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by tailrecursion 9y ago
My impression is that the free speech folks want principles such as free speech to be applied equally to all sides. Unfortunately many of the hate speech crowd are so weak and disoriented that they can't grasp the disadvantages of the
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by tailrecursion 9y ago
Exactly, if you're a business in a political climate of any kind you have to keep up appearances regardless of your private beliefs.
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by tailrecursion 9y ago
Somehow I don't think Eich and supporters of Prop 8 would characterize it that way. You believe that Eich is evil but it is possible that he is on the correct side of the issue and you are on the incorrect side. In any case he was pa
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by tailrecursion 9y ago
Forth IS different in one way, from most other languages. The syntax doesn't mark which parameters are being passed to which functions. In C for example you have parentheses and commas that provide that information to the reader. Th
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by tailrecursion 9y ago
To clarify a little Chuck's projects were not rewrites in the usual sense, but they can still be read that way, as derefr suggests. His famous BASIC compiler for example was an implementation of BASIC, something that's been done
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Is Technology Killing Capitalism (2016)(youtube.com)
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by tailrecursion 9y ago
When I see a statement such as, Income in men declined 10-19% over several decades, I think: OK. Why? Is the ratio of young/old different from before? Were those living on social security included in those stats? What does that have
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by tailrecursion 10y ago
You may be on to something, and you're right there is Robusta available that is supposed to be good. Another difference is that American crafty houses are roasting lighter than in Italy. For whatever reason, Americans are following a
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by tailrecursion 10y ago
There are three possible reasons for the quizzical look you get. 1) They misunderstood you to mean that you have no money and that you will run aground any minute. Whereas in reality you're fine for now. 2) What you got was a "fi
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by tailrecursion 10y ago
The author argues that a random access to memory is not O(1) but instead O(root N) because of distance. The easy reactive response is that with respect to algorithm design the size of RAM, N, is a constant. On the other hand for very high s
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by tailrecursion 10y ago
If people want to use snazzy services but don't want to pay, and then outlaw collecting private information, presumably the owner of the snazzy service will find some more complicated or secret way to monetize its users?
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by tailrecursion 10y ago
In my opinion this is the most important insight into Smalltalk: that Smalltalk is renaming indirect function calls as "messages". If Smalltalk message passing were asynchronous, and if Smalltalk objects were processes, then Smal
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by tailrecursion 10y ago
Real objects are processes. Alan Kay has had many opportunities to specify precisely what he means by objects and messages, and based on reading his more recent (or less old) VRI papers, Kay draws inspiration for objects from biology, where
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by tailrecursion 10y ago
There are some comments here about the difficulty competing with Chinese knockoffs, but there are many small companies making high quality 3D printers, and they have good reputations: Ultimaker. Printrbot. E3D BigBox. Makergear. There a
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by tailrecursion 11y ago
By the way Mr Horn is head of VW Group of America, a subsidiary which besides operating a factory in the U.S. is more or less a distributor of cars for VW and related brands in the U.S. As other people have said Horn doesn't know what
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by tailrecursion 11y ago
There's a crucial decision the Toyota engineers made, as described by the article, which was that if the stuck accelerator was not preventing the driver from using the brake and slowing the vehicle, then the stuck accelerator is accept
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by tailrecursion 12y ago
Intel's compute stick strikes me as a vehicle for "Windows 8.1 with Bing", which also appears in cheap laptops. There are already many powerful followons to the Raspberry Pi, with 1-2 GB RAM and up to four ARM cores for $40-
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by tailrecursion 12y ago
For example an automobile can be thought of as an emitter of pollution, if your problem concerns pollution, or, it can be thought of as a particle, if your problem concerns traffic congestion. The auto "fits" into each of these di
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by tailrecursion 12y ago
If we redefine the word "OOP:object" to mean process-with-mailbox, and redefine the word "OOP:message" to mean asynchronous message passing, then objects and messages make sense and are useful. Those are not Smalltalk&#x
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by tailrecursion 12y ago
Sam, Chuck designed the Novix but the Harris RTX 2000, which is very similar, was designed by others. These are 16-bit chips (the Novix addressed 128 KB) that use dedicated stack memories, that's 3 ports to memory total. The RTX puts t
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by tailrecursion 12y ago
I imagine that making user functions would require leaving the one-symbol-one-function spelling system that J programmers are accustomed to, and that spelling system is part of the appeal. Also, if the idiomatic form with primitives is sho
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by tailrecursion 12y ago
After reading a lot of K code I had the same experience, where word-based programs now read like someone from the Slow Talkers of America. Learning APL, I was skeptical of its symbolry. But, by avoiding (verbal) mnemonics the symbol become
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by tailrecursion 12y ago
I've been struggling to learn J for a few weeks, and there are several things that make it difficult. 1) Lack of spaces in the majority of code make it difficult to lex let alone parse, meaning I can't tell what the operators are.
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by tailrecursion 12y ago
Yes. Turbos make sense but if Volvo is betting on them they are only joining VW, BMW, and Subaru. Your remark about the i3 is due to its range? Otherwise it is a good car. Tesla's products are very attractive partly because of Tesla
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by tailrecursion 12y ago
I'm thinking of a system with valueset inference where valuesets are not necessarily disjoint. So the system may infer that a return value is the disjunction {INTEGER | REAL}. In order to get precision in checking, a lot of computatio
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by tailrecursion 12y ago
I want to question the importance of soundness in type systems. Suppose you could catch 99% of type-based errors instead of 100%, and in addition, use a compiler switch to see all the case statements where a class of a type is missing. Th
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by tailrecursion 12y ago
Kazinator's comment struck me as a lucid definition. APIs and ADTs let the thing's behavior define the thing, and subtyping and substitutability emerge from thinking about generic operators defined on more than one kind of datum
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by tailrecursion 12y ago
As rants go this one is good because it identifies some language features and misfeatures that are important, such as type system complexity. But Will Yager's recent article was much better: partly because it was not a rant, and partl
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by tailrecursion 12y ago
I think if you're going to make a strong criticism of a complete design and implementation that includes decisions that were almost certainly made deliberately, then you owe an explanation or some kind of argument. My position is that
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by tailrecursion 12y ago
In the 60s, operating systems were designed in a world where the person running the program was the same as the person who wrote the program. Today many of the security or privacy schemes start by making a distinction between the programme

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