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by dmpk2k 14y ago
Some people don't live their lives to interact with high-power investors, but contribute vastly more value to society than people who do live their lives to do so.
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
Does Pharo support multiple hardware threads? How does the performance compare with VisualWorks?
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
Given how all manner of languages, libraries and frameworks tend to massively sprawl over time, keeping the growth of core components down is a good idea.
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
Kindly refrain from swearing, all caps, and 4chan-isms. I prefer to not read that kind of noise, and no doubt others here feel the same.
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
And blitzgreig was yesterdays war. Only by the narrowest of definitions. The US modus operandi with armoured warfare could be straight out of the German High Command's playbook. I strongly suspect that Guderian, Rommel and Manstein would
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
It's only "yesterday's war" as far as COIN is concerned. Against state actors, maneuver is still the order of the day. Even with counterinsurgency, moving infantry with helicopters is a force multiplier. It's true that asymmetric warfare is
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
We still have fundamentally the same economy she built, and it's served us well. Has it? The manufacturing sector in the UK has been pretty thoroughly gutted.
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
Google won't defend someone using their technology in their ecosystem? I hope there's more to this story, because otherwise that is a mind-bogglingly stupid move. Talk about a chilling effect.
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
yet total government revenue as a percentage of GDP has been pretty stable since then I'd be very careful using GDP for anything. A while back I took a look at the finer details of how GDP is defined by the US government, and more impor
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
Alternatively, such a paper could lead many a reader to implement a dead end. Each assumes they did it wrong, and after much wrangling, silently move on. Later, the next intellectual victim comes along.
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
An industrial operating system. In C, you know what you've got: its exact dimensions, location, and lifetime. Since you're not relying on a GC, you can make latency more predictable and with much lower upper bounds. On that topic, I'd rathe
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
Having a REPL is a big productivity boost for Python, not avoiding an explicit compile step. A compile step is utterly trivial to avoid (e.g. "make run" which builds and runs). Likewise, live reloading is possible in C using dlopen().
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
I agree with this so much. A few years ago I realized that my C code wasn't longer or harder to reason about than most higher-level languages (yes, that factors in the memory management and even error checking), except for one thing: those
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
I'd say vaccines and antibiotics have made my life vastly better. Let's compare: WW2 was the worst war we've ever had; it killed about 60 million people, or about 2% of the world population. The Spanish Flu in 1918 killed 3%. Smallpox kille
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
Strange. I too am a member of the 50+ tab club, but this is why I've been using Opera for years (Firefox as well, but for dev tools). The difference between the two is stark, so I'm surprised we've reached the opposite conclusion.
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
Proof of better outcomes is unnecessary. That sounds anti-science if ever I heard it. Claiming inherent superiority while denigrating evidence and empirical approaches is cut from the same cloth as religion, and certainly won't convince t
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
They're feasible, but a lot less interesting if you're not taking advantage of multiple cores.
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
I'm curious how they map Clojure's persistent data structures with many threads onto Lua states.
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
If you're referring to LuaJIT 1 vs 2, the big differences are that LuaJIT 2 has a trace-tree JIT, and interpreters for each platform written in assembly. The improvement in performance is significant: LuaJIT2's interpreter alone is faster t
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
Please don't act surprised after what you wrote. There are polite ways to make a point, and good reason to do so.
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
I concur. HN suffers from ye olde bike-shedding: people argue about trivial things, because the hard stuff is beyond their ability and/or inclination. I regularly see long and technically strong articles sink with less than ten votes and ze
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
It's not just reliability though. The quality of I/O is also better. You don't see such slow I/O, with crazy fluctuations, with local storage.
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
Indeed there is: http://zfsonlinux.org/ There's more than one ZFS port to Linux, which might be confusing some people. There's also the more dramatic option of using FreeBSD or one of the illumos derivatives, which work fine in my experie
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
We really shouldn't be encouraging more garbage in our dumps...
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
Not killer feature ≠ not important.
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
There are a number of languages with support for generics. If easier generics was Rust's claim to fame, it would have quietly disappeared into LtU-land, never to be seen again. Luckily, there's a lot more to Rust than that. Killer feature g
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
I think that just reinforces his point. Making a solid database is hard work. And making a solid, featureful, and performant database is vastly harder.
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
I don't know about Go, but lint is commonly used to enforce checking of return values in C. Presumably Go could bake an option into the compiler to enforce this too.
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
But that is unnecessary in CoffeeScript, because if you want lexical scope, you already have lexical scope: I find that unconvincing -- I like one of Walter Bright's maxims: the simple path should be safe. Unless you're scrupulous about d
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
Could you elaborate on the problems with Tegra 3?

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