koja86

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by koja86 9y ago
I really like your analogy but I am concerned that analogies take you only so far. Human presence in digital world is simply unprecedented and deploying existing ideas without adapting them might prove to be difficult and ineffective.
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by koja86 9y ago
From TFA: "...neural networks – a form of artificial intelligence..." Have computer scientists switched to marketing or am I missing something?
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by koja86 9y ago
Isn't it possible that by the time LIDAR is technically and economically ready for general deployment current Tesla models will have enough mileage and Tesla avoids retrofitting completely?
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by koja86 9y ago
Isn't that something we should expect as a result of using statistical methods (ML or otherwise) and focusing on masses?
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by koja86 9y ago
I am quite used to C++ exceptions and strongly favor them against error codes mainly because of error handling decoupling and the fact that exception (unlike return code) cannot be passively ignored - if you want to swallow it you need to d
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by koja86 9y ago
All things accounted I still find HN the best discussion venue. I force myself to avoid reading discussions I suspect might not be interesting and apart from well known controversial topics signal to noise ration is usually high. Genuinely
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by koja86 9y ago
Ada caught my attention recently. I am just curious - how is Ada job market? Any jobs other than military projects?
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by koja86 9y ago
Please make your lectures public.
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by koja86 9y ago
"After careful review of your background, we have elected to pursue other more properly ignored candidates. Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions!"
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by koja86 9y ago
I agree that YMMV. Although sometimes "I do not tend to make many of the mistakes that would be caught by the C++ type system" might be related to "how to use C++ type system so it would catch mistakes people tend to make&quo
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by koja86 9y ago
There are hints that even less than 8 bits per weight might be usable (for certain cases and on custom hw). Not sure if it's practical but it is definitely interesting. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.02551.pdf https:
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by koja86 9y ago
Totally agree. It's the same for any other mental load that could be offloaded to machine. Coding style? Don't demand people sticking to rules - use some formatter/prettyfier/linter. Well known and frequent bugs? At leas
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by koja86 9y ago
Quite recently I happily used libcurl for C++ project rather than any of those C++ wrappers found at github. Granted there is some non-elegance when you adapt C-style error codes to C++ exceptions and non-C++-idiomatic code style right next
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by koja86 9y ago
I think it is pretty basic but with nice explanations, examples, it's pretty complete and it is free so you can basically hand it to someone willing to learn these things. Some recommendations seem little bit like "don't make
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by koja86 10y ago
For C++ I find both Google Test and Boost Unit Test Framework pretty usable. They both have some quirks but IMHO no show-stoppers. I prefer these to custom solutions because don't want to maintain yet another tool but to focus on my pr
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by koja86 10y ago
The best reasonably priced keyboard I have found. Decided to give it a try 5 year ago when dealing with sport-induced shoulder issue and never looked back. I was briefly thinking about more expensive alternatives (Kinesis Advantage, Maltron
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by koja86 10y ago
OMG it's happening! I was always puzzled by how unrelated metric used for hiring is to actual work at many companies. I don't mind algorithmic brainteasers - on the contrary I would absolutely love to solve such problems at work
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by koja86 10y ago
* grep, sort, uniq ... * Microsoft Natural Keyboard
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by koja86 10y ago
Might as well traffic signs were intentionally chosen as something human are good in classification of without any regard to machine learning algorithms (nonexistent at that time). Yet there are definitely tasks where specially crafted noi
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by koja86 10y ago
While hearing about COBOL in banks quite often all my friends actually working there say Java and Oracle and all related job adverts I have seen so far were Java or C++. Could someone please provide some relevant facts?
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by koja86 10y ago
Sad I know. Selling advertisement (tied to a "free" service) is mass market. My guess is power users are a) harder to capitalize on b) more demanding. There's plenty of low hanging fruit in general public so why bother?
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by koja86 10y ago
Thank you in both cases sir/madam/whatever :-)
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by koja86 10y ago
In case you missed that there's a big disillusioned C++ crowd out there. Just hear the pain: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13276351 And some of them are watching you with great interest.
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by koja86 10y ago
You are comparing apples to oranges here. I also agree that type system in C++ is not perfect and is rarely used in a sensible manner. Yet I would rather look for inspiration in functional statically-typed languages rather than in specializ
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by koja86 10y ago
Why so? Genuinely curious.
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by koja86 10y ago
Is it to be interpreted that you switched to some other language and ended up being more happy using it? Willing to share any tips?
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by koja86 10y ago
Well, yes. Unless you happen to work with mammoth size legacy C++ code-base which due to C++ being 30+ years old and prevalent mindset about technical debt I assume is the norm.
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by koja86 10y ago
There are others who feel like us. Fingers crossed: http://clang.llvm.org/docs/Modules.html#problems-with-the-cu...
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by koja86 10y ago
You might find this project kind of interesting: https://github.com/isocpp/CppCoreGuidelines/blob/master/CppC... As a day-to-day C++ practitioner I like it. ...Yet I am not fully convinced that the gener
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by koja86 10y ago
Sorry to hear that. It's when it hits the fan when abstract words like "closed", "locked" or "proprietary" suddenly get meaning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor_lock-in

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