cwp

100 ms·

931.
by cwp 15y ago
A bit of both, actually. It's mostly compile-time checking, but you can also write assertions about the typestate of a particular variable. The compiler generates code to check the actual values at runtime - if the assertion fails, the prog
932.
by cwp 15y ago
Well, everyone except Google Apps users.
933.
Even Faster Domain Name Search(instantdomainsearch.com)
2 points by cwp 15y ago|0 comments
934.
by cwp 15y ago
Actually, I've come around to the idea that homeopathy is a brilliant piece of social engineering. The theory of homeopathy is simple, internally consistent and not obviously false, which makes it a good way to harness the placebo effect wi
935.
by cwp 15y ago
It's important to distinguish between reliability in the protocol and reliability in the implementation. Spending time and money to be reliable in the face of disasters like falling planes is about the implementation. An example of reliabil
936.
by cwp 15y ago
Google has had both success and failure. The successes have paid for the failures and then some, but the failures did happen.
937.
by cwp 15y ago
I was wondering the complement. In what way is AMPQ more reliable than SMTP?
938.
by cwp 15y ago
Economics is exactly like religion. There are correct and incorrect answers, but most people ignore them, and believe something that makes them feel good about their place in the world.
939.
by cwp 15y ago
Here's one for Smalltalk. It's based on my .changes file - about 200K LOC, with all the lines containing '----' and $! removed. What's left is, I think, stuff that actually got typed into a browser. You can definitely see $:, but otherwise
940.
by cwp 15y ago
Ugh. No. The financial crisis killed demand.
941.
by cwp 15y ago
There is a nugget of useful discussion in there, in that corporations aren't as necessary as they used to be. Better communication technology lowers coordination costs and we don't need big organization and bureaucracy to get big things don
942.
by cwp 15y ago
You can have a huge influence on content without ever saying "print this" or "don't print that."
943.
by cwp 15y ago
Note also that the first and third quotes are mutually exclusive. Mike's influence permeates the site, but the writers would laugh at him if he tried to influence them? Which is it?
944.
by cwp 15y ago
He's saying there are more games on Windows than on the platforms that use OpenGL. I don't know if that's true or not, but it's a reasonable argument. It doesn't really matter how many platforms implement OpenGL if nobody uses it.
945.
by cwp 15y ago
"The implication is that he may have lost an argument with his boss re: the odds of going to jail if that memo was published, and decided to flee the scene of the crime before it went down." Why so uncharitable? Resigning, rather than parti
946.
by cwp 15y ago
But post-PC devices are only partially replacing the PC - in those areas where they're better than PCs. We're not losing anything, only gaining something new.
947.
by cwp 15y ago
Not only that, but the author dismisses AWS because it's expensive and brings in a small portion of Amazon's revenue. By that standard neither Android nor Xbox are platforms.
948.
by cwp 15y ago
Personally, I'd go with 6 & 7 as reasons Arabic is terrifying.
949.
by cwp 15y ago
I'm deeply ambivalent about this. We'd all be better off if tech companies competed with engineers instead of lawyers. Nevertheless, there's just no getting around the fact that the Galaxy Tab is a pretty direct knock-off of the iPad. Are
950.
by cwp 15y ago
Samsung and HTC aren't eating Apple's lunch, they're eating Nokia's lunch. The author notes that makers of Android phones are gaining market share faster than Apple, and assumes that this will eventually mean taking market share from Appl
951.
by cwp 15y ago
Yeah, I was half way through the article before I realized it was a stock photo, then I was annoyed.
952.
by cwp 15y ago
From the article: As NVIDIA Corp. (NVDA) is a licensee, units with its GPUs are not in violation. However, models with graphics by Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) or integrated graphics from Intel Corp.'s (INTC) (such as the
953.
by cwp 15y ago
Meh, that was the time. Today, the equivalent would be quasi-homeless, just got back from a "blogging" trip backpacking through Thailand, wears board shorts and flip flops, experiments with Provigil.
954.
by cwp 15y ago
Did you read the article? "Vaccine" is the appropriate word - the idea is to bind cocaine to inert cholera to make the immune system produce antibodies. It doesn't cure the addiction, it just makes cocaine ineffective.
955.
by cwp 15y ago
Well, somebody cares, if downvotes mean anything.
956.
by cwp 15y ago
Well, it's not a sensible thing to do, but it's a perfectly reasonable interpretation of the headline. That's why it's link bait. [edit] fixed a typo
957.
by cwp 15y ago
I guess if you tell a room full of engineers that engineering is no longer where it's at, you won't get a lot of applause. The author never said that there won't be a need for engineering talent. Of course there will. It's just that enginee
958.
by cwp 15y ago
I'd suggest putting yourself in a different context for a while. Go live a foreign country for a year. Get a summer job on a construction site. Do a bike tour across a continent. Spend a winter as a ski-bum. Spend a summer fighting forest f
959.
by cwp 15y ago
No. If an incubator wanted equity but wasn't offering capital, they wouldn't get many applications.
960.
by cwp 15y ago
Blackberry

More ›