Nelson69

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by Nelson69 16y ago
Is that known and understood? Prions aren't terribly well understood, there aren't a lot of them. If I'm not mistaken there are doubters that don't believe the some of the diseases attributed to prions are actually caused by them. I kno
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by Nelson69 16y ago
For a "modern OS" BeOS lacked a lot. Shoddy hardware support at best, a terrible network stack, did it have a printing subsystem? I know they wanted to rebuild the networking stack I don't remember print being good. Internationalizat
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by Nelson69 16y ago
I like the ML languages a lot, OCaml could be a java replacement. There is the industry acceptance part that java has and then the runtime has been pretty well vetted and improved. I'd bet money that ML runtimes turn up with "issues" as l
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by Nelson69 16y ago
Well that's pretty simple. There isn't really a suitable successor that does what Java really does. It was low-enough level to have decent performance and high enough level to be used to quickly do some complex stuff with some runtime pr
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by Nelson69 16y ago
I don't see how intel is even a target. PowerPC owns gaming. There are still tons of MIPS chips in networking applications as well as some other verticals. ARM owns phones, largely because every phone has a custom chip in it. It's n
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by Nelson69 16y ago
I believe the operative word for point a) was "marketed." Damn Sun fucked this whole thing up. Should have GPLed it from day one... They wanted their cake and they wanted to eat it too.
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by Nelson69 16y ago
The problem is that Irridium was sort of an all or nothing design. You needed the whole fleet of birds to have global coverage. Geo-sync birds might have reduced the count but they cost more to launch and have a very noticeable lag. I'll
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by Nelson69 16y ago
Have a listen to the Java Posse this last week, #325. The new platform architect seems to think Java is in better hands, for the greater community too. How do you simply dismiss Oracle as having a culture of engineering? Are the products
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by Nelson69 16y ago
It's not the password they want, it's the evidence in side the "safe" that your password protects. You're compelled to provide access. You could probably make a legitimate case for not actually revealing the password if you provided access
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by Nelson69 16y ago
When investors band together to get better terms, don't we just call that a VC or a hedgefund?
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by Nelson69 16y ago
Does ebay run auctions the exact same way as they did 10 years ago? In some sense, auctions are the same as they were however many thousands of years ago when the idea was invented, today though ebay has branded it and built in some levels
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by Nelson69 16y ago
You also make a bad block affect potentially every file following it. When if you compress pre-tar you could find the next file boundary and recover the rest.
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by Nelson69 16y ago
It's just more anti-java noise. There are a lot of anti-java folks out there and I don't see how this isn't more ammunition. All things being equal, Oracle suing somebody and doing it in part because of "java" does have to make you take n
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by Nelson69 16y ago
It might not even be that Oracle isn't interested in that culture so much as Oracle simply isn't Sun and that was Sun's culture. Sun believed Sun was the best and everything else wasn't. Sun believed in Sun, quite a bit, enough so that
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by Nelson69 16y ago
I started sketching notes for this a couple years back. Some stupid parking lot altercation where someone started lying.. With the costs of flash and cameras becoming so inexpensive and the amount of wireless access around (GSM or Wifi)
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by Nelson69 16y ago
A service? So it's good for your neighbors that you're helping drive the values of their properties down? That's good for them? Talk about rationalizations...
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by Nelson69 16y ago
Why does it matter if "anyone cares?" Nobody (generally speaking on the grand scale) is using LISP for much of anything. Same is true with Ruby, you'll be hard pressed to find a "serious" or "major" company actually shipping Ruby. You lo
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by Nelson69 16y ago
Yeah, I've been waiting for that to leak out. $20bn seems like a lot for PR, why wouldn't you fight that? Unless there is some sort of cap or some reason. What about the folks taking the pay outs too? I'm sure there is some paperwork
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by Nelson69 16y ago
Will the competitors really reach feature parity? Really? I mean, to have feature parity with iPod, you need a top notch player, you need a very good music manager and then you need a one click store that has nearly everything. It's not
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by Nelson69 16y ago
What's wrong with Elliptical curves? Seriously, are there some known attacks against ECDSA? And what of DSA2?
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by Nelson69 16y ago
I'll buck that for you. I don't just dismiss it as stupid and evil. There are 2 things that stand out to me which aren't being discussed. 1) Apple has maybe the very best record in supporting their customers' software through various mu
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by Nelson69 16y ago
I couldn't point you to a citation but you can google around, courts have compelled lockers to be opened, safes to be opened, and they've compelled people to decrypt things. The fifth amendment applies to words you say, not evidence. The
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by Nelson69 16y ago
Was it possible to understand what Goldman was selling? They certainly weren't telling the whole story. Isn't part of the suit about disclosure? In general, I agree with you, if you don't understand it then don't invest in it, but in r
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by Nelson69 17y ago
If AMD didn't introduce x86-64, we'd all be using PowerPC and 32bit x86 still. IA64 suffers from the same problems as all the other RISCs out there that died, it has potential to do magic but there just aren't that many magic compilers
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by Nelson69 17y ago
You don't really have to pay a dividend when you're stock is rising like Apple's is on growth. It's a fairly new thing for MS to pay one too and it's only because the growth ended. Since MSFT started issuing a dividend, Apple's stock ha
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by Nelson69 17y ago
Yes! That's the same stuff I've been smelling. I look at stuff like documents Google has published and Hadoop and I do think to myself that map-reduce and some of the massively distributed stuff could potentially teach RDBMs some new tr
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by Nelson69 17y ago
There should be a lot of other evidence of Toyota's quality falling off if that is the case. If 2005-2010 Toyotas end up rusting out faster and burning up transmissions faster then that might be the reason, from what I understand they hav
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by Nelson69 17y ago
The biggest SQL problems I've seen the last few years have been ORM using developers using the database as a data structure store, rather than a database. For some reason, the act of getting data in and out of a database was the "hard pr
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by Nelson69 17y ago
The Berkshire and Goldman deal was, but Goldman plays in derivatives. Where are the fundamentals there? Or when is Goldman going to announce their new business model? You'd hope someone like Buffet, with his cache and savvy could suggest
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by Nelson69 17y ago
They're going to intercept the key exchange and then verify the keys in real time? And then make an allow or block decision? This is very hard, you ultimately have to do deep packet inspection on everything to do this. (think of all the "

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