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by delian66 13y ago
Low cognitive overhead is also good for your future self, that will have to maintain the 'clever' mess which you wrote in a hurry ... In my experience so far, the abstractions that Go offers for writing concurrent code are very nice and eas
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by delian66 14y ago
The links which you have given above, are for 2 different simulations - the SBCL one is computing the mandelbrot set, and the Java one is doing an n-body simulation. That said, I agree with your point ... is seems to me pointless to effecti
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by delian66 14y ago
Probably you meant 'make -j4' ?
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by delian66 14y ago
For me, tmux has saner options and more mnemonic default keyboard shortcuts, that do not interfere with default bash shortcuts (Ctrl-A is goto-home-of-line in bash/emacs, but it is hijacked by screen by default as its escape sequence; tmux
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by delian66 14y ago
The whole point of modern war, is that you make other people kill each other, in order to profit from selling them both weapons and "help" them rebuild after the destruction.
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by delian66 14y ago
You are right - RescueTime is very helpful indeed for overcoming some kinds of procrastination. >>It is literally a little virus Just a little nitpicking ... it is not a "virus", neither literally nor figuratively - it does not repl
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by delian66 14y ago
>>Data works the way we make it work Who are "we" in this statement ? If you mean the distributors of the data, then you are wrong - just because you give some piece of data/information to another man, does not give you a right to f
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by delian66 14y ago
>> credit is carefully constructed to take forever to pay off if you are only paying what you have to I do not understand ... Anybody care to elaborate ?
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by delian66 14y ago
The most impressive html5 game I've played so far with nice graphics, music, and most importantly pretty responsive feedback is 'Save the day' : https://turbulenz.com/games/save-the-day/play The first time I played it, I had assumed it wa
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by delian66 14y ago
Why should you teach a child ed(1), instead of any other text editors? In my opinion , it is one of the most sadistic common text editors in existence, and has been for several decades.
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IBM manufactures light-based 'nanophotonic' chips to let the terabytes flow(engadget.com)
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by delian66 14y ago
Yes, of course there is danger, but the probability of a really hazardous event, which you may avoid by hearing, is very very low for most modern civilised environments where people spent prolonged periods of time, like sitting in plains/tr
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by delian66 14y ago
The demo looks nice ... but what about iPhone support ?
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by delian66 14y ago
The point of making a benchmark of a 'Hello World' is to show the overhead of a framework, compared to a simple PHP <?="Hello World"?> equivalent. Such a benchmark, gives you a sense of how bloated/(or feature rich depending on your
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by delian66 14y ago
Please, would you give an example of an open source program with such infrastructure built in ? I'm eager to study such programs to pick up insights.
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by delian66 14y ago
To be a fan, the major criterion is that you have to like the artist. Paying comes at a later stage.
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by delian66 14y ago
>>I'm sure the artist who just lost out on his 5 to 10 bucks would beg to disagree. I'm sure that the artist getting a new fan, and becoming more popular for free is a very dangerous process indeed :-) ...
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>>we are just about the only profession/trade/occupation on the planet that seems to believe that our tools should be free (as in beer). That is because software development tools like all other software is just data, once written a
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by delian66 14y ago
When you need to read or write something, do you call somebody else to do it for you? My point is that programming in the broader sense (giving instructions to computers, which they can repeat many times with accuracy later) is a far more g