alayne

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by alayne 3y ago
the bad ones are in Santa Barbara
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by alayne 3y ago
https://www.youtube.com/@6.824/videos
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by alayne 3y ago
It's stylized as "LOGO" in Papert's 1981 book Mindstorms and in papers written by Papert in the 1970s.
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by alayne 4y ago
Looks like some kind of hybrid. https://reviews.transmission1.net/2006/02/cobra-200-gtl-dx-s...
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by alayne 7y ago
Other languages don't generally have special order guarantees about standard maps. This seems very idiosyncratic.
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by alayne 7y ago
This isn't a sorted dictionary, it's an insertion order dictionary.
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by alayne 7y ago
I use OrderedDict in code that generates JSON records so the key orders are preserved to help human readability. LRU caches are another use case.
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by alayne 7y ago
As mentioned in The Friendly Orange Glow, it was started by people who worked on the PLATO system at the University of Illinois which added its Notes discussion system in 1973. PLATO ran until 2015.
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by alayne 7y ago
Do you think you might have a conflict of interest here?
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by alayne 8y ago
What is your stack? I feel like you are doing something odd if total build times are a bottleneck on development.
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by alayne 8y ago
Checked exceptions don't work right with streams/functional programming. They prevent abstractions that couldn't possibly be aware of custom checked exceptions. That's why Scala doesn't have them.
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by alayne 8y ago
It was though https://www.artima.com/intv/pyscale.html "So I never intended Python to be the primary language for programmers, although it has become the primary language for many Python users. It was intended to
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by alayne 8y ago
They aren't making a profit if that money is going to wages.
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by alayne 8y ago
Not only is HN full of smart people, people with high IQs are likely drawn to articles about high IQs.
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by alayne 8y ago
That comment was about the number of women who had won. Strickland is the third woman to win.
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by alayne 8y ago
Yes and I don't accept Y Combinator's word as empirical science either.
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by alayne 8y ago
I'm extremely sympathetic to mental health issues, but this article is based on a survey by a mental health charity. This is junk science.
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by alayne 8y ago
Have you seen the previous fad? Data centers full of idle servers.
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by alayne 8y ago
The O(1) amortized access of a hash table is for the number of entries, not key hashing or comparison. Doubling the number of entries does not double the retrieval time. As a hash table gets larger, the cost of key hashing (for the same dom
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by alayne 8y ago
The linked post is about Python startup being a problem with thousands of invocations. Is Python startup really a problem for the niches you mention, or is it a problem in some extreme edge cases? I would argue this is the latter and perhap
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by alayne 8y ago
You're just asserting that though. There was a study done on the removal of two of the racist/hate subreddits on reddit that indicated a positive affect. "In this paper, we studied the 2015 ban of two hate communities on Redd
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What did Alan Kay and Steve Jobs talk about at the 2007 iPhone keynote?(quora.com)
3 points by alayne 8y ago|0 comments
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by alayne 9y ago
Ignoring these external factors isn't going to make them go away and studying them could lead to ideas about removing bias and having more meritocratic systems.
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by alayne 9y ago
Netflix developed new software architectures to support its products. It's more rocket science than most of what people work on in the industry.
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by alayne 9y ago
Do have you have a reason for that?
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by alayne 9y ago
I don't think so. There are numerous counterexamples like PostScript, ECMAScript, and JavaScript. Those are trademarks, not regular proper nouns.
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by alayne 9y ago
If it were me I'd seriously consider staying in a hotel for a day or two. Hope you are okay.
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by alayne 9y ago
Do they? Good grades indicate grit in getting good grades. The question is whether that translates to other areas of life.
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by alayne 9y ago
privacy / trade laws / 14th amendment equal protection / due process It definitely does not feel right that some non government entity is deciding to encoding personally identifying information about you without public oversi
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by alayne 9y ago
He doesn't do warmups for JITted languages.

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