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Tell HN: Network solutions fraud
3 points by lngnmn 8y ago|2 comments
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by lngnmn 9y ago
> Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming. This is especially beautiful i
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by lngnmn 9y ago
By providing a heuristic that doubling could be defined as x+x and 2*x. That one plus one is the same as one two times.
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by lngnmn 9y ago
Oh, more than one infinity in the same reality and no contradiction? What a wonderful world we live in.. More than one zero, more than one infinity, why not? More than on nothingness, more than one everything..
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by lngnmn 9y ago
Wrong emphasis. It must be read "flaw in open source Java software. The problem is Java, not Open Source.
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by lngnmn 9y ago
Oh, they wrote their own uwsgi, based on what presumably started as nginx2. That's cool. I hope they would avoid the Second System syndrome..
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by lngnmn 9y ago
The real prerequisite for machine learning is a domain expertise. Otherwise algorithms will learn nonsense and random correlations made from datasets of random noise. Look at finance to see how it "works".
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by lngnmn 9y ago
Obviously, practicality should beat purity and very clever and reasobable syntax (x=1, y=2) which could be used/generalized for a procedure arguments and effecient implementation in C (we have C-based arrays (lists) and hash-ta
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by lngnmn 9y ago
I am using the definition from the times of Descartes. Perhaps I missed the moment when the word "thinking" began to refer to arbitrary cognitive processes. I will try one more time. The rules of logic require precise definitions
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by lngnmn 9y ago
Exactly. Information processing is information processing, and thinking is a process which is based on a language. Otherwise it loses all meaning - cells are thinking, tissues are thinking, computers are thinking, bacterias, etc. People see
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by lngnmn 9y ago
Philosophy 101.
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by lngnmn 9y ago
Yes, it is another kind of activity. To ask "what animals are thinking" is exactly the same as to ask "what a self-driving car or a smartphone are thinking".
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by lngnmn 9y ago
Google 'belief' and 'idea' too.
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by lngnmn 9y ago
Definition of thinking, like definition of sex, or any other biological trait cannot be broadened. That would yield nonsense. Thinking implies language. Without language it is feeling. Period. Learning from experience, map making and even p
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by lngnmn 9y ago
No. Animals don't think, because thinking requires language, based on it conceptual thinking and related brain circuitry which animals still didn't evolve. Signaling systems and elaborate warning cries do not account for a languag
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by lngnmn 9y ago
Only a hipster snowflake's magazine could put such question in a headline. A crowd is a major hardwired social heuristic. When someone sees a crowd of protestors or supporters almost automatic mental processes of estimating it's s
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by lngnmn 9y ago
You are right - Common Dialect of MacLisp Successors. Thank you!
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by lngnmn 9y ago
> Which books Symbolics Common Lisp - Language Concepts (volume 2A) It also covers parts of Zetalisp. I am also big fan of pg's On Lisp and ANSI Common Lisp.
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by lngnmn 9y ago
The major goal of Common Lisp was commonality, and that means incorporating forms from various dialects into one and to maintain compatibility, like you said. That goal has been accomplished. I think that carefully designed dialects with em
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by lngnmn 9y ago
Its mostly about inconsistent naming, order of arguments and standard idioms. Obviously most of these are historical artifacts, like nconc and friends or the primitives for working with hash-tables. Car and cdr are small miracles because th
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by lngnmn 9y ago
I remember reading the Symbolics manuals from bitsavers and how I have been impressed by clarity and unity of the language, and how they incorporated CL into Zetalisp just by moving their own stuff into packages. At least in the documentati
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by lngnmn 9y ago
I really don't get the lispm's answer about cl21. What are the hidden treasures of the genuine Common Lisp we are ignorant of? In my humble opinion Common Lisp is the classic example of the kitchen sink syndrome, where many pieces
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by lngnmn 9y ago
That would be a public relations suicide! Greed and monetization of user's data - this is the only real business model which brings profit. There is, probably, already a long queue of customers willing to pay for the data. And, of cour
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by lngnmn 9y ago
Serverless meme means that all I got is a chrooted directory with only systemd and /lib but without signals, similar to an apache vhost with a cgi-bin, so I could run my full-stack crap and it is supposed to be so damn cool because act
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by lngnmn 9y ago
> concurrency, which is a userspace problem This is another gross misconception, like an attention to manage resources from the userspace, the way JVMs or Node are trying to do by poorly reimplementing OS subsystems. Concurrency primitiv
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by lngnmn 9y ago
Software interrupts is the right answer to concurrency nonsensical hype. Sometimes old is gold. Wrapping specialized interrupt handlers into some higher lebel API, such as AIO, is the right way. Async/await is a mess. Concurrency canno
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by lngnmn 9y ago
From the life's point of view, so to speak, atoms are immutable. The actual process of decay are below the level of abstraction. Life "knows nothing" about it by definition.
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by lngnmn 9y ago
There is nothing much to explain. The principles I am describing here are of classic Eastern philosophy applied to the Evolution process. The notions of numbers, counting in general and the related concert of time required an observer to be
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by lngnmn 9y ago
And which exactly protein acts as a counter? What unit it uses? What is representation of the current value if the counter? How it deals with overflows? Again. There is no counting inside a cell in principle. Only pattern matching of phisic
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by lngnmn 9y ago
Life has no clocks. It, as a set of processes, has phases, which happen follow the phases of the environment and use these phases to maintenance and repair. There is no such thing as time, so Nature and evolution does not have any clock or

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