SirWart

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by SirWart 18y ago
The evidence used to back up the claims made were very suspect. Saying that parrots have "language" and chimps can make tools so we aren't that different is a huge overstatement. Comparing the IQ of a 2 year old to a chimp is also ridiculou
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by SirWart 18y ago
I haven't looked that closely at arc, but if it's a continuation based web server (for some reason I thought it was) it has to store those continuations on the server, which means it has to get rid of them after a certain timeout period. Co
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by SirWart 18y ago
The one reason I switched to google was because on the search engine I was using the search results and images took a really long time to load on a 56k modem, while google's results page loaded instantaneously.
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by SirWart 18y ago
I think higher level languages built on top of the JVM or .Net are very compelling because of the intersection of painless backwards compatibility and higher level constructs. Building bindings to higher level languages is usually a pain, a
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by SirWart 18y ago
I think you might want to add a little more analysis there.
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by SirWart 18y ago
I don't understand why, if this is such a good idea, they can't just start a voluntary service where you can download all the music you want for $5 a month. I'm sure plenty of people would be happy to pay that without cramming it down their
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by SirWart 18y ago
I think you'd need more than 20k simply because of the equipment to sort and scan mail.
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by SirWart 18y ago
The economies of scale comment was simply that back before the Pentium Pro, most people thought that RISC was going to take over since it is such a better system, but because Intel is able to sell so many chips it can afford to throw extra
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by SirWart 18y ago
He also talks a lot about x86 having disadvantages as a CISC that are just wrong. He says: "If there are instructions that will never be used, why spend the silicon real estate to hard code them? CPUs optimized for OS X would be smaller, ch
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by SirWart 19y ago
Given that the Beatles' best albums came after they stopped touring, it would be a real shame if we didn't try and preserve the monetary reward of recorded music, because we would be doing everyone a disservice if bands were forced to tour
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by SirWart 19y ago
The sentence may be a little ill-formed, but the general point is true. There are genes like the ones that cause Tay Sachs disease and sickle cell anemia, that have genetic advantages, like resistance to TB or malaria. But in the absence of
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by SirWart 19y ago
Sorry, but I don't see how the invention of the spider web and fishing nets lead to the invention of the internet. The advice is pretty generic (look for better ways to do things), but the examples are way off mark.
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by SirWart 19y ago
Just for kids? That looks pretty awesome to me. Reminds me of Garry's Mod for half-life 2.
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by SirWart 19y ago
I definitely tell people I'm going to be working on a startup over the summer to force myself to do it. It's a surprisingly effective method actually.
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by SirWart 19y ago
The reference manuals are a very good resource, but probably not the best place to start initially. Keep in mind if you are using gas (the gnu assembler), that it uses AT&T syntax and not Intel syntax. The biggest difference is the orde
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by SirWart 19y ago
I use google docs on a regular basis, and it pains me how bad it is sometimes. The worst part about it is that it's not the people writing the software, it's that the web is a really lousy platform for certain applications. I can't think
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by SirWart 19y ago
I think he's got a point that Von Neumann machines get trashed a lot by people who have no better alternative. After designing a processor in a senior level computer architecture class, I think the Von Neumann machine really is the best org
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by SirWart 19y ago
The part that intrigued me the most about the video was the contrast between Mozart's style of composing and Beethoven's. Web startups are a monument to the iterative style of composing, where the respectable way to test programs and busin
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by SirWart 19y ago
I guess my problem is that he's implying that simple systems are bad because they can be easily implemented by anyone. It is very easy to write a Scheme interpreter, and a lot of people write very bad interpreters, but that doesn't imply Sc
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by SirWart 19y ago
I'm not sure he realizes that there are plenty of rock-solid http implementations that power things like web servers and web clients that everyone on the internet uses every day without too many problems. Comparing one http implementation
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by SirWart 19y ago
I think his complaint that Apple has been focusing too much on eye-candy and not enough on usability in Leopard is a pretty legitimate point.
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by SirWart 19y ago
The best beginning to end book is probably Understanding the Linux Kernel, 3rd edition (you can buy it online at . It covers a lot of operating system concepts and how they are implemented in the kernel. At some point you'll want to look a