k4rtik

If faster compile cycles are one of your primary requirements, you might like to try Hugo.

I recently learned how modern IDE's provide the kind of features Rust LS is targeting. For anyone else interested, here is a great video explaining the same: https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Seth-Juarez/Anders-Hejlsberg...

k4rtik

10 anni fadiscuss

Is it inflating the results shown on Wi-Fi?

I am on a MacBook Air Early 2014 and my current link speed is 144 Mbit/s according to Network Utility, but fast.com shows between 210 to 230 Mbps on each run.

Speedtest.net results are consistent as before at ~38 Mpbs, which is what I would expect from the routers around me.

k4rtik

10 anni fadiscuss

User for >4 years. Absolutely love the nifty little tool. But I hated opening up a terminal each time I wanted to initiate a download.

For PopClip[1] users on Mac, I made a little YouTube-dl extension[2] which lets you initiate the download just by selecting the video URL (best when done from browser's address bar) and clicking a button. Been using it as my primary ytdl client for past 5 months now.

[1]: https://pilotmoon.com/popclip/

[2]: https://github.com/k4rtik/popclip-ytdl

k4rtik

10 anni fadiscuss

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2891413

k4rtik

10 anni fadiscuss

Non-paywalled link: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2891413

Sorry, I did not realize (being within a university network) that the link I submitted was under a paywall.

k4rtik

11 anni fadiscuss

Served as Macros 101 for me (apart from C macros, that is). Thanks Nick.

k4rtik

11 anni fadiscuss

Late to the party, but this looks interesting.

Google does something similar for extracting favicons for any domain, such as https://plus.google.com/_/favicon?domain=github.com

k4rtik

11 anni fadiscuss

Anybody noticed ‏an istx25 stalking each tweet-job suggestion and ultimately getting busted[1]? :D

[1]: https://twitter.com/markmcerqueira/status/608914346706657280

k4rtik

11 anni fadiscuss

> It doesn't matter what value is returned by a read that overlaps a write. The algorithm is correct even if reading a number while it is changing from 9 to 10 obtains the value 2496.

There are two variables involved in the bakery algorithm[1] -- choosing[k] and number[k]:

- choosing[k] takes only the two values 0 & 1, hence reading/writing to it is atomic.

- number[k] is boundless, hence the question of inconsistency while reading it. Lamport shows (see Assertion 2's Proof in [1]) that given,

  1. tL2 < tL3 (on process i), and
  2. te < tw < tc (on process k),

(in the non-trivial case) tc can only occur before tL2 (tc < tL2) => tw < tL3, that is process i reads the current value of number[k]. See, no overlap! "The bakery algorithm is correct as long as reading a number returns the correct value if the number is not concurrently being written".

I think it is much easier to understand with the two-arrow formalism presented later in the article.

[1]: http://msr-waypoint.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/bakery....

k4rtik

13 anni fadiscuss

One of my professors, Prof. Vineeth K Paleri, at NIT Calicut (http://cse.nitc.ac.in) asks the students to read this article by Djikstra in their first class with him. Was an interesting read indeed.

k4rtik

13 anni fadiscuss

> (and for that matter, it appears, from Amazon) Amazon has put an upper limit of 50K on Cash on Delivery.

k4rtik

13 anni fadiscuss

> We have some outdated courses, we don't have the freedom to choose courses, etc.

I disagree. I have just finished (few weeks back) my BTech from an NIT and can at least vouch for my CS education and those from some other respectable NITs. We had a great amount of freedom in choosing the courses and had some of the best faculty to learn from.

Generalizing the education in India to this extent certainly paints a wrong picture. I agree that there are only a few institutes which are good, but they are surely not limited to just IITs and IISc.

k4rtik

13 anni fadiscuss

This was published weeks back in The Hindu: http://www.thehindu.com/features/education/college-and-unive...

k4rtik

13 anni fadiscuss

Adding links really is a huge pain in the Compose window now.

Submissions

Follow-Up to the Unreasonable Ineffectiveness of ML in Computer Systems Research

Drive me to Toronto, Hal

Lessons learned building a toy compiler

Assembling the history of Unix

Alan Kay on What was it like to be at Xerox PARC when Steve Jobs visited?

Modules Matter Most (2011)

The Soft Side of Software

Copying and Repetition

What is the Iron Man suit made of? Could it be Lego? [video]

The Unreasonable Ineffectiveness of ML in Computer Systems Research

The Noisiest Block in the Neighborhood: Analyzing NYC Data with Mongolite

C and C++ are dead like COBOL in 2017

The Schiaparelli Lesson – Unusual and Faulty Conditions

Rust is Software's Salvation

Modern C is now feature complete

The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage

Google and Facebook ban fake news sites from their advertising networks

Race Condition vs. Data Race (2011)

Mainframes as a lifestyle choice

Computer Science Rankings

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