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by tarblog 10y ago
Do you have a source on this? Even one about the market in general? I wasn't aware of this practice before now.
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by tarblog 10y ago
Monomorphisation is the name of the technique of producing a different version of the code for each set of type parameters that are used in the program. C++ and Rust use monomorphisation instead of doing runtime checks because they're
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by tarblog 10y ago
The burden of proof that facebook can see months into the future would be on the poster. No evidence is needed to simply disbelieve this.
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by tarblog 11y ago
>We take the data we get and process it for later use What data do you collect/use to make the music?
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by tarblog 11y ago
Do you have any science to back those claims up? What are you basing it on?
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by tarblog 11y ago
My first thought was Lumosity [1]. I'd love for these claims to be real, but I'm just not willing to believe claims like these until I see a significant result in a randomized controlled trial. [1] https://en.wikipedia.
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by tarblog 11y ago
Do you have a suggestion for a replacement for "monad"? It's always been such an opaque term to me, even as I began to get a grasp of it.
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by tarblog 11y ago
Professional ethics of software engineering is definitely something we're going to have to grapple with more and more. Another aspect is being asked to use Dark Patterns in a UI or build a skinner box into a game or app. There's e
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by tarblog 11y ago
Tip: include the text "San Francisco" or "SF" instead of "s.f.", it makes searching for your post more obvious.
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by tarblog 11y ago
I think you're on the right track. The way I remember it: the product was still overwhelmingly better than everything else. Missing copy&paste was an "oh well" compared to owning an iPhone in 2007.
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by tarblog 11y ago
You shouldn't expect quantum computers to bring a "free-lunch" speedup the way that clock-speed increases did for such a long time.
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by tarblog 11y ago
I would define the term "high-level language" to mean that it's possible to write programs in the language without needing to worry about the specific hardware that the program is running on. I would consider systems programm
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by tarblog 11y ago
You have a typo in "Francisco"
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by tarblog 11y ago
>has been in iOS since forever Granular permissions have only been in iOS since version 6.0, which came out 3 years ago. The first version of iOS was 8 years ago. For a feature that's "as common sense as it gets" we sure g
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by tarblog 11y ago
You should become skeptical of languages that compile to C. I can't get into the details because I don't know them very well, but take a look a pcwalton's comment history for a fairly technical discussion of why it makes a po
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by tarblog 11y ago
Why? Because their applicant pool is too small? Or because the cost of doing that many interviews is so steep? Or something else? I intuitively had the exact opposite reaction: most companies can't afford to hire any bad people, but la
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by tarblog 11y ago
...wait a second
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by tarblog 11y ago
I'd guess that most are in the SF office, but I didn't know that had 29 other offices until 5 seconds ago.
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by tarblog 11y ago
Wifi is not too slow for RAWs. I backed-up my entire library to the cloud over wifi. I would bet most people don't need to transfer their files on a fast enough timescale that wifi is too slow for them.
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by tarblog 11y ago
I don't know, at this rate, in 9 days he'll need agreement from everyone in the world!
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by tarblog 11y ago
In the spec [1], they published the dictionary used in hexadecimal form. Can someone explain why there are so many 6's in the data? For comparison here's a chart of hex character and approximate [2] number of occurrences. (0 - 15k
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by tarblog 11y ago
Small communities become smaller when certain people share similar interests. -Tarblog
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by tarblog 11y ago
Maybe, but there's strong evidence (from the field of macroeconomics) that allowing people to just receive money (rather than payments in kind) makes them even better off. Although you may fret about people using the money for bad thin
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by tarblog 11y ago
Would you mind posting more information about your experience? I'm interested.
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by tarblog 11y ago
I think the problem is more to with science journalism than the scientists themselves. I've seen so many headlines that read something like "Is X affecting Y?!" but then the story is something like "scientists published
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by tarblog 11y ago
Fair enough, but this card doesn't hinge on its combo ability. Imagine it in BW weenie with things like Anafenza, Kin-Tree Spirit. Even the synergy with Fume Spitter is pretty great. :)
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by tarblog 11y ago
I'm not so sure this card is on cost. My neural network is telling me that it's actually too good at 4 mana. Don't forget about potential combos like having a bunch of zero cost creatures in your graveyard + anything else tha
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by tarblog 11y ago
Also, I'm confused by the word "aggressive" here. Could you elaborate please?
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by tarblog 11y ago
> C and C++ builds, usually measured in hours. Do you have a source or a story about this? I hadn't heard numbers like that before.
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by tarblog 11y ago
Please only post once per thread.

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