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by dmpk2k 13y ago
The incredibly low-power usage of the chip is interesting, as is his perspective of counting the energy of each operation. You can run the chip full-throttle with a solar panel the size of your hand, but where it shines is when it's no
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by dmpk2k 13y ago
You're making a lot of assumptions there.
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by dmpk2k 13y ago
Uhm, Ben lacts tact? Says who? It's a general observation I've developed watching node development on occasion. I don't even follow it that closely, but a disproportionate amount of negativity seems to stem from bnoordhuis;
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by dmpk2k 13y ago
I think that's an example of sample bias. There are many excellent developers who are nice too, you just don't hear as much about them because they're not causing drama. Again. All the great developers I've worked with h
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by dmpk2k 13y ago
At a guess: https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015#issuecomment-29538... and https://github.com/joyent/libuv/commit/804d40ee14dc0f82c482d... Those two may not seem like muc
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by dmpk2k 13y ago
I can't say I'm surprised though. bnoordhuis lacks tact; poke other people enough and eventually you'll get an angry mob. The parent article talks about learning, but glosses over that bnoordhuis' behaviour that set this
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by dmpk2k 13y ago
> I've never understood the fetish C/++ programmers have for shared memory, and locks, and mutexes. There are some problems which are more amenable to shared mutable memory, especially when performance or memory space is a co
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by dmpk2k 13y ago
Erlang is comparatively slow. Think of it as a waterline -- as a language implementation gets faster, other performance problems (like M:N) appear above the surface.
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What does that link have to do with your question? To answer your question: some subdisciplines of psychology are (e.g. biological psychology), and some are not (e.g. psychoanalysis). From what I've seen, all world-class universities e
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The reason I gave up on Debian was because Debian was always off doing its own thing (changing default locations, changing how config files were put together, and so on). Slackware was really close to what you'd get if you downloaded t
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by dmpk2k 13y ago
your servers are just as unavailable either way Right, but having local disks reduces the sources of failure, reduces contention, reduces latency, reduces the complexity of failures, and is thus much nicer to work with. Computers and netw
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I'd wager that google would be very interested, if they already not doing something like that in their data centers. I wonder about that. It's usually a lot cheaper to move computation to data, rather than data to computation. T
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One of the competitive advantages the company I work for has is that it dogfoods its own software, which for some odd reason is a bit rare in its space -- we don't just think we know the problems our customers face, we're sufferin
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by dmpk2k 13y ago
Will it? I've been browsing without Java for years, and I can only remember problems with one site (some hilarious throwback from the late 90s). For general browsing, I doubt anyone will notice a difference. Maybe for corporate use, bu
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by dmpk2k 13y ago
can be outperformed by newer algorithms I'm interested to hear more about this. There's CAR... what else? As an aside, ZFS's ARC algorithm differs a fair bit from IBM's -- a case of theory which then met reality. I don
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by dmpk2k 13y ago
Nate Silver comes out very clearly in support of climate change theory in his The Signal and The Noise , and elucidates why, although he goes carefully through the problems and limitations with many climate models. Criticising models is no
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by dmpk2k 13y ago
I've read the Microsoft paper, and I'm not clear on something: The paper is comparing TDD vs non-TDD groups... but what are the non-TDD groups doing? Are they test last? Are they ad-hoc? Do they test at all? Did I misread somethin
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by dmpk2k 13y ago
Metro largely threw discoverability out the windows. (ps: I had the same problem)
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by dmpk2k 13y ago
Lua 5.2 features, which LuaJIT doesn't support Just being pedantic: LuaJIT supports some 5.2 features. Search for "5.2" on this page: http://luajit.org/extensions.html
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by dmpk2k 13y ago
I make an argument in good faith and get a nonsensical passive-aggressive blow-off in return. You should be ashamed.
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by dmpk2k 13y ago
which seems to be Lisp-snobbery which is clearly somewhat justified in theory but almost irrelevant in practice I agree, but you're missing the forest for the trees here. Please accept my arguments in good faith. Do you honestly vie
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Downvote wasn't me. I agree with the sentiment regarding requirements. However, I disagree with the bit regarding data redundancy and integrity. You can do it other ways, but that doesn't make it a good idea; it's a bit lik
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it hasn't been worth the overhead of running another OS to get its features since. That's a rather cavalier attitude towards the integrity of your data. :/ I can replace operating systems. It's a lot more difficult to
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by dmpk2k 13y ago
The opensource ZFS code has been almost stagnant/in mainteinance mode all this time. We must have been looking at different ZFS projects. ZFS development was far from stagnant. :)
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by dmpk2k 13y ago
Just a small reminder that you don't need to touch Solaris specifically. There's a heavily-developed OSS fork named illumos out there too. Some of illumos' distros are nicer than Solaris ever was.
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by dmpk2k 13y ago
I'm not sure if my memory is playing tricks on my, but I've found quotes unreliable. Google will spit out "close" suggestions that have nothing to do with what I requested, despite using quotes. Google also happily retur
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Memory Leak (and Growth) Flame Graphs(dtrace.org)
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by dmpk2k 13y ago
I'm not sure a general lack of useful commenting and a subsistence on single-variable names is defensible. It sure seems like a case of "You can write Fortran in any language".
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by dmpk2k 13y ago
As a random aside, why do APL programmers try to import their idioms into C? Take a look at the VM code in J or Kona and prepare for a shock. It's too bad. I find VMs interesting, but I wouldn't touch that C with a ten-foot pole.
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by dmpk2k 13y ago
Scaling up means paying for oracle or sql server and having a simpler development model because you have a single db instance. Scaling out means going for nosql and taking some of the reliability and synchronization work into your codebase

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