devinj

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by devinj 3y ago
If the reason understandability is important is that it means you get fewer defects etc, then really it isn't that it's important, it's that defects etc are important. This article is completely confusing means vs ends.
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by devinj 3y ago
OP compromised more than one user's machine. So they could write the change on one machine, and send it to be reviewed and approved by another user. (I work at Google but have no special insight. My opinions are my own.)
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by devinj 4y ago
They do. Eg https://www.cancer.gov/research/key-initiatives/ras/ras-cent... Obviously not usually considered cause, but rather effect.
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by devinj 4y ago
Surprisingly, yes, there's really not a lot of McDonald's or other chain fast food restaurants downtown. You can try exploring in Google maps to get a feel for it (consider eg the area around Mercer and Dexter Ave). You can get to
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My history with Forth and stack machines (2010)(yosefk.com)
2 points by devinj 4y ago|0 comments
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by devinj 6y ago
The snark and meanness in this HN thread is totally uncalled for and why people don't publish code. I can't believe this thread is on the front page together with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23157783 . Go
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by devinj 9y ago
std::move should extend the lifetime of a temporary like static_cast does. (Or else not accept temporaries). Otherwise, no new features necessary. But that one bites sometimes.
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by devinj 9y ago
SEC yield already includes expenses, so it's just 2.99%. (The actual dividend yield is 3.08%. I don't know where the other .06% comes from, but IANAA).
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by devinj 9y ago
Any finite sized brain will eventually repeat itself or halt, is probably the main point. This is probably not something we can work around.
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by devinj 10y ago
I don't understand how cats meowing proves anything about dogs. But see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_that_proves_the_rule... The original sense is "No parking on sundays" proves that park
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by devinj 10y ago
1.5mi is walkable, though. (My commute is 3 miles a day, every day, on foot. Bay Area.)
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by devinj 10y ago
I finished (but never optimized it): https://bitbucket.org/devin.jeanpierre/re0
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by devinj 11y ago
Changelist is Perforce-speak for changeset. Because each CL gets an individual review before applying to the codebase, there is no merge process -- there is no branching/merging. There is a solution for project/directory-level CC
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by devinj 11y ago
The whole point of one big repository is being able to avoid versioning and always work at head.
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by devinj 12y ago
No, it means the worst case is bounded above and below by n^2. That is, the worst-case scales no worse or better than n^2, but approximately proportional, asymptotically. (Whereas, for example, every O(n^2) algorithm also happens to be O(2^
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by devinj 12y ago
Can you MITM public wifi? Real question, but I thought the answer was "no", which would make public wifi a compelling counter-example.
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by devinj 13y ago
I don't actually think that's more significant than self-driving cars -- getting things faster is one thing, changing the way we travel is another. Imagine a world where nobody dies in traffic accidents anymore? No drunk driving n
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by devinj 13y ago
http://www.spur.org/publications/article/2012-12-18/corporat... "The City of Mountain View [...]expressly rejects housing as an allowable use in the area." IIRC there was another rejection late last
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by devinj 13y ago
> I can hardly imagine a way to satisfy the protesters' demands for cheaper rent without taking away that landlord's fundamental right to charge what he wants for use of his own property. There's two ways to do it, and tha
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by devinj 13y ago
No, not at all. Requiring an increase of 2048 bits over 14 years implies that computing power increases by a factor of 2 16 every year.
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by devinj 13y ago
It's pretty feasible, you just don't want to give it up.
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by devinj 13y ago
I usually get irritated at unnecessary references to a person's size, but I think the closer made it all worth it.
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by devinj 13y ago
Well, there's also the consent decree. I don't think anyone wants one of those...
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by devinj 14y ago
St Croix here.
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by devinj 14y ago
George Orwell wrote them, but Allen Short was the person who applied them in that way to a security context. Much of the post is apparently greatly due to Allen Short, so he deserves some mention.
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by devinj 14y ago
I can't speak for the rest, but pygame is trivial to get running on multiple systems, so I don't know what you're talking about in that regard. I've heard pretty bad things about pyogre though.
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ATS: a dependently-typed systems programming language?(ats-lang.org)
35 points by devinj 15y ago|5 comments
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by devinj 15y ago
"Fountain", by Marcel Duchamp. You might argue that Duchamp was an experienced professional at art in general (being 30 and the producer of less-famous works), but it's a urinal that he purchased in a store and signed. It's also one of the
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by devinj 15y ago
This sounds like a bad idea, but it's actually very reasonable. Students, especially in early courses, are generally taught a subset of the language that wouldn't be that difficult to check for halting. As a bonus, you could also have that
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by devinj 15y ago
It's slow because C++ compilers are slow. Python isn't so slow as to be the bottleneck here.

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