mas644

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by mas644 10y ago
I comment rarely, but had to chime in as the ACA was very important to me in terms of starting a company. The ACA also allowed me to pursue founding a company. 6 months before the ACA kicked in, I left my job to start a robotics company. As
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by mas644 12y ago
I can confirm this.
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by mas644 12y ago
elon = grit, as an entrepreneur when i have dark times, i'll read about him to get amped. my favorite quote: "Optimism, pessimism, fuck that; we’re going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I’m hell-bent on making it w
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by mas644 12y ago
I have and forgot to mention it. Good IDE, but still not on par with VS IMO.
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by mas644 12y ago
That's a great question. Here's my take on it: I switched from Windows to Linux over a decade ago...but as somebody that has to often write a lot of C/C++ code, man do I miss Visual C++. I've gone through all the IDEs (E
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by mas644 13y ago
Good to see work is being done on it, but until it's in the main implementation for at least a year...I wouldn't trust it on anything that matters. The advantage of kernel threads is that they have way less overhead than a process
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by mas644 13y ago
What's interesting about Haskell in this regard is due to the pure functional nature, the Church-Rosser theorem applies...every function call could be executed in its own thread without protecting any resources with locks/mutexes&
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by mas644 13y ago
Look, I love OCaml and it's my favorite language syntax-wise, but the real big elephant in the room is not its JS-backend maturity. Rather it doesn't have kernel thread support...all threads are user-level just like Python due to
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by mas644 13y ago
there will always be those hardcore "videophiles" that will claim they can see the pixels even at a nanoscale ;)
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by mas644 13y ago
As somebody who spent a few years in Saudi Arabia (as well as visiting some of its fellow oil rich neighbors)...I can confirm this problem which is endemic to all rich Middle Eastern countries. As an American of Indian ethnicity (I can spea
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by mas644 13y ago
As I always used to tell my students, your degree is just a piece of paper that helps you get your foot in the door. Its worth is equivalent to the effort and energy you put into it. Those that work hard and are passionate about their major
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by mas644 14y ago
I think this is a fantastic concept with lots of potential! I especially loved the tongue-in-cheek humor -- "Eternal moral vigilance is no laughing matter." In my opinion, deleting code is fine...however you should 1) be warned that it will
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by mas644 14y ago
What's most interesting and beautiful about the concept of free, open education is that people that would not have access to a college education can now have it. I'm talking about people that are the poorest of the poor who would never see
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by mas644 14y ago
Even before I ever read GoF, I found myself using their design patterns in my object-oriented code (i.e. "reinventing" what already existed). At the time I didn't think it was any magic feat, it's just the way I organized the code. It's not
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by mas644 15y ago
I've seen this point brought up. Making some easy (which I'm all for btw) does not mean it has to lock down aspects that average users are not meant to look at it (i.e. DRM). It's fine if they hide them, but when there are software and hard
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by mas644 15y ago
Wow, I had no idea I would stir up the beehive so much! Perhaps I was a bit dramatic in my presentation. The point I'm trying to make isn't that Apple, Google, etc are evil nor am I saying their products aren't good. The problem is things l
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by mas644 15y ago
It's not anti-Unix or anti-programmer...it's all about being anti-freedom. All these companies want to do is turn your computing experience into a locked down, controlled, monitored experience. They want to turn your limitless and powerful
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Inside Look At First Apps For iRobot's iOS/Android Robot Ava(forbes.com)
2 points by mas644 15y ago|0 comments
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by mas644 15y ago
The point he's trying to make is that Lisp lacks typing. In Lisp, code is data and data is code. This is what makes it so powerful. At the same time, the lack of certain safeguards found in ML can make it dangerous. ML was meant to give the
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by mas644 15y ago
-Good points about OCaml/Standard ML. One big omission though (at least I did not see it) was the lack of emphasis on the concept of "pattern matching". I'm not sure about SML, but with OCaml, everything is implemented using pattern matchin
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by mas644 15y ago
You know how it is with benchmarks...it can vary so much. I'm not sure how much work is done these days on the OCaml compiler. I recall there being a big debate a few years back about it, a lot of people cried foul that OCaml benchmarks wer
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by mas644 15y ago
This is a fascinating topic that is always debated. There's always arguments about how young, which language (BASIC, Logo, Scratch, Python, Haskell (yikes!)), which paradigm (functional, OOP, imperative/procedural, logic, etc). I think the
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by mas644 15y ago
It's fascinating to see FP being used in the "real world" rather than academia! I absolutely love OCaml and use it all the time to write major projects. I've always loved the type inferencing and super strict static typing of the ML family
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by mas644 15y ago
I always felt the problem with web programming was not so much the expressiveness of existing languages, but rather the hacked nature of the web and more generally the Internet. We try to patch the stateless nature of the original HTTP prot
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Patent Reform Bill Approved By Senate(politico.com)
3 points by mas644 15y ago|0 comments
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by mas644 15y ago
I had my fingers crossed that Unity would be removed. I've been trying hard to give it a fair go, but I still find it awkward. Also, the big claim that it saves screen real estate is bogus.
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Sweet Reference Sheet for Functional Languages with Type Inference(hyperpolyglot.org)
2 points by mas644 15y ago|0 comments
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by mas644 15y ago
Not a bad idea...like Paul said, it's a start. Here's a comment that I read from some user on Slashdot regarding the Apple vs Samsung/Motorola patent dispute that summarizes my feelings: "Look, you pack of fucking navel-gazing fucktards. Pu
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by mas644 15y ago
As others have stated, it happens to all of us. I think one has to learn how to take breaks often. The world is not gonna fall apart if you take a week off every once in a couple of months to let go of your computer and snooze on a beach so
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by mas644 15y ago
State machines are useful because they're 1) computationally fast 2) simple to implement 3) easy to read [up to a certain size] The big problem with state machines relates to the number 3 and regards the general concept of "state". Managing

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