waynecolvin

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by waynecolvin 10y ago
If they misrepresent their arguements there must be a motive.
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by waynecolvin 10y ago
I believe ktRolster may be refering to "Procedural Abstration". The term is used in SICP [1] (the Wizard Book using scheme, previously freshman programming text at MIT). Abstration can take many forms. But can often be described a
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by waynecolvin 10y ago
I believe Linus claims to be an engineer, or maybe a manager nowadays. shrug Glad he has done well anyways.
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by waynecolvin 10y ago
Trust is earned, Linus is right.
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by waynecolvin 10y ago
Traditionally big corporations, or anybody with legacy systems, are very conservative with technology choices...
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by waynecolvin 10y ago
You might be complaining about students being taught Python and it becoming their "blub" language. We all start somewhere, and you can indeed go far with Python in some fields. It's popular with scientists for instance. Recom
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by waynecolvin 10y ago
I don't like Python either but it's out there and a fact of life. You use whatever a client requires. Dictionaries, sets and lists can be nice though. Go here( https://www.thecodingforums.com/threads/performan
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by waynecolvin 10y ago
It can be a terrible filter, but credentialism fits in well with bureaucratic environments. :/
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by waynecolvin 10y ago
True. But before the days of Structured Programming widespread understanding of algorithms was hoped to lead to a professional Software Engineering field. The idea of "Software Engineering" was born with the Software Crisis report
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by waynecolvin 10y ago
I think the priority was to reenable discussion of new movies and TV shows, that would be useful moving forward. But maybe they could make an API.
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I Do Not Know C: Short quiz on undefined behavior (2015)(kukuruku.co)
214 points by waynecolvin 10y ago|178 comments
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by waynecolvin 10y ago
Wait a moment, they have a Falsehoods series on all sorts of subjects. The Fake News fact checkers are going to try globbing on to every niche they can...
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by waynecolvin 10y ago
A real man might take responsibility, but if that ever becomes too visible you will be made the dunce if not scapegoat. Maybe only the successful people had the clout to pull it off. :/ Admitting mistakes to move on, failing fast, shou
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by waynecolvin 10y ago
Languages/libraries evolve and bitrot is a fact of life, yes. Now you have me thinking about how to plan that long! You would need an architecture easy to port and good documentation... https://mcnp.lanl.gov/ Or become
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by waynecolvin 10y ago
I was actually thinking about veterins returning to civillian life at the time, but maybe you're right.
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by waynecolvin 10y ago
Table lookup is a common solution when a FPU isn't available and speed is a higher priority than accuracy. I've actually used formulas for trig functions before with IEEE double floating-point until the accuracy didn't improv
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by waynecolvin 10y ago
Are you sure there weren't some sort of recruitment effort with at least some of those guys... Though you do see some tech pages out there, maybe because of Hangouts? shrug I didn't know Tim O'Reilly was on G+ but ALL these
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by waynecolvin 10y ago
How does one create a reasonable intermediate languages? I'm at a loss there. :/
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by waynecolvin 10y ago
You are describing "generalization". Lookup Tables (LUT) can still be a valid technique if the problem space is small enough. If you use a table for trigonometry functions then interpolation is generally used... So it doesn't
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by waynecolvin 10y ago
How then do you forget, after this overlearning already occurred? EDIT: Someone says "If you can't get past nature's paywall,"
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by waynecolvin 10y ago
Yeah. But for a function with parameters there needs to be a way to associate values with parameters. There are different ways to do that, but even a static global would be accessed by address.
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by waynecolvin 10y ago
Those LUT's have implied indexing internally, I suspect something akin to indexing is essential. Logic functions can be composed using any one of: NAND, NOR, XOR, IMPLY, or other units like full-adders etc. All memory depends on some f
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by waynecolvin 10y ago
I suspect it would be difficult (impossible?) without relative position addressing modes and/or other tricks. A conventional stack would need some way to access an offset away from the base, but perhaps you could use self-modifying cod
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by waynecolvin 10y ago
How are you sure this isn't precisely evil on Google's part?
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by waynecolvin 12y ago
Question: Can anybody explain how synthetic singing voice is made? Especially things like pitch, a voice actor doesn't have to sing every syllable at every pitch do they?
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by waynecolvin 14y ago
The naked eye is subject to persistence of vision but if you wanted to see strobe effects in person either a strobe light or spinning wheel with view gaps could be used.
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by waynecolvin 14y ago
This reminds me of mushroom cap[1]. [1] http://my.safaribooksonline.com/book/work-relationships/9781...
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by waynecolvin 15y ago
I first seriously(?) learned how to code by finding a used Pascal book and reading it thoroughly. That was some time after getting my first computer and not knowing where to find a compiler! (I'm not counting forgotten Logo from summer clas
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Pain of Ostracism Can Be Deep, Long-Lasting(sciencedaily.com)
3 points by waynecolvin 15y ago|0 comments
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by waynecolvin 15y ago
There are many dialects of BASIC and many old ones on old micro-computers had poor features like GOTO or 2-character variable names... Nevertheless, for as long as you do grow out of it and move on... Why not! Don't forget to move on, that'

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