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541.
by amix 18y ago
Twisted by the Dark Side, Zed has become.
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by amix 18y ago
Finding better models and understanding things at a deeper level is never a lost cause and even if we know that we can't find a complete set of axioms for all existing math theories, we still try to understand math better. For example, the
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by amix 18y ago
I still don't think we have grasped the importance of Gödel's incompleteness theorem. For example, indirectly it means that we can't ever solve the halting problem. Personally, I also think it applies to physics, especially the idea to find
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by amix 18y ago
The solution I know of is to use Flash as a proxy to copy to the clipboard. I don't think there is a standard way of doing this without going through Flash.
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by amix 18y ago
The thing to note about the halting problem is that it's impossible to create a general solution that works for all the input programs. That said, one could create an approximative solution and even solve the halting problem for non-turning
546.
by amix 18y ago
What a creative way to diss.
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by amix 18y ago
Kind of sucks they bought MySQL.
548.
by amix 18y ago
All things don't have to be practical. There's a lot of insight in knowing the theory, because it's the theory that everything is built upon. Knowing something about complexity theory gives one insight into how problems relate to each other
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by amix 18y ago
Mozilla is making millions on advertising from Firefox search and I think the same business model can be applied to Ubuntu. For example, by adding a search bar directly on the desktop.
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by amix 18y ago
Unlikely that such a complex system does not have any bugs or improvements. Documentation for the project is also _very_ sparse.
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by amix 18y ago
Facebook are pretty bad at driving open-source projects. For example: their Cassandra project has had no code commits for the last several months ( http://code.google.com/p/the-cassandra-project/source/list ) While this code and idea shar
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by amix 18y ago
Traitor! ;) That said I have used vim for at least 3 years and I have evaluated emacs a few times, but I come crawling back to vim. For me vi is like zen, so simple, yet so complex. Another thing I like about vi is how key bindings make sen
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by amix 18y ago
JavaScript also supports obj.id == obj["id"]. Python on the other hand does not support this (which is a shame, because obj.id is more readeable than obj['id']). But it's possible to hack this on dicts ( http://pastie.org/296506 ). Syntac
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by amix 18y ago
A thing I have noted is that every time I code in Java I feel handicapped for the lack of proper syntactic sugar for maps (I mostly code in JS/Python where maps are used for _all_ kinds of things (and hacks)). Anyway, great post.
555.
by amix 18y ago
Don't throw with stones if you live in a glass house ;-)
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by amix 18y ago
The benchmark is very misleading as it's very cheap to open connections, especially when using non-blocking IO... A good post about real-life performance of different comet frameworks: http://cometdaily.com/2008/03/14/comet-gazing-maturity
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by amix 18y ago
I think his way of doing research is the way computer scientists do research. I.e. instead of taking a very complex programming model (like Java's or Haskell's), most CS researchers invent their own mini languages (that in a lot of cases ar
558.
by amix 18y ago
I really can't see the fun in bashing people or their work. Especially not by somebody that produces something that's at least as crappy as the products they bash (the team behind uncov have created pressflip.com).
559.
by amix 18y ago
Because Yahoo email / Hotmail is good enough for the average user?
560.
by amix 18y ago
You may want to include GoogieSpell into it -> http://orangoo.com/labs/GoogieSpell/ It's open-source and you can either use Google or Aspell. I am the author of it.
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by amix 18y ago
Lars Bak (head of development for V8) has before made VM's for Self and SmallTalk. Other than that he was the technical lead for Java's HotSpot VM. It's a very interesting approach they have taken, especially with class transitions and comp
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Don't build simple to succeed(amix.dk)
2 points by amix 18y ago|0 comments
563.
by amix 19y ago
And AJS JavaScript library ;)
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Another perspective on Iran(amix.dk)
2 points by amix 19y ago|0 comments
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by amix 19y ago
The idea is great, the execution (and design) is currently really bad. If I was you I would concentrate on making things more "simple" (or hidden). Maybe make a front page that explains the idea and does not present so much "raw" data.
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Web application optimization(amix.dk)
1 points by amix 19y ago|0 comments