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by dmpk2k 14y ago
better variable scoping CS's scoping is a bit... dangerous, because there's no indication of a variable's scope. If you're not paying attention to your environment, you'll inadvertently stomp on higher scopes or globals. You can lose assi
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
What's the £50 device? I'm not going to buy a Galaxy variant to play with Firefox OS, but £50 is a different story.
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
One of the hardest parts of writing a compiler is register allocation. Not quite. There are many much more difficult problems in a competitive optimizing compiler before hitting that step. You can get reasonable results from even a linear
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
I think your definition of "worst" needs recalibration; the hyperboles really aren't improving the level of discourse.
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
From an individual perspective that makes sense. That does not change what I said, however. This is old and beaten ground though, which you are no doubt familiar with. I'll refrain from treading it again.
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
but chances for future growth I find it thoroughly creepy that we define success through growth in a finite world. If a company isn't growing, it's "done". I realize that isn't quite what you mean, but then you shouldn't write it. The min
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
It's fine if they work together. I just don't think a formalized hierarchy, nor a populace voting for candidates due to their party association, is healthy -- it causes bad distortions, like the threat of political death if a member dares
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
I'm curious why you're moving from Australia to Canada? Canada has a lot going for it, and it's definitely cheaper, but in most regards I think Australia has its act together better.
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
Perhaps we should eliminate parties altogether. The existence of party whips and cabinets in many countries tells us a lot about their "representative" democracies.
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
This may be one of the few discussions where the licensing discussion is apropos, so consider my prior rant as something broader. But it doesn't help when "great harm" hyperbole gets thrown around. The world has benefited from the gift, unl
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
FreeBSD can use GPL code, legally. They just can't release the combined work under anything but the GPL, so they choose not to. I think the distinction is academic. In practice FreeBSD can use CDDL code, but not GPL. And frankly I don't
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
There is a simple way to guarantee that an Illumos distro works, and that's to use Intel for everything: chip, motherboard, nics, you name it. Other setups can work, but you need to be very aware of this: http://illumos.org/hcl/
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
ZFS is great, but it does break from time to time Ah, it seems our definitions vary. ZFS has had problems, but all production filesystems have. From a strict standpoint, what the original author wrote about bugs is wrong, but from a pract
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
ZFS was released in 2005, and appeared in Solaris 10 in 2006. Close enough? More importantly, what's the problem with scrubbing instead of fsck?
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
The CDDL was a great harm to the broader community In the same way as GPL did, no doubt. FreeBSD is chock full of CDDL tech, but can't use GPL. Illumos can use *BSD code too, but not GPL. This is back to the BSD vs GPL debate. That's just
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
No, you did not. If you had, there is absolutely no way you could have written: "optimal is a binary search tree in an array, like the way heaps are implemented." I leave it to other people to read the article first, then your comment, then
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
Good lord. You didn't read the article _at all_. I have some really ugly things to say to a new poster who cannot be bothered to read an article before trying to show off, but I'll refrain. In the future, read first, think, then comment. Yo
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
> A majority of startup folks I run into from Berlin do not speak any german at all. Many of them have been living there for a while, some for several years. That is quite sad.
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
I saw the video. It seems a very silly thing to do -- ever since I first saw that video I've been trying to understand Crockford's angle, and I just cannot. However, feronull seems in favour of it, so I'd like to know why. Forking a project
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
Why?
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
In theory. In practice, doing that (with Clojure specifically) would be a bit silly. A lot would need to change with the language to make it suitable for OS development, at which point Clojure would lose a lot of the attributes that make it
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
Clojure's memory consumption is extreme, which excludes it from many realms of software development. It's primarily useful for sovereign applications (e.g. precludes utilities) which do not require high memory density (e.g. precludes databa
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
Considering the problems that Sun ran into with Rock, and the opinion that Cliff Click has for Azul's own HTM implementation, I wouldn't get excited yet.
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
> it makes it possible for a family which can't quite make the up-front cost for a home to still buy a home But does it actually have that effect? Once everyone is using mortgages, everyone is back in the same place as before mortgages.
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
As an aside: are mortgages even a good thing? They seem to create their own market. I.e. if there are no mortgages, people buy what they can afford and housing prices remain low. If there are mortgages, suddenly house prices skyrocket since
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
Best of luck in your future endeavours. :)
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
I was shocked how hard it is to find any books about ordoliberalism in North America, even though it was a driver of economic thought and policy in Germany for decades. The only book I found was at a major university's library, in German. I
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
What makes you think it has caught up?
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
It's important to be conservative in the right places. Data storage is one of those places: data is the lifeblood of most businesses, and once it goes bad there's often no way of making it good again. Making sure it's correct and remains co
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by dmpk2k 14y ago
Based on what I've seen for some internal things, that's one claim I'd like to see support for. m/r on Riak has been an unmitigated disaster here for anything beyond incredibly trivial working sets.

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