SirWart

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by SirWart 17y ago
Interesting, so do you wear glasses only when you need to be able to see distant things?
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by SirWart 17y ago
I don't think anyone would disagree with you that AA has an awful site, but they seem to be reacting to how you phrased your criticism. If criticism is phrased in the wrong way, people will instinctively go into face-saving mode, and ignore
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by SirWart 17y ago
I think the code generation part is a lot worse than the IDL part.
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by SirWart 17y ago
The singularity stuff has always raised my bullshit detector enough that I never paid any attention to it, but after watching the video I'll admit Ray definitely has some really intriguing ideas about the exponential development of technolo
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by SirWart 17y ago
I think it's important to note that the major reason for Palm to use iTunes is not because Palm didn't want to build their own music organizer, but because most people already use iTunes to organize their music, and it's a huge pain in the
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by SirWart 17y ago
The part that bothered me was this: "And which freedoms? The freedom to break Apple’s DRM? The freedom for Palm to violate the USB spec by identifying the Pre with a different vendor ID?" Palm wasn't actually breaking any DRM, and changing
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by SirWart 17y ago
This depends a lot on where you live.
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by SirWart 18y ago
Could you elaborate on its shortcomings?
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by SirWart 18y ago
There are two ideas of the Austrians and the Keynesians that both seem true that I have a hard time reconciling. The Keynesian idea that depressions are caused by everyone cutting back at the same time, and results in a downward positive fe
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by SirWart 18y ago
The best explanation for how the optimization works is actually in the patch itself: http://bugs.python.org/file12524/threadedceval5.patch .
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by SirWart 18y ago
It's widely acknowledged among groups of boys that girls are the whinier sex.
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by SirWart 18y ago
This was a regular old bank run, nothing new here. There was a financial collapse in the game and in real life, but the parallels seem to end there.
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by SirWart 18y ago
I had some friends who tried to port the Linpack benchmark to a small cluster of computers each with 8 NVIDIA GPUs using CUDA, and they found that the biggest bottleneck was the bandwidth to and from the GPUs. It's just hard to keep the GPU
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by SirWart 18y ago
I think it's also important to consider the nature of the project they were working on. It was a medium sized project that is applying already understood ideas (digg-like voting, wikipedia-like editing) and applying them to a new domain (pr
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by SirWart 18y ago
That is how you can write lambdas in linq that can operate on a variety of different data sources.
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by SirWart 18y ago
Python is simple, easy to read, and has been around and active since 1991. Because of that, it also benefits from being a very stable, fast platform (for an interpreted language), and has a huge standard library ( http://docs.python.org/mod
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by SirWart 18y ago
As a corollary, beware of geeks who think they know the right course of action for Treasury right now.
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by SirWart 18y ago
From the article: "The UK Food Standards Agency has stated that people would need to drink at least 20 litres per day of a drink containing benzene at 10 μg to equal the amount of benzene you would breathe from city air every day" ...which
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by SirWart 18y ago
"Ultimately the campaign's biggest flaw is that it perpetuates the notion that consumers somehow "define themselves" with the technology they choose. If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your pers
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by SirWart 18y ago
I think the most telling word in that post was "childish." Apple probably has legitimate concerns here, but by simply shutting him off instead of talking with him directly they are really missing an opportunity to develop loyalty with app d
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by SirWart 18y ago
Python is a much larger language than javascript with a lot of edge cases in the rules and is highly introspective. This means that any work building a next gen VM for python is considerably harder and requires more work. PyPy adopted RPyth
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by SirWart 18y ago
That's a lot more difficult than rounding pi to 3.2 though.
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by SirWart 18y ago
I really like this essay. It almost makes too much sense, like it is too simple an idea to have gone ignored for this long, but the premise is hard to argue with: you can't accurately predict events that happen very rarely (on the time scal
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by SirWart 18y ago
I don't think the quality of the posts have gone down all that much, just the quantity. I imagine he's just run out of things to talk about that he hasn't already covered.
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by SirWart 18y ago
I think I need to resolve more arguments with "This is not a matter that is subject to reasonable dispute."
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by SirWart 18y ago
Well he uses Moe, which is another character from Calvin and Hobbes in the strip. Overall it's mostly Jobs though. Also, Jobs doesn't take on any of the characteristics of Hobbes, who is usually the voice of reason, which I think would have
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by SirWart 18y ago
Ugh, this article is full of misconceptions about quantum mechanics. Particle wave duality: Particles are not either particles or waves depending on how you measure them. A more accurate description might be quantized waves, but really call
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by SirWart 18y ago
Why not instead of blaming designers who use tables for layouts that are nearly impossible to do CSS, blame the browsers (ie 6 and 7) that make these types of layouts impossible under CSS.
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by SirWart 18y ago
I think the last example is a little off. It compares taking a friend's book to simply copying it, but the friend presumably does not own the copyright to the book. The idea of copyright extends beyond money. By being able to freely copy an
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by SirWart 18y ago
Compiling means changing something from one source language into another. The traditional meaning is compiling a high level language into machine code which is then assembled into opcodes. That's not the only way to do it though, Python is

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