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He'll have a bad day, but at least the sidewinder sleeps tonight.
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I like the movie.
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So why can't he buy all 100 of them?
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My thoughts exactly.
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Another attempt at peddling their hardware.
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He is just being thorough and listing both cases.
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Back when the GeForce was first released, T&L was the difference between "3D accelerator" and "GPU" in marketing-speak.
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dbilenkin
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You are correct, sir! edit: It rescales after every order of magnitude * 3.
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What does he mean by finding your hands? I sometimes try to induce sleep terror (just for shits and giggles) and at some phase (while I'm awake) I find out that my hand position is registered incorrectly in my brain. I actually know where it is (since I haven't moved, to induce terror) but it feels like at least one of them is somewhere else (close, different position etc.) I try to break the illusion as hard as I can when that happens (without moving) but never succeeded. When I move my hand, all becomes clear.
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Nope. My pet languages+ are all *way too obscure* for this bozo to know about them. * OCaml, Twelf and another one so obscure that its name isn't even publicly known.
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On the topic of Unix, can anybody tell me what kinds of advantages OSX has over Linux? I specifically have a lot of experience with Ubuntu, but Linux can be annoying. I commonly need to use a true Linux environment for my computer science cirriculum. Shell commands, Operating Systems-specific work, compiling such that it works for my instructors, etc.
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jeffrexsave
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someone explain what the hell is going on here
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im so lost
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Where can I download "blockies"? I can't find it anywhere.
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Am I supposed to trust a guy who can make a web presentation suck that much?
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Which browser are you using? I see the slider for it in Chrome and Firefox. Yes, editing the field doesn't work. There are a bunch of bugs, I'm sure. There is a way of loading results, but I didn't get a chance to make it all nice, so it's a bit of a pain. You can click on any of the creatures on the right hand side where it show individual fitness. This will bring up their DNA. Copy that and then go to Genetic Settings. Paste the DNA into "Seed DNA" and check "Start with identicals". Then click evolve and it will start with a population consisting of only the DNA you want.
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Software_Engineer
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try some really really big strings
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Doesn't for me.
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~120 steps/sec with Opera and 10 creatures. Phenom X4 3.4GHz.
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I think this is absolutely fantastic. Great implementation. You should really keep adding more magic to this.
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I did my own C# Sudoku Puzzle Generator implementation a few months ago. The only limitation of my code was that the solver (required to check if a generated puzzle has a valid solution) wasn't terribly advanced, which made the puzzles easy. I never got around to improving it **pnpbios**'s reply has roughly the right idea, but I found that just randomly removing numbers causes unsolvable puzzles. I also found that, instead of using guess-and-check to create a valid "solved" grid to remove numbers from, you can permute a valid solved Sudoku board to get a large number of other valid solved Sudoku boards. Here's a rough outline of the theory behind that, and what my code does: Let's represent the groups of rows and columns with the set {[0,1,2],[3,4,5],[6,7,8]}. If you start with a solved Sudoku board, there are two types of substitution you can make and still end up with a valid Sudoku solution: * Swapping any two groups of rows/columns (but only rows for rows or columns for columns). {[0,1,2],[3,4,5],[6,7,8]} => {**[6,7,8]**,[3,4,5],**[0,1,2]**} * Swapping any two rows/columns within a group. {[0,1,2],[3,4,5],[6,7,8]} => {[0,1,2],[**4**,**3**,5],[6,7,8]} So, the steps for creating a valid Sudoku puzzle were as follows: * Start with a "base" solved Sudoku board. * Do a series of N random permutations, according to the two types above. Use random numbers, or a randomly generated seed, to choose: 1) whether you're permuting rows/columns; 2) which of the two permutation types you're doing; 3) a valid pair of rows/columns within a group, or pair of groups, depending on the outcome of (2) * Pick a square at random and remove it. Check if the solution is still valid. Repeat until one of two termination conditions is reached: 1) number of squares removed is within puzzle difficulty range; 2) there are no more squares that can be removed. For efficiency reasons (this was targeted at phones), I check the latter condition in the case that there are a sequential number of incorrect guesses greater than 1/4-1/2 (can't remember where in this it lay) of the remaining number of squares
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ironchefpython
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> By the way, how did you come up with your scalability constants? I pulled them out of my ass. I've been doing Enterprise IT for the last 20 years, and those server counts and efficiency coefficients are based on my personal experience building web farms, application clusters, distributed databases, etc. From a practical perspective, the categories I gave are equivalent to the following web load balancing techniques. * adding another web server with another A record * software load balancing * hardware load balancing * global load balancing across multiple data centers.
