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There are no cmp, branch instructions. How is this turing complete?

I want to know why do some engineers/hackers have email setup on their private domains. I like most of the people use gmail. Is the desire to learn how to manage the system makes p…

I think Makefile have such pattern matching, which can be utilized to do such list transformations too.

How differently is linear regression than PCA? I understand the procedure and methods are completely different, but isn't linear regression also going to give the same solution on …

I am guessing you went for a graduate degree in math. How hard was it to get admission? Would you like to recommend some good schools for doing something like you did. I am just a …

The author has won an IOCCC contest. This would have just pricked him a bit.

Could you elaborate more or give some references on the second and third part? I am done with the first. I seriously need some profound knowledge on second and third, which a lot o…

I often read that spark avoids the costly synchronization required in mapreduce, since it uses DAG's. Can someone explain how is that achieved. If the application so demands that y…

Good question. I did read the spark paper, and one reason that I found for spark doing so much better than hadoop was that it avoids the unnecessary serialization, deserialization …

I am not well-versed in the browser designs, could you highlight what hard problems are you referring to?

If Rust doesn't allow pointer arithmetic and conjuring up a pointer using '&' like in C, it doesn't make me feel there is anything special here.

I am waiting for someone to prove, solving procrastination problem is NP-Complete

Correct me if I am wrong here. So, instead of the eloquent method of using GET, POST and PUT on resources, the current practice is about the programmer writing custom parsers to ge…

Read only access!! ROFL

These guys always forget "Its never a Million Dollar Idea, its a Million Dollar Execution"

Well, if 2 people are working on different files, they can commit their changes to svn without updating their local copy first. But in git you have to bring your copy to the same r…

Once speaking to a freebsd developer, he explained the problems with git in freebsd workflow. His explanation was on the lines that if there are 100 developers working on different…

Are they benchmarking hash join on hadoop and redshift?

There is something visionary about these South Africans, first Elon Musk and then Mark Shuttleworth.

Shit. Yes I am Jealous. That is fucking awesome. I would leave any highest paid job with google, fb blah blah to work with Fabrice :)

Old article resurfacing again on HN, neverthless he is everyone's idol

Hello IE, it's IE calling :)

Linus must be grinning :)

Pretty amazing how hn upvotes work :) Guess there is lot in the name(title)

there is a cdecl package in all linux distributions, which can be used inside terminal to expand such C declrations. It was really helpful when I started C programming.