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by xyience 10y ago
Atom is no longer needed since their non-atom CPUs have a low enough power profile now. We're stuck in single core performance hell because physics. I don't know where you've been but GPU competition between nvidia and AMD ha
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by xyience 10y ago
> It's as if the system was designed to be so complex as to require a team of people to operate, plus a manager to supervise, plus a support person to field phone calls This is exactly it. Even if not intentionally designed, it ends
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by xyience 10y ago
Brute force as an attack vector is dealt with by requiring "strong" passwords, not by using scrypt, so the thought of using a hash that protects all passwords equally with respect to the time it takes to try one, as an extra layer
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by xyience 10y ago
> Who's going to take a chance on the drivers and riders with no reputation? Fake users.
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by xyience 10y ago
My team isn't exactly doing "top-tier CS work", so if someone "showed off" how far above the average they are with a Coq solution or the quirky GP you replied to or the OP's neural net I'd be delighted and
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by xyience 10y ago
I don't know PHP 7 yet, but I'd say there's plenty to learn just in PHP 5 if you haven't kept up since PHP 4. Perhaps a piecewise approach would be best, starting with the 'proper' C++/Java-esque version o
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by xyience 10y ago
It makes me really envious of those who went deep down the Lisp path and haven't had to look back. They don't have to spend time keeping up with the latest developments instead of pursuing some other goal, they have it all already
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by xyience 10y ago
Lisp has it right. * (/ 1 2) 1/2
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by xyience 10y ago
"Stanza compiles directly to native code and runs faster than any scripting language because it does not suffer any interpretive overhead." Show us your benchmarks.
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by xyience 10y ago
My company's large Java codebase has hundreds of zero-width spaces in the middle of method names. It's sad.
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by xyience 10y ago
Maybe. Python is under an MIT-like license, so you're fine, but if it were under e.g. the GPL you could still look to see if they have some form of runtime exception as GCC does. In any case it's rare for a company that's not
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by xyience 10y ago
I'm mostly in agreement about Perl's status, but I'd rather take the small hit in verbosity for the niceness of the rest of Python rather than having to deal with Perl... Yeah it kind of sucks not having the backtick operator
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by xyience 10y ago
This deserves to be called out in the readme, if for nothing else than to limit the wild threads on display here and maybe head off some future wild threads.
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by xyience 10y ago
Fresh machine where and for whom? I doubt a simple batch script will get you very far (setup.exe exists for a reason...), and I doubly-doubt you would have enough overlap in the process that something that can convert the steps to bash woul
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by xyience 10y ago
Uh, I think you're forgetting PHP. Not to mention Clojure is at least as popular as Go. Dynamic typing isn't going anywhere, desire for 'gradual typing' is a very niche but vocal desire in the dynamic language communitie
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by xyience 10y ago
PyPy doesn't get you that much -- were you not using Numpy to begin with, and if not, why not?
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by xyience 10y ago
Come on HN, this comment was answering the parent directly. Unless you've been under a rock for the last 4 years there's no excuse to downvote even if you think it's still low-probability...
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by xyience 10y ago
I don't think it was foreseen when license plates were created the harmful use case of having a cop at every street corner with photographic memory and accurate speed measuring abilities who occasionally notes cars down for speeding &#
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by xyience 10y ago
It's more people complaining about unforeseen possible use cases that are now seen and possible rather than the underlying bits of tech that make it possible. (What, should we make cameras illegal?) But because aspects of our law have
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by xyience 10y ago
This is better, but still not enough. You can only put pressure on all of these parties (and others) by going to the top: change the law. This at least has a better chance at succeeding than telling people to not watch great shows. While
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by xyience 10y ago
Warren Buffet on a Trump victory: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/donald-trump-as-pres...
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by xyience 10y ago
Yeah, there are many qualifications one could make to the "give us a CEO-King, doesn't really matter which CEO". For instance one might disqualify anyone from Harvard, or only count CEOs that managed large companies and didn&
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by xyience 10y ago
Thiel is a libertarian. If you're up for reading... http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/12/why-i-a... dives into some differences. The key one IMO being that no neoreactionary should actually vo
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by xyience 10y ago
No one is apologizing for shit, because there is nothing to apologize for. That's the response you've been getting. If you want to see what apologizing for content looks like, take note of defenders of e.g. Linus' asshole rem
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by xyience 10y ago
I was also surprised by the choice to donate the money. Given the huge homelessness problem in SF, I get the impression it's meant as a characteristic jab just as much as an act of charity.
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by xyience 10y ago
It still happens today, but perhaps more rarely. For physical copies I'd bet a large part of the problem is simply availability, and by the 2000s most labels had gotten better at a solid distribution flow. If you sell out 10k albums in
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by xyience 10y ago
Musk commented recently that he is indeed keeping a sharp eye on new-gen batteries, but nothing looks good for business use in the near-term horizon.
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by xyience 10y ago
There's also long been talk about a big earthquake due in central Utah. Really there are so many "big ones" due it'd be thematically disappointing if they didn't all happen at once and then set off Yellowstone as a
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by xyience 10y ago
The effort to create something has always factored into the price. It's not the only factor, but it's there. Additionally, I take the main point of the response of "trivial" (in the case of typesetting it's often ju
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by xyience 10y ago
Thanks for all your Lisp comments. As an extra reference the tool I was thinking of for the "debug this pixel" feature was the venerable PIX: http://www.garagegames.com/community/blogs/view/14251 It

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