oleks

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by oleks 1y ago
Using an LLM to generate code is not an easily traceable and explainable process. Using a DSL to same ends is. PL research has yet to meet explainability in AI head on.
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by oleks 1y ago
As an avid designer of CS courses and curricula in the not-so-distant past, I would like for it turn into a success criterion that your course gets included in this listing. Back when I was involved in designing the BSc education at the Uni
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by oleks 3y ago
>> does any important software use APL nowadays? > No. That's not a question one is able to answer objectively in this world full of closed source software. Large parts of SimCorp ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by oleks 3y ago
> The people who do this are likely not American or Western European Maybe not natively, but they may be working in the US or Western Europe, making upwards 50% of a Google/Facebook salary, if not working at Google/Facebook ind
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by oleks 4y ago
What does finance have to do with distributed systems? Finance is much more about mathematical modelling, which is an utter pain in a dynamically typed language with nothing but library support for state management.
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by oleks 4y ago
Erlang as a programming language for writing fault-tolerant systems has quite little in common with Prolog, except the syntax. That is, the semantics of Erlang vastly differ from Prolog.
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by oleks 5y ago
Yep, works. However, you need to magically restart the browser. Apperently, it runs some background processes whose names contain neither the character sequence "firefox", nor "mozilla", according to pgrep.
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by oleks 5y ago
Just because you can earn money on something, does not make it good.
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by oleks 5y ago
I like QR codes, and ordering via phone. You don't have to wait around for the waiter to bring the menu, take your order, take your payment. Don't have to touch a menu that hasn't been disinfected, or is out of date. They do
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by oleks 5y ago
Aren't most smartphones dual-sim by now?
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by oleks 6y ago
Similarly, comments can lie, but a commit-history cannot. That is, if the commits are digitally signed. Then you know something about who made the change when, and get a hint at why. This is much more valuable than code comments.
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by oleks 6y ago
You are not paid to go the university in Denmark. You are awarded credits by the government, and it is up to you to do something sensible with those credits. Don't waste them on needless courses! Learn that which will yield you (and th
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by oleks 7y ago
You can freely use many foreign driver's licenses without extra expenditures.
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World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency(dx.doi.org)
42 points by oleks 7y ago|6 comments
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by oleks 7y ago
I spent 17 years in Denmark, and now a couple years in Norway, and I can say that the Danish lunch culture is far richer than the Norwegian one. I studied at a Danish gymnasium and university. I now work at a Norwegian university. For start
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Actors and Objects: It's About Messaging(medium.com)
2 points by oleks 8y ago|0 comments
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by oleks 8y ago
Have you seen this POPL'16 paper? https://popl16.sigplan.org/event/popl-2016-papers-printing-f...
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by oleks 8y ago
This will only spot uncommitted changes to tracked files. I want a completely clean repository before I deploy, where there are neither uncommitted changes to tracked files, nor (new) untracked files. But no, I did not know of git-sh-setup,
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by oleks 8y ago
Yes, so this is useful where deployment is "manual" in the sense that it is not a mere git push. It is bad practice to have git data lying around among otherwise public files, so you have to either set up git hooks on the public s
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by oleks 8y ago
It first performs a git status, then fetches changes from upstream, and checks if all local changes have been pushed upstream (using git cherry).
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Show HN: Git-Ready to Deploy? Check for uncommitted and non-pushed changes(github.com)
30 points by oleks 8y ago|23 comments
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by oleks 9y ago
Why is Oil implemented in Python? IMO Python is a terrible language for writing programming languages.
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Show HN: A simple, file-system-based install utility(github.com)
1 points by oleks 9y ago|0 comments
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by oleks 9y ago
Ironically, this looks like another excellent argument against the use of fingerprint authentication. It makes it easier to capture someone's fingerprints without their consent - "Hey, could you hold my phone for a sec?" - &q
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EUPL v1.2 becomes OSI approved(joinup.ec.europa.eu)
3 points by oleks 9y ago|0 comments
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Videos from Oregon Programming Languages Summer School 2017(youtube.com)
2 points by oleks 9y ago|0 comments
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by oleks 10y ago
These principles, at least by name, apply in general, not just to C.
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Show HN: Tmpdir – do something with a temporary directory(github.com)
1 points by oleks 10y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Ensure that a local Git clone is in sync with a remote(github.com)
2 points by oleks 10y ago|1 comments
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Internet Voting: A Requiem for the Dream(phrack.org)
5 points by oleks 10y ago|0 comments

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