bitmadness

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by bitmadness 3y ago
Does he have a reputation for poor hygiene?
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by bitmadness 7y ago
Epic win response lol
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by bitmadness 7y ago
I'm a CS grad student at Caltech. My absolute favorite intro theory book (the one I recommend to undergrads and people just starting out) is Algorithms by Vazirani, Dasgupta, and Papadimitriou. Extremely well written and a great select
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by bitmadness 7y ago
It says some packages will receive updates. Which ones?
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by bitmadness 7y ago
I think you meant an 8-core i7, there are no 8-core i5's.
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by bitmadness 7y ago
The author incorrectly states that the k-th Fibonacci number can be computed in O(1) time. Actually the algorithm he describes runs in O(k) time.
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by bitmadness 7y ago
Hey Walter, I really admire your work. I'm curious though, do you think D is potentially in danger of trying to do too many things? No one wants another mess like C++.
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by bitmadness 7y ago
I used to run Debian, but I switched to Fedora a few years ago and haven't looked back. Fedora is always sleek and up-to-date, unlike Debian, which due to its outdated packages always ends up looking like the plain step-sister. I also
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Debian 10 Is Released(phoronix.com)
1 points by bitmadness 7y ago|0 comments
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by bitmadness 7y ago
Woke me up this morning, pretty wild
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by bitmadness 7y ago
Used to code quite a bit in Haskell, but I've moved on. I believe in the philosophy "Simple things should be easy, hard things should be possible"; Haskell forgets the first part.
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by bitmadness 7y ago
If they had Unicode support and multicore support in the language I'd be a lot more interested.. hopefully in five or ten years we'll get there.
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by bitmadness 7y ago
I took a class from Amie. Brilliant researcher!
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by bitmadness 7y ago
It's excellent, highly recommend.
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by bitmadness 7y ago
When will this be part of FreeBSD?
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by bitmadness 7y ago
Beautifully written post.
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by bitmadness 7y ago
I don't think it has been actually released yet... The main page is still pointing to OpenBSD 6.4, and the 6.5 page says it will be released on May 1.
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by bitmadness 8y ago
Really neat project, beautiful code.
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by bitmadness 8y ago
What about LibreSSL?
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by bitmadness 8y ago
It looks cool, but I have no idea how to use it. You guys need to give a proper tutorial page, where you show how to from 0 to working app.
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by bitmadness 8y ago
This looks amazing! Does it support parallel/multicore programming?
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by bitmadness 8y ago
Manuel Blum is my academic great grandfather, i.e my advisor's advisor's advisor. He is a legend. Very sad to see this happen.
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by bitmadness 8y ago
Wow, this is the end of an era! Guido has had an extraordinary impact on the direction of Python and software engineering more generally, and I thank him for his contributions.
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by bitmadness 8y ago
I'm confused - did he read all that as his opening remarks? Seems pretty wrong, but it's written that way...
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by bitmadness 9y ago
I'm a PhD student in CS at Caltech. Last year we had 600 applications, interviewed ten candidates, and made exactly one offer. I shared this on Facebook and all my profs started making fun of it.
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by bitmadness 9y ago
MSR researchers have a lot of freedom, Microsoft doesn't micromanage exactly what they work on.
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by bitmadness 9y ago
One data point: I was at Georgia Tech for undergrad, now at Caltech for a CS PhD. Both are good schools, but Caltech is definitely considered more "elite". As a Caltech student, I definitely attract attention that I just didn&#x27
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by bitmadness 9y ago
These demos are cool but really highlight the fact that we are decades away from quantum computers that perform useful work.. So far all I've seen are parlor tricks.
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by bitmadness 9y ago
Pretty good explanation mate! No need for that disclaimer ;)
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by bitmadness 9y ago
I don't like this word "Superior". Just say higher.

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