Bjoern

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by Bjoern 17y ago
The main idea of the article, namely wasting tax payers money (1), is probably the most interesting thing. Regarding security, sure foreign spies don't need that kind of information. But how about the average "joe" who holds a grudge agains
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For polyglots it is interesting also to know why C/C++ got so popular in the first place. JWZ - The worse is better. http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
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by Bjoern 17y ago
Just using Fibonacci for testing out VM performance is a bad idea. You need a broader viewpoint. That said, every language shootout is basically rubbish as there are so many variables who play into this. http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/
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"..strange ad-hoc combination.." For instance?
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Why language X is better of Y makes no sense. Every language has its benefits and downsides. Python has been slighly longer around and has a bigger user community which resulted in more available library code. Ruby and Python is pretty much
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No, they say Ruby is the new Perl because of the "TIMTOWTDI" paradigm. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theres_more_than_one_way_to_do_...
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by Bjoern 17y ago
I think that this explanation is pretty useless. If you want to have a good idea why, what, and how DNS attacks can be a very dangerous thing please watch this Conference video from Dan Kaminsky about the DNS bug which he (resp. DJB) found.
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by Bjoern 17y ago
If you don't clearly understand the implications of "Monkeypatching" (also known as "Ninjapatching") then watch this: http://rubymanor.org/videos/unobtrusive_metaprogramming/ Slides: http://seanohalpin.github.com/unobtrusive-metaprogramm
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I can confirm this, had a similar experience. Though the VMWare Player is a nice piece of easy software for people who don't need all the features. On a side note, did you ever install MS Windows iso with a system running on a CPU with SSE3
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3.0 Already? Wasn't just sometime ago 2.3 the newest? While VirtualBox is really great I like OSE (OpenSourceEdition) better. Unfortunately if one needs e.g. usbhotplug then you have to use the commercial branch :/ Does anyone know when OSE
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by Bjoern 17y ago
I find this paper on the first view a bit weird. Please let me explain why. First of all Erlang has for instance here [1] proven to be viable for HPC. Erlang is useful mostly for high scalability problems e.g. Clusters etc. The authors clai
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Some videos from Feynman which make a great impression on me were these.. "Take the world from another point of view" 1.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsgBtOVzHKI 2.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnzB_IHGyjg 3.) http://www.youtube.
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The graph with the Ice core probes are of course correct. Thanks for that. "No. The predictions aren't "maybe" wrong. I'm not hypothesizing. I'm looking out the window. (Metaphorically, that is, I'm looking at real observations.) The predic
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ACK, scary .. probably just wanted to get attention. - Reverse global warming Would be very difficult, take 100k's of years - World energy crisis? Heh, fusion again? - Antibiotics Hm, recently Quorum Sensing between bacteria seems to be an
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by Bjoern 17y ago
According to popularist Ray Kurzweil, Silicon. According to others who play with DNA sequencers (hacking Ecoli bacteria etc.) .. carbon. Some people believe its not possible to make silicon AI. Others do (memristor development, blue brain p
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by Bjoern 17y ago
Thats the beauty of the argument. Science gives us a tool to eliminate believe from the equation. Believe is something which has no place there. With Science we make assumptions and lay them out for everybody to see or counter argument. Aft
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http://dewy.fem.tu-ilmenau.de/CCC/25C3/video_h264_720x576/25... Global warming is influenced by a multitude of contributing gases etc. Some of them can also cause cooling. Weather, being unpredictable of course screws up predictions. Also
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[Video .mp4] Climate Change (Global Warming) - State of the Science(dewy.fem.tu-ilmenau.de)
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In 2003 in Europe roughly 35.000 people died from heat. That is not an issue?
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[..] today only 11% of the population believes humans play a role. Is this a bad joke?! Believe?! What has believe to do with this? Please if you don't know - watch this talk from Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf ( http://www.pik-potsdam.de/~stefan/
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Hm, did you see in the promotion video of the Software how much the video was bucking especially at full screen? I think that the CrunchPad will be quite interesting for Websites but not so for multimedia applications in the beginning. Hope
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This seems like a little bit better yammer.com. Wonder how their business model works if everything is for free?!
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Actually humanity is not really part anymore of the "survival of the fittest" or evolutionary cycle. We are actively changing ourselves and starting, in laboratories at least, to modify genetics. Won't take long before parents can "modify"
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Having a own language only for COP (Concurrency Orientated Programming) is fine. Heck I'm a polyglot fan. Though I wonder if the way of STM (State Transactional Memory) wouldn't have been a better choice to boost the already existing langua
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I can only recommend the "Dragon Book". Its old but really a great intro into Compilers. I had the benefit of working with it must say I didn't find anything better so far. Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools by Alfred V. Aho (Aut
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Most certainly. That thing is still "reinvented" these days. Different shapes, difficulties, lights, all kind of variations. If the Computer-age would have made it uninteresting why are still so many of Rubik cubes produced these days? e.g.
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by Bjoern 17y ago
Upgrading Hardware is of course one way to scale. I think the most benefit could occur from implementing a smart TCP congestion avoidance solution. Quite a while ago I stumbled over an interesting article or paper (can't quite remember, RFC
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by Bjoern 17y ago
- Sports - Try not to code on a Laptop or use a clever setup to avoid problems. E.g. see here for some details http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/workplacehealth/Pages/Laptophealt... - The chair you sit in. It makes sense to buy a good chair if y
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For all you C++ fans out there, you will find this enlightening. http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
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"Wake me up" is unfortunately the right expression. Not only do some drugs react differently in humans but until it really will reach the patient many years will pass I suppose.

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