bitmadness
Re:Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting...
on Friday September 29, 2023 @05:53AM (#37701426)
Does he have a reputation for poor hygiene?
Re:Sourcehut welcomes Bitbucket refugees
on Friday August 23, 2019 @12:03PM (#20778962)
Epic win response lol
Re:Ask HN: What book to read to get a footing in CS theory?
on Sunday August 18, 2019 @12:15PM (#20731072)
I'm a CS grad student at Caltech. My absolute favorite intro theory book (the one I recommend to undergrads and people just starting out) is Algorithms by Vazirani, Dasgupta, and Papadimitriou. Extremely well written and a great selection of topics.
Re:OpenBSD -stable binary packages
on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @10:55AM (#20696174)
It says some packages will receive updates. Which ones?
Re:My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB Memory
on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @05:02PM (#20690203)
I think you meant an 8-core i7, there are no 8-core i5's.
Re:Finding Fibonacci numbers using linear algebra
on Saturday July 27, 2019 @08:29PM (#20545139)
The author incorrectly states that the k-th Fibonacci number can be computed in O(1) time. Actually the algorithm he describes runs in O(k) time.
Re:Ownership and Borrowing in D
on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @04:30AM (#20448411)
Hey Walter, I really admire your work. I'm curious though, do you think D is potentially in danger of trying to do too many things? No one wants another mess like C++.
Re:Debian 10 “Buster” Released
on Saturday July 06, 2019 @08:45PM (#20372925)
I used to run Debian, but I switched to Fedora a few years ago and haven't looked back. Fedora is always sleek and up-to-date, unlike Debian, which due to its outdated packages always ends up looking like the plain step-sister. I also strongly prefer DNF to apt. With that being said, they both play crucial roles in the Linux ecosystem - Debian being the base for Ubuntu and Mint, and Fedora being the distribution which upstreams the most code.
Re:Strongest earthquake in years rattles Southern California
on Thursday July 04, 2019 @05:16PM (#20357884)
Woke me up this morning, pretty wild
Re:Haskell Fan Site
on Sunday June 23, 2019 @02:17PM (#20257588)
Used to code quite a bit in Haskell, but I've moved on. I believe in the philosophy "Simple things should be easy, hard things should be possible"; Haskell forgets the first part.
Re:OCaml 4.08
on Friday June 14, 2019 @04:10PM (#20186270)
If they had Unicode support and multicore support in the language I'd be a lot more interested.. hopefully in five or ten years we'll get there.
Re:A Mathematician Whose Only Constant Is Change
on Friday June 14, 2019 @02:53PM (#20185644)
I took a class from Amie. Brilliant researcher!
Re:Why I Don't Like Golang (2016)
on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @10:09PM (#20171279)
It's excellent, highly recommend.
Re:ZFS on Linux 0.8.0
on Thursday May 23, 2019 @07:03PM (#19996900)
When will this be part of FreeBSD?
Re:Why Racket? Why Lisp?
on Sunday May 19, 2019 @02:10PM (#19954576)
Beautifully written post.
Re:OpenBSD 6.5
on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @01:11PM (#19740522)
I don't think it has been actually released yet... The main page is still pointing to OpenBSD 6.4, and the 6.5 page says it will be released on May 1.
Re:Business Card Ray Tracer (2013)
on Saturday March 02, 2019 @04:31PM (#19291274)
Really neat project, beautiful code.
Re:Downgrade Attack on TLS 1.3 and Vulnerabilities in Major TLS Libraries
on Friday February 08, 2019 @04:24AM (#19112668)
What about LibreSSL?
Re:Show HN: Alan – a low-code application platform
on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @02:34AM (#18182490)
It looks cool, but I have no idea how to use it. You guys need to give a proper tutorial page, where you show how to from 0 to working app.
Re:Kit Programming Language
on Thursday September 20, 2018 @05:13AM (#18030834)
This looks amazing! Does it support parallel/multicore programming?
Re:Two CMU Computer Science Professors Resign, Citing “sexist management”
on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @04:55PM (#17761809)
Manuel Blum is my academic great grandfather, i.e my advisor's
advisor's advisor. He is a legend. Very sad to see this happen.
Re:“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from being BDFL”
on Thursday July 12, 2018 @12:03PM (#17515891)
Wow, this is the end of an era! Guido has had an extraordinary impact on the direction of Python and software engineering more generally, and I thank him for his contributions.
Re:Testimony of Mark Zuckerberg – Hearing Before US House of Represent...
on Monday April 09, 2018 @12:40PM (#16794594)
I'm confused - did he read all that as his opening remarks? Seems pretty wrong, but it's written that way...
Re:Number of open faculty positions in CompSci exceeds candidates by a...
on Thursday March 01, 2018 @12:14AM (#16489842)
I'm a PhD student in CS at Caltech. Last year we had 600 applications, interviewed ten candidates, and made exactly one offer. I shared this on Facebook and all my profs started making fun of it.
Re:Depixelizing Pixel Art (2011)
on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @01:55AM (#16418334)
MSR researchers have a lot of freedom, Microsoft doesn't micromanage exactly what they work on.
Re:We looked at how a thousand college students performed in technical...
on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @09:44PM (#16372994)
One data point: I was at Georgia Tech for undergrad, now at Caltech for a CS PhD. Both are good schools, but Caltech is definitely considered more "elite". As a Caltech student, I definitely attract attention that I just didn't get at a Georgia Tech student.
Re:Unsupervised Machine Learning on Rigetti 19Q with Forest 1.2
on Monday December 18, 2017 @07:58PM (#15956930)
These demos are cool but really highlight the fact that we are decades away from quantum computers that perform useful work.. So far all I've seen are parlor tricks.
Re:Decentralized Web Primer
on Saturday December 09, 2017 @07:13PM (#15888937)
Pretty good explanation mate! No need for that disclaimer ;)
Re:Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorders, researc...
on Saturday December 09, 2017 @01:53PM (#15887328)
I don't like this word "Superior". Just say higher.