There's more behind that idea than a simple "I don't know". It's of course aphoristic, but if you think of the mind/brain as monitoring all input, adding a feedback loop allows it to monitor itself. It allows learning from decisions, and allows to predict consequences of choices. That is a necessary, although not sufficient part of consciousness.
Heard it from a teacher who had heard it from Minsky, but it's probably not literal anymore, after all those years: consciousness is just a feedback loop.
I've been toying with Rust, and I'm impressed. It's not a language for every application, but it's a good competitor for many.
Of course there are bugs. Do you know how many bugs gcc has had? Gazillions. I remember sticking to 2.95 for a loooong time.
The syntax is great. Why should it be remarkable? It's compact, and as readable as any other C-like syntax. And it has some great (semantic) features. Traits, iterators, function application, it's what C++ should have done instead of rely on STL.
I haven't seen a problem with their community. Of course there are some unsympathetic, tyrannicalish characters in the mod pool. Now, who else does that description make you think? Their code of conduct seems to be a bit heavy on the harassment issue, which smells of bad PC culture, but I haven't seen any of it.
> There's no reason to use Rust, in my opinion.
Then don't use it. But you're not better of with any of the other languages. D is a bit of a joke, and I wouldn't touch Scala. I've seen its horrible framework obsession and performance. It's all about what you value in a language and what suits your style best.
Me too, and on tablets as well, in "Edge", no less. Usually it's very short lived. According to me the lesson is: applications need to erase all memory before closing a "private" session if the OS doesn't guarantee it.
And Javascript got it from C: if/while/for (...), braces around blocks, the break/continue, return. It's all very C-like. I don't find typescript's extensions that weird. It would be more C-like to write
I can only give anecdotal data, but the good programmers in my environment, friends and (former) colleagues, all got into programming on their own initiative, mostly during secondary school. I learned BASIC age 12. Then we all got a degree: CS, Math, Engineering, Physics. I know one good programmer who had his first programming experience at uni, but he was studying languages, so it was also not part of a course.
This "question": Jeff, have you thought about how to use reputation mechanisms to improve the quality of published scientific results? I'm asking in the context of John P. A. Ioannidis' famous paper. It seems to me one fix for this (horrible) problem might be an online reputation mechanism where scientists could rate the reproducibility of published results. Thoughts? (thanks for inventing Stack Exchange - you've done the world a big favor).
When I say it in the original thread, I was sure it would be picked. But apart from the grovelling, it's a foolish idea.
> Atwood: It certainly seems applicable.
Where's the supporting argument? There isn't. It's just "we're so cool, we could do better than science". Ugh.
That's the core. There is almost never a reason to post photos online for everyone to see. If you want to send a picture of your child to its grandparents, email or a private message would be more effective. Actually, there is almost never a reason to post anything online. Which means that it boils down to some form of boasting, this time involving your kids. "Look how nice my kids are."
It would suit you if you could come up with some real evidence of that. And not that "nigger" is offensive to black people, but that a filetype extension like "bro", which nobody will ever see unless they're quite deep into programming, is somehow shunning women out of CS.
You don't have such proof? Then why the hell do you talk about respect?
But let's be honest: a Indian browser by itself won't make this a popular format. There's not enough money behind it. And I also doubt that India's first priorities are high res images for everyone.
I agree with you. I used to be a decent coder, but it's not the speed with which you can code mathematical problems that matters most. In general, only a small core of the problem is of that nature. The rest is analyzing, interfacing with other components, cleaning up administration, and endless discussions over bad architecture documents. Plus it tends to be difficult to keep such programmers happy. I worked at a company where half of a group resigned over Windows-vs-Linux when management finally decided to go with Windows.
> Whats going to replace it is a website that doesn't exist.
A paid website. You don't have the right to existence of these websites. If people consider ad blocking more important than whatever website you're talking about, *you* should pay for it. If no-one wishes to pay for it, not even the owner, it doesn't deserve to exist.
I've always thought that Chrome's purpose was to create customer lock-in. I'm still waiting for some move that makes Google Docs or gmail work much better or have extra functionality when running in Chrome.
But since ads is Google's main business, it makes sense that they want you to see them: they own YouTube, they own Chrome...
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There's more behind that idea than a simple "I don't know". It's of course aphoristic, but if you think of the mind/brain as monitoring all input, adding a feedback loop allows it to monitor itself. It allows learning from decisions, and allows to predict consequences of choices. That is a necessary, although not sufficient part of consciousness.
Heard it from a teacher who had heard it from Minsky, but it's probably not literal anymore, after all those years: consciousness is just a feedback loop.
He was truly one of the greats.
I've been toying with Rust, and I'm impressed. It's not a language for every application, but it's a good competitor for many.
