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by knappador 8y ago
Did not eat the 1/3lb hamburger at A&W. Knows math.
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by knappador 8y ago
Who is building the engine?
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by knappador 11y ago
One reason big machines might make a comeback is the increasing capability putting off the super-linear cost growth into the realm of > 100GB in-memory or > 10TB on disk. CPU hasn't kept pace unless you consider GPGPU or Phi par
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by knappador 11y ago
Let's look at chemical storage with hydrocarbons in the mix, allowing some as-yet non-commercial (air-metal & combined cycle home generators) to make good food for speculation. A consumer to operate a small gas turbine and store th
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by knappador 11y ago
Credentials would tend to support the practicing endocrinologist. Also, the data Lustig really had to go get was the causal inference where increasing fructose had a delayed response of increased metabolic syndrome. That study has been do
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by knappador 11y ago
I've heard a lot of enthusiastic talk of entity-component architecture from those interested in game-dev. The way of modelling seems very appropriate and well-suited to C++. Things like holding each entity in a component class's
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by knappador 11y ago
It's incredibly counterproductive to make statements like in the title. If you need your product to be better in terms of how it looks and feels, you get a UX Engineer and expect them to be able to do data analysis, modify analytics o
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by knappador 11y ago
Safe points, jit, and VM all introduce extra layers of complexity. I bet it's definitely harder in the context of the JVM muddying up the picture.
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by knappador 11y ago
Also true. Still, purity (just part of referential transparency) should be highlighted as something that helps not just with the function you're writing , but also functions that need to call that function.
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by knappador 11y ago
A referentially transparent, small function, has always been easy to write bug-free assuming the OS doesn't lose a page-table entry, a network interrupt isn't exploitable, and cosmic rays don't flip bits. The issue has never
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Ask HN: Convert Margin at Scale into Finance?
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by knappador 11y ago
I started to answer this as a language syntax question, but it really seems like a big API problem. And yeah, just cram them and learn the signatures well. I'd just read a lot of library code and follow along in some hello-world scal
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by knappador 11y ago
Right. I had a moment of severe mistrust develop around all the times I've heard the phrase "neural network" mouthed in a pitched voice after I studied the math and realized it was barely cooler than Taylor series approximat
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by knappador 11y ago
Not two years ago I was having a conversation with an old friend that went approximately: "Facebook, this whole internet thing, hasn't really..." "...worked out" "Yeah, this isn't what we thought it was go
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by knappador 11y ago
Don't count out Kivy for a modern UI toolkit, but speed and no requirement to include a runtime for distribution will not come for Python without a different approach to execution.
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by knappador 11y ago
Wish there was a part of the airplane that wasn't $400k
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by knappador 11y ago
Yeah, I recently heard someone talking about taking huge personal financial risk to keep a startup going and suggested maybe it's time to live and learn and start over with a hell of a lot better product-market fit or spend that money
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by knappador 11y ago
When in C, Python, Java, JS, or anything else does reassigning a variable from the function sig ever work? The symbol is in-scope. Even when overwriting the pointer location in C, you don't just assign; you de-reference and copy
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by knappador 12y ago
Novice Java programmer reads title, mutates Java object inside function, later notices side-effects, and curses author of the title. Second novice Java programmer reads title, wants to pass objects into functions, wants to avoid expensive s
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by knappador 12y ago
Oh come on HN. This is one of the important incremental techs that bridges the risky breakthroughs like metal-air cells. EV's. Quit ironing skinny jeans ^^
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by knappador 12y ago
Okay, cool. Now that I've finished being uninformed enough to get questions out of the way, I'm guessing you chose Sails because it has some kind of JS DB for prototyping. I would spend time asking if Sails is the desired output
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by knappador 12y ago
I'd bump that point and the integration with API's way up in the site copy. My first thought as an engineer when I see graphical programming tools is, "oooh...another one of those." It's the most controversial se
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by knappador 12y ago
How to know if you might be a customer: Did you make a mockup that needs a backend but have little backend coding experience and are sick of including a bunch of the same libraries? If yes, maybe. In short, they're integrating some c
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by knappador 12y ago
The headline made me expect several things until I saw that it was Khronos, the group that gives us, among other things, OpenGL API's. Looks like the Next Generation OpenGL is getting more ready to show off. With Metal and Mantle, it
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by knappador 12y ago
Shipping with the API calls pre-loaded helps unless you need to fetch additional view code. There's a lot more potential usually for multiple round trips than just API calls. Iso JS frameworks seek to solve the whole range of problem
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by knappador 12y ago
I'm fooling around. I'm sure everyone on the project rightfully will get a ton of return on their investment. I'm actually working on a browser UI myself. It's only because of platform OS integration that I'm usi
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by knappador 12y ago
In javascript in javascript in javascript... The time when concern seemed actionable has passed; It's clear that the infinite recursion is well underway, and because the arguments are just returns passed in-register, that the call sta
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by knappador 12y ago
The future of anything we wish was built out of philosophical purism is to be built on crowdfunding. As for this particular case, SSD > liberty for me. I'd rather boot at a reasonable speed than die waiting to copy files.
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by knappador 12y ago
I dunno about the fall part. I went into the market headlong with a stripped down concept called Reduce on the Play Store and came out with a job before I could even complete feature additions =D It never fails to pay to build something.
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by knappador 12y ago
I use malloc and brk :-/

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