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by chibea 17y ago
"The GNU Hurd is under active development. Because of that, there is no stable version." -- http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd.html
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by chibea 17y ago
"[...] so for those hoping for an alternative to minix-386, please ignore me" Sorry. Won't do you this favor...
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Linus Benedict Torvalds: Free minix-like kernel sources for 386-AT [1991](groups.google.com)
14 points by chibea 17y ago|7 comments
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by chibea 17y ago
About Javascript: "Javascript is a fairly poorly thought-out language. Considering its influences were Scheme and Smalltalk it's rather sad what came out - but it got lucky, it's in a crucial place, it simply fell into the right place in th
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Newspeak and Pluggable Types with Gilad Braha(se-radio.net)
1 points by chibea 17y ago|1 comments
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by chibea 17y ago
Absolutely correct. I had great expectations when I heard from Wolfram Alpha. The things Mathematica is able to do backed by a giant structured data store seemed mind blowing. As the author said the visualization tools and the (still small)
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Ghost in the machine(mindhacks.com)
1 points by chibea 17y ago|0 comments
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by chibea 17y ago
The authors speculate that this is because some people just can't handle the meaninglessness of programming I think he cited the paper wrong here: It's not the meaninglessness of programming but the meaninglessness of programs . And it
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by chibea 17y ago
Not talking about immutability at all when talking about CouchDB's (potential?) scaling ability is odd. Even if immutability in DBs was no innovation from CouchDB itself, CouchDB will have raised the level of awareness for immutable DBs and
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The Dawning of Internet Censorship in Germany(netzpolitik.org)
50 points by chibea 17y ago|8 comments
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by chibea 17y ago
Merging: join two (or more) branches of history. The result is a new commit, which has all the merged commits as parents. A1 |\ A2 B1 A3 B2 | B3 A4 | | / A5 (parents: A4,B3) Cherry-picking: Pick one specific commit from another branch and
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by chibea 17y ago
Right, it would be more interesting to talk about memory consumption and if that might add to power consumption.
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by chibea 17y ago
Right, google does not pay the bill, but that's not the point of android. It's meant as a platform for developers which then don't have to worry about CPU-specifics. And as important, it is meant as a platform for mobile device vendors. Tho
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by chibea 17y ago
Are there any compiler features which change the ratio power consumption/clock cycles? If yes, that's what he should have talked about and give some evidence. If no, let's assume power consumption is a linear function of clock cycles and fo
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Overheard at val's house(nabble.com)
1 points by chibea 17y ago|0 comments