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ckwop
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> I'll choose to remain optimistic about it! Being the eternal pessimist, somebody will prove P=NP but it will be non-constructive. Or perhaps worse, P=NP but the polynomial is on the order n^[A](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ackermann_function)(A(4,2),A(4,2)). I'm a firm believer Mathematics would troll us that ...
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rsmoling
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> For one thing, practically all encryption would be broken Well, it would mean practically all encryption can *in principle* be broken. A non-constructive proof of P = NP would hardly provide the recipe for generating P algorithms for all the relevant problems...
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ErstwhileRockstar
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I wonder why people put so much effort into creating a programming language.
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inmatarian
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You'd be surprised how slow C++ code can get.
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isarl
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Unless you can meet up in person and hand off the key that way. Then you have only to worry about real-life eavesdropping methods, instead of electronic ones!
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unquietwiki
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This is a semi-repost: the last attempt to post this got more comments about the bad title than the actual language.
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cdsmith
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Doing maths with Coq or Agda or similar systems is actually very, very much like programming. These are systems that can be equally validly viewed as either computer proof checkers/assistants, or as programming languages. Obviously more traditional mathematics and programming vary in that they either sacrifice the co...
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mslaybau
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It seems these rules would make software prohibitively expensive. Look at the cost of medical care and how much of those costs are to pay for liability insurance.
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Tristanus
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If you're running windows you can download the JDK and use the java.exe from that with the '-server' option to use further optimizations. If you're in linux you should use sun/oracles jvm with the '-server' option as it's quite a bit faster than the OpenJDK that seems to be default on a lot of linux distros now. Furt...
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aurath
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Was just battling some lag issues after 1.8 came out. Found out that setting the javaw.exe process affinity to a single core helps greatly. Seems that minecraft doesn't play nice on multiple cores.
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ThatsALogicalFallacy
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Because this article doesn't restrict the claim to tablets.
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I wondered how much would it take for a flamewar to start over emacs and vim.
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ErstwhileRockstar
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C++ ... since 1990 ... weakly-typed??
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vincentrevelations
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Yup. The quantum computer will most likely be a separate unit. Like a GPU. The CPU performs normal tasks and commands the QPU to do the hard stuff. If possible, the CPU can verify the result in O(n²) or less. Else the QPU solves the problem multiple times and a stochastic model is used.
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ahugenerd
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You certainly can make it O(nlogn) in the worst case, but you're sacrificing a lot in terms of the average efficiency of the algorithm. Regardless, I was trying to highlight the difference in thinking between comparison and non-comparison ways of sorting, with the later being better in most (if not all) cases. The onl...
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rib-bit
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I wish you were a chick and this was on your breast...
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But what's up with all that impurity? Everything is less readable until you learn it.
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Bad title again. Just kidding.
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a_redditor
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Please don't post stupid memes to /r/programming.
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grauenwolf
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I am actually looking for more reporters right now. If that is something you might be interested in write to me at this address: jonathan@infoq.com
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masklinn
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Depends which tools you're using (or which ones the language makes available). If you're using Haskell and working in the `Maybe` monad (or lifting your functions into it), you don't need to explicitly handle the `Nothing` case if you don't care for it, it will simply propagate through the monadic code. Even if you're...
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I tried this out and immediately got a response saying I've hit my usage limit. I highly doubt anyone else at work was trying this as well. Anyone have this problem?
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I wish this sentiment was wider amoung /r/programming. How often do I have to hear that "(language/tool/whatever) sucks and people who use it are terrible programmers, and my programming penis is huge, because I use (other language/tool/whatever)"
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grauenwolf
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Thanks.
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jlovins
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MSDNAA?? Anyone Know?
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Alucard_draculA
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Proving that it's impossible to solve quickly is near impossible. (sort of)
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unquietwiki
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Hehe
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baudehlo
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I do just fine for myself thanks. You on the other hand, are using a personal attack.
