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New comment by ryanmk in "The cure for procrastination? Forgive yourself"

ryanmk — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 22:11:24 +0000

I've plugged this before, but this is something that has really, actually, worked for me: beeminder.com

New comment by ryanmk in "Superheroes a 'cultural catastrophe', says comics guru Alan Moore (2014)"

ryanmk — Sun, 19 Jul 2015 13:23:07 +0000

Dude sounds like he's stuck in his own head.

New comment by ryanmk in "Yet Another Language Speed Test – Counting Primes"

ryanmk — Sat, 04 Jul 2015 17:40:14 +0000

I tried using locals, and there was no change to the time. Using a boolean return value for isPrime shaved off two seconds.

New comment by ryanmk in "Yet Another Language Speed Test – Counting Primes"

ryanmk — Sat, 04 Jul 2015 17:30:38 +0000

Thanks, using % did the trick.

New comment by ryanmk in "Yet Another Language Speed Test – Counting Primes"

ryanmk — Sat, 04 Jul 2015 05:23:07 +0000

I've placed my port here: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/ce176d7ab4f6b7b1ba91

If you see anything wrong with it, or odd, feel free to share.

I'm still investigating what is happening to make the run so slow, so if you can find something wrong in my code, that would help.

New comment by ryanmk in "Yet Another Language Speed Test – Counting Primes"

ryanmk — Sat, 04 Jul 2015 03:23:11 +0000

It would be nice to see the numbers, in addition to the graph.

I did a straight port of C to lua, and ran it with luajit.

The C code ran in 49.901s.

The luajit code ran in 14m16.547s.

C code was compiled with -02 -std=c11 -lm (version 4.8.1, mingw).

luajit.exe was 2.0.3, static build, using VS2012 x64

New comment by ryanmk in "Can C++ become your new scripting language?"

ryanmk — Sun, 17 May 2015 20:46:24 +0000

I use lua for most scripting. A big reason for this is that the entire lua environment is in lua.exe. This allows for me to distribute scripts easily without having to include a C++ installer with them.

New comment by ryanmk in "Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?"

ryanmk — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 19:20:10 +0000

Love Ted Chiang!

New comment by ryanmk in "Nobody Ever Gets Credit for Fixing Problems That Never Happened (2001) [pdf]"

ryanmk — Sat, 24 Jan 2015 22:03:47 +0000

Isn't that called a "paycheck"?

New comment by ryanmk in "Io language"

ryanmk — Sat, 10 Jan 2015 23:13:26 +0000

I agree with the parent. Upon encountering the page, my first feeling is that this is one of THOSE landing pages.

Of course, I know this is just me bringing my biases to the thing, but that's the way it is.

New comment by ryanmk in "Profile of Ted Chiang: The Perfectionist"

ryanmk — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 15:02:49 +0000

I'd like to see what his take would be on a Groundhog's Day scenario.

New comment by ryanmk in "Announcing LTS Haskell 1.0"

ryanmk — Sun, 04 Jan 2015 14:35:02 +0000

The website doesn't say what LTS haskell is. A curated set of packages? Of what?

New comment by ryanmk in "Ask HN: How do you stay motivated to work on side projects?"

ryanmk — Sat, 27 Dec 2014 07:20:29 +0000

I use Beeminder.com to stay motivated. They have githun integration, which helps.

New comment by ryanmk in "Yehuda Katz and Steve Klabnik Are Joining the Rust Core Team"

ryanmk — Sat, 13 Dec 2014 00:21:25 +0000

Bandwagon hopping is a Good Thing.

Furthermore, if you continue to bring something to the bandwagon, people will continue asking you to join them.

New comment by ryanmk in "NASA: We're sending humans to Mars"

ryanmk — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 22:02:53 +0000

You don't think they'll put humans on Mars within this century? Really? That's not a conservative statement. A conservative statement is, yea we'll probably get to Mars this century, but maybe not in the next 20 years.

New comment by ryanmk in "The State of JavaScript in 2015"

ryanmk — Mon, 01 Dec 2014 04:29:43 +0000

I'm glad I read this article. I just started experimenting with javascript for web development, and I've encountered so many Named Swords.

New comment by ryanmk in "Introducing Spider 0.1"

ryanmk — Fri, 28 Nov 2014 17:25:18 +0000

I'm intrigued by your comment that being forced to do a lot with a little is powerful. Do you have any arguments or evidence for that you could point me to?

New comment by ryanmk in "An FPGA Is an Impoverished Accelerator"

ryanmk — Thu, 27 Nov 2014 04:47:00 +0000

It sounds like he doesn't think the level of abstraction offered is high enough. If you are using an FPGA as a general purpose device, and not for prototyping, then a higher level of abstraction would be helpful. Otherwise, if you are prototyping, you may want a lower level of abstraction that may offer a closer approximation to your end goal.

New comment by ryanmk in "Ask HN: Can we talk about Linux vs. OS/X?"

ryanmk — Sun, 23 Nov 2014 21:09:18 +0000

I see Android as the future of the linux desktop.

New comment by ryanmk in "RTX2010 – Radiation-hardened stack machine microprocessor"

ryanmk — Sat, 15 Nov 2014 20:02:57 +0000

There's also GreenArrays GA144, which has 144 forth machines on a single microprocessor.

http://www.greenarraychips.com/