crabapple

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by crabapple 18y ago
i was never enamored with denton's editorial tenure at valleywag (he seemed capricious and arbitrary about what you could shit-kick and what was a sacred cow)...but as a business owner he is spot-on. he isn't waiting for the recession to fo
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by crabapple 18y ago
yup. sun is a bespoke tech firm in an era of relentless commoditization. my guess is that they only cling to life on support contracts from people who are still solaris/sparc shops (which i imagine they are still quite a few of)
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by crabapple 18y ago
who else is astounded that sun employs more than 30k people???
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by crabapple 18y ago
early adopter under-30s have become impervious to web advertising. the clickthrough rates are just dismal. yahoo and aol cater to the trailing edge...you know, the people dumb enough to click a banner ad. thats why they make money with cont
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by crabapple 18y ago
haskell is the only programming language that made me reconsider most of my assumptions. its not a tacked-on, hacked-on functional layer on something else, its mind-bending at a fundamental level. because haskell makes no comprimises, it al
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by crabapple 18y ago
i would recommend clojure if you want to learn "a lisp"...along the positives you cite, it has a growing community, very active development, hype (in a good way), and deployability.
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by crabapple 18y ago
yes. i wish most sites would go on a markup diet.
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by crabapple 18y ago
History promises inflation, not deflation. BINGO all that money being printed now with reckless abandon, and the tens of trillions more we will print as the boomers retire...its gotta chase something...it will chase commodities through th
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by crabapple 18y ago
indeed, look at the great depression, look at japan in the 90s. in each of these secular bear markets, markets rebounded for gains as high as 100% from the previous low...yet still the ultimate direction of the market was downward. DJIA wil
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by crabapple 18y ago
no, haskell. clojure in the end runs on the jvm. the ghc compiler has parallelism baked into it in a fundamental way. don't get me wrong, i like clojure, but it won't be better for multicore until the jvm is better for multicore
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by crabapple 18y ago
uh, this gets posted once a month. we get it
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by crabapple 18y ago
you. you aren't going to be given the choice, these are coming to a laptop near you...like on your lap
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by crabapple 18y ago
who is trying to make you less dumb
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by crabapple 18y ago
you need to stop fighting the future
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by crabapple 18y ago
NO. why don't you READ before you reply a program compiled for a multicore CPU will RUN. the question is how OPTIMALLY does it run. a program with no potential for parallelism will not get any parallelism. it will run, but run slow compared
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by crabapple 18y ago
what is in the cpus of those machines will be in the cpus of all machines. jesus, how much more legit can you get than intel telling you this is coming?
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by crabapple 18y ago
search "shared nothing concurrency"...read sutter's "the end of the free lunch"...
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by crabapple 18y ago
you should stop posting until you take classes in operating systems and compilers. really
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by crabapple 18y ago
uh, yeah, i know that. i thought the "coolzzz" would relate my sarcasm
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by crabapple 18y ago
I don't write OS kernels, I write rails application. I don't give a rat's ass about the OS kernel then stop spouting off uninformed comments about how processes are scheduled The Rails applications themselves don't need to be altered to
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by crabapple 18y ago
Sorry, but I don't buy that then you clearly aren't buying new high-end servers for data crunching either, because these are already multicore
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by crabapple 18y ago
no, java programmers pick up haskell is more likely.
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by crabapple 18y ago
That's ridiculous. Programming is not all about multi-core performance. it will be. you're getting beaten over the head by chip designers telling you that your future cpu is going to consist of a (possibly large) array of processing cores
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by crabapple 18y ago
I'm not sure how you can talk about concurrency without talking about locks that is because you have slept through the entire revolution of share-nothing concurrency
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by crabapple 18y ago
What's supposed to replace VC, exactly? its possible that VCs can't assemble the level of funding needed to attack the energy market (for example)...these investments will have to scale out to the hundreds of billions with very long time
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by crabapple 18y ago
boo-fucking-hoo. a down market hurts everyone. well maybe they should use this lull to re-educate themselves for the future. guess what folks, sandhill road will be as dead as wall street unless you try expanding past websites. let yc fund
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by crabapple 18y ago
lots of hardware there are a few best practices to scaling, you can find those archived at places like highscalability etc...but in the end you just need hardware. hardware buys you fault tolerance, test environments, sharding, blah blah bl
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by crabapple 18y ago
wow apple is desperate. they are using unibody aluminum chasis to convince people to pay $2k for laptop internals they could get from dell for $600. case mods must be where its at since the macbook pro is not meaningfully different under th
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by crabapple 18y ago
the valuation they cite is a joke. $500 million? haha i'm sorry, 2006 is gone and won't be returning. loopt would be better off claiming they are a bank and going to the TARP...probably make more with fewer questions asked!
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by crabapple 18y ago
indeed. the article seems to be asking a false question - "just how did we get so lucky!?!?!" which seems ridiculous, and as you point out, presumes that a universe that produces us is more optimal than one that doesn't.

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