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by vilya 14y ago
Coursera emails you a certificate of completion when you finish a course. From comments in their discussion forums, it seems like some students are using these certificates to get partial credit towards courses at their own university, or t
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The software behind the British Olympic team(bbc.co.uk)
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by vilya 14y ago
Interesting stuff! There's also an article about it on Petapixel: http://www.petapixel.com/2012/07/16/researchers-develop-came... and the full academic paper is available here: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1202.2078.pdf
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by vilya 14y ago
This has got me thinking that it's time to ditch Facebook. I'd like to use Google+ because I think they're more likely to be a trustworthy steward of my data, but I find the UI really confusing. Are there any other realistic alternatives?
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by vilya 14y ago
How well does that work if you're using some thirdparty libraries? Just curious - I haven't used Go yet so don't know what happens there.
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by vilya 14y ago
Possibly they're more worried about potential bad press if they fail to meet whatever tentative deadlines they announce?
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by vilya 14y ago
You might want to read up on Design By Contract, if you haven't already. It's an approach to writing robust software by incorporating explicit pre- and post-conditions into code. IIRC they were used to generate documentation for functions a
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by vilya 14y ago
Thanks for posting that! I've been using Textastic for a while but didn't know about that feature.
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by vilya 14y ago
This is pure FUD. Membership in the Khronos Group is open to anyone who's willing to pay their fees (which includes Mozilla, Google, Opera and a number of universities, by the way - not just GPU vendors). The specifications they produce are
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by vilya 14y ago
Speaking for myself, I use it mainly for taking notes in Markdown format. I've done a bit of coding with it, but no more than snippets (usually because I wanted to think through a particular algorithm in detail). I could imagine using it to
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by vilya 14y ago
This article has more tracking cookies embedded than any other site I've ever seen - by a factor of 2, at least. Consider yourself warned.
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by vilya 14y ago
This looks great! The lack of cursor movement keys is probably the biggest problem with text editing on the iPad. Textastic on the iPad also has a great idea: they've implemented (not sure how) an extended keyboard, with an extra row of 5-w
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by vilya 14y ago
I'm surprised to see so many people here getting hung up on the title of this paper, of all things, when there's so much good information in it. The title is just the author's opinion. Deal with it. And then read the paper anyway, because
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by vilya 14y ago
I'd argue it's more important now than when the white paper was first written. Where processor speed or memory size used to be the bottleneck, increasingly these days it's memory bandwidth instead, so managing that effectively is key to w
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by vilya 14y ago
I think there's a fair bit of variation between the Coursera courses. I'm currently taking their Machine Learning and Computer Vision courses. The ML course is quite like what you described for Udacity: there are a lot of short lecture vide
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by vilya 14y ago
Re: triggering the missiles, did you read the article? It talks about a scenario where the soldiers are tricked into firing the missiles. Re: doing more damage if they dropped bowling balls from the roof, that's just flat out wrong. For a
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by vilya 14y ago
Tell me, because I'm curious: what do you think will happen if the missiles are fired and hit their target? Will the target somehow vanish into thin air? If not, where do you think the pieces of it will go? Yes that's a sarcastic tone I'm t
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by vilya 14y ago
I really liked this point: "Most developers are not very good at predicting the future time integrated suffering their changes will result in." So given a graph with time on the x axis and maintenance effort on the y axis, the area under th
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by vilya 14y ago
Have you seen Snapseed or Leafsnap?
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by vilya 14y ago
Isn't HN itself an example of your 'high content, low presentation' category?
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by vilya 15y ago
So what happens if we pass a stack closure containing a ret into another function? For example, what would this code print out: fn foo(f: fn()) { log(info, "calling f"); f(); log(info, "called f"); } fn bar() { log(
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by vilya 15y ago
This looks like a bad design. It means either (a) the semantics of 'ret' inside a lambda function can change depending on the call site (whether it's used inside a for loop or not); (b) that a lambda function passed in from elsewhere can ca
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by vilya 15y ago
I started R'ing TFA and thought the title of the post was just editorialising, until I got to this: "The proposal also targets tools used to commit offences: the production or sale of devices such as computer programs designed for cyber-att
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by vilya 15y ago
Sure, but even in those cases the saving has to win back the overall cost of the runtime profiling and dynamic compilation. The crossover point seems to be high enough in the graph that it's not reached very often in practice - especially s
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by vilya 15y ago
I keep on hearing that it's possible to write a JIT-based vm that's "faster than C". I have yet to actually see one where that is true for anything other than one or two very specific micro-benchmarks. Edit: the old C2 wiki actually has s
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by vilya 15y ago
The course page is timing out for me at the moment so I can't see what it says, but I emailed coursera last week asking about the start date. Their reply was that it was now expected to start in mid-April.
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WebGL Inspector(benvanik.github.com)
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by vilya 15y ago
When I stop to think about it, it seems strange to me that ownership of copyright is transferable at all. I suspect it comes from years of thinking of intellectual property as if it were physical property. Just as a thought experiment: coul
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by vilya 15y ago
I wonder if Sphinx[1] or something like it could be a good replacement for LaTeX? It would need a better typesetting engine for PDFs, but the authoring experience with it is pretty nice. [1] http://sphinx.pocoo.org/
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by vilya 15y ago
I think you're arguing a bit of a strawman when you mention viewing page sources: the discussion is about replacing JavaScript, not HTML. In any case, the fact that (non-web) applications are compiled into binaries hasn't stopped open sourc

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