wladimir

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by wladimir 14y ago
Not only that, but by buying from Apple you are subsidizing the practice anyway, so that next time they can develop an even harder to crack version. Aside from that it's a boondoggle, an economic waste to build protections just to crack the
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by wladimir 14y ago
I sometimes envisage the simulation as the random by-product of some other computation. That we exist in the noise, the margins of some extremely large (maybe "game-of-life"-like) computation. The runners of the computer computation don't k
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by wladimir 14y ago
At least I don't. tabbed vim, combined with vim --servername and --remote-tab works great.
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by wladimir 14y ago
I read that blog a bit and it seems to have the following pattern overall: elegant 5-line Haskell program. Then follows 100-line unreadable C++ implementation. My conclusion is that C++ is a very bad language to try to do Haskell :-) This d
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by wladimir 14y ago
Breadth first, then depth For "deep" areas such as mathematics, medicine, and theoretical computer science one needs an extensive theoretical background before being able to advance the field. A depth-first approach may be the only way of
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by wladimir 14y ago
Thanks for the link, looks useful. That would be functionality that should be in Github itself. Good to see that I'm not the only one with that pet peeve.
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by wladimir 14y ago
Hmm my suggestions: - Please make the "show changes" scale to large code changes. I've been bitten by hanging browsers a few times while trying to review pull requests in which many files were changed significantly or added. One (simple) wa
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by wladimir 14y ago
On the other hand, the potential damage of one mistaken "Reply to all" can be enormous, compared to a mistaken "Reply" which just adds some extra work.
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by wladimir 14y ago
Do you really think that we know everything about the moon that there's to learn? That, if we researched the moon with new scientific methods developed since the 70's it would not tell us anything new? Sure, an economic benefits analysis
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by wladimir 14y ago
Yes, at the bottom slot, with only 3 votes :-)
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by wladimir 14y ago
Maybe we need better tools to study and change the program in binary form. I'm getting really sick of companies using binary blobs to obfuscate and mystify what is happening inside devices they produce. There is nothing magical to binary co
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by wladimir 14y ago
Using a secure RNG is always a good idea, unless you know you need lots of (predictable given the seed) random numbers for example in Monte Carlo sampling. Even in randomized algorithms you may have to be careful what RNG you use, because o
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by wladimir 14y ago
I use Ubuntu on two personal machines, and I really wish that it had a "back door" as nice as Windows Update. Well at least Ubuntu, when it offers updates, offers updates to all programs installed on the machine in one central place in a
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by wladimir 14y ago
I guess it's hard to pay for an employee that you never see Then again we live in times with high bandwidth connections to almost everywhere, where video conferencing is easy, phone calls are free, setting up chat rooms is easy, distribut
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by wladimir 14y ago
Indeed, London and surroundings are abnormally expensive to live in. This was one of the reasons for me to forego working there when I had the chance, even though I would gave gotten a slightly more interesting job and higher pay. So I stay
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by wladimir 14y ago
They're flat at a time in which many others are losing their jobs, to be re-hired at lower wages, or unable to find jobs at all. Comparatively speaking we're still off very well.
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by wladimir 14y ago
And the funny thing is that the people that are now loudly proclaiming everything should be flat are likely the same that were calling all old 'flat' interfaces boring in the days that gradients and shadows became hip. UI design seems more
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by wladimir 14y ago
But why XML? IMO the doxygen / javadoc style of comments makes for much less pollution. XML is not a good format for text that is to be read by humans.
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by wladimir 14y ago
I've seen this mostly as workaround for broken source control systems, along with a change log at the top of each file. For example with ClearCase it can be a hell to find out preceding revisions of a file (the tools are slow and very user
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by wladimir 14y ago
Thanks for the explanation. The original idea was pretty good. But I've only, ever, seen the corrupted variant in the wild. And coding standards that enforce it. Hence my annoyance.
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by wladimir 14y ago
Yeah, you'd likely need some other way to refer so a position in the code than the line number. Maybe an anchor (like html) or a path in the syntax tree.
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by wladimir 14y ago
What I've always found an intriguing idea is to store the abstract semantic graph of the program instead of (just) the text of the program in the revision control system. The source code could then be formatted / visualized in any way for t
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by wladimir 14y ago
I'm not sure what you're referring to, but in all instances of Hungarian notation I've seen (especially in Windows programs) it was the data type (pointer to char, 8 bit int, 32 bit int etc) encoded and not "the nature of the thing". I agre
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by wladimir 14y ago
I think it is crazy. Especially today, when IDEs can show you the declaration of a variable or method while hovering over it, there is no need to encode the type of a variable into the name. Variable names need to be sensible to humans, the
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by wladimir 14y ago
it's technology in search of a problem in academic research that's the rule rather than the exception. The nature of research makes it very hard, even impossible, to predict what is going to have applications in the future and what those
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by wladimir 14y ago
A tech demo is a tech demo, it shows what is possible, not what is necessarily feasible to market to the big public as a new UI metaphor. Often it takes a long time to perfect something. So no need to be negative. Don't confuse it with a co
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by wladimir 14y ago
and the Imagination GPU is just as closed as the Mali Imagination is much, much worse than Mali. Mali has been pretty much fully reverse engineered (see limadriver.org). Given that libv will finally publish his new Lima driver version wit
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by wladimir 14y ago
Luckily we have Mr Carrico to address those (warning: he is very rude) http://amormundi.blogspot.nl/2009/01/condensed-critique-of-t... Techno-utopianism and futurism does have quite a few critics. Anyway, I've read two of Taleb's books (
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by wladimir 14y ago
Yes, the idea of using modules is nothing new. It's old-school and well-proven. Many people have argued about adding pascal-like module support to C at some point or another at the coffee machine. But having enough (political) momentum to
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by wladimir 14y ago
If even true, that's besides the point. How did 'faster development' get into your reasoning at all?

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