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by esfandia 1mo ago
Actalk is an actor extension for Smalltalk, developed in the mid-90s by Jean-Pierre Briot: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/2727006_Actalk_a_Te...
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by esfandia 6mo ago
Thought-provoking essay. I can see how responsibility and ownership are important to help identify, motivate and reward the high achievers (and conversely, identify and get rid of the "dead wood"). But I can also see how collabora
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by esfandia 6mo ago
A couple of books were helpful to me, both by Venkat Subramaniam and published by Pragmatic Programmers: - Functional Programming in Java - Cruising Along With Java (this covers everything else that is "new" other than functional
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by esfandia 7mo ago
I imagine you could use AI as well to create a "squash prompt", but verifying using diff that the "squash commit" results in the same code.
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by esfandia 7mo ago
This looks nice! Wish they had a no-credit-card-required version for educational purposes. For the course I teach we use Spring Boot, and life was good with Heroku till they discontinued the no-credit-card version, and then the only choice
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by esfandia 9mo ago
So it's still a BSOD!
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by esfandia 9mo ago
The OG site for patterns is of course the Portland Pattern Repository. I believe Ward Cunningham invented wiki for this purpose initially! https://c2.com/ppr/
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by esfandia 10mo ago
Yeah, it's a case of "don't let the perfect be the enemy of good". The conservative stance is happy with the status quo. The progressive stance isn't. We probably need a bit of both. Finding the right balance being
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by esfandia 2y ago
Looks like he removed the paywall for this article? I was able to read the whole thing, and I'm not subscriber.
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by esfandia 2y ago
Maybe the difference between the eval of the best move vs the next one(s)? An "only move" situation would be more risky than when you have a choice between many good moves.
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by esfandia 2y ago
The right book for the right problem. SICP isn't meant to teach you how to tackle fault-tolerance in a complex distributed system. Here is a textbook that talks about distributed systems (van Steen and Tannenbaum): https://w
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by esfandia 2y ago
Not the OP but I have tried to reduce my sugar intake, I'm walking more than before, and I still basically gain half a pound every year. I'd lose some weight for a few days, and gain it all back on the one day I'm a bad boy.
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by esfandia 2y ago
"To ascribe beliefs, free will, intentions, consciousness, abilities, or wants to a machine is legitimate when such an ascription expresses the same information about the machine that it expresses about a person. It is useful when the
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by esfandia 2y ago
But now it's also apparently larger! I'm sure I'm not the only person hoping for an Apple Watch that is reasonably thin and small.
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NHS soup and shake diet can beat type 2 diabetes(bbc.com)
5 points by esfandia 2y ago|1 comments
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We Pay $6k for Private Clinic Memberships in Montreal(macleans.ca)
3 points by esfandia 2y ago|0 comments
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British man tests first personalised melanoma vaccine(bbc.com)
3 points by esfandia 2y ago|0 comments
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by esfandia 3y ago
Python was created in 1991; I imagine the "yield" keyword appeared either right then or not much later! Also, the refinement at the end of the article: "We arrange an extra function parameter, which is a pointer to a context
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by esfandia 3y ago
The article says: "In many modern operating systems, you could do this using pipes between two processes or two threads. emit() in the decompressor writes to a pipe, and getchar() in the parser reads from the other end of the same pipe
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by esfandia 3y ago
I haven't done a re-install, but deleting the cache folder alone doesn't make it go away. Starting Firefox re-creates the folder obviously, and Defender gets triggered again.
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by esfandia 3y ago
I actually finally just switched to Chrome (I'm a long time Firefox user, all the way back to when it was called Firebird), because of this issue: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/microsoft-defende..
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by esfandia 3y ago
Maybe, but the surreal atmosphere when the sun rises, you are surrounded by blue everywhere, you are jetlagged from just having landed half hour ago, and you have a drink in hand is indescribable. I went to other Icelandic baths during my s
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by esfandia 3y ago
In Thailand they have these Tao Bin barista coffee machines: https://www.tao-bin.com/en/en Great UI: there's a countdown to when your order is going to be ready, and while you're waiting the next person can a
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by esfandia 3y ago
Yeah, mobile agents were a hot topic back then (mid 90s), and Telescript was one of the early programming languages that enabled this idea of agents roaming around doing stuff on the web. Java coming along around the same time with dynamic
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by esfandia 3y ago
Definitely, bad diagrams (as opposed to bad diagram notation) give UML a bad name. Your example of the misuse of state diagrams as a glorified flowchart is something I see very often. Undergraduate students probably don't have the expe
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by esfandia 3y ago
It's certainly given too much importance in the curriculum, but the idea of having a common language (with standard semantics) for sharing design decisions is valuable. I'd argue the issue is that because UML is not seen as valuab
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by esfandia 3y ago
Exactly, UML mostly borrowed from existing representations and its purpose was standardizing semantics and providing some consistency among the diagrams.
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Narcisse Pelletier(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by esfandia 3y ago|0 comments
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by esfandia 3y ago
The yearly RoboCup robot soccer championship has been going on for more than 20 years now, and it looks like the objective that they set from the beginning, which was: "By the middle of the 21st century, a team of fully autonomous huma
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by esfandia 3y ago
WealthSimple has been advertizing an account with 3% interest, and up to 4% if you have more than 100K invested with them: https://www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/spend Has anybody tried this? Any advice? edit: their ad is

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