DoubleCluster

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by DoubleCluster 14y ago
Looks like an excellent plan. The JVM is awesome and having smalltalk code in plain text files instead of opaque image files might make it worth to take another look at smalltalk.
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by DoubleCluster 14y ago
This is WAN optimization, right? This is already being done but usually for (VPN) connections to other branches of a company.
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by DoubleCluster 14y ago
There are no absolute truths in coding, so don't pretend there are. These are classic rules of thumb that are good to read every once in a while. Take from them what you like, leave the rest alone.
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by DoubleCluster 14y ago
Did you ever try to translate one language into another? Usually it's just generating the AST that is the hard part, then you can just spit out code and let the compiler for the target language do the hard stuff.
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by DoubleCluster 14y ago
Uplink with real (virtualized) servers? Count me in!
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by DoubleCluster 14y ago
The main reason for this? The same people who were using the internet 10 years ago now qualify as "older adults".
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by DoubleCluster 14y ago
Very very interesting. I had somehow not heard about OpenFlow before, which looks very promising (software + hardware based implementations), and network simulation is the easiest way to learn about all the tech. How does Mininet compare to
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by DoubleCluster 14y ago
Read this instead: http://www.datomic.com/rationale.html It's a commercial product, so not that interesting. Using immutable data is a neat trick but something you can easily do with existing tools.
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by DoubleCluster 14y ago
Never ever directly accuse someone of lying. Mostly because it's usually a communication problem where they said it unclear and your heard it wrong. Also because you should always give someone a way out without losing too much face. I would
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by DoubleCluster 14y ago
Yep, cooling down ram and reading it out later is a known and proven technique. Next!
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by DoubleCluster 14y ago
It's really just market making. If the venue sells the tickets for much less than people are willing to pay it's very reasonable that people will buy them to resell them. Want to stop resale? Price the tickets closer to the real value.
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by DoubleCluster 14y ago
Why not just commit after the first step? You can then use the normal diff, and afterwards you just remove your temporary commit to make the final one.
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by DoubleCluster 14y ago
Will you be featuring this HN post in your magazine?
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by DoubleCluster 14y ago
I do like the game :) The overall diameter of the wheel is determined by the diameter of the rim + 2 times the thickness of the tire(!). Cars with larger rims usually have far thinner tires on them so the overall diameter stays almost the s
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by DoubleCluster 14y ago
I could do that, please specify where you are going to click and what you'd expect to see. It will work every time but only for those exact steps! Scalability could be done but will cost you extra!
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by DoubleCluster 14y ago
Heh, that blog post is funny. After step 6 the difficult work is done. Writing code is really not hard if you can define your goals clearly. If you're able to complete the first steps take a week off to learn programming and then build the
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by DoubleCluster 14y ago
Maybe you aren't so hot either. Tell me, what do 19-inch and 21-inch specify? The outer diameter of the tire or the DIAMETER OF THE RIM?
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by DoubleCluster 14y ago
Providing a time-limited version for testing certainly is legal. Just make sure your client knows this and it's in the contract. Display a notice like "Note: this beta version of the software will not run after 1-4-2013".
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by DoubleCluster 14y ago
I'm not worried, judges in Europe are usually quite reasonable. Ask the judge for the python.co.uk while you're at it. I love Python, best of luck!
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by DoubleCluster 14y ago
As a software developer I'd always try to unlock it. The user probably has a reason for pressing the button. Maybe your "is the door locked" sensor is broken? If you're afraid of overheating it wait a bit after the second try before enablin
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by DoubleCluster 14y ago
I just found out about mining pools; interesting idea to spread the risk of not finding any bitcoins for a long time. Why would a user with such massive mining speed need this though? Wouldn't it be more efficient for him to bear the risk
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by DoubleCluster 14y ago
OK, I'm going to pitch in: The button should be called "My Settings" (or just "Settings") because it's a command I'm shouting at the program. Compare with "Save"/"Open"/"Like". I want to open MY settings. If the settings can't be loaded the
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by DoubleCluster 14y ago
Yeah, because you will exchange it again later that day anyway.
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by DoubleCluster 14y ago
That only works if your screen can produce a lightfield. Maybe future 3D screens will have such a feature.
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by DoubleCluster 14y ago
and the ambient light conditions, the amount of sleep someone has had, color blindness (could be classified as bad eyesight), the actual size of the screen (for scrolling/line length), the font itself, the amount of experience the reader ha
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by DoubleCluster 14y ago
Right, it may be a tiny bit better but it's still not easy to read. The only way to make it actually readable is with typedefs.
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by DoubleCluster 14y ago
Neat, but this completely ignores the real reason people have trouble with small fonts: bad eyesight. The size the font needs to be is a factor of distance and eyesight. The real solution is to just use the default font size and have users
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by DoubleCluster 14y ago
Let’s say I want to declare a pointer to a variable length array (what Python calls a list and Go calls a slice) of pointers to FooType objects: var foo *[]*FooType It reads very simply ... What???? Not that it's better
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by DoubleCluster 14y ago
Yep, and they did it brilliantly and then promoted and sold it brilliantly. Technical stuff isn't worth that much money on its own.
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by DoubleCluster 14y ago
I really hope they'd add $0.80 when paying out in dollars.

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