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721.
by dexen 13y ago
From the website: http://www.bloom-lang.net/bud/ BUD is Bloom as a Ruby DSL, and http://www.bloom-lang.net/faq/ FAQ tells more.
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by dexen 13y ago
Glad you asked ;-) It's called Hyper-threading [1] and works best when the scheduler is aware. Provided in some Intel's CPUs (2 threads per core) and in Sun's (later Oracle's) UltraSPARC T1...T5 (8 threads per core). [1]
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by dexen 13y ago
I'm all for it -- good old free market and whatnot, but... how exactly would one pick the most promissing project? Do we have any undisputable metric of project progress (both completeness and quality) yet ? Would we judge competing p
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by dexen 13y ago
Obligatory Straight Dope link: Has a passenger ever landed a plane after the pilot was incapacitated? [1] in which Cecil mentions several such cases. [1] http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/3090/has-a-p
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by dexen 13y ago
Partly matter of taste, partly matter of code formatting style. Used to be big on syntax highlighting for years, but now I prefer mono. When needed, double-click highlights area between matching parens/brackets/braces/tags.
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by dexen 13y ago
I'm happy with tiled windows in Acme (editor/IDE) for daily work. The layouting algorithm (a simple one) does the right thing most of the time :^) My usual mode is Acme maximized on one screen, and browser, email and IM spread on
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by dexen 13y ago
I, for one, welcome our new Grey Goo [1] Overlords ;-) Let's just hope those don't develop self-preservation instinct anytime near soon. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_goo
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by dexen 13y ago
Ever heard of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinavia ? Sure you can record in the analog hole, but the playback of copies will becut or limited. Imagine a browser refuse playback video or audio clip based on Cinavia DRM
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by dexen 13y ago
If I'm unhappy with work conditions -- be it bad management, burden of unmanageable technical debt, incompatible culture or the mundane problem of low pay -- I am expected to `vote with my feet'. It's market self-regulation,
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by dexen 13y ago
I believe it was `Geneshaft' [0], by Bandai. It mixes mecha with social dynamics of genetics and gender disparity. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneshaft
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by dexen 13y ago
This property prevents certain class of cracks, making it harder to pirate software. Consider the following example: a vendor provides a free demo and a paid version of the same program. Functionality is the same (`computes the same functio
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by dexen 13y ago
> (...) that most allocators will use brk/sbrk to resize the data segment of the executing process to allocate memory, at least if they shall allocate few memory. The other commonly used backend for malloc() is mmap() without unde
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by dexen 13y ago
PHP can be thought of as ``configuration + templating language for your C application'' , with the C application being both the http server, and stock and your custom PHP plugins. Yes, the whole stack can get hardcore, as long as
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by dexen 13y ago
> The best baseball players make much more than the average player, the star of a Hollywood film makes far more than most actors, and true "rockstars" make a heck of a lot more money than the vast majority of musicians. It&#x
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by dexen 13y ago
You have somehow re-defined software engineer performance as a mere function of company bottom-line, and ended up measuring performance of individual software developers by proxy of long-term company performance. There are two problems with
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by dexen 13y ago
After reading numerous posts on the subject of 10x software engineers, I reckon they fall mostly into two categories: - `I have worked with / seen code of such ones' (often examples follow) - `there were no such ones on any tea
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by dexen 13y ago
FWIW, this branching model works for me in a small-ish team, two years now and counting. The part about `good merge bubbles' is especially important for clean history.
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by dexen 13y ago
It works for some two years now. Switching family to linux (laptop & desktop) two years ago have saved me tens of hours of tech support, and saved family from waiting for my free time. `It Just Works' for them. Really, everything e
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by dexen 13y ago
Gotta enjoy the HTTP2 as put forth in http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Protocols/HTTP/HTTP2.html and can't help but smirk at the never-ending discussions on DOCTYPE: http://info.cern.ch&
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by dexen 13y ago
Not only humans are affected: http://www.businessinsider.com/alcohol-imbibing-animals-2013...
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by dexen 13y ago
Seconded, Kasten (1) produces some very cozy floating houses ;-) [1] http://www.kastenmarine.com/plans_list.htm
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by dexen 13y ago
I find this post inspiring. For years I've been struggling with un-named itch, now you put forth exactly what makes me tick. Will follow your steps. Thanks for sharing, Jacques :-)
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Cinavia - analog watermarking and steganography(en.wikipedia.org)
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by dexen 13y ago
Let our inner knee-jerk selves remember the ``Why defend freedom of icky speech?'' [1]. [1] http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/12/why-defend-freedom-of-...
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by dexen 13y ago
to copy a tree of files: tar c SOURCE_DIR | pv | tar xv -C DEST_DIR or # on source computer tar c SOURCE_DIR | pv > /dev/tcp/192.168.1.2/4567 # on destination computer computer nc -l -p 4567 | pv | t
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by dexen 13y ago
It's a double satire, actually. The obvious level is the infeasibility, in the good old style of http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3514 `Evil Bit'. At the other, darker and more nefarious level are the proposals
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$25 gadget lets hackers seize control of a car(newscientist.com)
3 points by dexen 13y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: maps and geocoding solution?
2 points by dexen 13y ago|1 comments
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How Health Trackers Could Reduce Sexual Infidelity(techcrunch.com)
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by dexen 13y ago
Possibly http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrothermal_vent#Black_smokers...

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