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by alec 16y ago
I thought it was interesting that Linux was completely absent from all of the market position talk.
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by alec 16y ago
Considering that Sun released Java before the GPL v3 was finished, I assume that it's under the GPL v2. v2 doesn't have the same patent guarantees that v3 does, and these guarantees were an important reason for creating v3. Specifically,
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by alec 16y ago
If you've never done it before, you'll probably be terrible. I was the first time I interviewed someone (and the second, and ...) despite all the preparation I did. If you're in a position to do hiring interviews for your employer, defini
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by alec 16y ago
I hear rave reviews about the recently-revamped Hotmail, but haven't quite overcome my prejudice against the brand to try it.
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by alec 16y ago
That example of how to upgrade for security fixes is much more complicated and less reliable than Debian's "apt-get upgrade". For example, take a Firefox or PHP security vulnerability. Those projects generally don't just release a new vers
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by alec 16y ago
I used FreeBSD and OpenBSD for a while, and what drove me back to GNU/Linux was package management. OpenBSD was OK at it even if it had a limited selection, but I never had much luck with FreeBSD ports. Having a nice, stable base system w
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by alec 16y ago
Fortress makes a convincing argument that it must be supported at the language level. It has a smart work splitting algorithm that does for managing parallelism granularity what garbage collection did for managing memory allocation. It wo
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by alec 16y ago
I write "real code" in Common Lisp, and I used something like what he dismissed as "useless in practice" twice today to make my code more readable and maintainable. I do not consider myself a Lisp advocate when I bemoan the lack of sane sc
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Overhauling Factor's C library interface(factor-language.blogspot.com)
3 points by alec 16y ago|0 comments
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by alec 16y ago
He's not talking about technically superior server-side Javascript environments, he's talking about langauges and frameworks that provide more than just a callback model.
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by alec 16y ago
I work at ITA, but not on Needle. I have played around with an internal demo, but not for anything serious; I found it easy to use and to require little or no programming. Check out the video: http://www.needlebase.com/videos/video1 Part
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by alec 16y ago
I think it's a good use of time, especially in an English class, because the beauty of Shakespeare never really came out for me until I read it word by word and knew enough to perform a bit of it. It wasn't created to be read, it was creat
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by alec 16y ago
I don't want each language providing its own package manager. Sure, CPAN was a great leap forward back before apt became popular, but now I want to just apt-get install libraries. Language-specific package managers always fall short of ap
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by alec 16y ago
The guy just wanted to count how many requests his server gets; seems like that ought to be easy.
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by alec 16y ago
They appear to have invested substantial time into integrating it with their deployment system and improving its performance for their particular network situation rather than using off-the-shelf software like uftp.
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by alec 16y ago
I think Google recruiters trawl places frequented by programmers and invite them in. A few years ago, when I was more involved in free software, I got an email out of the blue asking me to submit a resume. I was certainly not as visible i
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by alec 16y ago
I wonder if they tried multicast. It would be strictly more efficient in terms of bandwidth (one copy per router/hop rather than all the different pieces flying back and forth) and likely less CPU. There's premade software like uftp ( htt
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by alec 16y ago
In fact, Google has stated they intend to maintain ITA's relationships with companies such as Orbitz and Bing: "Google will honor all existing agreements, and we're also enthusiastic about adding new partners." ( http://www.google.com/press
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by alec 16y ago
If you watch a Lisp-related mailing list, it seems like once a week someone brings up the topic "hey, what if I replaced the parens with significant whitespace?"
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by alec 16y ago
I'm the guy from foldl. Thanks for your kind words. I do still want something like foldl, but I don't have time to create it - I got started because I wanted to read less, not more! I don't think that you can produce a good newsletter/dig
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by alec 16y ago
The linked article makes a very fundamental mistake. While ITA Software is the search engine "for many major airlines around the world, as well as travel sites such as Kayak, Orbitz, Hotwire and many others", it is not the "reservation sys
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by alec 16y ago
I work at ITA on QPX, the airfare search engine. We've been doing those sorts of radius searches for years, although we don't currently integrate street-level data for any customers that I know of. Head to http://matrix2.itasoftware.com ,
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Google agrees to buy ITA Software for $700 million(googleblog.blogspot.com)
316 points by alec 16y ago|121 comments
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by alec 16y ago
Another article claimed that AT&T charges a 10% restocking fee, so you couldn't get a full refund.
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by alec 16y ago
I suspect he was just trolling.
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by alec 16y ago
I looked into buying a used Droid off ebay and doing pay-as-you-go on Verizon; no luck, you must have a $30/month data plan to use a smartphone on Verizon.
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by alec 16y ago
There are two things that set StumpWM apart from the others I've tried, like dwm and xmonad. First, you can name desktops. I find this very handy for quickly switching; I don't have to remember that desktop 5 is where my tests are running
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by alec 16y ago
I use wicd; it sucks less than NetworkManager all around and has interfaces other than an tray applet. It was trivial to swap out on Debian,
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by alec 16y ago
I ran the left fold ( http://foldl.org ) for several months; it focused on the top technical stories from places like here. It was popular (a few thousand readers each week), but I didn't have time to continue it, and to be honest, the mat
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by alec 16y ago
I like vnstat: http://humdi.net/vnstat/ . It's easy to set up and has almost zero overhead. I have it send me an email from cron estimating monthly usage once a week. It won't break things down per-process, per-port, or per-remote-host,

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