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by SeoxyS 14y ago
This isn't so much the symptom of a distributed architecture as it is one of a badly designed distributed architecture. Distributed architectures are the only way to go once you reach a certain size both in terms of scale and in terms of te
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by SeoxyS 14y ago
It's a little weird at first, but I like it. I'm from Switzerland and I've lived all over the world before settling here in San Francisco. A simple exchange of "Hi, how are you today?"—"Great, thanks, how are you?" and a smile before you or
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by SeoxyS 14y ago
Because memory management is something that's known at compile time, and doesn't need to be evaluated at runtime. It's the same reason a compiler will essentially substitute the expressions `2 + 2` to simply `4` and save the extra CPU cycle
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by SeoxyS 14y ago
The compiler and static analyzer nowadays can do a lot more than that, it can catch typos, dead ends, nonsensical statements, memory management issues (such as leaks or usage of a dangling pointer), unguarded implicit casts or assignments i
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by SeoxyS 14y ago
The presence of a runtime doesn't negate the fact that code is compiled to native machine code, and all the benefits that come with that. Execution speed is quite a bit faster than bytecode-interpreted languages such as the JVM, which in tu
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by SeoxyS 14y ago
My limited experience with GNUStep has been disappointing. It's missing too many useful libraries to be useful. I haven't used Cocotron, personally, though I imagine they're related. So while technically what I said is untrue, I believe tha
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by SeoxyS 14y ago
Objective-C is hands down one of my favorite programming language: - It's compiled, not interpreted. Even Java and C# are compiled into bytecode for a massive VM to interpret. Objective-C has no VM, it's pure binary + a shared library to im
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by SeoxyS 14y ago
I use threading in MRI ruby quite often… maybe I'm the odd man out here.
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by SeoxyS 14y ago
"It’s better for journalists to write about the story than to somehow become part of the story." And yet, this is at the top of Hacker News.
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by SeoxyS 14y ago
Don't hold your breath on that… I've pretty much lost hope that either of the two major parties are going to deal with their corruption issues. Thank god we still have the Libertarian party.
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by SeoxyS 14y ago
In other news, "bamboozle" is a word. Wow.
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by SeoxyS 14y ago
That's valid advice, if you want your blog to feel like techcrunch-quality crap. You could also, you know, take the time to write content that stands on its own and not try to use your blog as a way to shove marketing down our throats. Mass
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by SeoxyS 14y ago
Assuming modern microwaves have a microchip on which computation can be done, and an electric motor of controllable speed, couldn't the microwave calculate the speed required for the specified time to end at the right angle, with no delay?
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by SeoxyS 14y ago
Uh, shouldn't the class be `UIWebView`, not `NSClassFromString(@"WebView")`? (Specifically, the class name would be missing the UI prefix, and the string-class conversion is redundant.)
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by SeoxyS 14y ago
So Google and Amazon are wasting their money on top-level domains that aren't going to stick… It's not like the situation is any different from being able to grab blog.com first, except you pay a lot of money for the privilege of not having
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by SeoxyS 14y ago
I wonder what the impact is on computers. Will your server know to add another second, or will it just lose sync and be one second off for the rest of times?
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by SeoxyS 14y ago
This website tells me a lot about how it's "better" than the alternatives, but tells me nothing about what this even is. I've looked at it for a while, and I still can't figure it out. It mentions web servers, communication libraries, cod
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by SeoxyS 14y ago
Looks like I'll have to be heading to the Apple store after the keynote is over... Edit: I'm curious, why the downvotes?
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by SeoxyS 14y ago
Storing a message-pack serialized object in MongoDB is silly, because Mongo is essentially storying BSON-serialized object on disk. You're double-serializing data in two competing formats.
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by SeoxyS 14y ago
I've personally been using BSON[1] as a binary alternative to JSON, and it's worked out great. I've written an Objective-C wrapper around the C lib, in case anybody's interested. Every other language has a solid implementation from 10gen (t
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by SeoxyS 14y ago
The physical renderer in Cinema 4D is pretty fantastic, and calls it Indirect Illumination. It's pretty crazy slow at rendering this stuff. I've had 6h+ renders, per frame.
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I have the best job in the world(kswizz.com)
11 points by SeoxyS 14y ago|7 comments
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by SeoxyS 14y ago
Warning: sweeping generalizations to follow. Most people who end up being programmers are nerds. Nerds who, in their teens, spent time playing with computers instead of partying with friends and crowning the high school social pyramid. Ther
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by SeoxyS 14y ago
The expression Women 2.0 always makes me wonder... what was wrong with the first version of women? </joke>
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by SeoxyS 14y ago
The solution to captcha annoyance is not more annoyance in the form of a spammy-looking game. You can get to 99% of the use cases using some simple javascript logic and a hidden form element that is invisible to the user and catch the rest
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by SeoxyS 14y ago
> Most importantly, we’re backing them not because they are women, but because they are the best at what they do. This is why I'm 100% behind KPCB here. Doerr gets it. At the end of the day, what matters to them is who will do the best
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by SeoxyS 14y ago
No...? What makes you think Facebook is a success Zuck can just repeat at will? Having been lucky once already does not make him a better entrepreneur; though the brand will surely help promoting his new startup, and a billionaire has certa
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by SeoxyS 14y ago
Sure I got screwed and the investors got a way better deal. But then again, every other startup would have given me the same deal or worse, and the alternative would have involved me still being in college taking out student loans. I think
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by SeoxyS 14y ago
I find it incredibly annoying how every talk and article on the web these days seems to be mostly an ad for the author's twitter page.
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by SeoxyS 14y ago
I find it interesting that two of my favorite programming languages are complete polar opposites: C and Clojure. On the one hand I love the high-level abstraction of Clojure. I love its homoiconicity. I love functional programming, being ab

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