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by zvrba 12y ago
Related: eMIPS from Microsoft; a CPU supporting dynamic (run-time) definition of instructions. Runs on a FPGA. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/emips/default.a...
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by zvrba 12y ago
> For example, it fails to tell apart addition from the constant function 7. Right. But how would you test for the addition function without exhaustive O(N^2) search over the whole input space? (You need to test for commutativity; if y
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by zvrba 12y ago
> it doesn't really have the same semantics as the one language they are used to His complaint is that Swift does have mostly the same semantics as Objective C, and offers only a prettified syntax.
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by zvrba 12y ago
> Those values have types, so those get tested as a side effect without any additional effort. Not in the presence of implicit conversions, often insane in dynamic languages. (like, 12 + "34a" gives 46).
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by zvrba 12y ago
What's wrong with the following much simpler construction: each node contains an array of TWO links, and the hash table itself contains an "int link" field. Readers traverse the chain using the pointer indexed by the link fie
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by zvrba 12y ago
> When you don't have trust, It is difficult, if not impossible, to build trust because the population isn't educated, they don't trust the government from before, and there is no infrastructure for wide-spread disseminati
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by zvrba 12y ago
IMO, invading some African countries, searching for sick people and enforcing quarantine would be more useful than getting involved in a new war in Syria/Iraq.
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by zvrba 12y ago
> You're declaring a conclusion that goes against the outcomes of several pages of heavy argument. When you do this, it's customary to attempt to support your position with arguments. :) The argument is the conclusion from the
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by zvrba 12y ago
Some people deliberately miss the point. Oh well, replace "nil" above with "()".
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by zvrba 12y ago
Conclusion on the page: > Q: Is Homoiconic much ado about nothing ? A: Yes, after much wasted bandwidth on c2 this seems to be the only logical conclusion. I would add my $.02 to the discussion. Homoiconicity is the "same" repr
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by zvrba 12y ago
> I'm not sure what you mean by "large" but Jane Street has apparently millions of lines of OCaml written. Ocaml is a nice, pragmatic hybrid of imperative, OO and FP. Adding sporadic side-effects to some component (1) will
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by zvrba 12y ago
First I'll comment on footnote #1 in the text: > "Here, I refer to OO concepts as available today in the mainstream. Initially, objects were planned to be more like autonomous cells that exchange messages, very similar to what
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by zvrba 12y ago
> Thinking in terms of object graphs almost inevitably leads to very complex and nuanced solutions, with lots of hidden dependencies, that only work under certain conditions, and where you may need an expert or two around to help out whe
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by zvrba 12y ago
Related; an example of efficient government action: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_outbreak_of_smallpox_in_Yu... Somehow I don't believe that an action like this is possible in a democracy :/
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by zvrba 12y ago
> Salt does have an immediate effect on blood pressure, as you said, because of osmotic effects. Oh, that's also how it kills slugs! (Irrelevant remark; I've just put together two contexts containing "osmotic pressure&quot
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by zvrba 12y ago
Posts like this make me just more convinced about that C combines the worst of "portability" and "assembly" into "portable assembly".
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by zvrba 12y ago
I have read, not in detail, but enough to get the gist of things, and it is also talking about permissions of storage locations. I'm thus making an informed guess that the whole patent is also about bytecode checking on the CLR level.
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by zvrba 12y ago
> Shareholders should be furious. You can't change the past, so what'd be the point of getting furious at the management?
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by zvrba 12y ago
From the article: "It is a logging system, and it is used to record performance and debugging information by everything from the kernel upwards." It's apparent that he did not do his homework. ETW is much closer to DTrace tha
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by zvrba 12y ago
As somebody who tried to use ETW, I can say that the OP didn't do his homework. Everything you need to know about ETW is described here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb96.
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by zvrba 12y ago
Aspirin has anti-inflammatory properties. Could it be that some cancers are a consequence of a long-term, low-grade inflammation (possibly, a consequence of infection with some kind of unknown virus)? Is low-grade inflammation detectable by
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by zvrba 12y ago
> I can't tell if you're being sarcastic. I'm not. The process is well described, it tells you exactly prerequisites, in which order to build them, and how to configure the directory structure for building gcc itself. It w
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by zvrba 12y ago
> Well, GCC is next-to-impossible to compile for a target other than the host, especially if the target isn't x86 or ARM; You're exaggerating. I had no problems compiling gcc 3.something targeting MIPS-I on an x86 Linux host.
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by zvrba 12y ago
A question for the more knowledgeable: I remember reading that OpenVMS was not ported to i386 (and later) because the CPU didn't have sufficient support. Can somebody elaborate on what exactly CPU features OpenVMS needs?
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by zvrba 12y ago
... or some others: 7: The universe is larger than our visible light cone. "They" may be "hiding" outside of our visible universe. 8: (even more mind-bending) "They" are hiding in the dark matter, i.e., they AR
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by zvrba 12y ago
If you follow me on twitter (temporarily), I will send you a direct message :) Same username as here. Then I'll also explain the reason for "secrecy".
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by zvrba 12y ago
I'd rather not say publicly.
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by zvrba 12y ago
I assumed it was not because they only talk about "time spent practicing" surveyed from 88 different papers, which may include "practice" and "deliberate practice", and further down they write: > She hopes t
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by zvrba 12y ago
I think the key is "deliberate practice" -- google it; but here's an OK article: http://www.fastcompany.com/3020758/leadership-now/why-delibe... But before learning about 'deliberate practice&#
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by zvrba 12y ago
> Asking them to "pony up" their own money would, with no doubt in my mind, drive them away and completely destroy Reddit. He wrote nowhere that mods should pay. I as a user would certainly pay $10/yr to keep subreddits I

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