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BartoszMilewski

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About BartoszMilewski

Physicist, programmer, mathematician.

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    Comment #23354080

    Good point, it is ambiguous. I changed it to "semitone."

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    Comment #9572300

    And the condition that s != 0 and m != 0

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    Comment #7320694

    Actually, Haskell people do influence C++ rather heavily. The ideas behind many of the functional aspects of C++ can be traced back to Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK, where Si…

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    Comment #7320568

    Do you mean names like RAII? I always break my tongue on this one.

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    Comment #7320438

    Funny you should mention persistent data structures in C++. That's exactly what I've been working on. Here's my blog about leftist heaps translated from Okasaki directly to C++: ht…

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    Comment #6420253

    When Herb wrote his free lunch article, I was still a strong C++ believer and I thought C++ could solve the multicore problem. I considered Haskell a toy language. Then I saw how q…

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    Comment #6420177

    You should use standard algorithms whenever possible. Sean Parent talked about it at Going Native. He was able to transform a horrible set of for loops he found in Google's code in…

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    Comment #6420118

    I did work for Corensic, which was bought by F5. It was a company that made a very ingenious data race detector. I learned a lot about data races and how they prevent companies fro…

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    Comment #6419988

    Ouch! Ad personam attacks are a sign of desperation. For the record, I used to work for FPComplete (I architected the School of Haskell) but I quit. It was an interesting experienc…

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    Comment #6415014

    I wouldn't have mentioned resource management at all if it weren't for Bjarne's keynote: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/2013/Opening-Key... . Apparently this is still …

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    Comment #2792456

    Here's a better link with three videos and slides: http://www.corensic.com/Community/Resources/BoostconVideo.as...

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    Comment #2755664

    @miky: I responded to (the copy of) this comment on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/in84h/monads_in... .