bandrami

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3091.
by bandrami 12y ago
Why are you using a locking read on a million+ row table? Why are you doing a naive join between million+ row tables? Is the point here that your product is better than a badly-implemented database on its own?
3092.
by bandrami 12y ago
If you count Lisp as functional[0] it has a pretty big web presence, both Common and Scheme. Functional languages reward (require?) a different kind of problem domain analysis than imperative languages do, and one of the things they are lea
3093.
by bandrami 12y ago
Because even fraternities' lawyers are not idiots, and they know that nothing good would come of that, even if it could be proven that Jackie's telling the story to a reporter was tortious (which it might not even be).
3094.
by bandrami 12y ago
The suckless editor is called sandy[0]. [0] http://tools.suckless.org/sandy
3095.
by bandrami 12y ago
> Can Google write a browser for Internet Explorer Sure they could; it would just be an ActiveX control, or whatever they call that this week.
3096.
by bandrami 12y ago
I got my first computer in 1983 (a TRS-80), and at that point the old codgers were complaining that computers had gotten too commercialized and that the purity of the old hobbyist days had gone. They were probably right, though it certainly
3097.
by bandrami 12y ago
Depends. My development machine is a laptop with 4G of RAM (but a terabyte hard drive). Then again I rarely even fire up X11 when I'm programming, so my needs are pretty sparse.
3098.
by bandrami 12y ago
> especially when your OS is both a desktop and mobile OS I'm curious: does anybody besides OS developers want this to be the case? I don't want the way I interact with a tablet to be the way I interact with a laptop or a des
3099.
by bandrami 12y ago
What's particularly galling is when the UX305-XYZ has a different chipset or wireless controller or whatever than the UX305-ABC. You try the XYZ and think, "great! It's got Intel wireless, so I can run BSD without a problem&q
3100.
by bandrami 12y ago
Yeah, I always found that ridicule odd. I'm no fan of the guy but it was a perfectly good point (and, in fact, was disastrously proven true pretty quickly).
3101.
by bandrami 12y ago
Translation: "People won't work for the near $0 we want to pay them".
3102.
by bandrami 12y ago
Why would we need people "in the workforce"? That's not even a futurist question; why do we need such a high labor participation rate today? Is there some stack of widgets going unmade we desperately need? Are we fighting a t
3103.
by bandrami 12y ago
A Forth system. I wrote one for my Raspberry Pi and really enjoy it.
3104.
by bandrami 12y ago
The inclined plane has shown very little improvement in recent years, too. What exactly would you like changed? I mean, the termlib stuff could be cleaned up, but that's a universal problem more than anything else.
3105.
by bandrami 12y ago
> So I take it you write all your *nix programs in C? That's the only sane answer if you have any intention of redistributing them.
3106.
by bandrami 12y ago
Wait. Did I wake up in 1988? Isn't this Hypercard?
3107.
by bandrami 12y ago
No, but if an analogous bug happened (systemd forgot to set an internal squidroot variable before clearing the squidroot, for instance), it would be much, much harder to figure out what was going on. Which is really what everybody's co
3108.
by bandrami 12y ago
This is why self-signed certificates are more secure than CA-signed certificates. When you expand the trust model to include three parties rather than two, it gets much more complex and vulnerable. If I see a self-signed certificate from Ci
3109.
by bandrami 12y ago
Interesting for WSJ to include a chart about the role of housing in wealth accumulation that cuts off in 2008.
3110.
by bandrami 12y ago
That's why the world's greatest superpower in history had such an easy time successfully invading and occupying two of the poorest countries on Earth over the past decade and a half?
3111.
by bandrami 12y ago
Wait. Historically, the purpose behind patents was to spur _the theft of other states' property_, not "innovation". The King would grant a patent to whatever foreign engineer was willing to immigrate with a particular inventi
3112.
by bandrami 12y ago
>> What OpenSSL needs to do is ... port it to C++ Awful idea. The absolute last thing we want is for memory management to be out of OpenSSL's explicit control (then we would have two audit trails to worry about). Automatic memory
3113.
by bandrami 12y ago
Because that makes your software not just proprietary but _hugely_ proprietary (remember, even GPL software has absolutely no conditions on _use_, deliberately). Come to think of it, it's not even clear you could effectively write such
3114.
by bandrami 12y ago
Sure it is. Each separate WPA connection involves a unique nonce (actually four, IIRC); my laptop and your laptop aren't using the same key even if we sign in with the same password. (This gets to the problem that WPA is being used for