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by dgregd 13y ago
BTW How do we know that interstellar space is empty, that there is no dust, stones, etc. Probably even very small objects make high-speed flights impossible because of collisions.
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by dgregd 13y ago
I just wonder when someone will build a tool to annotate Ruby, Python source code with var types gathered during run-time. If C has Valgrind then dynamic typed languages should get something for the types.
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by dgregd 13y ago
Banksters will not let small investors to make money in this financial fuss. Credit interest rates for ordinary people are going to be much higher than the expected inflation.
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by dgregd 13y ago
If the micro-blogging platform is worth $1.1 billion then a platform which will solve the problem we are discussing here might be worth more. Maybe you can outsource comments moderation to a group of competing startups. Not for all posts bu
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by dgregd 13y ago
It doesn't work well for management with MBA background. These guys want to have all excel spreadsheet cells filled in upfront. And more important, there must be someone to blame for bad estimates in case of any problems. In corporate envir
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by dgregd 13y ago
1. Does nginx spdy module is enabled by default? 2. Sometime ago you said that Ruby 2.0 has some bugs you suggested to wait for next Ruby 2.0 patch release. Is this still the case?
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by dgregd 14y ago
> First of all, money is information. No, first of all, money is trust that someone will honour it. Information is on the second place.
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by dgregd 14y ago
Could someone please tell me, who is going to make money during this fuss?
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by dgregd 14y ago
You mean new rookie players at banksters poker tables.
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by dgregd 14y ago
> Refinements, as I understand them, are a bad idea. I agree. Some feature to debug monkey patching conflicts is needed. But do we really have to change methods call logic to achieve that goal? I would like to see some diagnostic featur
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by dgregd 14y ago
> Object.observe will make it fast even if you're batman. Additionally Object.observe will make Ember way of the data binding obsolete. So there will be another big Ember API change in near future. Object.observe adoption for Angular ap
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by dgregd 14y ago
> This "dirty checking" can quickly lead to pathological performance issues. I would say that "dirty checking" is a better approach. The code is cleaner and with Object.observe() there are no performance issues even in _edge cases_ with
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by dgregd 14y ago
Sure, but what desktop apps ordinary users are going to run on Win8 tablets?
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by dgregd 14y ago
> but have been really struggling to come up with any good reasons to buy one Recently my friend said that he considers buying a tablet and thinking about a Win8 tablet. He already owns two quite new laptops. So I asked why he needs a W
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by dgregd 14y ago
> Who would vacuum up that supply? I guess China would be more than happy to exchange US bonds for gold.
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by dgregd 14y ago
> Central banks could burst this bubble easily by selling off their gold reserves Some central banks already sold their gold http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sale_of_UK_gold_reserves,_1999-...
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by dgregd 14y ago
> Today, with reputable central banks you don't need gold anymore Just look at the inflation charts of last 2 centuries...
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by dgregd 14y ago
As far I know, US government once confiscated gold http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102
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by dgregd 14y ago
Maybe that was the plan. They started with the idea to have web search inside FB, to get some money from well established search business. And the graph search is very good solution/excuse to have the search text box in FB.
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by dgregd 14y ago
> tiny fraction of them are going to be ones that Facebook can resolve maybe the rest they are going to forward/proxy to Bing.
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by dgregd 14y ago
> continues to be wildly and purposefully unfocused Unfocused? Last two years Google killed tens of products. They even killed Google Wave. Moreover, they unified UI across many products. In my opinion Larry is doing exactly what Steve
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by dgregd 14y ago
Someone asked Java DI related question. All answers were dogmatic. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/131975/what-are-the-benef... I tend to think that sometimes guys choose (or are forced to choose) solutions like configuration xml files
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by dgregd 14y ago
and after they finish building the system with separated business logic, suggest their business client to add a formal business requirement that all data should be persistently stored. just in case.
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by dgregd 14y ago
> give them electric shock even better, force them to use COmmon Business Oriented Language
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by dgregd 14y ago
This is discussion about intelligence. But do we have clear definition of intelligence? Without clear definition one can say that the Singularity already happened. Chess masters definitely are considered intelligent. So why computer program
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by dgregd 14y ago
Maybe we should redefine what newspapers and journalists should do in Internet era. Reporters from traditional magazines talk to interesting people, write articles and newspapers print them (of course I simplified things a bit). But today I
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by dgregd 14y ago
> customers paying for a guaranteed percentage of high-QoS > bandwidth during peak network load This and all similar ideas are very dangerous. Compare pure commercial networks (mobile SMSes, ISDN) with Internet which has academic ba
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by dgregd 14y ago
I think the same. For 99% of Ruby programmers speed is bigger issue than monkey patches conflicts. Maybe refinements should evolve into some MRI diagnostics mode.
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by dgregd 14y ago
> Speaking as someone who builds networks just for multicast I heard about IP Multicast more than 10 years ago. But it never took off. Or at least I thought so. I am really curious what are practical applications of the networks you bui
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by dgregd 14y ago
Well, it is not coincidence that Google decided to lower prices of Nexus devices now. They want to neutralize Windows 8 mobile devices. With that price levels it will be hard for Microsoft to charge anything for its OS. And the article thes

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