darkestkhan

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by darkestkhan 12y ago
I'm actually surprised that people learn about this only now... It is quite standard (and very common) thing to do in Ada. But then we can "subtype Strength is Natural range Natural'First .. 32;" since 80s (numeric type
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by darkestkhan 12y ago
Oh, there is runtime type checking, though usually it is optimized out at compile time: it is for subtypes (which is mostly range checks) and checks of tags for tagged types (usually in class wide subprograms). Though both of them are often
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by darkestkhan 14y ago
Wake up. Quantum entanglement is at least 10000 x c, and somehow it doesn't brake causality. And information first leaves the origin and gets to you before you know that it left its origin. But no causality is broken. Everything is still ha
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by darkestkhan 14y ago
Someone did persuade them to shelve Ada... and then they get into this mess ;) They are unlucky - there is no better alternative in writing this kind of software than Ada [well, there is SPARK but it is subset of Ada with annotations].
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by darkestkhan 14y ago
You forgot about commercialization of fusion ;) and hyperloop... and in his case we would additionally have permanent space colony, on Moon, Mars, deep space and one to be created in Venus ;)
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by darkestkhan 14y ago
There are no such forests in Poland, and Poland is much closer to Chernobyl than Germany.
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by darkestkhan 14y ago
In many marketplaces you have to pay for place in order to open stand yet we still call them open marketplaces (as long as price is affordable, but I would consider 100$ to be such) so why when you apply the same mechanisms for "virtual sta
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by darkestkhan 14y ago
In many countries (India for example) medication itself is not patentable - but means of its production are. There are many mathematical functions that have to satisfy non-trivial constraints and none of them are patentable. Why is it so th
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by darkestkhan 14y ago
You're right. Note taken. English is pretty much compulsory in entire world. And the same can be said in Poland - almost everyone learns English in school (often for 9 years) and only 30-50% of those people can use it in its written form (a
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by darkestkhan 14y ago
The average student in the World encounters far more written English than average American student of any other language (in written form). And people outside of countries with English used on day to day basis don't encounter enough English
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by darkestkhan 14y ago
I did stop and thought about the tone. There were more comments (quite) similar to yours, so it was more at random that reply was to your comment. Usefulness? Ability to communicate with more than 1.7 * 10^9 people is not enough for you? Al
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by darkestkhan 14y ago
Stop whining. Start learning. Do you think that they (Chinese) don't have similar barrier when learning English? Do I have enough opportunities to interact with Japanese? No. But I'm still learning it. "Not enough opportunities to interact
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by darkestkhan 14y ago
And what about Technocracy ? It is quite cool alternative to Democracy. Probably too radical for current politics.
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by darkestkhan 14y ago
It is still open marketplace.
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by darkestkhan 14y ago
So constructive criticism will cause downvoting...
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by darkestkhan 14y ago
I would prefer set of experts - I don't see how lay person could be deciding in places where even experts can have problems.
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by darkestkhan 14y ago
Why he was downvoted? It is quite good comment...
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by darkestkhan 14y ago
They can also ship on SPARC ;)
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by darkestkhan 14y ago
I don't have problem with debugging and testing - since I'm programming in Ada most of the things that compile are already working properly (modulo errors in logic of program, but nothing in reality can help with this). In fact the only pla
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by darkestkhan 14y ago
Feature creep - that is what I'm guilty of.
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by darkestkhan 14y ago
I agree with you but I say we shouldn't depend on intuition - it too often is wrong.
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by darkestkhan 14y ago
There shouldn't be any patents for algorithms - algorithms are math, and math is not patentable.
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by darkestkhan 14y ago
I suppose you never learned about monads and monoids. But seriously: what is patentable in video codecs? Isn't it just math function? Give input in the domain of function and you get output. Beside side-effects are only reading input and wr
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by darkestkhan 14y ago
Especially when it happens so that you are working in Space or Defense industry...
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by darkestkhan 14y ago
And that is why there are no software patents in Poland - software is math. In fact every software ever created could be written as math formula in lambda calculus.
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by darkestkhan 14y ago
The thing is that people start using those libraries w/o thinking before - and theirs' solutions end up doing much more work than is needed
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by darkestkhan 14y ago
Can't you all think for a bit? All of These solutions are O (n) in both time and space... there is solution that will take O (1) time and space - and I think that you learned it in math class at (latest) high school (hint: arithmetic prog
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by darkestkhan 14y ago
Yes, I'm on Linux - but it still doesn't explain why flash is consuming so much CPU (I'm using VESA drivers for graphics)
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by darkestkhan 14y ago
Poland s also depending on Russian natural gas (primary source of natural gas in Poland)
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by darkestkhan 14y ago
What's wrong in starting programming with recursion? It is more intuitive since you learn about it in school...

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