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But that's not the same as a bootable DVD ISO?
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nthitz
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READ ONLY... *Yawn*
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Saivo
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Oh trust me, I've seen quite a lot of quite terrible C++ code during my life. ;-) The good thing is that slow C++ code can be refactored to make it run like greased lightning, whereas Java will still stay slow and butt-ugly.
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vincentrevelations
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The terms NP, P, NPC and such only apply to simple CPU's. When your algorithm is threaded, or performed on a vector/matrix processor (in PC's this is integrated in the GPU) a complexity analysis isn't worth much anymore, because it depends too much on the hardware and OS and stuff. Same goes for QC. EDIT: I'm getting ...
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wshs
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It's not that java sucks. Rather, like PHP, it makes it easy for a shitty developer to release software. The lucene indexing software can be left running for years on end, storing tens of billions of records, with little problem regarding resource usage. Minecraft, on the other hand, won't last a week, even on a 4x qua...
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alexs
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Intranet application works in Firefox X, but doesn't in Firefox Y. is entirely possible for any X and any Y though. Even minor version changes.
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anish714
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Slow it down at least. Several reasons 1) So devs waste less time learning the newly reinvented wheel instead of mastering existing tools to solve problems 2) So there is a more uniform pool of devs and apps instead of devs and apps specialized in different versions of the some tool that essentially does the same t...
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Alucard_draculA
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Downvotes eh? That doesn't even make sense. I'll just edit everything out. Have fun with that.
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neuter
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Thank the stars this isn't /. or else you'd have just started a holy war.
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frezik
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Eh. Icaza can be a Microsoft fanboy sometimes, but he's a useful contrast to all the anti-Microsoft fanboys that are around FOSS. You don't have to agree with him, but it's nice to at least understand his position.
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alexs
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So if *all* new versions release change functionality what's wrong with the only major version releases? Are you complaining about the numbering or are you complaining about the release early, release often short development cycles?
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jakkarth
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> Some seem to think this reddit is for "links that programmers might find interesting or funny". No. It's for programming links. Programming. *Programming.* **Programming.**
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Jookia
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Ah. So it's some CLR stuff?
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sbrown123
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Read the article. The problem isn't really Java related, but rather too much in the game loop.
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p337
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Hey, thanks for taking the time to clear that up. Though I have studied the problem a bit in school, it is still difficult to wrap my head around these concepts.
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doomchild
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A lot of this looks like it borrows heavily from C++/CLI, which I've really liked using in the past. Generally speaking, I despise straight C++ code, but this stuff looks pretty handy to me.
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pozorvlak
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Come to Europe, we have working public services here. Well, currently: the UK at least has a neoliberal government that's determined to trash the achievements of the post-war generation. But anyway, read up on the Finnish system to see how good public schooling can be if treated with proper seriousness. Yes, we have h...
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timbowen
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It can bar some users using iOS 3.X and earlier, yes. As a practical matter the number of users running that software is tiny, usually no more than 2% of users in my experience. IMHO it is better to stay current on this platform rather than worrying about the tiny percentage of users running a legacy version of the O...
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Zach_the_Lizard
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You don't need Windows for Office; there's a Mac OS X version as well. You might miss certain features 99% of users won't need (e.g. SharePoint Designer which is built off of Office IIRC, and there may be a Mac version), but it's real Office. Note: I've never used it myself so I can't vouch for how good it is.
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pozorvlak
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But it inculcates attitudes that are very, very helpful for programming.
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inmatarian
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Not strictly true. The JVM can run some pretty fast byte-code. Getting the Java compiler to output that byte-code, however, is a herculean task.
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Awesome app, I'm shocked to learn that out of all the places Mexicans immigrate to, none are Hispanic cultures.
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adnzzzzZ
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I found that teaching people how to make small games (like PONG) in a very easy and fast to use library (like [LÖVE](http://love2d.org/)) works really well. If you want to I could PM you a tutorial of sorts that advises the teacher (someone who already has some programming experience) on how to best introduce some conc...
