saywatnow

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by saywatnow 8y ago
I find these modern artifacts fascinating, and a great example of how poorly we communicate {in,about} code. Not that either Wikipedia or RC is a reliable source of quality, but there's plenty a critical eye could object to in both pa
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by saywatnow 8y ago
Does Site Reliability include using assets from no less than 7 domains and requiring Javascript to present a few paragraphs of text?
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by saywatnow 8y ago
pdf: https://www.math.upenn.edu/~wilf/website/recounting.pdf
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by saywatnow 8y ago
Nice to see a fairly thorough set of examples, but my only conclusion is that C++ really has become a parody of itself. The language describing each policy is awful, but okay. "so concise code" for 10 lines consisting mostly of ce
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by saywatnow 8y ago
This is nice .. but it could be nicer with (pun intended) use of the context manager protocols, a few less empty lines and a bit of minor refactoring for readability. Is execution_loop really meant to start and end holding the GIL?
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by saywatnow 9y ago
My opinion is almost the opposite: I find Granger's ambitious ideas and presentations stimulating, and I like that they're out there to inspire people to imagine more and experiment more agressively. I wish his audiences were a b
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by saywatnow 9y ago
> Sounds like an ideal job for a 3d printer. Or, you know, a piece of timber and some sand paper. The consumer-grade 3d printers I have exposure to would have trouble with some combination of piece length, tensile consistency, strength a
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by saywatnow 9y ago
> developers often write software that trusts the local network Yes, this is still a source of problems - DNS rebinding allowing websites to attack random sockets on LAN and localhost makes my skin crawl. That the protections are being
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by saywatnow 9y ago
> This is without considering the false sense of security that address masquerading provides; I cannot recall how many times I’ve heard people say that (gasp!) NAT was fundamental piece in the security of their internal networks (it’s no
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by saywatnow 9y ago
Thanks, that's clear enough :-). In hindsight I can't imagine what alternative I was thinking of .. I had some idea you might have put the additional cost in the iterator by maintaining only an epoch counter in the vector, but th
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by saywatnow 9y ago
Can you briefly describe how the msevector + ipointer works? I tried to look at the code but dense C++ is not my forte.
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by saywatnow 9y ago
It's not cmake's job to limit the behaviour of programs written with it.
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by saywatnow 9y ago
> The third social space (restaurants, cafe's, etc) becomes more and more irrelevant due to delivery services. Did you really mean to write that? :-) To be fair, delivery services aren't really responsible for undermining the &
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Don't be evil: Google’s soft power to regime change(independentaustralia.net)
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by saywatnow 9y ago
I guess all it takes to push a draft is hubris. The clear fact it hasn't received editorial feedback from a single native speaker is an indication how popular this is. (not to shame non-native speakers!)
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by saywatnow 9y ago
> I find it hard to believe if you're a programmer Some people work better with reference documentation, books and their brain than SO "answers". Google for "complex programming questions" is laughable and honest
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by saywatnow 9y ago
by serendipity I clicked through on this link and sgentle's link to Kay on McLuhan and the following sentence comes remarkably close to my experience of the two presentations of the Selection task: > .. the most important thing abou
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by saywatnow 9y ago
This should be titled more honestly: perhaps something like "Case studies in rapidly replacing dangerous C parser code with Rust using nom". The examples are interesting and well presented. But the first sections trying to put a
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by saywatnow 9y ago
> note how the second expression has no "z" variable in it. A better comparison would be to func2(1 + 2 + 3, func1(x, y));
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by saywatnow 9y ago
> imagine Lisp without macros. Early on in my Scheme career, I found the tools to create macros a bit confusing and arcane .. but I still knew I wanted macros. I ended up writing code transformers - a poor man's macro system if you
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by saywatnow 9y ago
The thing about both Lisp and Smalltalk that keeps making me feel alienated is that their power seems much weaker beyond their kingdom. The outside world does not have an object browser, nor is it made of s-expressions. Tcl occupies a very
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by saywatnow 10y ago
imho the headline should be the other way around: > Most scientific studies cannot be replicated by peers .. which is more to the point.
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by saywatnow 10y ago
Thanks! That's excellent. Different measurements from populations with varying exposure to snakes certainly seems to weigh in favour of an evolutionary explanation. > That's a general argument against any complex adaptation.
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by saywatnow 10y ago
I take it you do. Thanks for enlightening me!
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by saywatnow 10y ago
> This makes sense, as humans have co-evolved along venomous snakes for presumably a very long time. I always find appeals to evolution for phenomena like this a bit weak. In the Darwinian sense, this response would have to be a random
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by saywatnow 10y ago
no source repository? Looks like a great opportunity for someone to grab all the release tarballs and build one to chuck on github. Bonus points for putting changelog contents in the commit logs!
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by saywatnow 10y ago
The relevance of Android here is that Go has a reason to target it. Not that it's a Java/C hybrid.
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by saywatnow 10y ago
OP: go has an interest in suiting embedded because Android. Me: Android doesn't need to meet constraints anywhere near a home router (which needs to run ntpd) You: there's a proprietary Java-based OS for Cortex-M3 .. still don&#x2
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by saywatnow 10y ago
I don't understand the relevance?
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by saywatnow 10y ago
Badly needs static analysis . coverity is free for open source projects, will find many of the same issues, and produces reports that directly identify the buggy code, rather than the crash which might come thousands of instructions later

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