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Porges
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- "It doesn't make any sense ... but the stuff is falling UP!", - "Makes it hard to build a decent snowman...", - "But you have the power to access the source, and set things right.", - "Please help us." + "We really like the way our snow falls upwards!", + "Please sit and watch with us"
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adamjleonard
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We actually do host ourselves (it's just private), but we have a mirror on github.
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ben0x539
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How is it a layer of complexity? It's a thing that tells you where a name is coming from. It makes reading and comprehending random code samples with lots of strange names much more straightforward.
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> mid-budget games have Steam. I think there is where you are missing out. Do you know the largest gamer demographic? I would bet you didn't know it is 25-45 year old women. Seems Solitaire, Peggle, Farmville and Bejeweled actually get played more than every AAA title put together. Did you know Zynga is one of th...
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rcinsf
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Erase? Why the fuck would you do that?
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adamjleonard
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It does not as of yet, but is on the roadmap for the next version I believe.
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quotability
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Yea and for one of those transparent proxy situations, I am pretty sure they use a modified dns server.
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Kissaki0
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Welcome to life. Welcome to the internet.
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PrintStar
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I think I'm simply venting after work. Most of my work doesn't involve time-consuming single mathematical operations, but, rather, Monte-Carlo simulations requiring thousands of runs of effectively identical, independent models. If I could parallelize their running, both my computation time and annoyance with MATLAB ...
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muuh-gnu
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> I have never understood why Sunk costs/effort, the same reason so much Fortran 77 code is still in use today. Matlab has been developed since the 70s, free software competition like Octave, Scilab or Python have been available only since the mid-90s, so matlab had a 10-20 yr headstart. Countless people have put c...
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adamjleonard
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I'm a developer helping on the project, if you have any questions feel free to ask. I will do my best to answer.
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Technology should move forwards, not backwards. Writing apps like they were virtual hardware was how software was written back in the DOS days when most operating systems could only execute one program at a time.
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jollyllama
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Ugh. Thanks for reminding me. I'm going to go take a multivitamin and call it an early night after Matlock, if you don't mind.
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MolokoPlusPlus
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Yes, it does. You can use the algorithm from the article to get fair bits (because each roll is independent), then reroll on numbers that aren't on the. e.g. six sided: 1,2, --> 1,0 --> 1 4,2 --> 0,0, skip. 2,3 --> 0,1 --> 0 3,5 --> 1,1, skip. 4,1 --> 0,1 --> 0 Bits: 1,0,0 Result: 4 ...But it...
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quotability
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Also unidentified and uncountable.
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knejk
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The parallel computing licenses are really hurting Matlab right now. I would say that the Mathworks will have to make the distributed computing toolbox, or a subset of it, free or cheap in the near future. That being said, there is nothing remotely like parallel for (parfor) in scipy/numpy. It's just awesome. Add thre...
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spotter
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/r/clojure?
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rlbond86
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Great job, you've fixed the mean deviation, with only the small cost of making your trials nonindependent. I kid. This is a terrible idea because random number generators need independent trials.
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gonemad16
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> I sometimes use that to separate different steps of a long function. I sometimes will do this as well, but only if the chunk of code actual fits together. It can make the function much more understandable
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roger_
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Really? I find it to be pretty well designed. The editor and integrated debugger are particularly useful, wish Python had something that easy to use yet still powerful (Editra and Spyder have potential).
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roger_
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It's pretty decent for doing interactive calculations in a terminal, but it quickly falls apart when you have to do longer scripting.
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tjdziuba
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Too many words. U mad.
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drjacksahib
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Bias could be introduced by other factors, such as how you flip it. More importantly, this article is about math, not literal coin flips.
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ethraax
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This is exactly how I feel about bash - it's nice for interactive uses, but it quickly becomes incredibly unwieldy when you have to do longer scripting.
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masterzora
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Then consider it as an information channel receiving random inputs of 0 or 1 with equal probability that is prone to changing a 0 to a 1 with probability p while not touching 1s. Now it's physically possible and still mathematically interesting.
