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by Nitramp 14y ago
128 / 3 = 48 Come again? This doesn't quite look like sarcasm, or did you want to prove the OP's point? Or maybe this is just an explanation for the taste of British food...
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by Nitramp 14y ago
Incidentally, there was a metric calendar, invented alongside the metric system: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_Calendar It never gained much hold, probably for two reasons - its units were too far off the customary units,
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by Nitramp 14y ago
That's why plywood in Europe is usually sold in sheets of 240 cms, i.e. 2.4 m, which seems easier to calculate with, in particular when adding lengths.
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by Nitramp 14y ago
serve 10 drinks at pint prices for only the cost of 9 pints I guess being worried that you might not get your full ~5.68 litres of beer when drinking ten pints is very British indeed ;-)
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by Nitramp 14y ago
Did you watch the linked talk by Misko? This is not about getting rid of "if" (as he mentions in the talk), this is about structuring large software systems for maintainability, extensibility, testability, etc.
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by Nitramp 14y ago
That's the classic "Expression Problem" (aptly named wrt its common appearance in ASTs). Note that it's relatively straight forward to express the function-extensibility through the visitor pattern in an OO language; in a functional languag
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by Nitramp 14y ago
Linux is an operating system kernel, the most basic layer of software managing the system and talking to your hardware. Linux exposes a standardized interface to the so called 'user space', where programs like Chrome or Apache etc run. The
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by Nitramp 14y ago
These services are in part an answer to relatively high labour cost for low/semi-skilled work, in particular outside normal working hours. That is, in European countries with strong labour laws and unions, it's relatively expensive to pay p
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by Nitramp 14y ago
Yes, File->Create a copy.
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by Nitramp 14y ago
there are tougher problems like high-performance cross-document distributed ACID, but I think the industry as a whole is relatively far away from that right now Megastore and Spanner solve that problem, with varying tradeoffs: http://res
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by Nitramp 14y ago
Except that writing code using JDO/JPA is a nightmare, at least on Datastore. So that's almost certainly not the smart way. I'd rather rewrite my app three times - go with Objectify (simple, easy, maps well to Datastore concepts) and just d
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by Nitramp 14y ago
That's just because Chrome throttles JS execution in background tabs to a crawl.
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by Nitramp 14y ago
You might, but the expansion happens on a level that might be really hard to implement if you want to keep XML semantics. E.g. in the DOM API, each element has its own identity - you can't collapse identical objects (or you could, but the o
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by Nitramp 14y ago
DTD entities come from SGML, and are still commonly used as an extensibility/modularity mechanism in XML. XML power users (e.g. for documentation) commonly have DTDs that refer to entities that can be replaced to customize the format. IBM's
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by Nitramp 14y ago
If you read the OP carefully, you'll see he's quite aware of the terminology. There really isn't any recursion in that XML snippet, none of the entities refers to itself, directly or transitively. If there was, the file would be invalid and
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by Nitramp 14y ago
You're neglecting the salary of the employee that you hired in that, aren't you? The 60k are on top of the salary you're paying, which would typically be comparable to the US-based developer's. Companies don't hire people on H1B to save mon
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by Nitramp 14y ago
Imagine the heart-breaking scenes when you have to explain to your phone that this is no longer home, but both of you still love it...
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by Nitramp 14y ago
I think the major contribution in this paper is how to do consistent snapshot reads in a distributed system without a common reference clock, i.e. the use of True Time. Many databases use some sort of MVCC, but they operate on a single node
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by Nitramp 14y ago
I don't entirely understand the permanent residency for EU citizens part. As far as I understand, EU citizens have work permits and no restrictions on residency in all European countries, what would permanent residency get you on top of tha
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by Nitramp 14y ago
> the US provides access to specialists in days where other countries often have multi-week [...] This is a view that's strongly distorted by the UK. It's seems to hold there, and the wait times sound terrible, but it's definitely not t
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by Nitramp 14y ago
Note that at least Adobe has started to put significant amounts of Lua into their user facing applications, as the glue on top of C++ components. Outside of the lack of bindings to proper UI frameworks, I couldn't say why you shouldn't writ
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by Nitramp 14y ago
The fact that many lead to the same loop(1) of Argument <-> Logic in unsurprising, too. Wikipedia articles usually define their subject in in the first sentence. Defining things works by saying what general category they belong to,
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by Nitramp 14y ago
... or maybe the big ocean liners.
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by Nitramp 14y ago
I wonder about the motives behind Facebook's (apparent) decision to continue investing in PHP. If I understand it correctly, most of their backend services are implemented in some other language, and their PHP code is mostly used as a more
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by Nitramp 14y ago
To be fair, while there is invoke dynamic, he might be alluding to other aspects of the JVM (and referencing Parrot hints to that). Eg. class loading in the JVM is (afaik) still static, classes once loaded cannot be modified, which is a pro
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by Nitramp 14y ago
Except that every sort algorithm in every library on earth falls back to selection sort (or similar) for small problems (e.g. N < 10), because that's more efficient than drilling a merge sort all the way down.
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by Nitramp 14y ago
Google also doesn't accept advertisement for pornography, religion, and a whole bunch of other things that might be controversial to certain people under certain conditions. I don't think it's necessarily singling out weapons, it's rather s
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by Nitramp 14y ago
Do they? Here in Germany the entire cabling within cities is underground, only the high voltage long distance lines are above ground. I've never heard a story about people stealing underground cables (they do steal e.g. train track above gr
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by Nitramp 14y ago
It's not "underusing" an RDBMs, those are just the lions share of queries in many applications. Also note that a join say from some parent item by ID to children who have a parent_id makes essentially two lookups by ID in two indices, so th
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by Nitramp 14y ago
The file system does, but does the hard drive? But I agree, getting battery backed write caches is not that hard, it's just not a default config.

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