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> Well, not only calculated. So for example say you have an order form, and you want people to not fat-finger parts numbers. Then depending on what parts are selected, the values of other dropdowns change. Then you have the totals calculated - perhaps dependant on a client number. That kind of thing. And using a spreadsheet means that you lose all the text capabilities - so for example you wouldn't expect an insurance company to send you a spreadsheet to fill out and sign, you'd download a form that has all the legal details on page 1, then a form to fill out, then other crap. This case is still using the forms as a template to basically create a static document for print. It's a means to the end of having a filled-out form. If you're using it as a truly dynamic document (as in, not something you fill out, sign, and it's set in stone), then you should consider something other than a PDF. > But with PDFs, you can have the versions in the same file, so for example if you have 3 signatures, you can revert back to the versions each person signed to see who changed what. It also provides other security features like disallowing various actions (adding text, or printing for example) You cannot cryptographically disallow someone from printing a PDF.
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>I rarely remember details from my dreams. They feel like trying to remember details from a movie I watched 10 years ago, and only once. I can see different scenes and can put together various pieces at times, but it's dodgy and discombobulated, even immediately after waking up. That means, those are the details you remember. Write them down. "Write down details" doesn't mean "try to remember very intricate details of your dream"; it just means "write down all the details you remember". That is because dream memory is very fuzzy. You can even forget parts of dreams while you are writing them down. But when you manage to write something, you consolidate them in some fashion. You might still forget them but this is a beneficial exercise. You can go back and read, sometimes it makes you feel alienated (did I really see this shit?) and sometimes they make you remember. >I've never personally been able to understand why this is ever needed, probably because I can't lucid dream. Dreams have never, ever felt real enough to warrant having to make a distinction between dreams and real life. I've never had to wonder if I'm dreaming and just think I'm awake. Dreaming, to me, feels nothing like real life, and it would be impossible for me to confuse them, since the experiences are so distinct. The point of all those exercises are to make sure you don't confuse them. If you didn't confuse them, while you were in a dream, you would be able to say "hey this is a dream". This is /r/programming so I'll try to explain with a programming related analogy. You need to do this to inject code into your dream, you bootstrap from that point, jump to your own lucid dream functions and take control. If you make reality checks a routine in your daily life, they will show up in your dreams. This is the exploit. You will start doing reality checks in your dreams, and you will find out at some point that you are dreaming. That is where you become able to run your own code inside your dream. If you didn't confuse the two (real life vs. dreams) you would always know that you were dreaming (while you were dreaming). You need to find a way to say "hey I'm dreaming" INSIDE your dream (kinda like a buffer overflow maybe?) then execute your code from there. In daily life, when you are doing reality checks, it will feel REALLY stupid. Because you will know that you are not dreaming. There is no problem with this, happens to everyone. You just need to go through the motions obsessively; you do this because you want this routine to actually show up while you are dreaming. When it happens inside the dream, you will be able to gain control. You are just going to try to leak the reality checks to your dreams by doing them repetitively.
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dbilenkin
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Wow! Thank you so much :) I think maybe I will get back to this. I haven't thought about it in a while and now I'm getting fired up about it! Any ideas, suggestions to improve it?
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aazav
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What is the point of playing a song as REM hits? What is your criteria determining the start of REM?