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jozwiakjohn
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I'm curious why you would prefer it to Mathematica.
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stratius
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I don't see all the hate about MATLAB, it's the quickest language I know of to prototype something. If some part of your code isn't due to the language? Port it to C and compile it in a MEX file. I love using MATLAB for things I need to debug visually and interactively. If you do a lot of math and not object oriented p...
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Fjordo
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No, I have cable, but it's been really slow the past 2 days. I'm starting to think I've been throttled, but I don't download a lot.
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tasteface
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For a scientist with limited programming knowledge, MATLAB is far superior to Python/numpy/scipy if only for the simple fact that GUI creation in MATLAB is so easy a zombie could do it. Scientists don't care about what language an experimental protocol is written in as long as it's simple, easy, and undergrads can us...
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jpfed
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Also worth noting: [more efficient methods exist](http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~qstout/pap/AnnProb84.pdf).
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Strilanc
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That's odd, the solution is wrong. The optimal solution is 100% efficient (but has ever increasing cost per digit). You just consider the input as the digits of a number between 0 and 1 and then the output is the digits of the same number in a different base. A conversion from 2to6to2 will be 100% efficient (In the l...
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bitchessuck
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> MATLAB's programming language is abysmal FTFTFY
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dchestnykh
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You're mistaken. Yandex (the 1st search engine in Russia by market share) had this fork of Chrome *long before* Google removed the dialog from Chromium. Yandex even made the 0th search result (ad that looked like the 1st real result in SERP [not how it looks now]) for "chrome" and "хром" to be a link to their fork. Plu...
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bitchessuck
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The problem is that whenever your problem/data don't fit the special matrixy ways of Matlab, everything gets complicated and in most cases performance turns from pretty good to abysmal.
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xcbsmith
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Even if the coin is slightly off being flat, it creates bias. I would argue therefore that most coins in the real world are biased, although in most cases only subtly.
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I know the meaning of the symbols, I was just pointing out there's a lot of them. Noisy language.
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CafeNero
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Normally role my own set of tests at the start (helps to define functionality) an then batch a night job to ensure that the tests are met and regression against older versions). So I don't have any experience of tools to share. I rely on vectorizing as much as possible - and C mex when I absolutely have to. I here l...
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MillardFillmore
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What field are you in that needs GUI creation? I'm a grad student and I haven't had to make one my entire academic life. Here's why scientists should care about this language: MATLAB isn't object oriented, so code is usually terribly painful to read. It's not free, and neither is it open-source (your lab may or may no...
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Anpheus
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I don't understand what situation in which you would expect native code to handle the cases in which a "finally" block would not run in the CLR. For example, your process is dramatically forced to terminate (I think there are a few ways to do this, but don't quiz me on it), or the plug is pulled, or you've hit certain...
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humanmanguy
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I guess this is what happens when you combine a logical thing like programming with an illogical thing like religion. Still got mad respect for him though
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dgermain
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Last year challenge was quite fun. Looking forward to participate to this one as well :)
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Expresionista
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429 Too Many Requests Was that one *requested* by reddit?
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Sir_Edmund_Bumblebee
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My outsider's view is that Django's development is slower and more methodical, and less chasing the latest fad (coffeescript et all) like Rails. It seems like the main knock against Django is that it's too "big" for some uses, in which case people go for something more lightweight like Flask.
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greyfade
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I love the ambivalence. But it seems he's settled on MIT - that's in his code repository now.
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ibito
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I first thought about the WTFPL but it doesn't seems to fit what you need =P (http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/)
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gamedude999
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Yeah, the 286 had a 287 coprocessor that you could get if I recall correctly. I remember my friend had a shirt that said "25 Mhz, it Hz so good!" like that was fast.... and it actually was. I remember telling people that when RAM got all the way down to $10 a Megabyte that we would see some seriously cool shit. Well...
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ZMeson
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I was wondering what the heck Google Salt was ... then I realized what it is and that I've been studying too much chemistry lately.
