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by _yosefk 10y ago
You actually sound like you fall on both sides similarly to the way I (TFA's author) do, seeing that you did high-paid less lovable work and then more lovable work for less pay. (At the moment I program 3 days a week and during the oth
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by _yosefk 10y ago
I've never lived in either a Protestant or a Catholic country (I've lived in an Orthodox country and a Jewish one), so the following guess isn't based on much first-hand experience, but I'd guess that "love your wor
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by _yosefk 10y ago
Grandparent said "communist", not socialist, so while many people argue about the difference it doesn't seem relevant here. Revolutionary Spain did not survive long enough to discuss IMO. Cuba... egalitarian in what way? Is t
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by _yosefk 10y ago
An egalitarian communist state has never existed, it's always a state where the ruling party does as it pleases while the majority has no rights whatsoever. (Whether this is superior or inferior to an apartheid state is a tough quest
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by _yosefk 10y ago
Most of them do, according to their definition of "good."
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by _yosefk 10y ago
Common Lisp has static types.
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by _yosefk 10y ago
I think that different elements of the language call for a different approach. I believe that everything related to mutable shared state calls for a very conservative compilation approach, because the potential benefits seem to me rather ti
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by _yosefk 10y ago
I'm selfish enough, but I'm not sure how enjoyable it would be once I reach 130, not to mention 1300, on the theory that even if much of the physical aging problem is solved, much of the mental aging problem will remain, and the s
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by _yosefk 10y ago
How about not bailing out private enterprises with public money? That'd cost Buffet a few tens of billions.
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by _yosefk 10y ago
Humanity being its own only remotely dangerous enemy, I never understood how more planets help.
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by _yosefk 10y ago
For (1) does this mean that everything in the global namespace barfs when called from a worker thread? (2) sounds like it might need a larger set of primitives, though I'm not sure.
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by _yosefk 10y ago
No manned flight to Mars in the next 10 years, I bet. (Why anyone would want that escapes me... Then again that is why I will be wrong, if indeed I will be.)
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by _yosefk 10y ago
I'm curious about 2 things: 1. How is the accidental modification of random JS objects from multiple threads prevented - that is, how is the communication restricted to explicitly shared memory? Is it done by using OS process underneat
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by _yosefk 10y ago
It still matters if the error occurred when the life expectancy was 7 years or 7 months, so ideally you'd want to count that.
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by _yosefk 10y ago
func<a,b>(c,d) isn't faster than func(a,b,c,d) if the compiler sees that a,b are constants and the call to func is in the same file as its definition; the only thing CPU+GPU code adds here relatively to CPU-only code is, perhaps
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by _yosefk 10y ago
OpenCL was moving to LLVM IR away from programs-as-source-code-strings at some point. Still, you ought to have a JIT step if you want to be able to ship the same binary to multiple systems with GPUs not compatible at the binary level. And B
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by _yosefk 10y ago
Keeping it simple works wonders but you can't do it alone. A language with a culture of making things complex so as to achieve some standard of perfection, and/or with many developers simply not knowing how to stay out of trouble
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A petition for Russian dissident Bukovsky's libel case to be heard by a UK court(change.org)
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by _yosefk 10y ago
Governments could have criminalized it at any point, they can criminalize it now, and they will certainly criminalize it in the future if they feel a need to do so (unless this thing gets used by >1% of the population which I'm wil
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by _yosefk 10y ago
Adapteva has done chips for <$2M AFAIK, definitely <$5M, at 28 nm. Of course few chips are like theirs in terms of design simplicity relatively to their large size except for bitcoin miners. For $10M however you should be able to do p
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by _yosefk 10y ago
Their figures for chip costs at all nodes are bullshit including the $30M/chip at 28nm figure. It's inflated out of all proportion and of course it depends tremendously on what you are doing.
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by _yosefk 10y ago
A lot of researchers do make their results available as code and a whole lot of those who don't actually publish lies, as many people in academia from grad students to professors who implemented research papers and observed that the al
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by _yosefk 10y ago
All of these companies sell many different products and I'd guess that their reported overall gross margins will be different from the margins of any given product. For instance, I rather doubt that either TSMC or Samsung get 50% margi
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by _yosefk 10y ago
GPUs and FPGAs are very far from each other architecturally and are good at very different things. They will certainly be separate products for the next 3 decades as they were for the last 3 decades.
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by _yosefk 10y ago
The thing is, it's not gonna help to have a "Steve Jobs" nor will any degree of understanding the competition help if you're used to ship an expensive high-margin product and along comes a low-margin competitor. Neither
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by _yosefk 10y ago
The trouble is that a union can gut many kinds of businesses since all the workers can not be replaced without greatly and often fatally disrupting the business, and then if an industry is unionized, workers become a monopoly and this can r
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by _yosefk 10y ago
"That means that you she or he gets 100 KCHF per year, but she or he are actually creating a value worth over a million francs. And of course, they get the bonuses at the end of the fiscal year, because, you know, capitalism. Know your
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by _yosefk 10y ago
A nice quote: "In 2012, staff at the Federal Trade Commission recommended filing antitrust charges after determining that Google was engaging in anti-competitive tactics and abusing its monopoly. A staff report that was later leaked sa
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by _yosefk 10y ago
Is there that big a difference between inflating stock prices the way the BOJ does and depressing bond yields through "normal QE" (which amounts to buying bonds, thus inflating their prices)? Depressing bond yields distorts the ma
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by _yosefk 10y ago
I dunno, KDevelop 4, based on KDE's rather than Gnome's libraries, was nothing like KDevelop 3 and couldn't do some of the old things, and there was no way you could compile KDevelop 3 on an Ubuntu box bundled with KDevelop 4

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