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dawpa2000
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Opera > Settings > Preferences... > Advanced > Shortcuts > Keyboard setup: Opera Standard > Edit... > Type "F8" > Select > Edit... > Change "F8" to "F6". > OK > OK.
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chrisrico
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Yeah... I'm an anti-statist. I seek to minimize the role of the state in my life, and maximize the opportunity for others to voluntarily do the same. I find state run schools undesirable for the same reason as religious schools: they are places for childhood indoctrination. Into religion for the latter, into statism fo...
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pozorvlak
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It's how a lot of us started. But these days there's Pygame and web stuff to hack on instead - help him make something cool!
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mage2k
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I'm not complaining about either. I was just answering your question as asked. I do believe that your versioning scheme should help to distinguish between a major and a minor update, though, whichever you choose.
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Doomfield
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The progman thing doesn't work anymore, as of XP SP2 I believe. The progman.exe that's in there doesn't work, and it simply isn't there at all from Vista up.
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Yep, and a mass-algorate society would have to find some way of dealing with the (I hypothesise: small) fraction of dysalgorics.
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can't upvote enough.
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Tristanus
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I never said the problem was Java, regardless you can improve your performance by using the most optimized implementation of Java with all optimizations turned on.
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pozorvlak
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Interesting stuff! Thanks very much.
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doenietzomoeilijk
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Well, we're obviously going to need people to bring us coffee, of course...
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sbrown123
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And programming language hipsters.
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Just did that :) Slight niggle is that hitting F8/F6 while in address bar dosn't deselect it, but I guess I'll live
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QuestionMarker
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Does the functionality exposed by version N work the same way in version N+1? Then N+1 is a minor update.
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der_hammer
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Remember how we were discussing the Simple English version? ;)
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It's at times like this that I'm really glad I'm not an extension developer.
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scootey
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This is what makes me sad about newer computing devices. 30 years ago, you could buy an Apple II (or any other personal computer) and it came with a copy of BASIC built right in...and lots of people used it. You could tinker all you want; the company was run by hackers after all! Today, you buy an iPad or iPhone and y...
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duplico
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After I finished typing all that, I realized I hadn't checked which subreddit I was on and thought, "Well, crap, after all that I'm probably on [r/ELI5](http://www.reddit.com/r/ExplainLikeImFive)", so I was relieved that at least I was on r/programming. :p
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buuda
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EMH is total bullshit invented by academics with Wall Street support in order to get every person to invest their money so traders have rubes to trade against. Everyone on Wall St with any brains laugh their heads off about EMH.
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I remember reading that adding protocol/concept made the compiler more complex so it was better to stick to assertions. Macros and run-time-protocols would be awesome though..
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Saivo
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NOTE: I wrote this before you deleted your "troll" comment, but I think it applies here too. I wasn't really trolling. Well, maybe a bit, but I was also expressing my honest opinion. Java is inelegant, ineffective and intolerable. Not forgetting redundant and ugly. It's a fucking pain in the ass to go through the hoo...
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mbairlol
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In general quantum computers can provide a quadratic speedup of classical algorithms only, that's not enough for this case.
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some_dev
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Interestingly enough, a short Google doesn't turn up much in terms of alternate GC settings for Minecraft. Several of the problems seemed to be indicative of a "pause the world" style garbage collector. Edit: Felt like responding to "It's not that java sucks." Java sucks to some degree. All programming languages do...
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doomchild
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I've tried more than once to learn Haskell, and every time has left me with the impression that it was designed to make certain people feel like crappy programmers. That might just be my own inferiority complex talking, but the syntax feels (to me, anyway) like it was *designed* to be hard to learn for somebody withou...
