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by dasht 16y ago
That's cute but are you concerned about liabilities that might result if what you are doing can be construed as advising people to drink irresponsibly (by giving them helpful instructions for doing it)?
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by dasht 16y ago
Thank you. I wasn't aware of that. Yeah, there are three things in play (I would say): 1. The language design of SQL is often icky. A different logical language could be nice. 2. The logical / physical separation is sometimes right on an
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by dasht 16y ago
A quick summary follows the quick editorial and after that a quick new thought: Editorial: Stonebraker is, imo, and as usual, Right Again. His biggest problem is that he's boring that way. He doesn't open his mouth in contexts like this b
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by dasht 16y ago
I don't think it is so much Apple, per se, that is nearing the bubble burst as the broad category of mobile gadgets. The "was it worth it" question applies to the category more than the particular company. Right now I see a lot of these m
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by dasht 16y ago
Hehe. You know the old saying "always darkest just before the storm"? How's about: "always highest revenue just before the bubble bursts"? Huge numbers of consumer leaders or consumer suckers have, in the past few years, bought lots of thi
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by dasht 16y ago
Oh, please, please someone toss in some animation (and also expand the sample set to a much longer time frame). By animation I mean that the transition between two "frames" should be titles moving smoothly between positions. It would need
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by dasht 16y ago
In all seriousness, can you please point me ideally to a peer reviewed comparison from a decent forum or at least what you consider to be some of the best examples outside of the reviewed publication stuff? Benchmarks are freaking hard to p
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by dasht 16y ago
Proof by reputation doesn't cut it here. He needs to demonstrate either that it is impossible to reasonably configure Squid to do very little paging or, in the alternative, that a non-paging instance of Squid performs unimpressively compar
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by dasht 16y ago
This rant is a mixed bag of decent advise and dismal advice. Let's begin with Squid. I can't speak to the performance of Squid. Never measured it. Don't care. I do care about how it is described in this article. We're told that you te
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by dasht 16y ago
In other words, you do (it turns out) like being micromanaged. :-)
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by dasht 16y ago
I think a lot of the comments here (not all) display a relative naivete about what is meant by ACID and why the physical / logical separation of SQL is vital to the point about ad hoc queries. It's ironic because some of those comments comp
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by dasht 16y ago
I earlier posted reasons why (IMO) Plan9 "failed" but will likely (in a new form) succeed on big compute clusters. The other possible place for a big breakthrough is mobile. For example, if all of your "apps" are in Java and those apps har
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by dasht 16y ago
(In my opinion) Here's a bunch of reasons why Plan9 isn't popular, and then a reason or two why something like it likely will be before too long: The first obvious answer (also mentioned in other comments) is because "Systems Software Resea
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by dasht 16y ago
Heh. The reasons given also explain why the GNU project has failed to release any influential software like GCC, the various GNU shell utilities, GNU Emacs, GDB and other such insignificant projects.
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by dasht 16y ago
In another comment, the poster (rsbrown) makes the excellent clarification: "What I am suggesting is a low-cost, high-quality device (like the Flip camcorder)." Here is my guess as to why Amazon does not rush into that: a) Kindle, as you'll
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by dasht 16y ago
This is not an appropriate forum in which to seek or give investment advice of that sort. Those who respond risk accidentally running afoul of securities law and you risk getting (and, worse - taking) very bad advice.
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by dasht 16y ago
Uh.. Yeah, I did catch that. Here's the thing: You pay CL a fee. CL has a review policy. CL reviews and then posts your ad. Posting. That ain't hosting: CL has explicitly taken some deeper editorial responsibility there. Does a newspap
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by dasht 16y ago
I don't think it's right how, in his "defense", he crouches behind "borderline Asperger's". I'm about to briefly rant on it because I think a lot of less rich and less notorious nerds and geeks in my industry make the same, lame, bullcurse
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by dasht 16y ago
I'm not sure exactly what you mean by your (4) that isn't already in my (2). Assuming that your (4) really is something other than my (2) or a subset of my (2): how big do you think the opportunity of (4)s is, realistically, over the nex
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by dasht 16y ago
With due respect, pg: The game of building a facebook dependent start-up has many possible outcomes but we could break them down this way: 1. Destined to lose. Nobody wins, not FB, not YC, not founders. All three parties joined in making
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by dasht 16y ago
I am not certain but, here is what it looks like. First I'll describe the text, then the apparent business model, then I'll kibbitz a little about the business model. The "chef client" is a program that runs on servers, either on-demand or
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by dasht 16y ago
You are apparently talking about "Turing machines" by which you mean finite automata connected to a 2-d tape or things very close to that. That class of machines is a tiny subset of turing complete machines and that class of machines you r
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by dasht 16y ago
On standard machine architectures Yes, right there you are demonstrating a deep misunderstanding of what you are replying to or how it relates to Kurzweil's arguments. On Omega, you say: all that is necessary is that the programs from A
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by dasht 16y ago
As an example: What "state" that makes sense of the genome is encoded in, say, mitochondria? What "state" that makes sense of the human genome is stored in, say, symbiotic bacteria that we host? Does that make sense to you?
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by dasht 16y ago
With due respect to tptacek's legitimate complaint -- it's damn funny and worth at least a few minutes on the "new" page.
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by dasht 16y ago
If your emulator requires substantially different space to encode the raw description of the program than the original, then the emulator sucks. I can't try to help you any further. You have a conceptual bug in your understanding of the
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by dasht 16y ago
But the complexity of the zygote derives mostly from that 50MB of genome data, Uh.. no. There's at least 650 Million years worth of initializing the process memory and other threads into which the zygote is fork / exec'ed.
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by dasht 16y ago
ewjordan: That's beautiful. Let me sort it out slightly and offer a counter argument or at least response to part. So, we agree that Kurzweil's "information theory" snobbery is wrong. His real argument is "C'mon... look, the genome's sma
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by dasht 16y ago
If we're talking about Turing machines, all of the machines are of equal computational power, and are also able to emulate each other. We aren't necessarily talking about Turing machines but let's suppose that we are. We're talking about
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by dasht 16y ago
Worst case scenario, one machine can emulate the other machine, running that input. Therefore an upper bound on one machine can be used to derive an upper bound on the other. Very nice try. (I mean that sincerely.) However, you must a

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