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A lot of people want just enough features to work, and then a few very simple addons for version control, possibly FTP or Makefile execution on top of that. Hence the popularity of vim, even if it really doesn't have the greatest interface.
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ivquatch
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The performance gain of native C/++ can be critical in some applications, but generally it's not much better than JIT compiled managed code. In some cases, dynamically compiled code can actually be faster that statically compiled native code. On the flip side, C/++ type system is weak, the syntax is incomprehensible (see const keyword), and the language lacks support for higher-level constructs like list/query comprehensions. Even with the recent 0x updates - do you really trust type inference with the auto keyword? -, writing large, enterprise level applications in C++ should be considered downright criminal. The language has too high of a tolerance for unsafe code. Even John Carmack admitted this. The bottom line is that C++ is a multi-paradigm language that doesn't do any one thing particularly well. It can for the most part be relegated to performance critical loops or replaced with low-level api calls. Speed isn't everything, especially when the trade-off is reliability. This why most professionals write a majority of the code in "safer" languages like Java, C#, F#, ML, OCaml, or Haskell. Otherwise they'd end up writing unnecessary bugs.
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dbilenkin
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What version you using?
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I was going to upvote this until he reminded me of Ace of Base.
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0xABADC0DA
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> I get the impression people use it to sound "1337" - I've never heard a good explanation as to why using a tron era text editor makes me more productive Yet new developers continue to learn and use it and it's up to you to find a convincing explanation for that if you don't buy that vim makes them more productive. "Because it's cool"? A fad for 30 years straight? Not very convincing. > I want to jump forward 3 words? I click my mouse 3 words ahead And if that's all you're using vim for then you're right, a mouse or shortcuts are just as good or better. But vim is a write-once scripting language for editing text, not really an editor. And so it kills an IDE when you need to repeat anything or do anything complicated to the text. Those times when you spend minutes doing the same thing over and over (or if smart write some perl script to do it)... a vim user already finished and it only took a few seconds. They didn't even think twice about it. > makes me more productive If you can't take some desired change and instantly be able to decompose it into a series of small operations (mini-program to effect the edit) then maybe vim won't ever make *you* more productive. For people that do think that way it makes them a huge amount more productive.
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cowardlydragon
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it you turn off kill parents, I got a consistent three leg walker with one support stump leg that never fell over. Still got killed off. Is the goal/fitness determined by distance?
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aerojun
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Thank you. Now i get it!
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Right right. That makes more sense to me now.
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pipocaQuemada
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Don't forget hoogle. Seriously, whenever I use another language, I really really miss hoogle.
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drysart
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> if he has taken the time to write this up, then it's a topic in need of clarification Not necessarily. Raymond Chen doesn't write posts just to set the masses straight; he writes variously on topics of Windows esoterica, facts and designs of historical significance, and other curiosities. He often writes about things that have landed on his desk as a result of someone opening a ticket via the Microsoft support system. One guy screwing up and expecting WM_DESTROY to actually destroy a window doesn't make it an epidemic. It's just an anecdote that's interesting to point out as a cautionary tale in API design.
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When was your last hobby project? If you have a current one, what is it?
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elint
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I think you mean The 51st State.
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eternauta3k
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For some reason I can't even read about lucid dreaming without having an intense reaction. It's like my mind recoils at experimenting with reality like that.
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life036
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I don't get it; why would you wake yourself up by playing a song every time you go into REM?
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stonefarfalle
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It is possible to understand poorly written code given time. That doesn't mean you want to live with it, or that it is easy to extend. Not sure why you would complain about injecting a facade interface, you are going to end up with one when you are done anyway. It can help you inject logging so that you can get runtime samples to help you build the tests. Note I didn't say 100% test coverage, I said 100% coverage of how it is used.
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aazav
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Nickelback.
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Last hobby project was an unfinished singleplayer level for Jedi Knight. Current one is writing middleware for the Unity game engine.
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[Siddhartha returns as code!?](http://www.reddit.com/r/Buddhism/comments/kupp0/siddhartha_returns_as_code)
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zingbot3000
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Is that the sort of problem that Template Haskell would solve?
