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"I don’t think there exists a language where it’s enough to learn the surface language in order to write optimized code." Good news, there is indeed such a language: Fortran. Modern Fortran syntax is similar to Python (but without
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Well, illumos is faster than Linux on the same hardware now, as starting in 2004, every situation where Linux was faster was treated as a priority 1 bug. Yes, a bug.
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But they were correct: if you knew UNIX®️, you automatically groked GNU/Linux (and could see all its deficiencies, as it's a toy), but the other way around does not hold: the gaps in architectural and standards specifications know
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Everything is correct but the excellent part: Linux is badly architecturally broken and hacked together under the hood. Backwards-compatibility guarantees (as one would get in writing with Solaris) are non-existent, hit or miss. Solaris fea
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That's okay, Solaris lives on as the free, open source software that is the illumos source code, from which distributions like Tribblix and SmartOS are made. illumos is being actively developed and it's very lively.
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Remember how we used to have this dreadful Windows monoculture in the '90's of the past century? Now it's GNU/Linux monoculture...
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To be fair, Solaris always required very little memory, which was both ironic and cool given that it ran on some of the largest supercomputers at the time. Even to this day, Solaris still requires liliputian amounts of memory: once booted a
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I am supportive of delivering software through OS packages, and from the experience of working with computers for the past 35+ years, I'm absolutely convinced that the only way to correctly deliver software is through native operating
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Actually there are no words which can describe my hate of GNU and Linux, so you Sir are confused. On top of that, the easiest and fastest way for end users to install software is through OS packages, rather than making poor users install on
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There are a lot of people in that subprofession which have no business being there. Go to any larger non-Silicon Valley enterprise and the first thing you'll run into are system engineering departments doing work Oracle should have don
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"Linux 2000: There is only One True Way of installing software: using distro packages. If you do anything else you are bad and you should feel bad." That is absolutely correct and if one is installing software in any other way tha
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On top of all of that you had to compete with Sun Microsystems selling a fully boxed set of Solaris 2.5.1 for the i86pc for $50 USD. There was just no way to compete with them.
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The machine cannot replace craftsmanship. Soldering transistors and writing small, fast code are two completely unrelated activities.
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No you don't. There is no reason to switch. I've written many full-blown programs in AWK and I see no reason to switch them to another language -- they're fast, portable and readable, with tiny memory requirements. It all com
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Because that's exactly what it was designed to be and does it remarkably well.
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There is no inconsistency if one programs in straight Bourne shell from 1978, not using any additional features, and frankly, I've been programming in it for 25+ years and never needed "bashisms". ksh is also extremely consis
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Is this a site for IT elite or isn't it?
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There is no replacement for dedication to the craft.
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No, I'm making a point: if "Hacker News" is supposed to be where the information technology elite is, then what kind of "elite" is it if editing a filesystem in situ is considered impossible without the source code?
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I've no idea who Usain Bolt is (or what it is, if it is a thing), so no clue what you are attempting to tell me with that allegory. No rows returned from the database. To me, it looks like "cats are furry. Your argument is invalid
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They competed on both quality and speed, as in who will be the first to 0-day the program which had to work 100%. Whoever got the 100% crack first won, anybody else's crack would get nuked. Them's the rules. So, either we have gro
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Got it on ebay. There are great deals to be had if one knows the technology, partly because there are very few of us left now who know it, so extremely expensive equipment goes for pennies on the dollar. I use self-system engineered (read:
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"That would have been impossible without detailed info about ext2/3/4 available." Try telling that to IKARI+TALENT, Legend, Skid Row, PaRaDoX and all the other cracking groups from Commodore64, Amiga, ATARI ST, PlayStati
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"SO is on Wikipedia level of blessings to humanity." I think it's time to pick up my toys and go home. And never return here.
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"SO is a blessing for humanity." My opinion is that "Stack Overflow" vastly exacerbated the eternal September effect -- people went there for instant gratification (of both the question and the answer variety), instead
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He calls it "Meta effect", I call it "Hacker" "News" effect. So he's had it, he picked up his toys and he's going home. Good on him. I cannot think of a better thing to do, because this is the eternal
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I can build (and have) a fully decked-out intel-based 1U server for $1,800 USD, so this Talos thing can't compete: it's not cost-effective no matter how one slices and dices it. This company is repeating the same mistake IBM, hp,
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CSV's are a data structure. They do not contain any logic.
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Both JSON and YAML are very difficult to construct parsers for. To make matters worse, both formats are full of pitfalls: http://seriot.ch/parsing_json.php https://arp242.net/yaml-config.html using either o
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With AWKA, in my tests I was able to get an instant 100% speed boost without modifying any of my AWK code. So using AWKA would likely beat the tools presented here, without needing to invest the time to learn a new tool, which for me at lea

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