interesting about it is that they've added L1 and L2 cache, they've gone to a global memory model so you can pass pointers around and they've put some e
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by vilya 17y ago
Interesting that this appears on HN right next to an article preaching the value of conciseness: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=850857 Ironically, that article itself fell into the TLDR category for me.
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by vilya 17y ago
The code in the linked article has a bug: it doesn't wait for the queued tasks to complete, so the program will exit while people are still waiting for their haircuts - or worse, while the barber's actually cutting some hair. You can fix th
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by vilya 17y ago
This is far and away the most detailed explanation I've seen: http://people.redhat.com/drepper/cpumemory.pdf
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by vilya 17y ago
Why does everyone seem to think this a black-and-white issue? Checked exceptions are appropriate for some things, unchecked exceptions are appropriate for others. Use the right tool for the job. Some parts of Java's API have made poor decis
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by vilya 17y ago
Runnables don't throw checked exceptions for the same reason that main() doesn't - because there's nothing sensible that could catch it.
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by vilya 17y ago
If you're on a Mac, check out Freedom: http://macfreedom.com/ It does exactly what you want. I think I first heard about it on a HN thread a while ago...
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by vilya 17y ago
The IFCP competition isn't focused on anything in particular - this years competition happened to be based on a satellite simulation, but previous years topics have included DNA repair, AI-based cops and robbers and (my favourite, from 2006
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by vilya 17y ago
Have a look at http://www.halfbakery.com/ - it's pretty much exactly what you describe in terms of an ideas site. Also, there are companies which churn out little ideas - my girlfriend works for one. It's pitched as an innovation consulta
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by vilya 17y ago
There are some notable omissions: Oracle, SQL server, DB2... Is it supposed to be a list of free databases?
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by vilya 17y ago
Reading the article, it sounded like he was comparing the speed of some unspecified ORM library in each language. If so, I suspect he may have been comparing a naive hand-rolled implementation in C++ to something like Hibernate/NHibernate w
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by vilya 17y ago
This looks like a good time to quote Knuth: "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."