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i-hate-digg
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I get the feeling Clojure is the new Haskell. A bunch of enthusiasts will pick it up for a while, not write anything major in it, then put it aside.
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kyledrake
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Oh come on, this is hilarious.
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elder_george
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OK, I stand corrected. Promotion of own browser is exactly similar to how Google promotes Chrome, say, in Gmail. Nothing new. And still why (say) Bing users in Russia are blocked from changing dialog after installing 'official' Chrome? This *is* blocking users from work with Google competitors.
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annodomini
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Good to know. Glad he figured out what license he wanted to use.
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aaaxxxlll
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> Her only impressive skill was pressuring her peers into fixing her mess at this point. This programmer has excellent communication skills! Not dead weight at all! Give this person a 15+% raise and a huge bonus every year!
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ajayrockrock
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he's referring to the artwork that goes along with the ROM. Like screenshots of the game, pictures of the cabinet, etc. It's just metadata associated with the game, not actually modifying the game.
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elder_george
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Apparently, Google has trench war with his main rival in Russia and, because of this made a 'bugfix' that prevents users (well, 95% of them who don't care to change settings) from using this rival's search.
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ajayrockrock
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I haven't found a really awesome frontend for mame. It's a tough problem to solve as there are a billion games and (in theory) all you have a joystick plus some buttons to navigate the list.
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voetsjoeba
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TIL Excel is involved in aircraft design.
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mikevdg
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So... how long does the contest last for? There's no time period.
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jimmyjawns
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I used MATLAB a ton in an astrodynamics course. I dunno how long "longer scripts" are for real programmers (engineer here), but a couple of the programs turned into a few hundred lines, sometimes approaching 1000. Maybe it is because I used it everyday for a few years, but I love writing in it, and longer programs ex...
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catcradle5
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I agree. Reading or writing any program in bash over 20 lines makes my eyes bleed.
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name_was_taken
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I've had people take this approach with me in the past. I let them know that their attitude was not welcome and I would not be paying any attention to them.
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jimmyjawns
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Not only is the matrix math boss, but when used with other MathWorks software it is pretty handy for engineers. Plus, as an engineer, I could run an experiment much quicker using MATLAB to collect and process data then I could figure out how to use more conventional languages to interface with the physical world.
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jbarket
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Hyperspin. It's perfect.
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I think you missed the point. christianjb was explaining *why* you take pairs of flips.
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JabbrWockey
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I think that's the draw to agile project management - get all the shit out of the way in the thirty minute standoff in the morning, and the project manager tells people to buzz off otherwise.
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MatrixFrog
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You could even have a contest where you write code that: 1. Appears to be completely correct. 2. Runs and produces correct answers. 3. Has a subtle "bug" which you can find by reviewing the code very carefully. 4. Actually does the *wrong* thing if you "fix" the bug, but does the right thing if you leave it alone. I ...
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eminence
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Since this post lacks any code at all, I've added some! Here's some simple python code to demonstrate this: https://gist.github.com/12bdcc2806745bb75658 $ python fairflip.py After 50000 flips, this coin landed heads 33% of the time and tails 66% of the time After 50000 flips, this coin landed heads 49%...
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aaaxxxlll
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> > "Bulldozer code" that gives the appearance of refactoring by breaking out chunks into subroutines > I sometimes use that to separate different steps of a long function I feel the "bulldozer code" comment doesn't belong on this list. At least anecdotally, people who break code into subroutines are thinkin...
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zombiepops
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in your first case the probability of a second flip being T is 99%. so the long run average is 50/50% but its still highly predictable. even at 75% I'm best off taking bets that even numbered flips will be tails, since 75% of the time it will be.
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awesome7777
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This is witchcraft. Everything about that presentation is fascinating! C# -> JavaScript promises is extremely exciting.
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doublereedkurt
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from multiprocessing import Pool def f(x): return x*x if __name__ == '__main__': pool = Pool(processes=4) # start 4 worker processes result = pool.apply_async(f, [10]) # evaluate "f(10)" asynchronously print(result.get(timeout=1)) # print...
