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by cabacon 15y ago
Then again, hardware transactional memory may be arriving: http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4218914/IBM-plants-t...
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by cabacon 15y ago
I don't know - I like having the control master around for when I've done something like startup an interactive process, then realize that I also want to pop onto the machine to look in some file. I don't always start screen when I login s
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by cabacon 15y ago
And GSI-Openssh too: http://grid.ncsa.illinois.edu/ssh/
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by cabacon 15y ago
Agreed re: pragmas as a hack, but that's just the kind of thing you'd expect to get to gain traction, before folding into a language standard. And re: data parallelism, I don't see that anyone has made a terribly popular implementations. T
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by cabacon 15y ago
I'd argue that compared to OpenMP and CUDA, Cilk has very little traction. My frame of reference is the current set of HPC platforms, though. We had one customer who wanted to build Cilk, and it was really just for R&D, not production
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by cabacon 15y ago
He's totally right, but people have wanted this, and tried to implement it, several times. There's UPC ( http://upc.lbl.gov/ ), Co-Array Fortran ( http://www.co-array.org/ ), OpenMP ( http://openmp.org/wp/ ), TBB ( http://threadingbuilding
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by cabacon 15y ago
As noted, you can run vim or emacs in a way where you can mouse where you want to go. In practice, there's usually a way to get to the place you want to be via some other command. For vi, you can usually use /search to get where you want.
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by cabacon 15y ago
This piece from 100 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2493319 has a lot of endorsements for the MBA as a primary work machine. I'd assume it has only gotten better since the latest upgrade.
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by cabacon 15y ago
Agreed. There was a nice post on HN recently ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2714149 ) about combining fabric + vagrant to manage django deploys. The vagrant part handles the "use puppet or chef" part of provisioning, while the fabr
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The theory and practice of happiness(sirlin.net)
4 points by cabacon 15y ago|0 comments
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by cabacon 15y ago
I would love to see more details of the fabric+vagrant integration. For instance, you don't show how the prod/dev prefixes in your fabric commands are used to set the vagrant destination host, or the site urls. The vagrant way of things s
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by cabacon 16y ago
I just don't buy into the "I didn't need X, so I will not provide X" argument. It is clear that toddler iphone apps are not required for learning. That doesn't mean they aren't good at what they do. And, even if they're merely neutral w/
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by cabacon 16y ago
You can also go for the INCITE or ALCC programs from the DOE: http://www.doeleadershipcomputing.org/ They award O(1 billion) hours to O(100) projects, and you don't need DOE funding to apply (or even be a US-based project). The catch is
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by cabacon 16y ago
If you don't need the https, you can just use proxy connect, per http://benctechnicalblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/ssh-over-conne... You can use this to get ssh from places that only let you use the regular 80/443 ports.
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by cabacon 16y ago
However, see-also DNSSEC and http://benctechnicalblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/sshfp-dns.html Though I guess DNSSEC puts you back at PKI ...
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by cabacon 16y ago
Huh. I find that shortcut consistency is actually a strength of the platform. Are you talking about inconsistencies between OS X's choice and the other OSes you use? Because otherwise, I don't see it. Only on the Mac do I know that I ca
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by cabacon 16y ago
Minor nit: "my differences only make me that much more unique." Unique is an absolute state. One is unique or not; there is no more/less about it. Per the dictionary usage guidelines, think about using something like: "rare, distinctive,
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by cabacon 16y ago
Can someone who understands this space well tell me where something like RepRap ( http://reprap.org/wiki/Main_Page ) compares to this, conceptually?
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by cabacon 16y ago
Daylite. It's mac-only, but I'm mostly using it for my own purposes, so that's not a dealbreaker.
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Code Review Tools(buildengineer.org)
2 points by cabacon 16y ago|0 comments
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by cabacon 16y ago
"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the people to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea." --Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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Arsenic Bacteria: Does The Evidence Hold Up?(pipeline.corante.com)
5 points by cabacon 16y ago|0 comments
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by cabacon 16y ago
See also historical recommendations: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1465816 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=580073
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by cabacon 16y ago
The interesting bit is that their interconnect is Chinese technology. The rest of it, not so much.
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by cabacon 16y ago
Ugh! This sounds exactly like pseudo-context as described by Dan Meyer ( http://blog.mrmeyer.com/?p=8002 ). There are so many awesome things to inspire someone in math, and slapping a popular movie character on rote drills seems like a mi
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by cabacon 16y ago
"If brute force doesn't work, you're not using enough brute force." -- anonymous
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by cabacon 16y ago
There's a used book sale I know about that charges a fee on the first day of the sale, and is free thereafter. It's basically a tax on the resellers, who all want to get access to the mis-priced books. If you go to used book sales, you're
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by cabacon 16y ago
I like the game programming story about the black triangle to illustrate this point: http://rampantgames.com/blog/2004/10/black-triangle.html
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by cabacon 16y ago
Particularly followed up with a pitch for the book to teach you how not to do these things that didn't happen. I agree that interviewers forget that an interview is a two-way street; you're pitching yourself as a fit for the interviewee as
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by cabacon 16y ago
+1 for divvy, especially if you switch back and forth between an external monitor and the laptop display at different resolutions. I have a ton of app-hotkeys setup to resize everything to the aspect ratio I like after swapping resolutio

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