Of course there are bugs. Do you know how many bugs gcc has had? Gazillions. I remember sticking to 2.95 for a loooong time.
The syntax is great. Why should it be remarkable? It's compact, and as readable as any other C-like syntax. And it has some great (semantic) features. Traits, iterators, function application, it's what C++ should have done instead of rely on STL.
I haven't seen a problem with their community. Of course there are some unsympathetic, tyrannicalish characters in the mod pool. Now, who else does that description make you think? Their code of conduct seems to be a bit heavy on the harassment issue, which smells of bad PC culture, but I haven't seen any of it.
> There's no reason to use Rust, in my opinion.
Then don't use it. But you're not better of with any of the other languages. D is a bit of a joke, and I wouldn't touch Scala. I've seen its horrible framework obsession and performance. It's all about what you value in a language and what suits your style best.
I think Rust deserves a chance.
Nice.
For what it's worth, wubao might mean this: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki..., the second meaning of which looks like "secret". Someone, perhaps you, might have asked this question before, https://ewedaa.wordpress.com/2...
Me too, and on tablets as well, in "Edge", no less. Usually it's very short lived. According to me the lesson is: applications need to erase all memory before closing a "private" session if the OS doesn't guarantee it.
And Javascript got it from C: if/while/for (...), braces around blocks, the break/continue, return. It's all very C-like. I don't find typescript's extensions that weird. It would be more C-like to write
function int f(int x)
but I like the ts syntax better.
Typescript doesn't really deviate much from C/C++, does it?
That's not TDD. It's a description of plain unit testing, possibly integration testing, and it only speaks of the hope it will be adapted.
I can only give anecdotal data, but the good programmers in my environment, friends and (former) colleagues, all got into programming on their own initiative, mostly during secondary school. I learned BASIC age 12. Then we all got a degree: CS, Math, Engineering, Physics. I know one good programmer who had his first programming experience at uni, but he was studying languages, so it was also not part of a course.
This "question": Jeff, have you thought about how to use reputation mechanisms to improve the quality of published scientific results? I'm asking in the context of John P. A. Ioannidis' famous paper. It seems to me one fix for this (horrible) problem might be an online reputation mechanism where scientists could rate the reproducibility of published results. Thoughts? (thanks for inventing Stack Exchange - you've done the world a big favor).
When I say it in the original thread, I was sure it would be picked. But apart from the grovelling, it's a foolish idea.
> Atwood: It certainly seems applicable.
Where's the supporting argument? There isn't. It's just "we're so cool, we could do better than science". Ugh.
No, you are.
No, YOU are!
No, YOU ARE!!
Ad infinitum.
It's not a clone and what is so shitty about Firefox?
Hashing is certainly not O(1). Everyone who has had sets larger than a couple of thousand elements should know that. It can be very efficient, though.
> There's no reason to post photos
That's the core. There is almost never a reason to post photos online for everyone to see. If you want to send a picture of your child to its grandparents, email or a private message would be more effective. Actually, there is almost never a reason to post anything online. Which means that it boils down to some form of boasting, this time involving your kids. "Look how nice my kids are."
> They become sensitive to certain words
It would suit you if you could come up with some real evidence of that. And not that "nigger" is offensive to black people, but that a filetype extension like "bro", which nobody will ever see unless they're quite deep into programming, is somehow shunning women out of CS.
You don't have such proof? Then why the hell do you talk about respect?
What's wrong with you?
But let's be honest: a Indian browser by itself won't make this a popular format. There's not enough money behind it. And I also doubt that India's first priorities are high res images for everyone.
I agree with you. I used to be a decent coder, but it's not the speed with which you can code mathematical problems that matters most. In general, only a small core of the problem is of that nature. The rest is analyzing, interfacing with other components, cleaning up administration, and endless discussions over bad architecture documents. Plus it tends to be difficult to keep such programmers happy. I worked at a company where half of a group resigned over Windows-vs-Linux when management finally decided to go with Windows.
> Whats going to replace it is a website that doesn't exist.
A paid website. You don't have the right to existence of these websites. If people consider ad blocking more important than whatever website you're talking about, *you* should pay for it. If no-one wishes to pay for it, not even the owner, it doesn't deserve to exist.
The only relevant response.
I've always thought that Chrome's purpose was to create customer lock-in. I'm still waiting for some move that makes Google Docs or gmail work much better or have extra functionality when running in Chrome.
But since ads is Google's main business, it makes sense that they want you to see them: they own YouTube, they own Chrome...
Has posted a Today I Fucked Up about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/...
Sounds interesting. What's the difference between Firefox and Iceweasel? I can't seem to find any technical description, just talk about trademarks.
That sounds like a crap Hollywood movie.
Then it's pure weasel words, meant to maintain an illusion.