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by waps 12y ago
The bug in this article. Economically speaking (in other words: in the real world, where you are not the only player), which is optimal : 1) optimizing resource usage 2) maximizing resource usage (it's easy to see why some others are s
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by waps 12y ago
You forget just how much difference there is between languages. Comparing Python and Java for example, it's easy to find things that take 1-2 cpu cycles in Java (or even 0), that take thousands of cpu cycles in Python (e.g. function ca
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by waps 12y ago
> There are some valid points raised too, such as concerns about Python's scalability But if you think about the two python scalability problems : 1) speed 2) programs become unmaintainable as they grow way quicker than they do in j
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by waps 12y ago
I don't understand the point. Are you claiming that search and replace functionality provides the same ease of use as an actual rename refactor ? Foo x = new Foo(); int Fool = 5; I'm sure you see the problem. Dynamic lang
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by waps 12y ago
Most of the people you put in there are not mean. In fact they appear very open and friendly. Which is of course the personality type business rewards : superficial openness, fun and friendliness, but always ready to knife you in the back i
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by waps 12y ago
Or you can use C++ and not worry that your abstractions will cost you measurably in execution time. Of course, there's other disadvantages, but ...
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by waps 12y ago
The real news should be : javascript framework is actually still considered useful for something after 2 years.
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by waps 12y ago
I find that when it comes to optimizing code with an emphasis on readability, the improvement is rarely only 5%. Plus the improvement is not just the end result's performance, but also in writing. I think I don't understand this r
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by waps 12y ago
google "portable chrome". problem solved.
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by waps 12y ago
TLDR : lose your job or quit, and you lose your visa. Zero grace period (laid off/quit on Friday, illegal immigrant by Saturday). Although the regulations do not provide a grace period for unemployment between H-1B employers, USCIS gen
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by waps 12y ago
Sadly what you say is true. Despite the fact that humanity has been drilling holes into various types of soil for over 8000 years, we don't really have a good way to do it. The situation is not quite as bad as you're describing th
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by waps 12y ago
Small correction : fly-by-wire doesn't refer to autopilots, but to having control surfaces be hydraulically driven and controlled by electrical signals. Previously, control surfaces were mechanically connected to the pilot's contr
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by waps 12y ago
Ah come on. AI algorithms 1) have passed the turing test, then, indeed, we make the turing test more difficult. (I would argue that if you give an accurate definition of a Turing test, namely "convince, on occasion, a human that you&#x
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by waps 12y ago
I believe this is the most advanced artificial lifeform that is intended to be a full simulation of the real thing : http://www.openworm.org/ ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2OBznK6HkI ) Yes, it evolves.
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by waps 12y ago
Maybe people should listen to statistician's main lament about number in the press : Will you please start including the standard deviation ? Would contain a lot more information than just having mean and median.
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by waps 12y ago
Where/how do you even "learn" this trading skill. I mean, how did you learn doing this ? Like most geeks I suck at negotiation. And trading seems to me a very fast-paced very high-stakes game of negotiation where you don&#x27
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by waps 12y ago
In that respect Stephen Wolfram's book "A new kind of science" is kind of interesting. It explores the laws of nature by ignoring the ones we have, instead coupling a numbering system to all possible sets of natural laws, and
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by waps 12y ago
The general answer every country seems to have is "knowledge-based economy". Except it never works. Knowledge flees countries the moment it presents more than a small advantage, as the knowledge moves with workers and companies.
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by waps 12y ago
This is the anthropic principle, and applies to some of the coincidences. But there are open questions ... If life can adapt, why isn't Mars green ? Why isn't Venus ? At the very least, why aren't the landers picking up cells
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by waps 12y ago
Most of the non-tech users I know respond enormously negative to changes, so much so that any improvement would have to be gigantic indeed to justify that cost.
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by waps 12y ago
It's actually unknown whether there's an atmosphere there. Temperature in space is very cold, sure, but if there are no gas collisions nothing carries the heat away (like, say, on Antarctica). So the lander would only really be co
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by waps 12y ago
Interest is hard to take into valuation, agreed. Impossible, or "shouldn't", I disagree. An outstanding loan has a clear NPV (generally larger than the NPV of the loaned amount) ... just subtract from the value of the company
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by waps 12y ago
You left out defining a sorting class, like in Turbo Pascal. So, it's 17 lines of code (wrong version provided on stackoverflow) or 21 lines, the correct version : type dataSlice []*data // Len is part of sort.Interfac
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by waps 12y ago
Well it's just like the government inflation "measurement". Everytime it shows something they don't like, they remove stuff. I believe oil was the first "WTF", then energy, and they just kept going. You see, ac
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by waps 12y ago
Apparently ms. Swift made ~$500k USD in revenue from Spotify. That's equivalent to 50000 records. She sold over 1 million records. Given that one has to agree it's a near-certainty that Spotify eats into record sales at least a bi
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by waps 12y ago
Knowing several people at apple and microsoft, I definitely get the impression that at apple, very few people know about a product. At microsoft everybody knows and "contributes". Maybe you're right about committees at apple,
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by waps 12y ago
The author's linkedin page : https://www.linkedin.com/in/levinotik Education Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University I wonder if he chose his field himself, or if his parents picked for him, and now
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by waps 12y ago
The more you read about great companies the more you realize that this is the key : Eberhard realised that Musk was the first guy he had met who shared his vision for electric cars: Make a vastly superior car, not just a car that s
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by waps 12y ago
> RAII, smart pointers and ARC aren't free lunches, which is why people had moved from them to GC in the first place. Yet GC solves 10% of the problem that RAII solves. Tbh I would call them "similar". GC has the advantage
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by waps 12y ago
> One of go's strengths is how easy it is to refactor Give me a minute to collect my jaw of the floor here. Nope ... need some more time. Unless you mean in the same way as C and pascal are easy to refactor, I disagree in the strong

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