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by ezy 3y ago
The funny part, and perhaps the part that really damns the critics, is that (IF..GOTO,) GOTOs and line numbers are useful baseline concepts because they have a direct correspondence to what a computer actually does. People who went from
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by ezy 3y ago
My first exposure to the innards, from a software perspective, of a computer was a 6809 based system. The first assembly language I learned and the first “real” operating system with multitasking (Microware’s OS-9). I suppose it made an im
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by ezy 3y ago
It feels like WWCYO is still a good question, abstractly, to ask though even in cases where you don't think there's a good contrary argument, or don't have the knowledge, or it feels more value based. For example, if I apply
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by ezy 3y ago
I didn't want to put down the effort of the OP, because even they admit it's an interesting experiment, not something they recommend that anyone use, and I do think it's an interesting experiment. But I have exactly this fee
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by ezy 4y ago
Most of the article is devoted to complications related to handling arrays that are inline at the tail of existing structs that usually are layout and size sensitive. Hence the related two restrictions that the count variable keep the same
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by ezy 4y ago
This is, of course, an argument against a strawman. I wish the author had not mentioned certain folks by name, because the analysis is interesting on its own, and makes some good points about apparent simplicity. However, by mentioning a
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by ezy 4y ago
Yea, I think a lot of programmers confuse the map for the territory. It's not only the data, but the program itself. Almost no one actually cares how a particular program was written or how it understands it's input and output --
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by ezy 5y ago
The elephant in the room is that Apple must already know this is happening. It's not like they need a viral blog article or a user flag uprising to tell them this -- It's been obvious to most technologically saavy users who own
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by ezy 7y ago
That is not a new "Amiga", that's just a nostalgic upgrade to an old Amiga computer. A new "Amiga" would be something completely different than the old Amiga (which has long been surpassed by PCs with high-end graph
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by ezy 9y ago
"Watson" was a Jeopardy playing bot. The main trick behind Watson is to take the various systems (parsers, search, et al.) and hacks (constraints imposed by the rules of jeopardy) needed by a jeopardy playing bot and put them all
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by ezy 9y ago
I get what you are saying, but my impression was that she wasn't dismissing unknown knowledge as intrinsically trivia, just the use of it in a certain context. When you use knowledge as a status marker, it becomes trivia -- because it
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by ezy 9y ago
See: Agile
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by ezy 9y ago
I don't think this is correct. I'm not sure there are many people that would argue that C++11 doesn't have lexical closures just because its closures need to take into account the semantics of C++ itself. Anyone who says th
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by ezy 10y ago
My stock response to libertarians: "I'm glad that things have worked out great for you". Before you propose dismantling an existing arrangement that seems to be working just fine, you first have to tell us why the existing
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by ezy 10y ago
If you have an IQ of 89 or below in a first world country, you might be able to barely complete high school, but are not going to become a math professor. IQ (g) is normally distributed . The only hope here is that there is some extrinsic
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by ezy 10y ago
Uh, why would residents report dissatisfaction when it would hurt their opportunities down the road? Would you have? I don't think so. I don't think you are being skeptical enough about these "studies".
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by ezy 10y ago
Honestly, as weird as cygwin can be, I question the judgement of relying on Linux's chief competitor to keep a mock linux kernel interface as well supported as the OS they really care about. Are you really sure that environment will
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by ezy 10y ago
The key to rational thought is not just logic and reasoning, because both rely on axioms and information. You need to make sure you're getting the correct data and proceeding from sound foundations. Thats where the skepticism comes in
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by ezy 10y ago
> it was hard to map the Rust concepts with what actually runs when it is compiled. This. The primary reason to choose rust is performance -- that is, you want more advanced abstraction/safety capabilities than C++, and you want t
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by ezy 10y ago
As someone who is unfamiliar with clojure -- is there any particular reason a function which doesn't actually work with sets allows non-sets to be passed to it in the first place? Or this a deficiency in the type-checking? I mean, tru
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by ezy 11y ago
Speaking of the truth: Sterling lost his basketball team because of private recordings of him being a racist, not hearsay. Then he proceeded to dig a deeper hole publicly. That is: a lapel-camera would not have exonerated him. Here's
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by ezy 11y ago
"subsubsubsublemma" kind of cracked me up. He seems very dedicated to not numbering the nested schema in this proof. :-)
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by ezy 11y ago
This is going to sound a little misguided, but bear with me. If you want to see what you're missing: Take a look at the IDEs of the moment. Try something like eclipse on java code or maybe devstudio in the windows world. In general,
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by ezy 11y ago
One would like to think licensing is about ensuring quality, but if one actually takes a look at the reality, one realizes that licensing is about restricting the field and paying to play, and almost never about ensuring quality. Even profe
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by ezy 11y ago
I wasn't really referring to wasm vs JS (which is easy to outperform), but reaching equivalent speed to native, which is the ultimate goal, I'd hope. Otherwise you're just throwing performance away... But, I was a little qui
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by ezy 11y ago
The issue with this is that if you care about speed, you need to be using SIMD -- and wasm doesn't seem to want to support it -- stating a "minimum viable" standard from the year 2000.
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by ezy 11y ago
You aren't in a position to demand anything. And, admit it -- you didn't look that hard. In fact, your research was so weak, that you failed to point out additional Cato-published opinions re:lead -- literally in the top google s
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by ezy 11y ago
If only there were a technology which was screen and font size agnostic that could display text interspersed with diagrams in various ways including alternative layouts.
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by ezy 11y ago
One difference, in the 18th century, they cared about the format. Now if only ebook publishers (a) hired proofreaders (b) could figure out how to properly render diagrams, specialized fonts and pictures such that reading an ebook containing
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by ezy 11y ago
I appreciate the work here, and I'll remember this when I need it, but C++ is long past gross. Enough already, the committee needs to be less prideful and just add complete macros/metaprogramming to the language already in C++14 a

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