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by nn2 14y ago
From the original interview: "The only advantage you had over a newcomer was that you were prepared to read the manual." So true still today. I am always astonished by how much time some programmers are wasting by not reading manuals and ho
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by nn2 14y ago
Variants of large scale Passive Radar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_radar was supposed to beat first generation stealth. I suppose it's a closely guarded secret if it still does for the more modern systems. This also disrupts the s
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by nn2 14y ago
They optimize away unnecessary monitoring inside the traces once the types have been propagated there. So only slow path code does the monitoring. All the active traces should get stable types without extra monitoring at some point. Essenti
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by nn2 14y ago
But they've been increasing tuition like crazy too right? ~4-6% every 3 years according to http://oir.yale.edu/node/108/attachment Apparently that gets spent on all kinds of things, just not the actual education the students need. At &#6
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by nn2 14y ago
Yes I noticed that too and immediately started to godel: "how many of the wrongnesses the author believes are wrong are really right ..."
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by nn2 14y ago
Less jobs for lawyers generally seems like a good thing to me. Like investment banks lawyers do not create much (any?) value. That's a good sign for society. There may be some hope left. Now it's not good for those who wasted a lot of money
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by nn2 14y ago
Really good point. That always annoys me with most formulas. I have to dig back several paragraphs (with no scope/indexing tool) to figure out what the individual variables mean. And a lot of papers do not even bother to explain some variab
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by nn2 14y ago
Asperger is now autism. Let me guess: Treating autism pays more?
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by nn2 14y ago
Don't use a off the shelf database. They are overkill for this. This only needs a very single table key->value store where every transaction is only a single access. I would just map it to a hash table mapped directly to the raw disk. D
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by nn2 14y ago
Don't do your own locking. Let the caller pass in state. Push locking to the caller. Don't have your own global state that would need hidden locks, but instead let the caller handle it with arguments. That is similar how the STL does it, bu
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by nn2 14y ago
You may not realize it, but that's a quite damning statement on the CUDA compiler.
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by nn2 14y ago
True for the html layout, but not the content (the projects/code). For a code site layout in the end is very secondary. Besides github is doing its best to compete on the "largest number of useless buttons/toolbars on the webpage" front wit
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by nn2 14y ago
Not sure about sourceforge. It lost its lustre to github, but there are still a lot of good project there. freshmeat/freecode is really great. Lots of great software there (I liked the old name better) Browsing the freecode frontpage is far
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Adding lock elision to Linux(linuxplumbers.ubicast.tv)
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by nn2 14y ago
Did you actually read the article? It quoted studies that contradicted exactly what you said. Most studied people stopped using it at some point.
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by nn2 14y ago
Dvorak doesn't support the Alt-<type unicode number on number block> trick?
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by nn2 14y ago
Universities are still extremely expensive, just with the people (grad students and post docs) who do most of the actual science getting very little of the money. It's just extremely unfair and calling it a "pyramid scheme" is charitable. O
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by nn2 14y ago
Reminds me of that old quote "social media had popularized non-fact based reality" Macro is a mac developer, his friends are mac developers and he somehow determines Microsoft development is dead because he doesn't do it. And we are suppos
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by nn2 14y ago
Nothing new. As usual the faithful are the suckers.
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by nn2 14y ago
It has some nice features: parallel iteration and lazy iteration (return an iterator that is only evaluated when the values are needed)
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by nn2 14y ago
AV Rule 25 (MISRA Rule 127) The time handling functions of library <time.h> shall not be used. Yes everyone reinventing their own broken flat tire date routines is the way go. If they used the same silly rule on the F22 that explai
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by nn2 14y ago
Oh the irony. Something called "Accelerate" that makes programs run slower (and also harder to debug) Maybe they should have called it "snake oil" instead.
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by nn2 14y ago
Are you serious? I would never give some random supplier unlimited access to my server and internal network. Such a requirement is an absolute show-stopper.
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by nn2 14y ago
I considered splunk at some point until I read the EULA review of theirs at http://blog.hacker.dk/ " Upon at least ten (10) days prior written notice, Splunk may audit your use” …. ” Any such audit will be conducted during regular busine
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by nn2 14y ago
I read programming pearls about halfway until I discovered that a several of the samples were using gets() and could be trivially exploited for buffer overflows. Calling programs like that "pearls" just seemed too wrong to me to go on.
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by nn2 14y ago
7+ billions eggs in one unserviceable fragile basket that needs to plunder all other projects? I'm not optimistic on Webb. And if the rocket fails or that unfold mechanism from hell doesn't work it will all go up in smoke. It would have bee
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by nn2 15y ago
Except when they don't work, like in healthcare, lawyers, research etc. relevant recent HN stories: healthcare: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3661731 lawyers: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3672815
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by nn2 15y ago
- amazon has a relatively painless website, unlike a lot of other webshops
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by nn2 15y ago
Does your explanation for junk DNA pass the onion test? http://www.genomicron.evolverzone.com/2007/04/onion-test/
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by nn2 15y ago
the microsoft behavior of disabling SS completely seems downright immoral to me. Who cares if the internet melts as long as they can deliver their home page a few ms faster. And it's not even a very interesting homepage

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