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othermatt
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So if I understand this article correctly, you can rephrase P vs NP as P are problems that can be solved with shortcuts, and NP are problems that can only be solved via brute force methods? So, in order to prove that P!=NP we would have to find only one problem that could not be solved with a shortcut, right? An...
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tekn0viking
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FARMVILLE+ FOR ALL!
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some_dev
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> The general consensus seems to be that Java is worthless. The general consensus on Reddit but not in the general programming world. Java is painfully verbose but it has a lot of advantages. The performance is actually pretty good.. its just that a program that wants soft real-time guarantees clashes with a java...
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mr-strange
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Yawn!
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Lerc
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I agree with the central point. Now for the big question. **What do we do about it?** I don't think teaching kids to code will work until you have teachers that can code and can see the value in it. I think the analogy to literacy is strong. Right now, what we are asking is for the illiterate to teach the lit...
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FryGuy1013
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For the rock problem, imagine you have 5 rocks weighing the following amounts (in pounds, kilos, or whatever): 14, 16, 10, 10, 10. Suppose someone told you that they had a solution that you put the first and third rocks in one pile, and the rest in the other. That is pretty easy to check in polynomial time, since you j...
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lukasmach
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> how is it possible to verify the solution in polynomial time It is possible with the help of a polynomial certificate, which in this case would be (I think) a series of hints on how (in which order) to perform the edge-weight comparisons so that you discard all of the potential shorter tours (there is a super-exp...
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J_M_B
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This worries me: From the [Google+ API TOA](http://developers.google.com/+/terms) >Prohibitions on Content. Unless expressly permitted by the content owner or by applicable law, you agree that you will not, and will not permit your end users to, do the following with content returned from the APIs: > >1. Scra...
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alexdodge
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[No, that's a common misconception.](http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=266)
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SweetIrony
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>Streams are not new or even novel in any programming language
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alx359
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Easy: just throw rocks at 2 partially filled water tanks and check the changes in volumes. Where's my million dollars? :) I still believe N=NP, one just needs to invent a new frame of reference to reformulate each problem.
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gnuvince
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**billion** dollar mistake.
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flightlessbird
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That is a thornier proposition than it appears. Equal quality for everyone involves some discrimination and trade-off between equality of opportunity and equality of outcome. As tarantulus notes, education, being a labour-intensive service, is limited by its finite provision. Aristotle makes a pretty good case in the N...
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Not sure why you brought my ex in the explanation but thanks.
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disconcision
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... that's only true if you *assume* P = NP. otherwise, N is anything *but* one.
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henk53
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Java is verbose, but I wouldn't go as far to say painfully verbose. It's pretty much at the same level as C, C++, Objective-C, C# etc. >clashes with a java garbage collector that basically runs whenever it damn well pleases. The G1 garbage collectors will help a lot as it's a more constant parallel collector, util...
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html5 has a <video> element...
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dbpatterson
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regarding DCG - mercury supports the notation, as is. There are some example applications bundled with the source, and a couple that use it. The mercury team created this alternate syntax specifically for state variables, (I think) because it is more obvious what is going on (ie, you can see that there is a pair of sta...
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henk53
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>systems with a proper modern language. [...] >but I still much prefer C++, C# or Python So, do you meant to say that Python and C++ are those proper modern languages?
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Snowkaul
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Honestly, semantics. C++ is compiled as a native language, and is not JIT. It doesn't matter which compiler you use, any .NET language will be turned into CIL and compiled on use. That's all I was referring to.
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some_dev
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> The G1 garbage collectors will help a lot as it's a more constant parallel collector, utilizing the extra cores basically every desktop has these days, instead of doing large stop the world collections. Yes, my thought was swapping to the concurrent mark and sweep collector as a good start. Using the default col...
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CynicalTyler
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>Unless expressly permitted by the content owner Doesn't sound that outlandish. If a user doesn't give you permission to store their name, don't.
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zwaldowski
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> BlocksKit or something actually useful [\*grins\*](https://github.com/zwaldowski/BlocksKit)
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