zohebv

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by zohebv 15y ago
The question has been protected on stackoverflow, so answering here. Yes a mirror 13.5 light years away can do the trick. But there is some fundamental lack of understanding regarding relativity that has lead to such a question. In fact, t
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by zohebv 15y ago
One of the interesting details is that Go Pro required 786 lines of code as opposed to 850 lines of C++ code and 297 lines of Scala Pro code. Regular Go code was 902 lines. It certainly doesn't look like Go scores any expressiveness points
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by zohebv 15y ago
I looked at the article and it seems to strengthen the argument for calling it a GNU/Linux distribution. The top contributors as per the chart. 1. kernel 9% 2. gnu 8% 3. kde 8% 4,5 java, mozilla 6% 6. gnome 3% If you combine gnu with gnome,
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by zohebv 15y ago
I have read both of them and I strongly prefer Griffiths to Corson. Lorraine and Corson are extremely rigorous but IMO their explanation of EM is upside down :-) They first explain special relativity and derive the EM equations using it. Bu
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by zohebv 15y ago
I am surprised the negative comments on HN. I worked at Microsoft, where one team followed your policy while another did not and lunch time was always better with the team that had your policy. I think you should really just ignore the comm
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by zohebv 16y ago
I have bitten severely by 2. I think having parameterized modules can go a long way in eliminating the pain of refactoring.
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by zohebv 16y ago
First you claim, apparently the book was an act of love, which it clearly isn't. It is as scathing as the C++ FQA. The book has a dozen authors from respected institutions and you claim to know people who contributed to the book personally
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by zohebv 16y ago
Seriously, can you give me any example of their love of Unix. They strongly preferred Lisp machines. Please don't make up random "facts". It is irritating to find false statements being upvoted just because noone bothers to double check the
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by zohebv 16y ago
I take it that you haven't actually read the Unix Haters handbook. They clearly have no love for Unix. "Each graft of a new subsystem onto the underlying core has resulted in either rejection or graft vs. host disease with its concomitant p
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by zohebv 16y ago
I know I am repeating a previous comment but the author correctly explains it here http://notes-on-haskell.blogspot.com/2007/02/whats-wrong-wit... In Haskell all parameters are lazy by default, which effectively turns every parameter into
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by zohebv 16y ago
> Our system is pretty, damn fair, even though once in awhile it fails and an innocent person goes to prison. From Wikipedia, in Illinois, 12 men had been executed since 1977. During that same period, 13 men were freed from death row i.
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by zohebv 16y ago
No, we are not talking about "survival". If an alien were to observe that of the 3 tribes one spent 50 hrs working, the other 30 hrs and 20 hrs respectively, he will conclude that it is the tribes working 50 hrs that have a tough time survi
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by zohebv 16y ago
While technological progress can be deflationary I have to strongly disagree that work is disappearing. I don't think we are ever going to run out of work. In fact, more "primitive" societies had far lesser work to do - "studies show that h
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by zohebv 16y ago
> As a developer for and a user of iOS this just furthers Apple's value to me So, the disappearance of Pandora, Kindle & Netflix is great for the iOS user, because you can now subscribe without pulling out your credit card. > Th
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by zohebv 16y ago
I have very little respect for the fqa. It is just a laundry list of complaints; absurd whining about every item in the C++ FAQ. For eg : http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/assign.html If you are going to complain about a self assignment check in t
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by zohebv 16y ago
> Um...you do know that all the non-Alpha/x86 ports were considered failures in-house and dropped, right? This is patently false. > And the OS engineers who wrote the "portable" NT code have long since vested and moved on. The new k
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by zohebv 16y ago
They have it working on ARM internally already. And the current WP7 OS kernel is Windows CE, one of the most widely ported OS of all time, running on SH4, MIPS, x86, ARM i.e. almost any little-endian architecture.
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by zohebv 16y ago
> Then go to http://mises.org You lost me here. Thats the favorite website of Internet economists. It is unable to explain real economic/business cycles.
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by zohebv 16y ago
Handling updates to 7000 user accounts per second isn't what makes it hard for twitter. It is the propagation of these updates to a gazillion followers that taxes the system. Their primary overhead is the messaging update to followers. Asht
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by zohebv 16y ago
I think Google is being disingenuous with their "bing is copying my data" story. However, please avoid linking to roughlydrafted.com. At the risk of going ad-hominem, I just wanted to point out that if you have read any of the material on t
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by zohebv 16y ago
I stayed at a place where you could place online work orders. That was a much better interface than calling up. I did not place more work orders because of it, but I did them sooner. So, the number of days that the garbage disposal did not
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by zohebv 16y ago
> I think the last thing we would want is to make it easier for the tenant to complain about things. and > "Dissatisfied? Click here for a refund" are options that are miles apart. When you said that you don't want to maintain an ea
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by zohebv 16y ago
I think a bar code scanner/OCR kind of functionality could also be useful. If the other person does not have your app and isn't comfortable about sharing their email address, they can just photograph your card. Later they can download your
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by zohebv 16y ago
You need to know 1. Context Free Grammars (essentially regular expressions that can be recursive) 2. Two kinds of parsing techniques LL and LR. LR is much harder to implement. LL is straightforward recursive descent. You don't have to actua
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by zohebv 16y ago
To his credit he does call himself burgerbrain :-)
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by zohebv 16y ago
Generally yes (but not at astronomical scales), when everyone shares the same frame of reference. Moreover the star and earth in all likelihood don't share the same frame of reference. The distance between the two of us is very tiny. The er
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by zohebv 16y ago
Not in all frames of reference. There is a frame of reference in which the object appeared just 30.5 years ago. This would be a frame of reference which would be moving from the star towards the earth at 0.9999999999999999*c
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by zohebv 16y ago
This is correct. Relativity destroys all notions of simultaneity between 2 distant objects. We only have causally and non-causally related events. In this case, the black hole at age 35 can only causally affect us in the year 2015. To put i
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by zohebv 16y ago
> VirtualBox is not one of most popular open source VM. It is a popular VM among desktop users that want it for free. That's different. Haha, I missed this line. If its free then its popularity doesn't matter.
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by zohebv 16y ago
All that you are saying is that VirtualBox is not supported hardware and I must use supported hardware for the "it just works" experience. The premise is absurd, because ubuntu's website does not sell itself as an OS that "just works" http

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