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by ziotom78 9y ago
This article reminds me of a book I read many years ago, "The Mozart forgeries", by Daniel Leeson [1]. It tells the story of two forgers which create the autographs of two Mozart's most beloved works for clarinet, the Clarine
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Agreed! :-) However, making students see how complex constructs translate into a sequence of simple assembler operations helps a lot in understanding what compilers are all about.
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Thank you for creating this nice tool! I am teaching a C++ class, and sometimes I connect to Compiler Explorer in real time to explain how things are translated into low-level operations. I found this approach eye-opening for students, as i
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The is one thing I don't understand. The article reports the use of lasers to map the ground, yet they mention the presence of foliage in situ . Assuming that they use optical or infrared lasers, foliage should be completely opaque at
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I agree: in fact, i earn my wages by applying this very method every day! But one must also be aware of the limits of this method. A few of the specialists consulted by Salvatore Crisafulli's family were too sure of their beliefs, up t
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> I guess I feel that the medical profession is always going to be better off, in the long run, if we speak honestly and truthfully about what we know. I couldn't agree more. Although the case is different, I cannot help but remembe
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by ziotom78 9y ago
I read Pilecki's book (aThe Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery) and found it incredible. And I too was amazed to read in the introduction that during Pileki's detainment by the communist regime, he told one of his friends that, c
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Really interesting read. However, I fear that if other C library maintainers will start to use this kind of techniques, creating bindings for other languages will become increasingly difficult.
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> Could it possibly be that in general men and women want different things out of a career? A few years ago I watched a documentary, «The gender equality paradox» [1]. It discussed the strange fact that it is far more likely to find make
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Utah art teacher fired for having shown classical nude images(sltrib.com)
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There were several outbreaks in the centuries 14th-19th. Did the data used by the author cover all the major ones? My impression is that it is easier to recover data for the most recent outbreaks than for the older ones.
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Really?! Then I should consider moving from Italy to the UK! (I am a father of three, and here there are no exemptions at all for diapers, baby food, bottles, and so on. VAT here is 22%.)
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Given that parents need to buy diapers, kid clothes, and other stuff needed by babies, if UK still has VAT I do not believe that parents are «net drains».
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I disagree. I have three kids, and before them being born I was aware that being a parent means a lot of work. But I realize now that I was not really understanding what being a father really means. It's much more laborious, complex ye
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No news since 2009: http://www.kanzelsberger.com/pixel/
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I would be happy to put it on slideshare, but it's going to be written in italian… Be sure to check this video, as it is very good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3dkRsTqdDA&index=38&list=FL...
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Agreed. In a few days I'm supposed to give a lecture about how to write great scientific papers. I wasn't aware of this paper (I'm aphysicist, not a mathematician), but nevertheless I'm going to discuss it with the class
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I was not referring to templates only, but to the overall complexity of the C++ language. Examples: syntactic ambiguities, the preprocessor... Templates are a big part of the problem, but not the only one for sure. Languages like Free Pasca
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by ziotom78 9y ago
Not the OP, but here are my 2¢. Introducing generics in a language implies a deep revision of the type system, which risks to become much more complex to understand. Moreover, this might have a bad impact on compilation performance (compare
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Well said.
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Had I read an article opening with the sentence: «Here is a .NET runtime alternative which is however 100 times slower…», I would have quickly dismissed it, shame on me. This article is right, the DotNetAnywhere code really seems a gem, wel
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I think he was trying to explain why he immediately configured wake on lan, ssh and so on: had he encountered problems in the configuration, he could have returned the item to the store.
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I fully agree. The Confessions is an incredibly modern book, when I read it the first time I couldn't believe it was written at the time of the Roman Empire. Also, the text is full of wit, like when he describes time (“What then is tim
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by ziotom78 9y ago
C++11 has this feature too [1], e.g.: const char * str = R"*^*(This is string containing an embedded "quoted" string)*^*"; [1] http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/string_lite
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Agreed. However, being a researcher in an Italian university, I fully understand their difficulty in finding this sum…
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Not entirely true: I am an astrophysicist, and I can say that this practice would be extremely useful for my discipline as well. In cosmology (my field) we use codes that are often extremely complex, yet they are not usually released togeth
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I am in a similar situation, as I develop a lot of scientific code. I've tested several solutions, and so far the most viable for me (though far from perfect) is Python+NumPy+Fortran, the latter exposed to Python using f2py (much easie
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I see that Pixel represents each character on the screen as a "char". This does not seem a simplification made when writing the blog post, as the Rxterm library does the same [1]. Doesn't this limit too much the applicability
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I used to use org-mode to take down notes when I attended seminars or meetings (I'm an astrophysicist). However, a feature I missed was the ability to quickly take photos to insert into my notes, in order to capture slides or calculati
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If I understand well, Ada packages provide the necessary architecture for this kind of stuff. A package is like a Python "module", but it is typically split in two files: a specification, just containing the declaration of all the

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