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by hobbyist 11y ago
There are no cmp, branch instructions. How is this turing complete?
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Ask HN: Why do some of the engineers/hackers manage their own mail servers?
8 points by hobbyist 11y ago|13 comments
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by hobbyist 11y ago
I think Makefile have such pattern matching, which can be utilized to do such list transformations too.
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by hobbyist 12y ago
How differently is linear regression than PCA? I understand the procedure and methods are completely different, but isn't linear regression also going to give the same solution on these data sets?
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by hobbyist 12y ago
I am guessing you went for a graduate degree in math. How hard was it to get admission? Would you like to recommend some good schools for doing something like you did. I am just a little younger but hungry for math knowledge.
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by hobbyist 12y ago
The author has won an IOCCC contest. This would have just pricked him a bit.
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by hobbyist 13y ago
Could you elaborate more or give some references on the second and third part? I am done with the first. I seriously need some profound knowledge on second and third, which a lot of people like you talk about. I need to put a plan to get th
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by hobbyist 13y ago
I often read that spark avoids the costly synchronization required in mapreduce, since it uses DAG's. Can someone explain how is that achieved. If the application so demands that you can launch jobs together, that can be done even with
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by hobbyist 13y ago
Good question. I did read the spark paper, and one reason that I found for spark doing so much better than hadoop was that it avoids the unnecessary serialization, deserialization which hadoop just can not avoid. The RDD's as mentioned
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by hobbyist 13y ago
I am not well-versed in the browser designs, could you highlight what hard problems are you referring to?
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by hobbyist 14y ago
If Rust doesn't allow pointer arithmetic and conjuring up a pointer using '&' like in C, it doesn't make me feel there is anything special here.
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by hobbyist 14y ago
I am waiting for someone to prove, solving procrastination problem is NP-Complete
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by hobbyist 14y ago
Correct me if I am wrong here. So, instead of the eloquent method of using GET, POST and PUT on resources, the current practice is about the programmer writing custom parsers to get the information they want and then use them accordingly.
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by hobbyist 14y ago
Read only access!! ROFL
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by hobbyist 14y ago
These guys always forget "Its never a Million Dollar Idea, its a Million Dollar Execution"
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by hobbyist 14y ago
Well, if 2 people are working on different files, they can commit their changes to svn without updating their local copy first. But in git you have to bring your copy to the same revision as the remote one, in order to push your changes, ir
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by hobbyist 14y ago
Once speaking to a freebsd developer, he explained the problems with git in freebsd workflow. His explanation was on the lines that if there are 100 developers working on different trees of freebsd and they want to commit their work, it cau
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by hobbyist 14y ago
Are they benchmarking hash join on hadoop and redshift?
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by hobbyist 14y ago
There is something visionary about these South Africans, first Elon Musk and then Mark Shuttleworth.
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by hobbyist 14y ago
Shit. Yes I am Jealous. That is fucking awesome. I would leave any highest paid job with google, fb blah blah to work with Fabrice :)
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by hobbyist 14y ago
Old article resurfacing again on HN, neverthless he is everyone's idol
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by hobbyist 14y ago
Hello IE, it's IE calling :)
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by hobbyist 14y ago
Linus must be grinning :)
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by hobbyist 14y ago
Pretty amazing how hn upvotes work :) Guess there is lot in the name(title)
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by hobbyist 14y ago
there is a cdecl package in all linux distributions, which can be used inside terminal to expand such C declrations. It was really helpful when I started C programming.
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by hobbyist 14y ago
I have always admired simplicity and this is easily one of those simple ideas executed perfectly well!!
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by hobbyist 14y ago
Isnt high level relative. I was once speaking to a friend who is an electrical engineer. While discussing some dsp stuff with him I explained some asm instructions, and suddenly he says you are going high level :) I am pretty sure if he spe
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by hobbyist 14y ago
Why is green tea not included in the drinks to be avoided. I thought green tea also contains caffeine.
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by hobbyist 14y ago
The wall design reminded me of Orkut scraps :-)
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by hobbyist 14y ago
Could you explain what do you mean by a "totally different programming model"? Do you mean the network state with the external server?

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