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by adgar 15y ago
> Not necessary. He might have a point if 100x is even close to a realistic increase... again, as demonstrated by other posts in this thread, this isn't the case.
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by adgar 15y ago
Not to mention that he's compromising on accuracy. Yeah, 1 second is tiny, but why give it up if you don't have to? Especially those of you reading who want to try this on a potentially more dynamic site. Edit: downvoted with no explanation
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by adgar 15y ago
Isn't "beating cancer" typically reserved for people who go into remission and aren't going to be killed by their cancer? The analogy doesn't hold. OP is still stuck with CAP.
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by adgar 15y ago
He even said he annihilated the CAP theorem. You can't weasel out of it, the title and intro is linkbait.
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by adgar 15y ago
> What you beat is the complexity the CAP theorem normally causes. You regain the ability to easily reason about your systems. So instead of saying "The CAP theorem, while still being completely valid, doesn't have to as annoying as you
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by adgar 15y ago
The problem fixed is that the user has an indication as to what happened to all of their saved articles. That's a very big difference. It's not a full solution, as the parent noted, but the UX is far superior.
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by adgar 15y ago
I know it's kinda tasteless, but `puts` is more appropriate.
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by adgar 15y ago
It really says something that we apply the word "journalist" to people who "speculat[e] without any insider information."
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by adgar 15y ago
I don't disagree. I certainly didn't throw them any money. But after that code release, even the most desperate facebook-hater knew Diaspora was nothing but well-intentioned vapor.
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by adgar 15y ago
Well, when you mix that rumor with a half-baked analysis based on a few baseline public statistics, it's "mostly" a rumor and "partly" bullshit.
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by adgar 15y ago
Until Google Apps support is released, I find it unlikely that Steve's error here will be encountered by many other users. Most Google+ users don't have access to a separate instance of Google+ to trip them up. I also think it is unbelievab
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by adgar 15y ago
They got 178k after fees/taxes. Then, they had to spend 28k on Kickstarter's "fulfillment" requirements. So they had 150 to actually work with. They spent $114k on salaries, taxes, workers comp, etc. 8.5k on hosting and whatnot - how on ear
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by adgar 15y ago
I'm sure Python 3 is on the radar. But given the choice between spending the time to support 2.7 or 3, choosing 2.7 is a no-brainer. Compatibility for Python 3 has improved quite a bit, but hell, Django doesn't even work on it.
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by adgar 15y ago
I agree that the problems have gotten much simpler - several of these remind me a lot of the difficulty I saw on the AIME back in 10th-12th grade. I mean, that's still pretty advanced relatively speaking, but certainly doable by tens of tho
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by adgar 15y ago
If 1 GB of static ram were even remotely cheap enough and dense enough, our processors would have more than a few megs of L1-3 combined cache. Especially since high-end processors cost hundreds of dollars already.
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by adgar 15y ago
> Aren't we supposed to be more rational and balanced? Reddit has the same misconception. In reality, voting-based aggregators are at the whims of the user's personal feelings and preconceived beliefs, no matter the community guidelines
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by adgar 15y ago
I always wished I had the android style "stack" of applications on my iphone for just this reason: short one-off tasks. But I also knew apple would never do it. This seems to be the solution they are going to push.
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by adgar 15y ago
Anyone know offhand what the minimum value of n is for which this fails due to floating point inaccuracies?
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by adgar 15y ago
> However, I was expecting -- I'm not sure -- Google engineers contributing their technological expertise somehow. Well, I've heard the beer has a hint of the honey extracted by the Google hobbyist beekeepers.
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by adgar 15y ago
Don't even the most basic MySQL install tutorials have you create a separate user and group for the database user? If you're running MySQL as root, you're trying hard to get owned.
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by adgar 15y ago
But then if the VM optimizes code paths related to STRING operations, languages can't take advantage of them as easily. There's a reason why the fastest VMs are deeply tied to the semantics of the language they support, LuaJIT being the bes
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by adgar 15y ago
I hate to say it, because Brendan Eich is no blogspammer, but I feel like he name-dropped Google Dart (Dash) as well-intentioned linkbait. It's mentioned in one sentence and offers no new details or interesting discussion. I agree with geor
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by adgar 15y ago
> The only thing extra here is the file sharing - I can just hook up an external drive or sync using dropbox. I'm not Microsoft fanboy, but you don't just dismiss a new feature because there exist clunky workarounds. I mean, you can us
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by adgar 15y ago
Yes it is. You can intercept something for good or for ill, there's no connotation there, but it does imply some degree of intent to capture something. These researchers fully intended and expected to capture some e-mails. They didn't want
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by adgar 15y ago
> dynamic dispatch (thin of doesNotUnderstand, method_missing and __getattr__) Dynamic Dispatch has a very well-defined meaning. It means dispatching based on the runtime type of a variable rather than the declared, static type. The thr
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by adgar 15y ago
Agreed. "intercepted" seems the most appropriate.
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by adgar 15y ago
Actually, come to think of it, Djikstra [sic] wouldn’t even write any code, because it’s beneath him, but you get the idea. This is ridiculous. Of course Dijkstra wrote code. He authored the first implementation of an ALGOL 60 compiler, i
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by adgar 15y ago
And when the employee sues for wrongful termination, because all s/he did was follow the company policy of taking as much vacation as s/he wanted, what do you do? Maybe not in the US, somewhere where you're not likely working at-will?
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by adgar 15y ago
I'm on my phone, so I can't quite properly. But to your first point, if it's as easy as "don't look at it", then you're saying there's no reason to not up as much information on-screen as Possible. In the file browser how about we show inod
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by adgar 15y ago
This is pretty good advice in an entrepreneurial forum where people are most interested in quickly prototyping an idea for the web, showing it to people and finding where to take it and how to change the idea, getting people to look at it w

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