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by zik 11y ago
Nitpick - Go is very much an OO language. Almost everything is done using objects. It has a different way of handling inheritance however - it makes a different decision in the "Composition over inheritance" debate. https:/&
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by zik 11y ago
No problem. Sorry, I didn't realise English was your second language. Nice work on the library.
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The library looks neat but I'm horrified that he says "optimizates"... repeatedly. That is not a word. The word is "optimizes". The English pedant in me is having trouble getting past that.
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Yes, it's really an insertion sort where the insert step is done in parallel hardware. That's cool for small N but it's really still an O(N^2) algorithm.
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by zik 11y ago
ADS-B signals aren't suitable for satellite communications unfortunately. But you can get one of these satellite trackers for $120 so you'd think they could come up with something for less than $120k. http://findmespot.
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by zik 11y ago
The trade-off with templates is much slower compilation times. Often slow C++ compile times can be traced to enthusiastic use of templated types, particularly given that standard types like std::string are often defined as templates themsel
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by zik 11y ago
If all you listen to is Carsick Cars then their global ranking will be boosted and assuming that you listen an average amount all your royalty money will go to Carsick Cars. If you listen a greater than average amount then even more money w
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by zik 11y ago
I doubt their private blockchain will work for the very same reason they want a private blockchain - they're not trustworthy. The bitcoin blockchain is secured by the large number of disparate people mututally checking the system. When
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by zik 11y ago
One thing which bugs me about this article is he conflates "complex" with "good". As an electronic designer I spend a huge amount of effort trying to make things as simple as possible. Complexity may be required to meet
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by zik 11y ago
Switch mode power supplies are notorious emitters of radio frequency interference. There are regulations they have to pass and passing them is often one of the hardest parts of power supply design.
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by zik 11y ago
This was a big issue in the media in Melbourne a while back - media pundits calling for the road to be closed to bikes with lots of invective about how cyclists clearly didn't have the sense to take care of their own lives. I love it w
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It's mostly because the Go compiler was developed out of the plan9 compiler code base, which is unrelated to llvm. The other aspect is that the Go compiler is intended to be very fast. That's not an explicit design goal of llvm -
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by zik 11y ago
Melbourne's possibly a bad example. Instead of keeping housing prices down Melbourne has some of the highest housing costs in the world. The new apartments are poorly made and often don't even meet building regulations. The lack o
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by zik 11y ago
The "base load" argument for nuclear isn't really convincing any more now that Iceland and Costa Rica are already using 100% renewable energy sources and several other countries are approaching it rapidly.
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Interesting references thanks yet "official deaths" inherently underestimates the caused by nuclear energy. For instance there are only 28 official deaths for the Chernobyl disaster [1]. The WHO gives the number as "up to 400
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by zik 11y ago
I find it hard to understand why there's still support for nuclear power, particularly given its historical context of not being a very successful industry at all. * It's more expensive than the alternatives, including wind and so
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by zik 11y ago
Diesels are great for having a wide spread of torque from very low RPM which makes them very tractable for everyday driving. Race cars have different priorities. They need maximum power which generally results in a very peaky engine. They s
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by zik 11y ago
It's even more impressive since they only claim the lyrics - the melody came from an earlier song called "Good Morning". And since there were two sisters and only four unique words in the song that's basically two words
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by zik 11y ago
On the other hand there's now the option to pursue them in court for recovery of all the royalties already paid, since they didn't have the right to claim them in the first place. I think we'll be seeing a lot of that in the
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by zik 11y ago
I originally wrote it as a scripting language for a UAV controller I was making, and also as an exercise in keeping a language small and neat.
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Author here. I tried to make it small enough to run on tiny microcontrollers like the arduino but unfortunately C seems just a bit too complicated for that.
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by zik 11y ago
Hi, I'm the author of picoc. It's not self-hosting, no. It's meant to be small rather than a feature-complete implementation of C so it's unlikely it will ever be self-hosting.
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by zik 11y ago
Also it assumes that only one program is running on a machine and it's ok to use all the machine's resources. In practice that isn't true - if your web application uses twice as much server memory then you're going to be
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by zik 11y ago
I think they're just trying to make the best language they can. Surely they shouldn't compromise that for C compatibility?
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by zik 11y ago
> the Go code culture is basically about writing correct code without thinking about re-usability at all, because often you just can't. What a ridiculous statement. Go encourages elegant and simple interfaces to make code reuse easi
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by zik 11y ago
Unfortunately this isn't the world's first white laser. They've been around for a few years and they're sold by a few companies. http://www.leica-microsystems.com/science-lab/white-light-la... http
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by zik 11y ago
I think Facebook have misunderstood the niche of smartwatches. Saying that they're trying to deliver a "good Facebook experience" on such a small screen shows that they thinks it's just a smaller smartphone. But the stre
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by zik 11y ago
Fans of GC claim that GC outperforms malloc() based on some studies that were done a long time ago. The argument is that repeated malloc/frees are less efficient than a bunch of GC allocs and then a single garbage collection. The reali
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by zik 11y ago
Most cases of CFS seem to start out as a "post-viral syndrome". Basically people get a virus, recover from the virus but are left with ongoing fatigue symptoms. After six months it's declared to be CFS (CFS isn't a speci
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by zik 11y ago
ytalk is only an "apt-get install" away in Ubuntu. "write" is installed as standard, but ytalk is way better.

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