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by cx01 18y ago
I think Microsoft Excel would be the most common example.
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by cx01 18y ago
"Having people in stable structures inherently slows down regrouping quickly, and you cannot assume that capital (money, enticement, whatever) can induce it to become efficient, simply because transfer of resources takes time and distance."
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by cx01 18y ago
The scarcer employees get, the more will employers be willing to pay to get them. So yes, I think the liquidity of employees will remain roughly the same.
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by cx01 18y ago
Even if everybody is employed, people would still be looking out for better jobs than what they currently have. So I don't think there would be missed growth opportunites.
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by cx01 18y ago
The article gives a reason: Now, what are these operations that Alchemy does so well? Memory access and function calls. Alchemy compiled code utilizes new bytecodes added to FP10 for working with ByteArrays - which as you’ll remember are wh
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by cx01 18y ago
I don't really get what he's saying. Most of the time you will have one active tab, which is consuming a lot of CPU, and all the other tabs in the background will do nothing. Dividing those background tabs onto multiple cores won't bring an
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by cx01 18y ago
If I understand him correctly, he wants to make all classes into processes and method calls into message sends. I don't think this would improve performance in any way. "Many of the processes will actually be suspended waiting for the next
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by cx01 18y ago
Ct seems to be similar to MapReduce. So you would need a run-time in order to dynamically load-balance the calculations to the individual processor cores.
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by cx01 18y ago
Ok so I looked at the source and found: (def process-comment (user parent text ip whence)... I don't see why it would be hard to submit "parent" and "text" as POST-parameters. User seems to be stored in a cookie anyway and ip should also be
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by cx01 18y ago
The easiest fix would be to get rid of the continuations. It would be just as easy to encode the comment_id in a form field as millions of other webpages do.
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by cx01 18y ago
I don't see how caching in the DB would improve performance much. The best you could do would probably be to cache the most expensive queries. The main advantage of having caching in your application is that you can cache your data in a mor
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by cx01 19y ago
"It's kind of embarrassing to see your own clunky prose and ugly photos stuck in the middle of a beautifully designed page." Good point, but one could argue that ugly people post their photos on POF not because the site is ugly, but because