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If they're using that to a commercial benefit, to the point of being anti-competitive, over other people who are developing for that platform, yes.

It's not.

Yes. It's only becomes an issue if they're using that to an anti-competitive end.

100% of that market. The apple app market is not the same as the android app market. They're not in competition with each other. Owners are captive.

Why aren't they showing benchmarks that compare it to other BLAS implementations? How does it compare to the GEMM in atlas, cblas, intel's mks, GOTOBlas, or any other library that implements GEMM? Is writing 'jitted' asm like this better than writing fortran with -march=native?

Not when the market is a monopoly.

Have their been any updates to this repository since the last time it was posted to hn?

But the problem is systemic and it needs to be named directly. Skirting around the edges of the problem, trying to be indirect, will not be effective.

What would you call it then?

There is a war against boys. We medicated an entire generation with psychotropic drugs to make them more passive.

Do you glow in the dark?

maybe got confused with F77.

When ABS systems fault, they just turn in to non-ABS brakes.

What's the worst that would happen with a malfunctioning active suspension system? It wouldn't lower when going highway speeds, so you'll get more drag.

The only computer that absolutely needs to work to keep your car running is the one that's controlling the EFI system. If that's not running well, it's pretty obvious since the engine will stall out. If you have a modern automatic transmission, then you'll need that one too, and that's pretty obvious if it's not working correctly. Everything else is an accessory, non-essential and part of planned obsolescence.

unblock me, coward.

The last time was in Kensignton was to buy a, probably hot, used bicycle when I was in grad school out of a weird artist space.

I think he means that our reality has become a hellscape where this is a product with willing customers.

Most of the functionality is done by the BIOS. It's basically a shell that wraps around the interfaces provided by the BIOS.

Even if it the end it spits out an exe, it's 100s of MB. This makes it a non-starter for short lived numerical programs.

It's a cool idea, but when you sick it on something that uses numpy, a very common use case that people would want, it basically dies.

pdksh was a thing. Using ksh meant they could use the odd solairs machine without having to maintain third party tools on them.

There's a lot of overlap between bash and ksh scripting, but it's not 1:1.

Why would you want to let them know where you live or work in the first place?

> ln -s /bin/sh /usr/bin/node

job done. made an operating system!

Jeff Atwood isn't an authority on the skills of fresh computer science grads. He was a blogger with some anecdotes who came up with a meme.

I really don't understand the point you're trying to make.

It became a popular meme because it reinforced the idea that we needed to import more H1-Bs to fill these roles that are going unfilled. Please don't be so naive.

>You still didn't answer the main question. What are these CS grads going to do without any practical skills when some can't even pass the FizzBuzz challenge?

Nice straw-man you built there. If these graduates have either fallen through the cracks for four years and not learned a damn thing, I don't see the point of holding everyone back and forcing them to have remedial write iOS and webpages classes for four years. Why would you assume the outcomes would be any better?

Engineering is the same as CS in this regard. You might have a CAD class to give you some fundamentals, but that's a very small part of what engineers learn.

Medical and Law are professional post-graduate degrees.

Education in the US is heavily subsidized and incentivized to keep a pipeline of K12 educators coming in.

Journalism is a liberal arts discipline. What vocational skills are they coming out with? How to follow a style guide? Most of them have to be fully supported by their parents if they want to take a prestigious unpaid internship in an expensive city, and even then the job market is very bleak. I'm really not sure where you're trying to go by bringing up journalism.

I'm really not seeing what point you're trying to make. The vocational skills learned are incidental. You will be employable in the field if you didn't slack off and challenged yourself while getting your degree.

>Most other degrees are meant to prepare you for a career.

False. Employability is a side-effect of those as well.

If you don't like that, don't get a four year degree. Many people don't and are successful.

If you want to be forced to have a broad background of different areas in computer science, learn theory, and do many-many projects, get a four year CS degree. Don't want to be pigeonholed into doing the latest-greatest variation of Visual FoxPro for the rest of your life? Get a CS degree.

Outright selling a vocation isn't what four year colleges do. If that's all you want, do a certificate program at a community college. Nothing wrong with them. If you want to retool from doing oil changes to being a CNC Operator or writing Javascript it's a very good option.

Vocational training in a four year program is a side-effect, not a feature.

It's not vocational training.

As long as you're taking non-bullshit upper level courses you will have to use one of "those languages that will help them get a job." Systems will have you doing C and ASM. AI will have you doing Python. Scientific computing will have you do Matlab, Fortran, Python and R. Software engineering will have you do Java. Computer Vision will have you do C++.

LISP/Scheme usually gets covered in pretty good detail in the standard "let's make an interpreter" required class.

APL could be interesting, but the last time I checked everyone wanted real money for APL that you could run on modern hardware. Maybe some golfed Perl 5 could be used instead.

The features of the languages you pick should be orthogonal so they see different ways of thinking: Java, Fortran, Prolog, ASM.

You just don't want them to memorize slightly different variations of Algol syntax.