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by azakai 12y ago
Unity is moving away from Mono anyhow, http://blogs.unity3d.com/2014/05/20/the-future-of-scripting-... so updates in Mono are irrelevant to Unity.
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by azakai 12y ago
First, the code Microsoft released does not build and run on all platforms. They promised Linux support, and are working on it now in the open, but it's not there yet. So Mono can't just adopt the Microsoft .NET VM without losing
903.
by azakai 12y ago
> It's also a little sad, in a way. It relegates Xamarin to maintainers of a distribution for another operating system. I'm not sure I understand what you mean here. As I understand things, Mono is still keeping its runtime - J
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by azakai 12y ago
Good point. But painted lines on the ground still have social power, for example in parking lots, where most people obey them. Hopefully the same is true for DNT as well.
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by azakai 12y ago
A fence might also be easy to climb over, but can still clearly indicate where private property begins, and that trespassing there is wrong.
906.
by azakai 12y ago
Those are still much more expensive than the lowest-end. I think they cost around $100 last I heard, and a currency conversion on the amazon link there gives $104, which seems to confirm they haven't gotten cheaper.
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by azakai 12y ago
Well, first of all Android has changed a lot since those early days. The competition has focused on higher-end devices to challenge the iPhone, not the low-end. Second, it might be true that a single app could be more efficient as a native
908.
by azakai 12y ago
It's not impossible, but Android phones need to do more - they run not just a web stack but also the Android Java stack - and they have not optimized for the low end, as much so far.
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by azakai 12y ago
By "this way" do you mean saving water at restaurants? More generally, the topic is saving water as consumed by ordinary people. That involves saving water at restaurants, not taking excessively long showers, not cleaning one&#x27
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by azakai 12y ago
There is no doubt that if we must choose to do something either to affect the big stuff, or the small stuff, we should prefer that to the small stuff. But I do not see how ordinary people not wasting water at restaurants has any opportunity
911.
by azakai 12y ago
The goal isn't to get people to drink less at restaurants, it's to not serve water without people asking, which often ends up not being consumed and just flushed.
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by azakai 12y ago
It's true that one glass of water for lunch is almost negligible. But residents do account for 20% of total water use, and it's been shown in various countries that residents can reduce their water consumption significantly, by a
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by azakai 12y ago
That isn't instead . It's in addition. Anyone saying that we need to only save water at restaurants is clearly wrong. Anyone saying that we mostly need to save water at restaurants is also wrong. But we could save water at re
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by azakai 12y ago
Yes, for web content, but not to render all of the UI as well.
915.
by azakai 12y ago
Perhaps relates to sponsored tiles, https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/tiles/ I believe those allow advertising without tracking of users.
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by azakai 12y ago
It seems like it should be at pretty much the same speed, if an equal size amount of garlic plants were being attacked by MRSA. Doesn't matter if natural selection of human-guided selection does the culling. I suppose it might be expen
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by azakai 12y ago
I don't think so. The more novel something is, the higher the chance that no one thought of it, and so could not patent it. If something is patented, that means people know of it, and will try to patent similar things or parts of it th
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by azakai 12y ago
Abstractly, sure - all software is vulnerable that way. However, specifically, if you create a new codec that is heavily based on previous ones, you are clearly more at risk, than if you create a more original codec using novel methods. The
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by azakai 12y ago
Sure, but then why does it make sense for IA to do this? My question is, why is IA doing this and no one else - what makes them different? Or are other companies doing it and I haven't heard about it?
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by azakai 12y ago
Well, let's say that Facebook is using other company's code with a similar patent grant. Then Facebook can't go on the warpath in the first place. I understand there might be a chicken-and-egg problem here. But the final ou
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by azakai 12y ago
I see, thanks. That makes sense. Why don't all companies do this, then, I wonder? It seems like companies offering people an opportunity to work in SF, plus affordable housing, would be a huge attraction?
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by azakai 12y ago
I get that Apache and GPL are well-established (perhaps not GPL3 yet though?), and that encourages stability to use them. But this new patent license is stronger. If it would make the industry safer from patent armageddon in the long term,
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by azakai 12y ago
If all companies issued code under these terms, and they all used each others' code, it would certainly make patent lawsuits impossible between them. That might or might not be Facebook's goal in the license, but regardless, it se
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by azakai 12y ago
I don't understand this, I guess. Is it more cost-effective for the IA to buy a house and rent it to its employees at low rates, than it would be for the IA to increase its workers' salaries who would then pay market rates for hou
925.
by azakai 12y ago
What you are describing could be achieved with asm.js, together with threading as proposed here: https://blog.mozilla.org/javascript/2015/02/26/the-path-to-p...
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by azakai 12y ago
Synchronization primitives are being suggested for addition to JS, https://blog.mozilla.org/javascript/2015/02/26/the-path-to-p...
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by azakai 12y ago
Also, LLVM IR has undefined behavior and was not designed as a network format (it's large). LLVM is simply not a good starting point for the problem here, nice as LLVM is for what it does do well.
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by azakai 12y ago
> dart2js serves me well, and the resulting JS is said to be more performant than raw JS Actually on most of the official benchmarks, dart2js output is slower than normal JS, https://www.dartlang.org/performance/ (n
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by azakai 12y ago
First, the claim is not that microbes evolved in response to humans. They appeared much before us. The assumption presented here is that some microbes have evolved in ways, recently, that let them (also) attack humans. Second, yes, it is ve
930.
by azakai 12y ago
Yes, JITs in WebKit and Gecko showed up around the same time as v8, or a little earlier even. And the WebKit JIT (Nitro) beat v8 on various benchmarks. It's still possible v8 somehow sparked those other JITs, if before it was public th

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