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by averell 4y ago
This discussion is already dead, but for posterity: The real motivation was actually a performance improvement, as can be seen at https://github.com/golang/go/commit/55c458e05f35d0d5d539107d...
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by averell 7y ago
I don't think that is true anymore: https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-spot-530-000-potenti...
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by averell 8y ago
And Wiley / ProjectDEAL just yesterday reached a breakthrough: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/01/groundbreaking-deal-m... Suprisingly little coverage, but things aren't looking great for Elsevi
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by averell 9y ago
I just don't think it's likely that the real reason most software is crappy, is because nobody thought of extending unit test coverage yet. Selling tools here is not "the other way", it's the same problem. What if t
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by averell 9y ago
It's hard to build your consultant image by telling people that multiple methods and tools might work. It's easier to market a simple cure. Also, the point to "stop making shitty software" is not the same as "stop m
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by averell 9y ago
It's just numbers of letters in the alphabet, e.g. 0615180523151804 == "foreword"
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by averell 9y ago
They certainly are going above and beyond. It's basically impossible to find a good VPN that works with Netflix, and they also block pretty much every IP range where you can get a VPS. They are just much more effective than any other g
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by averell 10y ago
No, the article states the method will correctly remove the mentioned whitespace characters even from UTF-8 text, because they are part of the 7 bit subset this method works on.
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by averell 10y ago
That is very much possible in many cases. Zero cost abstractions exist: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/05/11/traits.html
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by averell 10y ago
Actually they just killed that program, and you won't be able to log via certificates starting early next year.
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by averell 10y ago
Not a lot of mention of AI for CS, even in 2002. What about (2080+, P/=NP, proof techniques completely opaque to humans). And by that I don't mean mechanical exclusion of special cases like for map-coloring. As mentioned already,
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by averell 12y ago
>The people yelling at you are trying desperately to pretend like it was easy so they don’t feel like an idiot for how long it took them to figure things out. This in turn makes you feel like an idiot for taking so long to grasp the “eas
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by averell 12y ago
Not yet - gcc (GCC) 4.9.2 20150204 (prerelease) But the article reasoning of having to stick it out for a long time doesn't apply anyway when you have a rolling release.
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by averell 12y ago
If that would disqualify then so would feeling good about it without telling people, it's the same kind of compensation. And he could even tell people the same thing without really donating, so the act itself is actually altruistic aft