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pgngugmgg
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I don't think anyone here misunderstood the purpose of GA per se. On the other hand, let's face it, the philosophical influence of GA on the evolutionism-creationism issue is nonzero.
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> saving 1 second every minute One second every minute is actually quite a large gain. However, I would usually take at least that long to count how many words over I need to move, as opposed to just hitting ctrl-→ until the cursor is where I want it. (Yes, I know I could just hit w until the cursor is where I want it, but my point here is that I don't find the count+action style commands nearly as awesome as everyone claims they are.)
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Shell scripting (bash/sed/awk) is one of the most underrated skills. Even if you know real programming languages like C++, Java and Python you should still learn how to write shell scripts fluently. It's the easiest way to get simple tasks done in a linux environment. Forget about recursive path processing and just read the man page for find and xargs.
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Babkock
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This shit is freaking me out, man. Do we even *exist*, man?!
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Masiosare
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wat? installing Qt is a complicated issue now?
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aroberge
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Great job!!! I looked for a license and did not find any; what license is this under? Perhaps you should create a new open source license: The Darwin License. "Permission is granted to evolve this code, mutate it and mix from other sources, as you see fit."
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EstebanVelour
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Any plans for a non-db queue backend?
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hiahiahia
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alas it is not available. it was written by karl sims in the early 90s for a connection machine cm-5. closest you can get now are the papers available on his [site](http://www.karlsims.com).
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SelfHighFive
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You're being cock-blocked by your own subconscious.
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aidan_morgan
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Can you give us a bit of detail about how you designed the GA? What representation are you using for the chromosomes for example?
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adamwong246
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Linux: Free, as in free beer. Mostly free, as in free speech. Allows the young student to truly learn and explore how a computer works. OSX: Not at all free in any respect. But Flash always works. So it's a toss up? /sarcasm
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imatworkyo
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LOL you are my hero. Working late - thanks for the laugh ... best of luck with the terrors
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lawpoop
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> My estimates are always accurate. Thanks. Now I have to clean expectorated coca-cola off of my screen.
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koolkats
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I thought it was PCP that was explosive.
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ZMeson
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I agree with everything you said except #8. SVN will likely be good enough for smaller teams. DVCS do have their advantages, but for small teams that already use centralized version control, the cost of switching may be too high.
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ZMeson
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I came here to say the same thing! :)
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flukus
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Sprints don't have to blow out, anything not ready simply gets pushed back to the next sprint.
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fatbunyip
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>This case is still using the forms as a template to basically create a static document for print. You don't need to print out the form. It's pointless (unless you really really want to have a hard copy). Maybe you've only use forms with Adobe Reader (which cripples form filling by automatically flattening it on save), but forms were intended to facilitate paperless workflows >You cannot cryptographically disallow someone from printing a PDF. Yes you can, it's in the spec. You can also limit to only form filling, limit content extraction/copying, page editing, commenting etc.
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silverskull
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>I could never get my monologue to turn off. And this is why I have so much trouble getting to sleep.
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pgngugmgg
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> The evidence is in the DNA sequence, it's in archeological remnants, and it's in the very makeup of different organisms. I understand what you say, but I don't see any rational or fact there. :P > The logic that X cannot be done unless under the direction of something "superior to" X is quite simply invalid. Well, let's imagine this: What would happen if there wasn't any selection algorithm in the worm GA program. Nothing closer to worm. Now let's review the argument that *X cannot be done unless under the direction of something "superior to" X*, I would say it is quite consistent with that experimental result. > If valid, and if you believe that that leads to some Creator, then why doesn't apply to the maker of that Creator? By Creator, you must mean the ultimate and absolute Creator, the one who by definition created every creature. But note: This Creator, **cannot be done**, and that is by definition. Or put it in another way, there is no such concept called "evolving out the Creator". So your argument:"if valid, it should be applied to the Creator." is invalid because you confused the concepts of Creator and creature.
