KaeseEs

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by KaeseEs 13y ago
There are many, many people who use C and rarely or never use C++. Most embedded work is done in C, the Linux and BSD kernels are in C, etc. There are a variety of reasons for this, with audit-ability and debug-ability being two big ones.
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by KaeseEs 13y ago
Are there any articles out there detailing this? I've never heard this part of either story.
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by KaeseEs 13y ago
I don't know any data scientists, or even what one is really, but here's the EE explanation: the Fourier transform maps a signal in the time domain to the frequency domain, and vice versa. So if you have a sine wave in the time d
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Ask HN: Alternatives to GMail?
8 points by KaeseEs 13y ago|7 comments
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by KaeseEs 13y ago
Great analysis, although I'm curious how the idea that doing a bunch of 64 bit ops in order to accomplish byte arithmetic came about to begin with - was the function in question not written by a firmware guy?
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by KaeseEs 13y ago
"Being professional" is not about all agreeing to the same ideology, but consistent standards of behavior are the core of professionalism. If we cannot agree that screaming "SHUT THE FUCK UP!" and calling people brain-d
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by KaeseEs 13y ago
On the one hand, OCaml is a very interesting language and I welcome a good book about it in the vein of Real World Haskell. On the other hand, it is the height of treason for O'Reilly to make a book with a camel on the cover that isn't abo
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by KaeseEs 13y ago
I don't think that's an entirely fair take on the situation. There was a great series of comments on Russ Cox's blog in late 2009[1] by longtime Boost contributor and general brainiac Rivorous about the benefits of generic programming a la
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by KaeseEs 13y ago
> I mean when you get a rate that high, it seems like it must be just a relatively heavy element, and a metal, like Gold, and relatively unreactive (just carrying ions and such). This is the opposite of the truth. Lithium is not dense
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by KaeseEs 13y ago
It would be easier (for me at least, but I suspect others as well) to take Bitcoins seriously if the backbone of the Bitcoin economy weren't the Magic The Gathering Online Exchange, which apparently is crippled by loads of less than 40 tran
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by KaeseEs 13y ago
Organometallic reagents like dimethyl mercury have their own entry in the same series of blog posts as the OP, cf. http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2009/10/23/things_i_won...
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by KaeseEs 13y ago
Real Software Engineering, by Glenn Vandenburg. Not a perfect talk (especially the conclusions IMO), but a very good exploration of how some of the common beliefs in the field of software "engineering" came to be, and how something resembl
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by KaeseEs 13y ago
The 10x figure is pseudoknowledge - something we "all know" that isn't actually true (or that at least we have no good reason to believe to be true), cf. http://vimeo.com/9270320 . In brief: the study that it is ultimately derived from h
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by KaeseEs 14y ago
I'm interested in what the accuracy, stability and precision of this barometer are. For the use case that they were put into that phone (and the price point it implies), I am unsure whether data reported from these phones will be useful fo
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by KaeseEs 14y ago
I hate sites that intercept '/', which I normally use for searching text on a page. If I wanted to use your search function I'd click in the box. I'm looking at you, Gmail and Bitbucket!
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by KaeseEs 14y ago
Yes, hate the player. Unethical behavior does not become fine because it is popular. Stop norming abuse.
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by KaeseEs 14y ago
This intentional use of the definition of a word from one context in another context is equivocation, a form of dishonesty that it makes little sense to tolerate.
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by KaeseEs 14y ago
In the domain I work in (firmware for digital instruments and industrial systems), knowing assembly isn't necessary for performance reasons so much as for sanity reasons - a lot of vendor compilers for embedded devices are incredibly flaky,
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by KaeseEs 14y ago
I see that the equity stake that YC gets is variable from 2-10%, presumably based on valuation. I had thought it was a fixed 7% stake; is this new or had I not noticed it before?
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by KaeseEs 14y ago
This is a slightly worse version of the behavior that prompted JWZ's first rant about bugtrackers in open source software (cf. http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html ).
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by KaeseEs 14y ago
How do you consider Lebanon to be homogeneous? The religious divide there is so deep and long-standing that it is enshrined in law, with power in the government divided along confessional lines.
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by KaeseEs 14y ago
Harvard is not going to bake ethics or morals into students during their time there, try or not. Additionally, your blithe assertion that "but everyone was doing it!" is a valid defense is... unsettling.
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by KaeseEs 14y ago
The graph shows a 1000-ish percent increase in tuition since 1978, the 439% number later on the page is the cost (not tuition) increase since 1982. Measuring different things from different starting points.
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by KaeseEs 14y ago
This is entirely wrong. North Carolina and later Pennsylvania were nailed years ago for similarly unconstitutional schemes favoring in-state companies and had to similarly solve them with retroactive taxes on their own citizens. The only
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by KaeseEs 14y ago
That's a difference of $450, not $4,500.
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by KaeseEs 14y ago
I'm quite surprised that idTech4 was using _any_ malloc implementation aside from the initial allocation of the memory pool that it would use for its actual runtime allocator.
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by KaeseEs 14y ago
Another negative trend that's clearly happened in this thread is drive-by voting: all of your interlocutor's posts have negative points, whereas the only posts in the thread that deserved any downvotes were the initial post (the only legiti
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by KaeseEs 14y ago
Here's where the analogy falls apart - civil engineering does not provide for coordinated efforts among thousands of construction workers. Construction management does. Any large building project will involve a civil or structural enginee
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by KaeseEs 14y ago
It is flatly untrue that you cannot use the C++ STL if you don't use exceptions. std::nothrow exists for exactly that reason.
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by KaeseEs 14y ago
Lisp implementations have had excellent GCs that are broadly better than the JVM for years.

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