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by bsaunder 16y ago
I faced the same question a year ago. My solution was a MBP with Parallels running Ubuntu. I couldn't be happier. I'm still working more in Ubuntu than MacOS, but it's nice to have the fall back of the host operating system.
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by bsaunder 16y ago
If you stick with vim or emacs, you may want to check out ctags (or etags), to help you with some of the functionality you normally get in an IDE. IMHO, when you go the non-IDE route, you will forgo some features you are used to and satisf
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by bsaunder 16y ago
Fully automated food production, shelter construction, power production, and transportation.
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by bsaunder 16y ago
Thanks for taking the time to provide an update.
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by bsaunder 16y ago
Just because of some novice mistakes, you want to discount the whole post? Thank you for calling attention to the second comment.
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Fast polling using C, memcached, nginx and libevent (amix.dk)
49 points by bsaunder 16y ago|17 comments
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by bsaunder 16y ago
I'm not sure she and her husband would make it past a credit/employment check to satisfy a landlord.
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Gold Market is not “Fixed”, it’s Rigged(marketforceanalysis.com)
2 points by bsaunder 16y ago|0 comments
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by bsaunder 16y ago
I think we will see a migration towards 3D environments as the primary platform. I think 3D TVs will pave the way for computing devices (it may already have and I'm behind the curve). It'll start with games but I wouldn't be surprised if
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by bsaunder 16y ago
No a Java program requires an environment to run, so does a brain . It's just that a brain alters it's behavior and structure as a result of processing inputs (development). We don't (normally) write Java programs to change their behavior a
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by bsaunder 16y ago
It doesn't directly encode the structure of the brain. Development is required. Your Java program doesn't directly execute on the CPU, compilation and interpretation are required.
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by bsaunder 16y ago
Yes, that makes sense. In my case, I ended up here by trying to dynamically shift where I'm applying the work load in the search space without pruning off an answer.
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by bsaunder 16y ago
Does anyone else see a trend in this migration to async style programming? I've been working on a similar issue for a while now involving a similarity search engine with nested state machines. I can't quite tell if my perception of this tr
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by bsaunder 16y ago
Also Linode and Slicehost handle power and network reliability issues better than your local service providers (probably).
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by bsaunder 16y ago
Sounds like job creation to me.
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by bsaunder 16y ago
...(an asymmetric relation) to things on the internet You mean a link? ;) With regards to your other points, I do think the general premise of the post is correct that the pendulum is swinging back (?) towards more flexible data structure
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by bsaunder 16y ago
Useful automation is going to lead to more wealth, which mean more free time for other stuff. Sure, I think this exactly describes our current situation. Ironically, that "more wealth" is very disproportionately distributed between the o
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by bsaunder 16y ago
What signs do you think you will see? I think we are hitting a new reality where people are having a hard time adding value. Over time, I think computers and robots will be able to automate and out perform most human tasks. Much effort is
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by bsaunder 16y ago
We’ve already printed money, the fifth option, and in my opinion may well print a whole lot more. This is said so matter-of-fact yet not given much more weight in the argument presented for default. As I see it, default and inflation are
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by bsaunder 16y ago
hmmm... looks like they are backing out the 2.1 OS fix that "Improved accuracy of the 3G signal strength display". That always seemed fishy to me. http://gizmodo.com/5048905/iphone-21-update-available-now Especially entertaining is the u
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by bsaunder 16y ago
Sure, or at least chat on IRC some evening.
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by bsaunder 16y ago
You're welcome. I'm working on something similar as well. I haven't fully digested the paper yet, but it resonates very well with my current implementation.
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by bsaunder 16y ago
Yes, perhaps "are intractable" was too strong of an assertion. I think as we migrate our data towards more flexible structures and look more towards asynchronous parallel processing, we may find that splitting out data and behavior serves u
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by bsaunder 16y ago
Well, the title's a bit of a tautology, but it does seem that a bit of the glow has worn off of Java (to those that were captivated by it in the first place anyway). Functional programming seems to be trending upwards too. I agree with the
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GraphLab: A New Framework for Parallel Machine Learning(arxiv.org)
31 points by bsaunder 16y ago|4 comments
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by bsaunder 16y ago
Some things in there seem to be contradictory. In particular, there's a claim about being brokerless: ZeroMQ follows a brokerless design so that there is no single point of failure. But then there's this: ZeroMQ greatly simplifies this
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by bsaunder 16y ago
hmm... If I have to do something new with the list, I don't have to completely rewrite my program (like #1 does) You said #1 only took 15 minutes. Hardly seems like a big cost. If you never have to rewrite, #1's the right answer. Or if
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by bsaunder 16y ago
EDIT: Sorry, placed comment on wrong parent, should be on: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1419647 In this post. Additionally, some of Judy's space and speed improvements come from strategies that could be used by any data structure
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by bsaunder 16y ago
It's beginning to seem like Apple is treating all their third party developers as employees that they don't have to directly compensate.
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by bsaunder 16y ago
A related post: http://nathanwiegand.com/wp/2010/04/lessons-i-should-have-le...

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