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noxiousninja
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Fun to play with. :) Sadly, the simulation speed seems to be limited to 250 steps/sec by the resolution of JavaScript timers ([4ms a second](http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/timers.html#timers), probably to prevent rogue pages from monopolizing the CPU). I guess you're using setTimeout to avoid locking up the browser. I wonder if Web Workers could accomplish that without the speed limit? Sadly, I don't have time to experiment right now...
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forcedtoregister
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I was talking about things that need to run fast. Java JIT is far from C++ in non contrived situations, and GC is an extra factor to consider which nukes the "oh JIT can be faster in theory" argument even further if your using lots of memory. Think about dealing with a gigabyte of data a second from a piece of hardware with a very small buffer. A GC would mean loosing data, in which case your program might as well segfault because it's worthless. Or think about something very numeric heavy, here Java is a terrible fit (if you don't believe me try looking for good linear algebra libraries - nothing reasonably powerful, fast, and updated in the last 4 years exists). tl;dr. If non native code is fast enough for what you do then use it, for me it's really not.
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wayoverpaid
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Even for a small team, I highly recommend a DCVS because of the branch-merge development strategy which is useful when you have enough people working on a project. It's much better to switch while the team is small. The larger the team gets, the more entrenched development patterns are. Why put off the pain? Plus, it's so much easier to work from home when you have a DVCS.
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asteroidB612
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Not fully homoiconic. Not sufficiently meta-circular.
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asteroidB612
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Don't believe everything you read on the interwebs ;-)
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A real good Scrum team shouldn't be underestimating that often - that said, you need a real good, solid, team working in a comfortable domain to achieve that consistency, I've shifted from a team like that to a new Scrum team while it also moves into new problem domains and our estimates can be a bit variable as we learn the complexities of the the problems and the capacity of each other.
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> Not really. My claim is just that I personally haven't seen the kind of distinction between Java schools and C++ schools that was mentioned. First of all I didn't say C++ schools, I said C schools. The point is sort of old (C) vs new (java). At some point nearly all schools taught primarily in C, then some revised their curriculum and switched to a java-centric approach. In the process of revising their curriculum they changed more than the default language, they also changed the focus from a quality CS curriculum to a more vocational CS curriculum. The switch from C to java isn't actually the meaningful change, the other changes that often go with it are the point. So yeah what language is taught in doesn't matter, but there is a correlation in the US. Better schools generally don't teach in java, whereas worse schools generally do. I am not the only one to have this idea. One of the people behind Stackoverflow wrote some articles on the topic: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ThePerilsofJavaSchools.html and here is a blog post about someone lamenting that he has realized too late that he went to a "java" school: http://thinkingdigitally.com/archive/what-if-i-went-to-a-java-school-joel/ In the US there is quite a bit of variation in the quality of schools. My state's university system has a school in each region of the state and I went to two of them. The first was a "java" school and the second was a "C" school. At the java school I learned java and C (and the only reason that I had to learn C was because they had not fully transitioned to a java school). My fellow students weren't that bright. I transfered to a better school and I took classes in C, Scheme, Python, Assembly, and C++. We learned about the pumping lemma, lambda calculus, various grammers, computer architecture, the relational model, and other things that we simply would not have learned at the other school. At the other school we learned UML. Now consider that those two schools were both in the same tier in a multi-tiered public university system. There are two tiers below that, plus a variety of private schools, some higher in quality, some lower.
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What about the Scrum overhead? How long does your planning and retro take?
