alayne

32 ms·

1. 271.▲
   by alayne 12y ago

   That's fair. Sorry, my "GUIs rule" knee jerk reaction flared up. There are a lot of bad GUIs that can give the illusion of helping users, but place upper limits on what you can accomplish. I have been frustrated by various ha
2. 272.▲
   by alayne 12y ago

   I'm going to have to disagree. Command line tools can be composed and allow you to do more than the original tool builder provided as well as make it easier to automate tasks. I find it very frustrating to work on systems when everythi
3. 273.▲
   by alayne 12y ago

   FB had previous scaling problems with git which they discussed in 2012 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/189... It appears they are now using Mercurial and working on scaling that (also noted by
4. 274.▲
   by alayne 12y ago

   CPython's bytecode interpreter has not really improved at all in 10 years relative to JITs and compilers.
5. 275.▲
   by alayne 12y ago

   Are you calling Anandtech a mysterious, unnamed source? "What's interesting to me is just how quickly Qualcomm has shifted from not having any 64-bit silicon on its roadmap to a nearly complete product stack. Qualcomm appeared to
6. 276.▲
   by alayne 12y ago

   You don't need ARMv8 to address 4GB. That is a red herring. ARMv8 redid the instruction set and registers with significant performance benefits.
7. 277.▲
   by alayne 13y ago

   I've read that malpractice insurance is a few thousand dollars a year and the premiums have been going down.
8. 278.▲
   by alayne 13y ago

   This issue makes more sense if you just read the Github thread: https://github.com/magicalpanda/MagicalRecord/pull/74
9. 279.▲
   by alayne 13y ago

   I used the word "read" and not the word "compare" for a reason. You are missing the big picture here of linear search versus indexed search. Optimizations in grep don't magically make it better than O(n).
10. 280.▲
    by alayne 13y ago

    Grep is essentially the slowest way to search content. It has to read every byte. You can do much better with term/field indexing. Why would you be calling grep from an online application anyway?
11. 281.▲
    by alayne 13y ago

    Sounds like a huge cost for little gain. Why doesn't the NHTSA require daytime running lights?
12. 282.▲
    by alayne 13y ago

    Sure, just make sure the taxis only drive on your private road.
13. 283.▲
    by alayne 13y ago

    How are you going to push twice as many pixels without some quality tradeoff?
14. 284.▲
    by alayne 13y ago

    I love my trackpad. You don't know what you're talking about. This is just another opportunity for you to shit post Apple.
15. 285.▲
    by alayne 13y ago

    It's available from the iOS Dev Center.
16. 286.▲
    by alayne 13y ago

    This seems like a good topic for a general news site.
17. 287.▲
    by alayne 13y ago

    Does Target still run on mainframes?
18. 288.▲
    by alayne 13y ago

    The New York times finally switched to email last year after holding on to the outdated hyphenated version.
19. 289.▲
    by alayne 13y ago

    I'm disputing the article's statement that "cash is a 100% anonymous and untraceable payments technology"
20. 290.▲
    by alayne 13y ago

    Bitcoins (and others) aren't backed by a government. One of the major exchanges used to trade Magic the Gathering cards (You know, for kids!). Bills also have serial numbers that provide some amount of traceability, at least between Fe
21. 291.▲
    by alayne 13y ago

    Well he sure sounds like a crackpot.
22. 292.▲
    by alayne 13y ago

    igouy pretty much gets nothing but grief maintaining the shootout. He's told people for years that they should publish their own numbers for different language implementations. Never happens, just complaints.
23. 293.▲
    by alayne 13y ago

    The foundation is primarily working on health issues among the poor.
24. 294.▲
    by alayne 13y ago

    For anyone who isn't aware, this essay was also written by Richard P. Gabriel under a pseudonym as a rebuttal to his earlier worse is better paper.
25. 295.▲
    by alayne 13y ago

    I used IBM's VisualAge for Java for a while back in the day, which was essentially applying a Smalltalk model of code organization to Java, but I never liked the image system. There's just something wonderful to me about being abl
26. 296.▲
    by alayne 13y ago

    C = pi * D
27. 297.▲
    by alayne 13y ago

    I always wonder if the Self people felt bad about their VM efforts going into Java. Java has really been one of the least inventive and progressive languages.
28. 298.▲
    by alayne 13y ago

    That Roland is actually an analog synthesizer http://www.vintagesynth.com/roland/sh09.php That is really more 70s tech. Much of the 80s stereotypical synthesizer sound is due to the use of FM synthesis which can be th
29. 299.▲
    by alayne 13y ago

    There are many infrastructure changes that are needed in order to increase the performance of the Internet besides faster home connections. CDNs / caching / DNS performance / SPDY / distributed computation and on and on
30. 300.▲
    by alayne 13y ago

    I'm not just talking about simple static websites. Please, let's not pretend that upgrading everyone to fiber will be sufficient. You know better than that.