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by artsrc 15y ago
Visible variables are not changed by other threads during serial execution in either node or Erlang. But races in node can arise in terms of values changing unpredictably while before a callback is executed in node. In Erlang values can cha
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by artsrc 15y ago
Some changes are breaking changes. If a call requires new parameters and there are no sensible defaults then clients have to change to supply those parameters. I am sure this will be misunderstood but anyway... The initial Java world made
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by artsrc 15y ago
Is this a separate anti-intellectual property view: I like content and am greedy for it. Copyright helps me get more content by providing incentive. This is the benefit. Whatever these are benefits of copyright, the practical collateral c
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by artsrc 15y ago
The US and Norway are not similar. Norway and Finland are similar. Finland is similar to many US states, the level of government responsible for education.
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by artsrc 15y ago
In the area of music, digital technology introduces a lot of deflation in the costs of both production and distribution. Over this period, how big is inflation relative to noise?
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by artsrc 15y ago
Copyright exists to satisfy (is justified by) consumers greed for content. So losses from people sharing music are important if they affect the ability, and desire of content producers.
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by artsrc 15y ago
Computers that communicate could draft really well at highway speeds, and get awesome MPG. They also would rarely need to brake.
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by artsrc 15y ago
According to the wikipedia article, if we decide that the decide that increased energy (or road space etc.) use is a bad thing we can fix Jevon's paradox with taxation on car use.
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by artsrc 15y ago
I think there are three physical ways to do this. With nosql they are all 'in model', including the relational one, with elements with both other keys as a key. But the other two with a list of keys as part of the values is available too.
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by artsrc 15y ago
These should all be compiler errors because the indentation and the delimiters don't match. if (expression) statement; statement; statement; or: if (expression) statement; if (expression)
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by artsrc 15y ago
I think that SQL databases are bad at count too. I think the right map reduce view in Couch is good for count.
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by artsrc 15y ago
I don't get paid overtime in Australia, but I did (sometimes) in San Francisco.
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by artsrc 15y ago
I truly value my wild deer. I treat them very well. What matters is a transparent, efficient, and equitable system. I submit vast effort spent on political and marketing copy as some evidence that words can matter. "Yes they can". What ev
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by artsrc 15y ago
> excellent developers For some value of excellent. Simple, general rules, that are well understood, are better than complexity, even complexity your excellent developer can manage. How about a developer, who says no to their customer,
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Complexity is bad, software failures limit complexity(berglas.org)
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How do you know what to write in the spec?
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by artsrc 15y ago
It is a bad thing that companies can charge monopoly prices. It is a good thing that companies write good software. Some specs are important. People care about storage space, screen quality, device responsiveness and battery life. Some com
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by artsrc 15y ago
Destroying the economy is the worst thing for Greek bond holders. However I don't know if real damage is being done. Greece has import agriculture and tourist industries. Are the fields being left untendered? Is are there hotels being le
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by artsrc 15y ago
You can hide risks.
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by artsrc 15y ago
I think your argument is valid, but that it will take some serious cultural change at Microsoft to accept. When Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange and Sharepoint run on on Linux we will know that has change happened.
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I have had something like this for 3 years: http://www.logitech.com/en-au/speakers-audio/wireless-music-...
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by artsrc 15y ago
Corporations are not 100% owned by American people. And they are certainly not mostly owned by the bottom quintile.
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by artsrc 15y ago
From a definitional point of view, according to google define:cancer, cancer is - "The disease caused by an uncontrolled division of abnormal cells in a part of the body." From a practical point of view what would you call an agent which st
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This is a platform, you can just buy them: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3101876
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by artsrc 15y ago
> SSDs really are going to change the game. I have heard this and I agree with the other posters here who are skeptical on this core point. For read performance you cache databases in RAM. For write performance you have writes to log st
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That was my view yesterday. Then I benchmarked some JavaScript (CoffeeScript) code, and the same algo in C code and my world changed. I know that I could have optimized my C code better (I don't think I even turned optimization on), but I
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by artsrc 15y ago
When I learned Java in 1996 I did not already know Haskel, Lisp and Python. Now I do.
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by artsrc 15y ago
I know that you were not trying to praise Gilad, but I found that article really insightful and it gelled with my experience with CoffeeScript. In CoffeeScript compilation is entirely local and highly modular.
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I was guilty of that yesterday. I was looking at notebooks and thinking I want a big screen but with the keyboard in the center. I want my hands write in front of me, but I don't want to look to one side. I 'know' apple do it that way. T
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No one has characterized the right task scheduling outcome. What tool will give us the the best task scheduling outcome, with appropriate effort? Node schedules each task to run until it is done or you tell it to do something else. This se

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