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by bascule 14y ago
"The derived logos (Windows, Office) are a little confusing. Why is windows two slates? Why are the slates fighting in Office?" Apparently you missed what I thought were some pretty awesome visual metaphors: * "Why is windows two slates?" t
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by bascule 14y ago
Don't incubate, thinkubate
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by bascule 14y ago
"students seem to have an easier time remembering and understanding 2 pi r and pi r^2" Are you speaking from empirical experience as a math teacher? What makes 2 pi r easier to understand than tau r?
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by bascule 14y ago
It won't amaze third graders, but it would make a lot more sense the first time you learn integral calculus
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by bascule 14y ago
If you read the Tau Manifesto you'll see why tau * r^2 / 2 is actually AWESOME (he actually refers to it as pi's coup de grace) Just think of it like an integral (that's what it is, after all!), raise the power and divide by the power. Sudd
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by bascule 14y ago
With Plex or XBMC you can stream all your personal media off your local network
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by bascule 14y ago
The Nexus Q looks like the Death Star and the Apple TV does not. Worth the 3X price hike, if you ask me.
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by bascule 14y ago
This project is eerily identical to lolcommits
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by bascule 14y ago
I think Project Glass is probably closer to Manfred Macx's data glasses from Accelerando
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by bascule 14y ago
So they used Ember's templating language and did a crappy, more verbose reimplementation of Ember's subviews? Why did they choose Backbone over Ember, exactly? Can I propose a corrolary to Greenspun's Tenth Rule? "Any sufficiently complicat
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Ruby is faster than Python, PHP, and Perl(unlimitednovelty.com)
24 points by bascule 14y ago|15 comments
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by bascule 14y ago
HBO definitely thinks piracy is enough of a problem they're willing to hurt paying customers to try to stop it: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120418/08405618545/hbo-de... At the same time they don't provide an option for legitimate "
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by bascule 14y ago
Would I pay $19/mo for BBC content? Yes
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by bascule 14y ago
Would you rather write ClojureScript or real Clojure though?
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by bascule 14y ago
Unfortunately Node's implementation of web workers uses external processes and serializes all the data as JSON. This makes them considerably slower than Chrome's implementation of web workers, which use threads. In general if you're doing s
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by bascule 14y ago
There's a simple reason why Gutenberg's technology was explosive and these alleged Asian moveable type systems were not: "Gutenberg's True Innovation", not present in the article despite that being a paragraph heading, wasn't any of the thi
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by bascule 14y ago
Hi there, I'm working on a similar actor library in Ruby: http://celluloid.io/ The main thing I'd like to say is that there is a well-researched way to combine actors and object oriented programming. After stumbling upon this particular c
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by bascule 14y ago
Not on Jython, which has no GIL by virtue of the JVM. Work on Jython has recently resumed and the new work is focusing on adding InvokeDynamic support, which I think is really exciting. (I say this all as a Rubyist who as seen these same pr
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by bascule 14y ago
On the contrary, I find ZeroMQ provides a great foundation for an Erlang-like distributed actor system: https://github.com/celluloid/dcell
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by bascule 14y ago
"real concurrency" is a silly term, but I assume he means threads and therefore a multicore concurrency model vis-a-vis thread-level parallelism, allowing a single VM to utilize all cores in the system. This is opposed to Node, which must r
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by bascule 14y ago
This seems bad: http://meteor.com/robots.txt
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by bascule 15y ago
If we're to assume their paranoia about piracy is because they've done the math, then clearly HBO considers it significant. I don't think they've done the math, because I think "market research" into the underground world of private torrent
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by bascule 15y ago
If only Facebook thought of loading their SDK asynchronously. Oh wait, they did: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/client-s...
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by bascule 15y ago
How do you do the math when one of the unaccounted variables is the potential conversion rate of people who would pay for a HBO streaming service but won't pay for it if it's chained to a pay TV subscription, and so they pirate instead? Pir
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Introducing DCell: actor-based distributed objects for Ruby(unlimitednovelty.com)
23 points by bascule 15y ago|0 comments
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by bascule 15y ago
I think he's saying that everyone creates work which others resent, hence "shit work" Oh wait, no, he's describing his software as shit, and saying that making it work is everyone's job. Got it.
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by bascule 15y ago
I think the point he's trying to make is that if you make a blocking system call, it blocks the thread that goroutine is scheduled within, but other goroutines will not be blocked by this and will continue to execute. This is not the case w
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by bascule 15y ago
The process isolation model that CSP provides is generally useful within languages with mutable state. In particular, the Kilim library for Java uses "microthreads" (similar to goroutines) plus a linear ownership transfer system such that o
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by bascule 15y ago
"It's in PHP, absolutely full stop" Well, you're the authority, but is that really a fair assessment? Has HipHop diverged from PHP enough to really still be considered PHP?
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by bascule 15y ago
Can we form a club or something? I keep saying this, but it's still a relatively unpopular idea. Kilim (lightweight actor-like concurrency for the JVM) implements what it describes as "linear ownership transfer", to where objects are owned

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