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One example that just occurred to me: The base 2 log of the number of legal positions of a 9x9 go game is about 126.3, which means if I use a good hash of board positions yielding …

Dropbox Pro is same rate ( https://www.dropbox.com/plans ). You do have to buy a it $10/month at a time, but you can get to it whenever you like without paying 9 cents per GB. AWS …

Even if a JIT compiler can prove that all the code in your app doesn't change that function pointer, because the variable is volatile, the compiler must assume that you intend to r…

Yes, it refers to a memory location, without implying anything about the semantics of the bits located at that location. You can't dereference or assign to the location because you…

He says several times that JavaScript succeeded in spite of being a bad language because it was the only choice. How come we're not all writing Java applets or Flash apps?

The original machine that influenced C's model of computers was the PDP-11 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-11 ). It had a mov instruction instead of load/store. It had no dedica…

> It's literally zero-sum for him. Well it is. There are a finite number of consumers of C++ compilers. He is competing for the attention of potential free software advocates.

If you keep the same distance between you and the car in front of you regardless of your speed - which you seem to say -, I hope you are never behind me.

I personally have often gotten the impression that a large portion of developers already have The One Programming Language in their mind. It's usually Java or C# or sometimes still…

I concede the point. I hope I never have to herd that many cats.

This is a fundamental place where the worlds of C# and Java differ. Where the Java world would say, "developers might misuse this, better not have it in the language," the C# world…

A better analog than fixing a literal car might be changing the tire of a car which doesn't have any tires when it is parked but which instantiates some with the help of an instanc…

I don't think that those problems are really independent, but rather, share a common cause with some of the things that made PHP a success. PHP evolved as it did in large part beca…

I confess to making the mistake many times of thinking that I was capturing a value when I was capturing a variable, but the author has me confused and concerned that the semantics…

I'd also be afraid they'd put lobbying efforts into state legislatures to make home grown text books illegal or set standards that are difficult to meet for teachers and which are …

And the only "classic" mentioned was "War and Peace". I haven't read that one but I've read Anna Karenina, also by Tolstoy, and a few of Dostoevsky's books. Yeah they're long, but …

I find this deliciously ironic. I can hear myself arguing as a sophomore CS student, "but whatever is going on that constitutes the mind is observably a process on information that…

OK, I might have change my mind about that. I have been lucky enough not to have had to use multiple selfishly named libraries I guess.

The global namespace in PHP is awesome. I don't have to learn a framework to solve a problem, there's a function for it. Namespace qualifiers in names are a fine solution to the co…

He is probably imagining that the name of that function would be "nameofproject_assign_user_activity/2", and that you would typically use it along with some others from the same so…

Thank you for the suggestions.

I use both .NET and the LAMP stack everyday. I love .NET and C# is a beautiful language. But I have to use Windows to use .NET. There is nothing wrong with Windows, except it doesn…

I don't think that strong typing is bad, but I would like to point out that from his point of view, arguments FOR strong typing are based on the premise that "everyone is stupid." …

It's interesting that so many commenters take issue with the term "dishonest minority." I agree that honesty is usually the best policy, but I would lie to the Nazis about the Jews…

"You can't really prove anything with a computer model like this," Indeed, the behavior the article describes sounds like a normal failure mode for a natural language processing co…