Nelson69

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by Nelson69 17y ago
We've pretty clearly executed the wrong people since there has been DNA testing too. Grisham wrote a non-fiction about it "The Innocent Man." There is some heavy stuff in it. I guess I'm kind of torn, I think we want prosecutors to be ag
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by Nelson69 17y ago
Who has the liability when some one breaks in and puts bad code on the car that causes it to misbehave? The code could maybe cause it to not properly brake and cause a death or it could maybe alter the timings on the injectors and cause it
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by Nelson69 17y ago
Shady? Don't the involved parties want to protect their own interests as much as they can? The way I read the MS and Apple licenses is that they are just covering their asses, there is a greater than zero percent chance that there could
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by Nelson69 17y ago
Yes but we're not talking about a typical love marriage, are we? Those are things that could be put in a prenuptial agreement. Then to social taboo goes away, "she's his wife." Or rather, how about high dollar matchmaking services instea
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by Nelson69 17y ago
I saw the special and I honestly think that's a myth, at least most of the time. It just seems like a rationalization, the guys can tell themselves they can't find a suitable mate and have to pay these women, the women can say and think t
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by Nelson69 17y ago
Culture is part of it. How many people there had worked for Intel in the past and how many leave AMD to go to Intel in the future? I'd expect that's part of it too.
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by Nelson69 17y ago
Normally, I'd agree with you. There seems to be more incompetence than malice, in general. With technology as it is and science as it is and has been for hundreds of years, this seems like an extraordinary goof. I could see a goof being
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by Nelson69 17y ago
A top quality, supported, opensource compiler would help. The LLVM front-end looks promising but I half expect it to be abandoned. It's kind of odd, it definitely seems like there is a desire for a compiled machine code producing languag
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by Nelson69 17y ago
It's not like there isn't close to a 3/4 million lines of code in JRuby.. Nothing quite like practicing what you're preaching. (The naive code count is something like 250,000 lines of java, 560,000 lines of ruby, 14,000 lines of yaml(?!) a
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by Nelson69 17y ago
I respect the hell out of RMS and his accomplishments. On this and some other issues I do think there is a blurriness to his ideology. Technologies don't have an intrinsic goodness or evilness to them, even DRM, it's just technology t
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by Nelson69 17y ago
Who's going to buy the copies though?
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by Nelson69 17y ago
Isn't Greenplum based upon Postgresql? They claim a fairly impressive customer list. In my experience, it's a major type pain once you realize MySQL doesn't do stuff that you need. The other differences are pretty marginal (save for rep
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by Nelson69 17y ago
I don't think he sees a "duct tape engineer" as a "just get it done programmer." Like he said, they're pretty boys that just look pretty, ie they're rare and have a special balance of pragmatism. JWZ guys are the kinds of wizards you m
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by Nelson69 17y ago
There needs to be like a deficit score for any article that contains "is dead" in the title or "considered harmful" Just off hand, can anyone think of a company that legitimately could have succeeded but failed because they chose the wrong
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by Nelson69 17y ago
By "straightforward" to you mean "theoretically possible?" If that were the case, nearly everything would be written in Python. Maybe there is a specific case you're thinking of because in the general case it's non-trivial and possibly
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by Nelson69 17y ago
I agree, I read this and I just didn't see how developers were "being raped." The users? Yeah, they got screwed. It's one thing when AT&T leans on Apple to prevent a Google voice app, which somehow AT&T feels threatens them. O
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by Nelson69 17y ago
I'm no expert but I believe the sulfur content is higher in North American diesel, but that's not too hard to handle, I think that's the old excuse and there are fairly clean ultra low sulfur diesels you can now buy. To pass California emi
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by Nelson69 17y ago
I think much of the debates about peak oil revolve around this "finite" resource concept. The reality of peak oil isn't about running out of oil, there really is lot's and lot's of oil and we continue to find more all of the time, it's a
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by Nelson69 17y ago
The original article was terrible, so normally I wouldn't comment but I'll attempt to improve the discussion.. Do applications in C++ get modeled the same way as they would in Java or C#? Allocation speed doesn't quite seem like an apples
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by Nelson69 17y ago
> I wonder if we just have a generation of programmers who can't think in SQL. They're used to using ORMs (which are useful abstractions) but can't work at a lower level. Sending a query over the line to get exactly the results you want
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by Nelson69 17y ago
Silly? Flash has been around for ages, they've courted, supported and won over the design community, it seems to run most places you'd want it (already) and it's not Microsoft, it has great tool integration... It'd be nice if there we
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by Nelson69 17y ago
There are compiler research projects to build power optimizing compilers rather than just pure performance optimizing compilers. I was going to post a link or two but when I googled I found dozens and dozens of them, so take your pick. I
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by Nelson69 18y ago
That's a very suspicious statement. GCC uses the GPL to avoid "semi-proprietary forks."
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by Nelson69 18y ago
What's amazing to me, is I think the quality gap is much smaller than people tend to think but the American companies just let that image get created. Regardless of how the actual quality compares, people think American cars are lower qua
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by Nelson69 18y ago
geez. no coffee and I'm glad I "taught" C++ rather than grammar or English. I also meant to say "bitter" instead of "better" It's moot, I need to proof-read more before submit.
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by Nelson69 18y ago
Yep, yast and yum will do it too. There is also the Hibachi plugin for Eclipse.
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by Nelson69 18y ago
Ada is a fine language. For those of us that did the Turbo Pascal thing and enjoyed that Ada isn't that far off. There was this odd sort of period in my life, I learned Pascal and took classes that used it and wrote fairly complicated
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by Nelson69 18y ago
I think there is some truth hidden in that first statement. I think the financial model of porn is easy enough to grok, if you can get a lot of traffic to a legit site, then I don't imagine that you can't make a porn site work. It's reall
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by Nelson69 18y ago
There is some truth to this. I also think that when people say "compiler" they commonly have an expectation that is closer to something like GCC. What he's describing is akin to a code to assembly translator; in college in the first we