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by blasdel 16y ago
How about you get measurements of ATR from real-world deployments instead of the wild conjectures you've laid in this thread? Your challenge applies even moreso to yourself: Measure it or GTFO.
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by blasdel 16y ago
> but where's the evidence what people see for active/total ratios in the real world? Yes Zed, where the fuck is it? You're claiming SCIENCE! based on your worst-case synthetic localhost benchmarks, and then turning around and wildly
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man tar(jacobian.org)
1 points by blasdel 16y ago|1 comments
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by blasdel 16y ago
Anyone who really chafes with the UI model of OS X probably wouldn't apply to work in Software at Apple, and even if one did you'd probably get rejected for other reasons. If you're chafing on command-tab, try hitting its complement command
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Java gets newline handling right(arcanesentiment.blogspot.com)
1 points by blasdel 16y ago|0 comments
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Bryan Cantrill is joining Joyent(dtrace.org)
5 points by blasdel 16y ago|0 comments
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by blasdel 16y ago
I started using Haskell five years ago (before the age of dons), and wrote a very intensive (parser generator)^^3 project in it in 2007 that was inspired by some half-finished postdoc papers I found from researchers at Utrecht University —
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Medical imaging radiation overdoses caused by UX defect(modcult.org)
1 points by blasdel 16y ago|1 comments
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by blasdel 16y ago
When people write papers about New Media and The Web, they often cite Vannevar Bush's 1945 article in The Atlantic, “As We May Think”. We had a 65th anniversary panel about the paper at Hypertext 2010, at which I was the designated heretic
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by blasdel 16y ago
He's one of the developers of Birdhouse, which he started as a side project from doing Hollywood VFX work. Now he's working on making these kinds of promotional videos full time — he's mentioned that he's done internal stuff for companies,
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by blasdel 16y ago
Cracking is something a Hacker might do. This language war was lost back when ESR started it in the 90s. Give it up.
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by blasdel 16y ago
And you in turn out yourself as a clueless interloper with your ninnying prescriptivism! ESR's edicts on nomenclature hold no sway over this community, nor really any other. His attempt to parlay any negative implications onto the word 'cra
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by blasdel 16y ago
No, call it Collateral Murder
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Paul Vixie: Taking Back the DNS(circleid.com)
73 points by blasdel 16y ago|32 comments
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by blasdel 16y ago
A co-social society doesn't really work either — Belgium is basically disintegrating with the government in constant deadlock over Walloon/Flanders tensions.
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by blasdel 16y ago
Because there are mutual societies formed out of need for minority groups to support one another — most of them initially just for information sharing, emotional support, and legal defenses. Scholarships came later to help the children in
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by blasdel 16y ago
You, Eliezer Yudkowsky, annoy me with your presence here. Although your ideas aren't nearly as dire nor your followers as obnoxious, it feels like the 1960s Ayn Rand is all over Hacker News.
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by blasdel 16y ago
> do I use some OS abstraction (Virtual Memory or threads, respectively) Bzzt! You got your analogy backwards. Using a thread pool is doing it yourself from cross-platform primitives that work on even the shittiest UNIX-wars-era platf
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by blasdel 16y ago
I don't know about that, nethack is habit-forming in its own ways.
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by blasdel 16y ago
Mark Pilgrim kindly requests that you get your own word: http://twitter.com/diveintomark/statuses/19715440495 This one is taken: http://addictionis.org/
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by blasdel 16y ago
> Herein lies my criticism of Node’s primary stated goal: “to provide an easy way to build scalable network programs”. I fundamentally do not believe that there is an easy way to build scalable anything . What’s happening is that peopl
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by blasdel 16y ago
http://www.doxdesk.com/updates/2009.html#u20091116-jquery Yes, many jQuery fans are incapable of writing any JavaScript unless it has a dollar in it.
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by blasdel 16y ago
I'm pretty sure this one was actually the motherboard manufacturer's idea, but Microsoft did something far stupider. In Windows XP, if you open Windows Explorer and have the search sidebar active, there's a little animated yellow dog sittin
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by blasdel 16y ago
There's an app for that: http://www.halfbakery.com/
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by blasdel 16y ago
Interesting that this was written while he was deep in Odeo but probably just before he realized it was untenable, and started doing the side project sprints that led to Twitter. Odeo broke most of these rules, and Twitter followed almost a
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by blasdel 16y ago
A native speaker of english from the west would never use this phrasing — software is abstract rather than individual. Your usage stands out as south asian as much as "do the needful" would. "I need software that…" or "I need a program that
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by blasdel 16y ago
It gets ickier too — IM has flags for limiting its memory usage, but instead of modifying the algorithm, it just implements its own VM system and swaps to tempfiles directly from userspace when it hits the constraint. Fucking programming li
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by blasdel 16y ago
And that would be the last of Doug Engelbart's inventions to succeed in the market: http://www.cedmagic.com/history/first-computer-mouse.html
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by blasdel 16y ago
I haven't actually had a project to use Node on yet, though I have an affinity for its Purity of Essence approach, and I've used Twisted a fair deal. If it's going to actually scale or have high-availability, a system is already going to
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by blasdel 16y ago
I have a feeling that hiring al3x is one of the few reasons that Twitter didn't collapse into a heap of cetacean corpses. Twitter's original codebase started as a "my first blog" tutorial in Rails — the polar opposite of a messaging platfor

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