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by mainland 2mo ago
I have also always loved---and used---LaTeX ;)
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by mainland 2mo ago
If you are at all interested in punctuation---and especially the em-dash---I highly recommend Nicholson Baker's essay "Survival of the Fittest" in the NYRB: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1993/11&#
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by mainland 2y ago
Here is a copy of what looks to be the original report: < https://wellcomecollection.org/works/seuuc6a5 > Here is a link to the version published with the ACM: < https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.114
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by mainland 3y ago
If you'd like to see what Donn's BASIC was like, you can! The Internet Archive has a version that runs in-browser [1]. Although the Folklore article says there were two books describing Donn's BASIC, I believe there were at l
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by mainland 3y ago
https://archive.is/DOb4c
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Generative AI Should Not Replace Thinking at My University (Douglas Hofstadter)(theatlantic.com)
4 points by mainland 3y ago|1 comments
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Teaching Mac OS 9 new device tricks(oldvcr.blogspot.com)
2 points by mainland 4y ago|0 comments
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by mainland 5y ago
An interesting, older paper that explores how to bridge the "ninja gap" between naive code and hand-optimized code is Can Traditional Programming Bridge the Ninja Performance Gap for Parallel Computing Applications? < https:&
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by mainland 5y ago
Great post! What do you use to draw your state diagrams?
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by mainland 6y ago
If you're doing new development and not opposed to using C++, I recommend xsimd, which provides a higher-level interface to architecture-specific SIMD instructions: https://github.com/xtensor-stack/xsimd
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by mainland 11y ago
The OverbiteFF extension ( http://gopher.floodgap.com/overbite/ ) will let you use the gopher protocol as well. I actually installed it just so I could browse the floodgap gopher server.
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by mainland 11y ago
A bit of Googling got me this: gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/archive/userserve-ucsd-edu/Fonts/%20bitmapped%20fonts/screen-ImageWriter%20Fonts/Boston%20II Hopefully that's what you're l
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by mainland 12y ago
The first "correct" solution will leak memory if the call to TSuperFoo::operator= throws an exception.
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by mainland 12y ago
Using pkfix before ps2pdf will improve the final output---it replaces bitmap fonts with Type 1 fonts.
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Type-Safe Runtime Code Generation with (Typed) Template Haskell(gmainland.blogspot.co.uk)
3 points by mainland 13y ago|0 comments
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by mainland 13y ago
The library writer is the "consumer" here. The programmer just uses the library, and the library chooses the proper stream representation. Of course the programmer can also use the lower-level stream interface directly if desired, but then
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by mainland 13y ago
First author here. The dot product example was compiled with GCC 4.7.2 -O3 -msse4.2 -ffast-math -ftree-vectorize -funroll-loops; see the caption to Figure 5. What compiler options would you have suggested? The Haskell version only used SSE
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Facebook Prepping ‘Project Spartan’ Mobile Platform(wired.com)
5 points by mainland 15y ago|0 comments
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A Print Reader Is Worth 228-Times As Much As An Online Reader(businessinsider.com)
6 points by mainland 15y ago|0 comments
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Ribbon Microphones: Audio Icon You Can Build in Your Garage(wired.com)
2 points by mainland 16y ago|0 comments
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Relics Reborn: Ribbon Microphones Rally for Vintage-Audio Geeks(wired.com)
2 points by mainland 16y ago|0 comments
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by mainland 16y ago
Are there any references that detail the new inliner?
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by mainland 16y ago
OK, I'm being tongue-in-cheek here, but aren't they providing value by making the market more efficient? ;) That is, they're providing a service to the music industry and the artists it represents by enabling ticket prices to reflect their
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by mainland 16y ago
Actually, a tax is termed "progressive" when the tax rate increases as the taxable amount increases. A "regressive" tax is a tax where the tax rate decreases as the taxable amount increases. It's true that "progressives" often advocate "pro
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by mainland 17y ago
As much as I like Python, Guido has repeatedly demonstrated a pretty fundamental lack of understanding when it comes to functional programming concepts (I'm thinking in particular of past HN discussions regarding his confusion about the dif
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by mainland 17y ago
Apparently, neither does his hosting provider...
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by mainland 17y ago
It's certainly possible for a typed language like ML or Haskell to support metaprogramming. As other have noted, Haskell has Template Haskell. However, systems like MetaML and MetaOCaml support metaprogramming and give much stronger typing