chancho

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by chancho 5y ago
"White diaspora" is blowing my mind a bit. I think I would have been slapped by my social studies teachers if I ever used that phrase to describe colonialism. (I'm white, US)
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by chancho 9y ago
Careful, that pseudocode has a famous error in it. Finding it is an illuminating exercise.
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by chancho 15y ago
JavaScript for Node ? Isn't that a bit like saying "Java for Minecraft"? I can think of at least one popular use of JavaScrip that predates Node.
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by chancho 15y ago
Boost.Intrusive does this, without the casting or offsetof'ing. http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_47_0/doc/html/intrusive.html Not that most of what you said isn't true. Just picking the nit that 'the container owns the data' holds only for
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by chancho 15y ago
You have a strange definition of "excel".
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by chancho 15y ago
Totally agree, but I just have to pick one nit on your final point re GHC and unpacking: If you do this you forfeit all generic programming because a 'lifted' polymorphic type has to be represented by pointer to a heap object. This is where
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by chancho 15y ago
Have you looked at the Haskell Ix class? http://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/ix.html It generalizes the choice of 0 or 1 to an arbitrary starting index. So when you create an array you specify not just where it ends but also where it beg
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by chancho 15y ago
Why is there not a service that tracks news stories and algorithmically relates them into the narrative of history, driven by the singular question of "why?"? Something in between google news and quora/stack exchange (anonymized to avoid em
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by chancho 15y ago
I think a better analogy would be a farmer tending to his crops. Google users are not the customers, they're the product.
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by chancho 15y ago
C++ template's aren't just unusual, they're unique among mainstream languages. They're C++'s secret weapon. These days, if you're not making heavy use of templates in your C++ code then you're using the wrong language. Like you said, many
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by chancho 15y ago
The more targeted the advertising, the more effective and therefore valuable it is. But it's still hard to know what people want or need to buy right now They can (and do) personalize it somewhat, but just aren't as well-placed as face
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by chancho 15y ago
"Some of the best ideas may initially look like they're serving the movie and TV industries. Microsoft seemed like a technology supplier to IBM before eating their lunch, and Google did the same thing to Yahoo."
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by chancho 15y ago
If the good costs more to make than the buyer is willing to pay then there is no price because there is no sale, so clearly price depends on cost. Functions can have more than one input.
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by chancho 15y ago
I just about spat my coffee out when I saw that nio bytebuffers used 32 bit ints for everything. (I'm not normally a java guy.) I thought "oh hey a direct byte buffer will be a great way to keep all this data from blowing up the heap AW WTF
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by chancho 15y ago
What a treasure trove of open source project / startup names. Gobo, Boober, Mokey, Doozer, Gorg. One of them already ends in ly, Wembly.
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by chancho 15y ago
The presence of "octonions" in the boost library kept me from seriously considering it for like 2 years. I understand the rationale--that by making it monolithic they're getting more libraries installed on more developer's machines--but com
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by chancho 15y ago
Because Google has a monopoly on non-shitty free email with GMail, in the same way that Microsoft has (had?) a monopoly on hardware-independent operating systems with DOS/Windows. (I wish I was really being sarcastic, you know because there
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by chancho 15y ago
> what happens in HPC tends to filter down to servers Is this conventional wisdom? How does a petaflop race affect app servers and databases? It seems like most traditional server workloads could get by without a single FPU. The only th
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by chancho 15y ago
What exactly does "viable" mean in this context? Because the husband and wife team behind NameVoyager have had the baby name trend visualization market cornered for years now. http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager# They aren't just using
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by chancho 15y ago
Space leaks, stack overflows (foldl vs. foldl'), failed pattern matches (head []), etc. There are tons of bugs lurking in well-formed Haskell programs.
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by chancho 15y ago
Just to pile on: 0-based indexing is also more convenient when you want to build a multi-dimensional array from a one-dimensional array primitive using the integer division and modulo operators to map between 1D and nD indices. E.g., a mat
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by chancho 15y ago
> Take C++ for example. Everyone who has mastered C++ knows that you call a class that implements operator() a functor. Nope. This is what dilettantes call them. Capable C++ programmers (I don't claim to be a master, that would be fooli
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by chancho 15y ago
Surely the premium costs will be higher than the subsidy, so in some sense the headline is right, although I'm not quite sure what point it's trying to make. Health care costs money. In Canada in 2009, it cost $5452 per person. http://en.w
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by chancho 15y ago
That's a good analogy to describe the current state of things, by why can't we aim for something better? For example, I would not be afraid to put a random CD in my CD player.
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by chancho 15y ago
So, GSD is just "grep -r static . | grep -v class" then?
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by chancho 15y ago
For the sake of argument: What is an example of an optimization that a JIT compiler can make that a AOT compiler cannot? If the developer is able to profile the application on typical end-user workloads, don't profile-guided optimizations p
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by chancho 15y ago
On the other hand, servicing the interest on the mortgage can be more expensive than rent, and the amortization schedule is such that for the early part of the mortgage you are only paying interest, not paying down principal in any substant
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by chancho 15y ago
Where do Google Scholar and CiteSeer fit into this analogy? Can't speak for other fields, but in CS any outlet worth submitting to will let you post a preprint on your own website, and from there Google Scholar will pick it up and place the
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by chancho 15y ago
"In this field we don't rely on peer-reviewed journals...papers are also published in journals, but I believe this is a formality that has more to do with obtaining grants and such than with actual communication within the community." So pe
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by chancho 15y ago
Likewise. I used the flash player in state A, then moved to state B and bought an iPhone, but I continually get adds related to state A on my phone. Never got a single add when I actually lived in state A, though.

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