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by wfunction 9y ago
>> by the low-wage masses abusing it (and abuse it they did). > This feeds directly into the popular narrative that the working poor somehow lack moral fortitude. Do you have evidence to justify this claim? I wouldn't be surpr
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by wfunction 9y ago
Great advice. One nit to pick: > Don't ignore constant factors. Sometimes an algorithm with asymptotically worse performance will perform better in practice because it has much better cache locality. Forget the cache, sometimes they
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by wfunction 9y ago
> A way to list all known accounts (I'll call this "discoverability" or "browsability".) I'm gonna go farther and say that the entire notion of discoverability is undervalued in a whole range of scenarios,
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by wfunction 9y ago
> I do not think this is correct, at least for most of the sub-fields of computer science and physics. Prestigious conferences and journals invite only well known researchers to review, who are mostly professors. Few post-docs get invite
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by wfunction 9y ago
How does this work with templates? If a type you pass into such a library causes a warning in that library, is that your fault or the library's? How could the compiler possibly tell? It seems like this can't even work in principle
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by wfunction 9y ago
I upvoted you (it's nice food for thought) but I'm also hesitant to give anyone bad credit for a good thing. The ban needed to be removed eventually, and it was.
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by wfunction 9y ago
Off-topic, but can someone explain to me how mailing lists and threads from 1994 end up on Google Groups? I never really understood what goes on there...
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by wfunction 9y ago
Fantastic post. Just one comment: > This is a fair amount of optimisation passes and it would have been too time consuming to try them one by one I loved the fact that they used bisection, but then I was shocked to read this. This isn&#x
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by wfunction 9y ago
You don't understand the difference between honesty and dishonesty? This has nothing to do with who cares about people and who cares about money, it's a question of who is honest and who is dishonest.
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by wfunction 9y ago
The laptop thing seemed to have been in response to a legitimate terror threat actually, unlike all the other travel bans we've been seeing. I recall that the UK imposed it too, or was trying to, in response to intelligence reports tha
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by wfunction 9y ago
I really don't have an opinion on your hypothetical situation to present here. Nevertheless, you can still build your argument assuming one way or the other, if that's really what you're trying to do. People can question th
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by wfunction 9y ago
> If we momentarily put aside the intentional insertion of mistakes which takes the ethical considerations to a whole new level, we're still left with an interesting ethical question of whether automation of your own job requires yo
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by wfunction 9y ago
> I don't see the difference. Really now? Are you sure it's not a case of you not wanting to see the difference? > Whether you're introducing bugs to fix yourself or pretending to work - the effect is the same. Being
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by wfunction 9y ago
The guy is actively and explicitly lying to get paid money that he otherwise likely would not , and yet you "don't think there's an ethical consideration here" ? What has this world devolved into?
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by wfunction 9y ago
I don't know, but I was just explaining why they're annoyed, not whether they should be annoyed.
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by wfunction 9y ago
They were annoyed at you because you exploited an information asymmetry between the two of you (which is how long the job would actually take).
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by wfunction 9y ago
> If you've ever thought "I'm done for the day, but I'm going to hang out a little longer to leave at a more respectable time," then you're feeling (and doing) the same kind of thing. Not quite. First, this
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by wfunction 9y ago
I haven't to be honest, but at the same time I'm not sure what you expect to see as the summary here. Is there anything profound to say about two overloads that differ by an extra "millisecond" parameter?
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by wfunction 9y ago
Here's an example of a new API they added recently (the first one I thought of): https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/mt5... It says things like this: > Indicates that the dat
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by wfunction 9y ago
A little off-topic, but does anybody know of any hacky ways to disable hyper-threading (on Haswell if it matters) if the firmware doesn't provide the option?
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by wfunction 9y ago
Is this actually a dupe? Old one says Waymo is making an allegation, this one is saying Uber itself is admitting this...
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Uber admits ex-CEO Kalanick knew Levandowski had stolen Google information(sfgate.com)
83 points by wfunction 9y ago|31 comments
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by wfunction 9y ago
Answer to what?
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by wfunction 9y ago
Sigh, I knew someone was going to just complain that this is using the preprocessor and I'd have to waste more time on this... (a) It's a fundamental (but common) mistake to view processing as a logically "separate" st
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by wfunction 9y ago
> I wouldn't blame the compiler I'm not blaming anybody/anything though > It never gets to the make_unique because there's another error before it. Yes, that was literally the entire point of this example, because
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by wfunction 9y ago
Doesn't sound like it to me... I don't consider it a bug. I don't think it's even solvable in general. In fact I think GCC is being quite generous in going out of its way to report things so nicely already.
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by wfunction 9y ago
Nah, it's true. Here's dumb example, where the compiler errors totally miss make_unique: #include <memory> #define u8 }{ struct Foo { char const *foo() { char const *r = u8"foo"; std::make_unique
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by wfunction 9y ago
The problem is the compiler can't necessarily even parse the file with an older version of the language.
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by wfunction 9y ago
Haha I see, interesting, okay thanks :)
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by wfunction 9y ago
> No, not to my knowledge. In fact, most people didn't even know that MSFT lit this feature up and they beefed it up for Vista. So you're saying you're unaware of the information on e.g. this page [1]? Which notably does

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