Came here to hopefully post or see ctrlp fuzzy search for vim. When I didn't see it recommended I was shocked. It completely changed the way I interact with my files while I develop.
The Parallella project will make parallel computing accessible to everyone.
I think their marketing is a bit off on this one. Does everyone actually need parallel computing on this scale? I don't think so. Those who do need it likely already have CUDA running on GPGPUs. Not that I'm implying stifle innovation but the crowd they're marketing to seems to be way off base.
Yes, everyone needs parallel computing on this scale, it's just that they don't know it (yet). In the same way that everyone needed 3Ghz single core CPU when they already had 2GHz single core CPUs.
GPUs are different to CPUs in many ways, not least of which is that they are very difficult to debug, do not support recursion (this might have changed?), need special,non-standard data structures (streams). Multi-core CPUs suffer none of these limitations and developers can use non-proprietary standard build tools to develop software for them.
17 year olds may be able to do all of those things, however we know that the average male's forebrain doesn't fully develop until much later, as much as 8 years later. Some males aged 25 still have not developed to the point of advanced reasoning. Reasoning like being able to see the consequences and harm done by stunts such as sending threats like this. It's certainly not enough to dismiss this and say "he's 17, he's not a child anymore".
Who cares about a "fully developed" brain, if there is even such a thing? Human beings at any age are largely irresponsible and irrational and most people never move beyond this. Yet I know that the vast majority of 17-year-olds I have encountered do not mail boxes of ashes to Jews, or anything of the sort. That his brain is not totally "developed" absolves nothing. Should a person with an IQ of 100 serve less time than a person with an IQ of 140, because the latter is more "capable of rationality", or whatever other quality you want to ascribe to the mind? At some point, certainly short after the reasonable age of entry into the working world (probably sixteen) people need to be expected to act decently. Sure, I'm in favor of rehabilitation -- punishment is a revenge-instinct and waste of resources -- but we should do ourselves and these people the service of being honest about what they are: criminals.
That sounds so weird. This is particularly males? Males with healthy diets and lifestyles, ones with terrible diets and bad lifestyles, or across the board?
Especially since the average male lifespan was around 35 years up until a few millenia ago. Are you saying that most males died before they reached maturity?
AFAIK 'average male lifespan was around 35 years' is based on estimates that includes all males including the relatively large percentage who never survived childhood
I'm not saying that it being your main language is bad, it's just the syntax is absolutely terrible to read and understand for those of us on C-style languages. If the point was to teach others, the vast majority of your audience is not going to be reading coffeescript and learning much.
- There are GA tutorials available in several other languages, if this doesn't work for you. Btw, if a tutorial was offered in Lisp/Haskell, would we see the same suggestion?
- For Ruby/Python programmers, this isn't hard at all to read. Familiarity with non C-style languages might be something to pick up.
- Having moved to Coffee from C-style languages, I prefer coffee. But that is just my opinion.
I think HNers should be more tolerant of language choices. That argument can't really be won.
that's funny because coffeescript is meant to be all about readability in code. I wonder if you really tried to read this or if you just commented based on the title. If you did really read it, I wonder if you found it hard to read because your opinion is tainted by those C style languages? It's not scientific of course but I just got my non coder, non technical girlfriend to read through both the coffeescript and javascript versions of this and I definitely had to explain a lot less to her with the coffeescript version, she says it's easier to read because it's structured more like plain English.
Same here. Colour games can be frustrating for us differently-coloured people. :P I can imagine how this is really fun for someone who can see colour properly. Maybe as a challenge the author could include colour blind mode?
> But can we cut out approximately 90% of the fury?
You have to realize this app existed in the apple-sphere. The user base is part of a very entitlement based generation for the most part. That's why there's so much rage.
