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by dietrichepp 14y ago
This page doesn't sell it to me. Maybe it's a great language, who knows? 1. With Go, I understand the point. It makes advances in terms of how easy it is to write concurrent programs, without completely ditching the traditional imperative
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by dietrichepp 14y ago
They probably assume that as long as it's not too burdened with runtime dispatch, then LLVM will take care of the speed. And they'd be right. (Popular JavaScript implementations manage high speed even with runtime dispatch. The optimizati
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by dietrichepp 14y ago
I know you're trying to say that testing for Confucianism is not the same as testing for how well you can do a government post, but these weren't worthless tests. 1) Passing old Chinese tests required literacy, something we want bureaucrats
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by dietrichepp 14y ago
I'm guessing the mods will come in and delete that shortly...
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by dietrichepp 14y ago
It's a bad thing to require restaurants to disclose the number of calories in their menu items? Is it a bad thing to prohibit restaurants from serving heroin? I'm genuinely curious why you choose to draw the line where you do.
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by dietrichepp 14y ago
Basic psychology. It's easier to avoid eating candy if you don't have a desk that's literally fifteen feet from an open jar that nobody is watching. If it were that simple, we would all be much healthier than we are.
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by dietrichepp 14y ago
On the contrary -- you have to at least admit that if you disconnect a compromised machine, the attacker could have installed a script that detects that the machine is disconnected and erases evidence. If you power off, you can always mount
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by dietrichepp 14y ago
Well, if it were a contract it might be covered by the "Apparent Authority" doctrine. But I know jack about this.
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by dietrichepp 14y ago
> “Rock bands often deliberately introduce roughness and dissonance into their sounds, much to the delight of their audiences”, she says. From reading this, you might think that this trick was invented in the mid-20th century.
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by dietrichepp 14y ago
http://www.teslamotors.com/natick > The Gallery does not sell cars, but serves as a place to educate visitors about our groundbreaking electric vehicles. The website does not say this about Tesla's other locations.
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by dietrichepp 14y ago
I know Amazon says they have 11 9s, but merely given that there have been 5 mass extinction events in the past 500M years, you probably can't do better than 8 9s. (11 9s gives you even odds that your data will last 70 billion years, as lon
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by dietrichepp 14y ago
The hilarious part of this article is how it's so clearly a "hedgehog" article. > Hedgehogs are “type A personalities who believe in Big Ideas – in governing principles about the world ... Hedgehogs are more easily seduced by clear narr
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by dietrichepp 14y ago
> as junction temperature rises so does Ron, which creates more heat What's interesting about this is that bipolar transistor has the opposite property -- as it heats up, resistance decreases -- and yet this opposite property causes the
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by dietrichepp 14y ago
Out of curiosity, what's wrong with C++? You can always -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions disable everything, then avoid classes and templates.