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michaelochurch
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Critically important article. It's not just about functional programming being powerful and concise and awesome, even though it is those things. (Mostly, that is. Functional programming, taken too far, can be incomprehensible.) Ocaml's a very simple language: a bare-bones skeleton for what a 2020 language will look like, a functional C. I don't intend to claim that everyone should drop their favorite languages and switch to ML, but it's important to grok the idea of ML to get a taste for: (1) higher-order functions (instead of objects) as the default abstraction when mutability's not needed, and (2) the power of strong, static typing. The actual "language of 2020" won't be this Ocaml (no multicore support) implementation and probably not Ocaml at all, but it will look a lot like Ocaml, Haskell, and Scala. Let me bring out one snippet: > Reading code was part of the firm's approach to risk from before we had written our first line of OCaml. Early on, a couple of the most senior traders (including one of the founders) committed to reading every line of code that went into the core trading systems, before those systems went into production. That's not bullshit. A smart person with a general sense of algorithms, but who's not necessarily a full-time programmer, can read and understand most OCaml code. In C++ this would be impossible; you'd need a C++ expert just to make sure you're not going to get impaled by undefined behavior. What makes OCaml awesome is that it's the only language I've encountered (Haskell and Scala may have this property; insufficient exposure) where reading average-case code is fun. Haskell is a great language as well, but it seems to be optimized for writers of code; Ocaml's optimized for readers. Yes, there's horrid Ocaml code out there and there's beautiful code in lesser languages, but Ocaml is the only language I've ever encountered where 50th-percentile code looks attractive. The consequence is that people *do* read code. Sometimes, just for fun. (Yes, imagine that.) I learned a hell of a lot about programming when I was working in Ocaml simply because I enjoyed reading the code. Average-case C++ code is never fun to read, and what matters in a professional environment is not what the language makes possible, but what average code actually ends up looking like.
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p-squared
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Nice article, yminsky. I've referred people to your Effective ML videos in the past. Those talks do a very nice job of walking through the OCaml features that are so well suited to practical programming tasks, but text is really the ideal medium for this kind of content.
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gregK
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testable != maintainable
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Oh, wow.
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hammar
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Yes, you can use Template Haskell to abstract the pattern and generate instances for the various tuple sizes. But you can't do this on-demand; You'll have to set some hard limit when you're compiling the module. This is not a big deal, though. You rarely see large tuples in real code, as they are usually a sign that you want a record type instead.
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gbpsyd
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I'd say what pulls a lot of users to OSX is [Quartz](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz_%28graphics_layer%29)
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Azuvector
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7.0...and I goofed. I'd assumed it should be working, and clicking pause/play/pause didn't do anything. I'd assumed it was already supposed to be running. Then I found the Evolve button. Yeah, it works in Firefox 7.0.
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pgngugmgg
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Your argument ignores the "evolution" (if that's absolute and universal) of the environment, -- where does its "selection algorithm" come from?
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grammaticus
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Posting on Facebook requires a Facebook Gold account
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heh when I was a young teenager, I had many lucid dreams where I had sex with many hot dream women
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hackinthebochs
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The "selection algorithm" is inherent in the environment. An organism survives to pass on its genes (passes the "selection algorithm") if it is more suited to surviving in its current environment. There is no selection algorithm; its just an abstraction of the idea of "survival of the fittest".
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thefixer9
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I can't tell if you're being sarcastic. When I saw you were getting downvoted, I googled the answer to see who was right. The first response was clojure's home site, and I searched for lisp and saw the quote I linked you.
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khoury
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Asking for justification doesn't mean the company has to justify themselves. This is all besides the point, you're trying to change the argument to suit the fact that you were wrong. You said: >You're asking for change. Burden of proof is on you. When clearly he was asking for the justification for the change. Apple made the change, not him. But whatever makes you feel better I guess.
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dbilenkin
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Darwin License it is :) Go ahead and use it as you see fit, but I will warn you, it's not the cleanest code.
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Hostility leads to worthless people fucking off. I can't complain about it.
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byron
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They are 'strictly more general' in the sense that trying random values is. But that doesn't make them disciplined, or all that useful.
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F#, VB.NET, DLR languages (IPython/IRuby). All implemented on top of .NET of course but different languages still.
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Good call. They're perfect for this sort of thing.
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Man, this runs so much better than BoxCar 2D. Yet another reason example of why Flash is a lousy development environment.
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Congratulations, you've invented the text file.
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