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the ships come from the previous challenge, the site itself probably came from the previous challenge and they're still modifying the text.
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methinks2015
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Hm. It still looks like it's in Beta. Are you sure that it's open?
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igouy
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"Back-End Software Engineer: [Experience with Clojure](http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?c=qT59VfwM&v=1&page=Job%20Description&j=o0AHVfwW) or any other functional programming language"
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Of course, then there's *another* discarding step that has to happen if you aren't selecting from 2^n numbers. For example, if you are trying to get an unbiased d6, you have to get three bits, and then if they come out to 6 or 7, you have to start the entire process over.
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yash3ahuja
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My God. That is awesome. Which algorithm did you use?
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doublereedkurt
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Totally agreed about Perl, Python, Ruby etc not being in the same category as sed, awk, bash.
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urhereimnot
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Anybody else more amazed by the "click and drag" functionality than the actual math?
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roger_
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Do you have experience with other languages, particularly OO ones?
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You can still download the startpacks and tools and start playing with it.
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aaronla
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> How do you handle those "guarantees" in the presence of fault conditions such as these? This is a strawman argument, as I'm not referring to external sources of failure; only internal ones. Perhaps this will become clear with an example: In C++, if low on memory, operator new may throw bad_alloc. If you have a b...
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gorilla_the_ape
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Multiple save() calls isn't always bad. If you are making multiple changes to an object and it doesn't make sense to rollback all the way, then it might be right to save as soon as you have changed some data. As an example, if you are pulling back data from multiple webpages and populating the object. If the program ...
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gregK
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Great talk. I agree that being able to reason about your code is one of the most important factors. But on the slide on debugging, he seems to miss that a good type system can actually help you reason about code. Maybe this is hard to accept from someone that comes from dynamic languages.
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ajayrockrock
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I should've clarified, I'm a linux guy and Hyperspin is windows only. I think I'm going to have to break down and just run my mame box on windows. :/
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disregard-this
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If the random data is biased, hashing will not solve the issue - if the hashing algorithm is known, then a hacker could hash random data biased in the same manner and generate private keys based on those hash values. With this method the hacker could then get a list of private key values that are more likely than othe...
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> When the rest of us talk about DI we are specifically talking about Dependency Injection frameworks. That makes this entire argument irrelevant then. Person A is thinking of Spring when they argue DI sucks, Person B is thinking of Guice, Person C is thinking of PicoContainer, Person D is thinking of passing in d...
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jbarket
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Oh, now I get you completely. Yeah, I had the same issue. I'm Ubuntu full time otherwise, but my MAME cab is Windows 7. There was just no getting around it and getting what I wanted out of it unfortuantely.
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Anpheus
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Thanks for your response. I agree, C# needs to be coded around the idea that memory is not infinite and that causes a mismatch between programmer model and machine model. The lack of an ability to handle low memory or allocation limits makes it so that you can't *really* do that easily. So perhaps this is something tha...
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starthorn
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I take it from the way you frame things that you haven't used Perl in at least 10 years (if ever), and have no idea what you're talking about. Your second sentence actually made a good point, but from there you jump into opinions stated as facts and vague generalities that are not even close to reality.
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bratty_fly
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Bleh, this one's false: *Recursive subroutines that concatenate/sum to a global variable or a carry-along output variable* You cannot use a single return parameter when you are doing several summations or concatenations in one tree traversal. In those cases, you have to carry along a reference to an output variable....
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borlak
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that's boring [check this out](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEgaqXsavYA) but it's a bit of a pain to mess with. if you could do whatever in a web browser, you could build an admin, open source projects...whatever
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sastrone
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FOR SCIENCE!
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kpthunder
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AIR is just a wrapper for Flash and other web technologies to get access to the local system. [See here](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_air#Application_development). PlayN actually cross-compiles to native code for each supported platform.
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disregard-this
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The data from the entropy pool is hashed by the kernel so that a user cannot inspect the raw entropy pool data to determine a potential bias.
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