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by zarkov99 6y ago
Yes, though C++ programs are faster than Scheme programs, programming in Scheme is faster than programming in C++.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Ah yes, this is particularly effective in CS where students are giving up extraordinarily high salaries for the privilege of teaching undergrads.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
What worked for me was changing my computing environment to use only beautiful technology (at least as I perceived it). That means a few things: high performance, elegance, understandability and small, high quality communities. For me, at t
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Oh, it is easy, the US is trying it right now. Inflate the administration body, filling the University with a majority of career bureaucrats who contribute nothing to research, teaching or learning. Then inflate tuitions to unaffordable lev
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by zarkov99 6y ago
The thing is the tradeoff makes more sense for the developer, who gets his job done quicker, than to the customer who pays for the sloppy bloat every time he uses the software.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
A little wrong. It does matter that the thing is always cool to the touch and it can run all day, even under heavy load. That is pretty new to my knowledge.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
I only skimmed the book but I got the impression that it was a commentary on how scaling "laws" pervade all classes of complex systems, systems as different as a city and the human vascular system, and how understanding these led
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by zarkov99 6y ago
I love i3 and I have used it every day for years. Having just gotten a Mac though I have to say I miss the animations specially when changing workspaces. It's easy to get lost in i3 without them.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
> Instead of growing cabbage in prime real estate in Copenhagen, why don't we invest in Africa, give them some huge machines and then buy their produce? Perhaps because the Danes rather be self-sufficient with respect to food, than
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Public opinion.
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Why Americans? I think the whole world would enjoy it.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
I think there is some value to that metric but I would not call it excellent. A really good developer might come up with a slight requirement change or an engineering detour that makes many tickets meaningless, he might improve tooling such
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Taibbi made the same point in the article: > These firms pay more significantly more for Robinhood’s order flow than they do for the order flow of other firms: an average of 17% more, according to a Bloomberg analysis.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
There is only so much order flow they could get if most people did what you do. The fact that the have been down in high volatility days indicates to me there is plenty of trading going on.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
I think we can knock them, or at least I personally would not sleep very well if I worked there. RH is making it incredibly easy (and addictive) for naive investors to access complex financial instruments and is selling their order flow at
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by zarkov99 6y ago
If you can get past being offended by the tone, this is a good article and it is on the side of the younger traders. It is unreasonable to expect 20 year olds, of any generation, to resist gambling disguised as investing, especially in the
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by zarkov99 6y ago
I think other than proximity to Asia, Austin has all of this and fewer of the problems. I would not be surprised if there is a significant shif in the coming years.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
I think VS Code does a better job than emacs with C++ intellisense with the same constraints. CMake is fast becoming the defacto build system for C++.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
The university situation is not particularly unique in SV. What other infrastructure do you mean?
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by zarkov99 6y ago
What does HR have to do with anything/?
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by zarkov99 6y ago
All true, but sometimes bad things are indeed one's fault, or at least under one's control, and the first step towards remedy is taking responsibility.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Do you really? I have been trying to get it to run properly for years for c++ and I found it buggy to the point of uselessness.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
I have to object to TV being vital in any way, shape or form. Come on. Even if you accept that watching TV is somehow essential during this period, which it is not, there are enough archived shows and movies for people to watch for multiple
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by zarkov99 6y ago
This is good. We have a problem of accountability in our media. Spewing nonsense for years should come with consequences even if it gets you clicks.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
> Well, every time there is a bug fix in one of your dependencies you/your distribution would have to recompile everything that depends on it. Which will use quite some resources. This is far for more clear cut. Often some dependenc
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by zarkov99 6y ago
The new XPS 15 I am writing this on works fine on Ubuntu. So did the Thinkpad I used before it and the XPS 13 before that. I spent 0 time debugging. I am not sure how the Windows experience would compare, but I am fairly happy, with maybe t
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by zarkov99 6y ago
I think the days of understanding your stack top to bottom are gone, unfortunately, but at least with Linux I am not being spied on, bullied into installing updates I do not want, prevented from installing things I do want, and in general b
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by zarkov99 6y ago
You are very wrong. Perhaps you were right once, but definitely not in 2020. Linux is, by far, the best environment for professional programmers, unless of course the programmers target the Mac or Windows exclusively.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
> Apple is the worst of the lot, by far the most culpable, as they're directly attacking the notion of ownership and computing freedom. How are they worse than Microsoft?
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by zarkov99 6y ago
You are not wrong, buy it is an easy fix, just install Linux and take back your computer! You might loose a little comfort initially but that will soon come back.

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