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Did not eat the 1/3lb hamburger at A&W. Knows math.

Who is building the engine?

One reason big machines might make a comeback is the increasing capability putting off the super-linear cost growth into the realm of > 100GB in-memory or > 10TB on disk. CPU hasn'…

Let's look at chemical storage with hydrocarbons in the mix, allowing some as-yet non-commercial (air-metal & combined cycle home generators) to make good food for speculation. A c…

Credentials would tend to support the practicing endocrinologist. Also, the data Lustig really had to go get was the causal inference where increasing fructose had a delayed respon…

I've heard a lot of enthusiastic talk of entity-component architecture from those interested in game-dev. The way of modelling seems very appropriate and well-suited to C++. Things…

It's incredibly counterproductive to make statements like in the title. If you need your product to be better in terms of how it looks and feels, you get a UX Engineer and expect t…

Safe points, jit, and VM all introduce extra layers of complexity. I bet it's definitely harder in the context of the JVM muddying up the picture.

Also true. Still, purity (just part of referential transparency) should be highlighted as something that helps not just with the function you're writing , but also functions that n…

A referentially transparent, small function, has always been easy to write bug-free assuming the OS doesn't lose a page-table entry, a network interrupt isn't exploitable, and cosm…

Solar City's solar bonds caught my eye because the last time I considered this kind of financing was seeing the large bond issues by AMD to build a fabrication plant. Previously bo…

I started to answer this as a language syntax question, but it really seems like a big API problem. And yeah, just cram them and learn the signatures well. I'd just read a lot of l…

Right. I had a moment of severe mistrust develop around all the times I've heard the phrase "neural network" mouthed in a pitched voice after I studied the math and realized it was…

Not two years ago I was having a conversation with an old friend that went approximately: "Facebook, this whole internet thing, hasn't really..." "...worked out" "Yeah, this isn't …

Don't count out Kivy for a modern UI toolkit, but speed and no requirement to include a runtime for distribution will not come for Python without a different approach to execution.…

Wish there was a part of the airplane that wasn't $400k

Yeah, I recently heard someone talking about taking huge personal financial risk to keep a startup going and suggested maybe it's time to live and learn and start over with a hell …

When in C, Python, Java, JS, or anything else does reassigning a variable from the function sig ever work? The symbol is in-scope. Even when overwriting the pointer location in C, …

Novice Java programmer reads title, mutates Java object inside function, later notices side-effects, and curses author of the title. Second novice Java programmer reads title, want…

Oh come on HN. This is one of the important incremental techs that bridges the risky breakthroughs like metal-air cells. EV's. Quit ironing skinny jeans ^^

Okay, cool. Now that I've finished being uninformed enough to get questions out of the way, I'm guessing you chose Sails because it has some kind of JS DB for prototyping. I would …

I'd bump that point and the integration with API's way up in the site copy. My first thought as an engineer when I see graphical programming tools is, "oooh...another one of those.…

How to know if you might be a customer: Did you make a mockup that needs a backend but have little backend coding experience and are sick of including a bunch of the same libraries…

The headline made me expect several things until I saw that it was Khronos, the group that gives us, among other things, OpenGL API's. Looks like the Next Generation OpenGL is gett…