emfle

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Intel will never buy Nvidia(jonpeddie.com)
1 points by emfle 17y ago|0 comments
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Larrabee -- Past, Present, and Future(jonpeddie.com)
1 points by emfle 17y ago|0 comments
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by emfle 17y ago
Here is what I think he might be getting at: Advertisement is not a very effective form of marcomm because people tune it out, and if they don't, they don't believe what the ads say anyway. PR is much more effective. Part of the reason is t
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by emfle 18y ago
I am familiar with functional programming. In fact, for some reason recursion and higher-order functions always seemed easy to me (unlike pointers and virtual methods), but I think that's a quirk of my brain. Many other people seem to have
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by emfle 18y ago
I am saying that working with objects and methods requires less high-level cognitive processing than macros and continuations, not that you don't have to think about them. This is because the brain can treat the objects largely as if they
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by emfle 18y ago
The point is that "requires you to think " is not a feature, it is a bug, because that thinking could be put to better use on whatever it is the program is trying to solve. Everything else being equal, this means that language features th
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by emfle 18y ago
I think most people prefer languages that let them think about the problem they are trying to solve, rather than think about what the macros expand to, or what happens when they call that continuation.
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Embedded + CPU != x86(codingrelic.geekhold.com)
10 points by emfle 18y ago|4 comments
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by emfle 18y ago
However, as Tog himself notes, when the keyboard shortcut is already memorized and well understood, it's a clear productivity win. Tog never says that as far as I can tell.
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by emfle 19y ago
Can you give examples of impractical things they do? (Or practical things they don't do).
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by emfle 19y ago
Not on average. He will make many more errors typing www.amzaon.com than he will typing something resembling amazon well enough for google to find the site.
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by emfle 19y ago
Reminds me of this old joke: - Mr. President! The Russians have landed on the moon, and they are busy painting it red! - No problem. When they are done, we will just write "Drink Coca-Cola" in big white letters.
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Reverse Sokal: The Bogdanov Affair(en.wikipedia.org)
8 points by emfle 19y ago|0 comments
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Intel sees big dollars in tiny package(news.google.com)
1 points by emfle 19y ago|0 comments
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by emfle 19y ago
Some fraction will also not have JavaScript enabled. That was very popular among nerds back when JavaScript wasn't essential to web browsing. Fortunately, that particular brand of nerd can safely be ignored. They are a tiny, tiny minority w
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by emfle 19y ago
> Do you think I would have done something as heavy-handed as compile s-expressions at runtime if it weren't necessary? Why not, if the language makes it simple? I am not claiming that Lisp does not have more powerful abstractions than
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by emfle 19y ago
The theory says that for any two programming languages there is a constant c such that any given program can be translated from one to the other with only a c difference in size. That's just an elaborate way of saying that you can write
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by emfle 19y ago
Heh, this is algorithm bait. The obvious algorithm is to sort all the words in order of increasing frequency, then print the 100 first. This algorithm is O(n log n) because of the sorting. It generates the list in order of frequency. There
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by emfle 19y ago
The nice thing about C++ is that memory leaks are easy to fix. Valgrind is a pretty bad-ass tool. In garbage collected languages leaks can be very hard to track down. And they do happen from time to time.
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by emfle 19y ago
GPU's are getting more and more programmable, while CPU's are getting more and more cores and streaming instructions. It's getting harder and harder to tell them apart and this means a typical PC more and more looks like two general purpose
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by emfle 19y ago
> Alternatively you could throw the move that would have beaten your opponent's previous move. The logic here is that players subconsciously try to beat their own previous move. Wouldn't that mean you should throw the move that beats th
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by emfle 19y ago
But not "Wang Wordprocessor" or "gopher technology"? It's difficult to predict the exact form it will take.
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by emfle 19y ago
I went like this: Hmm, might be useful as I am looking for a new monitor. Click. Download plugin? Are you kidding me? I don't have the attention span for that.
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by emfle 19y ago
I think Bruce Schneier would take issue with the idea of assuming attackers are stupid.
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Nick Carr: The Google Enigma(strategy-business.com)
2 points by emfle 19y ago|1 comments
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by emfle 19y ago
How many of your bosses did not go to college?
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by emfle 19y ago
Spoiler: The butler did it.
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by emfle 19y ago
I think the answer is "duh", but that's not likely to stop Apple. The patent situation is a Mutually Assured Destruction scenario. Nokia could likely sue Apple and get an injunction granted on the sale of iPhones. This would be devastat
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by emfle 19y ago
There is something to this. It also explains why software written in Java sucks so much compared to software written in Lisp or C. Any idiot can get a Java program "working", but an idiot writing C code will never get anything more than "S
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by emfle 19y ago
Sure, but I/O can be parallelized too. The argument is not specific to CPU at all.

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