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by yzzxy 12y ago
As I said, I have no idea if this is what is happening, it would just fit in with the pattern of "weird" caching that I've heard HN uses - I mention Arc only because some of the caching is related to eliminating closures kept
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by yzzxy 12y ago
I'm not arguing they will not be able to tell the difference... I'm arguing it will cause confusion at some point, and maybe that's a negative externality of naming this product "Lambda." Nobody said "lose a ge
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by yzzxy 12y ago
The meaning of "lambda" in computer science is functionally (no pun intended) similar enough to what amazon is selling that people learning programming and nontechnicals or even IT pros who work with programmers will inevitably be
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by yzzxy 12y ago
I bet Google's car tech will start yielding returns for the company far before consumers drive robotic cars. I doubt they will make cars themselves.
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by yzzxy 12y ago
I can see the editor wars starting now: "Emacs gives you everything, including sliced bread!" "Vim gives you a knife."
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by yzzxy 12y ago
I would bet on technical reasons. From what I've read HN uses some unusual caching and optimization strategies - part of how the Arc application was optimized after initial development. I have no idea if this is the case here but it se
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Ironic that this is posted on news. ycombinator .com of all sites...
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Wouldn't airgapped computers have almost the same effect? EM sidechannels are probably comparable to acoustic for espionage difficulty.
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by yzzxy 12y ago
(Nonmechanical) computer keyboards, relatively quiet in the world of text input technology, have been found to be extremely vulnerable to acoustic attack: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~tygar/papers/Keyboard_Acoustic_
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by yzzxy 12y ago
The official forecast in China is presumably controlled by the government. That's what makes it "official". You can't possibly argue that because the US is not publicly shaming the Chinese government into release accurat
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Maybe traders have learned on an intuitive level to "fix" this pattern matching - clearly the processing circuitry / power / ability is there, so a trained difference in outlook could allow us to harness it properly.
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by yzzxy 12y ago
An example would be XCode/iOS. This (as I understand it) largely requires iOS and OSX to have similar kernels. My claim becomes strained when you move away from desktop applications. I really meant - if you're a coder, and you wan
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Ok, how about: "At some point, the software is most easily developed on the OS it runs on" There are exceptions to the rule of course, but much of the time development is going to happen on the target OS or in some kind of interli
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by yzzxy 12y ago
I was just thinking about the battle that would have to be fought to keep JS away from becoming the standard scripting language. JS is a mess - there are people doing great things with it like React, but it's a mess. There's a tot
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by yzzxy 12y ago
I've been dreaming of a fully rebuilt hacker-friendly OS for a while. Trouble is, it's hard to justify development, even for FOSS, unless you can find some kind of hook for the mainstream, for reasons that may not seem apparent at
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by yzzxy 12y ago
While I don't like Windows much and dual boot it mainly out of necessity, it was pretty easy to whip up a trigger (in the GUI task scheduler) for a script to trigger alarm music even when the computer was sleeping. The procedure goes s
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by yzzxy 12y ago
I may have not articulated this very well: Both groups in my metaphor (those who naturally understand the SAT questions from learning mathematical concepts, and those who are tutored on known SAT questions) were meant to be among the high s
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Well, perhaps some sunlight will change your habits: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/09/fiji-spin-bottle
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by yzzxy 12y ago
This is generally understood to be debunked, but I believe the oven wall particulate theory is still possible.
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Also, wine is barely better than water in terms of taste perception. Even wine "experts" can't differentiate wine in a blind test - they've been known to confuse red and white wine, give wildly inconsistent ratings to a
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by yzzxy 12y ago
> While there are some shortcuts they largely rely on having seen a problem before. I'm arguing that this is largely not true. These problems are grounded in basic CS[0] problems - implementing stacks, linked lists, standard sorts,
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Recruiting
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Why not just learn the CS, Algorithms, and Data Structures fundamentals that theses tests are looking for instead of gaming the system? There are some interview processes that are unfair, pedantic, or irrelevant to be sure (manhole covers c
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by yzzxy 12y ago
This is true, but the logistics and maintenance of a full fleet of those computers is far greater than a set of identical Pis that an admin can flash new cards for on demand.
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by yzzxy 12y ago
First of all, the author did not say she believed that, she argued that Joel Spolsky did. I'm going to respond to it anyway because I think a lot of people do think pointers and recursion separate the boys from the men[0]. In an era of
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by yzzxy 12y ago
> On the other hand there are YouTube embeds and the link to photos and videos points to Dropbox instead of an FTP server. Seems to me like Atkeson chooses to keep up with the trends that actually improve a page, and not the design trend
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Yes. I will hurriedly agree that the process is not perfect. But your followups to that first axiom are a little insane, and will alienate almost every musician. You basically argue musicians should act more like you. Do you really want a w
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by yzzxy 12y ago
I really, really hope this is satire. But I think it may be serious. The author is pushing the same ideas in other places (sorry for the signup-walled Quora link): http://jeffmeyerson.quora.com/Musicians-and-Engineers?srid=p
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Would you like to see it replace JS? I think many would argue something should before we train an entire generation in the idiosyncrasies of JS.
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by yzzxy 12y ago
This is totally true. There are a ton of things to criticize about VS, but I keep coming back to it because the autocomplete is perfect. It's so good! [0] Doing this in Emacs, etc, is possible. But it requires hours and hours of setu

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