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by cturner 10y ago
Java is not slow in practice. Many top trading systems have been written in it, including the excellent and widely licensed nasdaq architecture (omx, singapore, asx, swx, etc) and the independently designed Lmax Disruptor. You do not have t
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by cturner 10y ago
Ot: your flak blog could benefit from a page showing links to all articles. Currently, hard to read beyond 'recent'.
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by cturner 10y ago
"Memory allocation "doesn't fail"" That's not quite it. But it does deserve a double-take. When you request memory, it generally works out fine. But it doesn't actually give you a lock on the pages you nee
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by cturner 10y ago
Almost all of pkd is dystopian, but he really nailed brain-in-a-vat paranoia in a way few others had. That is what the writeup goes for. phildickian reads: ubik, andoids dream of electric sheep, time out of joint (kinda), scanner darkly, ma
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by cturner 10y ago
There's a better alternative: don't have complex usage in the first place. You can get all the functionality you want by having multiple executables calling a common library. Consider netcat. You read the man page, and try to do s
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by cturner 10y ago
I've always wanted a transformation language of some sort, but I've never managed to figure out XSLT (probably because I've never needed it) so I don't know what problems it solves or doesn't
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by cturner 10y ago
Something I have found fun in the past: using xslt where the underlying document is not xml. In order for xslt to work (in java setting, apache libs) you do not need an underlying xml document, just something that satisfies the appropriate
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by cturner 10y ago
One of the attractions of the trackpoint is that you don't have to move your fingers from the keyboard. Hence, people who are keyboard-centric get pointer access without the usual tradeoff. A dev running a tiling window manager can sti
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by cturner 10y ago
They have become flimsier, but also lighter. I have tried several, and have stuck with my first gen x1. But the newer thinkpads are so light now you can get a like-for-like with an original X1 by replacing it with a T-series.
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by cturner 10y ago
What are your thoughts about the parent question? Is there a machine in the 15k price range that would give you remarkable edge over a macbook pro? I don't know anyone who's in these professions. Perhaps a NT desktop box with nich
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by cturner 10y ago
Computing has changed. For CAD, games, a/v production, you still need a workstation. But the workstation is now obsolete in major fields that it once dominated. Industrial simulation: these days the optimal approach is to get access to
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ZeniMax post takedown notice to Doom-themed roguelike(polygon.com)
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by cturner 10y ago
Roguelikes are an easy path into programming. For an easy start, find a well-done 7-day roguelike in your favorite language. For example, z-day is in python ( http://sheep.art.pl/Z-Day ). Someone learning C might like Day @ t
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by cturner 10y ago
Can confirm. A rite of passage for students in Adelaide is to drive to the big Mcdonalds on the nw outskirts of Melbourne, and then turn around and drive home again.
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by cturner 10y ago
Imagine that five years from now, RISC-V or POWER8 have become established as free core-CPU platforms. Is there anything equivalent coming through in the GPU space?
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by cturner 10y ago
I've come to a conclusion that if you have high standards, you can't look to other people for happiness. Even if I had a dream system for a while, at some point they'd follow a new trend that annoyed me and I'd feel left
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by cturner 10y ago
Quick note others may find useful. I found this offputting: the idiomatic mixture of upper/lower case and underscores in the syntax. Unnecessary cognitive overload. I've just done a quick test with current gnat and this works: you
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by cturner 10y ago
I felt this way as well (since the mid nineties) until a couple of weeks ago when I read _Social Architecture_ by Pieter Hintjens. It has a strong idealogical flavour. He stresses that you should focus on building a community, with the code
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by cturner 10y ago
The apple team will have worked hard just to get the weight improvements. That stuff is hard. I like the pitch that computers are "bicycles for the mind", and value things in this lens. The keyboard changes seem a step backwards.
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by cturner 10y ago
Yes. Another issue is that his grid is a square. It's hard to know whether this was sensible - author hasn't described the domain. You could address both issues by having two for loops, one following the other. The first loop chan
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by cturner 10y ago
Qnx. Although they discontinued it as a desktop os. The ui was nice, but no doubt had maintenance overhead. Minix 3. The rise of platforms like Raspberry Pi are good for alt-os projects because they give a well-fenced compatibility target.
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by cturner 10y ago
The backfire effect has had a lot of airplay. I've just now made a quick scan of the study, but not read in detail ( https://www.dartmouth.edu/~nyhan/nyhan-reifler.pdf ). I don't think the paper justifies its c
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by cturner 10y ago
> I think this comment may have been written for someone > else to read, it's less of a "head start" and more of a > "let's review the fundamentals". Early hours of morning here, no d
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by cturner 10y ago
> I hear it bandied around in these articles that music > notation is awful. Can someone explain to me why? I've played a lot with alternatives, and disagree. But I can explain why people might object to it, but the
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by cturner 10y ago
Book: _How Music Works_ by John Powell. Youtube series: "How Music Works with Howard Goodall". Start with rhythm, then melody, harmony, bass.
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by cturner 10y ago
"How can you directly compare a programming language to multitasking operating systems with desktop enviroments?" People who grew up in the 8-bit era might remember the reverse of this mental shift when they first encountered the
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by cturner 10y ago
The basic design is a circular corridor that the patients can pace without ever hitting a dead end. My grandfather made a successful escape attempt from such a place several years in such a place, with Alzheimer's. The gardener had lef
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by cturner 10y ago
While I was reading it, I was thinking that trapped-with-dementia might be a worthy ending for a paranoid fiction series such as The Prisoner or Nowhere Man. Did Philip K Dick run this?
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by cturner 10y ago
When I saw the title, I guessed Transport Tycoon. Close!
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by cturner 10y ago
There's a lot of room for innovation here, and there hasn't been much precedent for this historically. You could have constitutional measures controlling the way that wars were funded. A simple example: simple outlaw any kind of

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