daemin

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by daemin 10y ago
My take on the whole Uber vs Taxis thing is much more about just convenience and user experience. If the taxis got together and created an app that you could hail a taxi, track its progress, and follow it to your destination, and take the p
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by daemin 10y ago
You make code 10x 1000x faster by changing the algorithm or data layout that you use instead of just emitting different instructions for the same higher level code.
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by daemin 10y ago
It's kind of the same thing when people assume that you only need a simple data structure for representing a family tree.
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by daemin 10y ago
When people are well fed and happy they don't see the need to up end the status quo. When there's no bread for people to eat then heads will roll. Therefore it will be interesting to see how long China can keep the growth up, and
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by daemin 10y ago
I recall there being an article here a month or so ago about this actual takeover. Basically Aixtron had this large customer in China, but at the last moment, un-expectantly, they cancelled the order. Therefore Aixtron shares plummeted and
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by daemin 10y ago
There's fighting to survive against a predator, there's fighting competitors for mating access, and then there's fighting between groups of the same animals. They mean that it's the third option that is rare among animal
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by daemin 10y ago
It's just a product with a name that has a year in it, but the executables inside each have their own different version. For example for Visual Studio 2015, the visual studio executable is at version 14, and the C++ compiler is at vers
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by daemin 10y ago
Having worked at a place which sold software to TLA's among other customers, I heard (let's say) stories of those agencies being able to pirate software at will. The main reason is that they are installed on secure computers, phys
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by daemin 10y ago
They did only have a sample size of 1 for each different drive type, so it's not exactly an exhaustive test.
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by daemin 10y ago
It's more that people have a higher expectation of what a device can to, and that generally means what the software can do. I mean right now there are computers you can get that are orders of magnitude better in every dimension than th
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by daemin 10y ago
That's the one, seems I've been outside Australia long enough to lose some slang. It doesn't seem very derogatory now (context matters more), and the community has taken it up as their own.
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by daemin 10y ago
It's never the President that runs the country, it's always the administration. The administration that is never voted in by the people, it is just someone's job. The leadership may enact laws, but it always comes down to ord
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by daemin 10y ago
Well kind of, in the last century 1900-2000 in Australia, Greek and Italian immigrants weren't considered "white". The only immigrants that were considered white were from the UK (and maybe France, Germany, and the Nordic cou
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by daemin 10y ago
It is IO bound, but it is also CPU and memory bound as well. I say this because most of the loading a game does is while it is running. This is especially true for large open world games (and others to varying degrees), where sections of th
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by daemin 10y ago
A millisecond is a huge amount of time, and in that time we can do so many more things more useful to the application than just collecting its trash.
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by daemin 10y ago
You can implement allocators which are very fast, much faster than generic malloc and free. Then people that do care about this level of performance can write their own ones, optimised specifically for the platform they are using and proble
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by daemin 10y ago
But in most GC languages there is nothing you can do without allocating. Creating an object is already allocating it on the heap, printing a string will also allocate.
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by daemin 10y ago
Yes, but in this case we know when the allocations will occur, and when they will be freed. If using a GC we know when they will occur, but do not know when they will be freed. Which means that at some indeterminate point in the future ther
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by daemin 10y ago
There's also the problem of all the small meeting rooms being booked out and occupied all the time. Usually by people from sales or administration/hr.
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by daemin 10y ago
Yeah, in some cases "Asia" extends far into the Middle East - Football / Soccer, there is an Asian club championship with teams from the *stan's and Australia.
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by daemin 10y ago
Yep, that's how I remember it in Australia. The honours students had more respect and were more skilled than the masters students.
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by daemin 10y ago
So a reasonable answer could say - usually 8 bytes - but sometimes with extended precision it could be 10 bytes, etc... I am actually kind of sick of the people that say these details are not important to being a good programmer. They absol
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by daemin 10y ago
So how would you take into consideration over-fishing? Having constantly increasing production would be good for a while until it is not. There would have to be some sort of artificial limit set, either by the fishermen themselves (which wo
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by daemin 10y ago
Wars were fought for honour, various slights or (diplomatic or personal) insults, lots of reasons, not all of them profitable. In general war is not profitable to the entities that wage them.
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by daemin 10y ago
The purpose of war is to get the other side to give you what you want. Killing people is just a side-effect or method to accomplish your goals.
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by daemin 10y ago
So the number of actual warheads could be far greater, but it is effectively only as many as the number of delivery vehicles. Especially in the event of a full nuclear war, since they won't exactly be able to go back and rearm with tho
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by daemin 10y ago
I think it still depends, for the flights I have done most often most recently the hub and spoke model is still very efficient. For Europe to Australia you pretty much have to, it's an 8 and 13 hour flight combination, either going thr
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by daemin 10y ago
Yeah, I know this can get brought out a lot in these circumstances, but remember how everyone thought Richard Stallman / rms was crazy for being so disconnected from the Internet? Somehow that doesn't seem the case anymore.
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by daemin 10y ago
The other tricky thing is, even a single lapse in forgetting to turn the phone off, or bringing it with you is enough to undo all vigilance ever. I don't see it as feasibly, especially for people that are anxious or distracted by somet
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by daemin 10y ago
So basically they're going in the direction of WeChat. People won't see advertising, but businesses will pay to let you interact with them on the WhatsApp platform.

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