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by edge17 14y ago
Thanks for the comment. To add to that, http://www.voxeu.org/article/why-india-lags-behind-china The most important factor that still holds back large firms from entering these products is a set of draconian labour laws in India. Under t
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by edge17 14y ago
should counted != counted most of the time line counts are just .c and .h in the file tree, and the generated files to often end up in the file tree and repository. I'm merely speaking from my own extensive experience in dealing with larg
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by edge17 14y ago
It sounds like you are saying that auto-generating refers only to DSL's. Here is an example of a guy writing some code that printf's some C code - http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/zlib/zlib-37.2/zlib/c... FILE *out;
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by edge17 14y ago
true, though it's unlikely that you would launch a DSL. far more likely that a lot of the code being generated is lookup tables and the like. engineers that write this sort of fault tolerant related code will do a lot of things the 'dumb' w
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by edge17 14y ago
no, but there is a guy that wrote some python that prints out C code into a file. that is what auto-generating C code means. the caching of intermediates and regenerating of the C files is the business of the Makefile
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by edge17 14y ago
no, autogenerated C code means someone (maybe a build script) runs a Python script that generates a bunch of C files, and then the C compiler picks up those files. Those C files exist in the file tree and may be human readable. C files are
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by edge17 14y ago
productivity != kloc's autogenerated C is used sometimes for complex conditional nestings. in some failure situations it is programmatically more efficient or easier to trace issues if every condition is enumerated
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by edge17 14y ago
huh? it is auto-generated C as described in the post
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by edge17 14y ago
And Leo's failures will also be forgotten. That's the point. The new cycle is so short and consumer memory so limited that it's pretty hard to have a meaningful failure that the press won't let go of. Go read Nokia's history. They used to m
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by edge17 14y ago
just a datapoint about 'obsolete,' tape is still used for backups and remains attractive in terms of cost and storage density
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by edge17 14y ago
you shouldn't ignore that Apple's trying to do what it's taken Google 10 years to do. They'll get it right, but expecting feature parity on day one isn't reasonable. At the end of the day there are humans making all this stuff work.
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by edge17 14y ago
have you seen the discovery channel lately? http://imgur.com/gallery/At0E0
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by edge17 14y ago
Quora has some nice stuff, but it's less of a site that deals with news. I also have no doubt that the quality of the site would go down if their traffic exploded by an order of magnitude... which is clearly the case at HN in the last few y
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by edge17 14y ago
I agree, though I think the problem is that this community had decided this site was supposed to be above all the noise. Clearly not the case; that's fine, the guys that run in work hard and don't have any kind of bad intentions. I'm just c
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Ask HN: Where do you get your news?
13 points by edge17 14y ago|11 comments
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by edge17 14y ago
that's pretty interesting. do you have a link or something with some of the cost analysis?
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by edge17 15y ago
cool, wondering if you have a reference?
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by edge17 15y ago
where is the hardware? (processing hardware, power supply, and antennas)
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by edge17 15y ago
it's also worth noting that 35 years of the Federal Aid Highway Act that build the US interstate system costed less that half a trillion in modern terms, created jobs, industries, and changed the landscape of the country. it's also worth no
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by edge17 15y ago
Brink? How is this not a budgetary disaster already? What 'technology' costed a trillion dollars to develop? Certainly not going to the moon.
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by edge17 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program#Program_costs_an... pretty cheap when you put it next to a bank bailout
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by edge17 15y ago
my friend showed me the data they receive regarding some of that stuff. It's not terribly granular, but you do get some of it. overall, my takeaway was that you're at an advantage if you know how to do a little internet marketing wrt reachi
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by edge17 15y ago
from the other side, some friends of mine recently tried to raise 18k and ended up north of 50k. the majority of the money that was raised came through external linkage, not through kickstarter.
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by edge17 15y ago
giving your kid a regular name is probably a way easier solution
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by edge17 15y ago
does the president actually have an email address he checks for presidential matters?
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by edge17 15y ago
Pixar was selling hardware to NSA at that time
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by edge17 15y ago
for anyone that missed the reference - http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21328506.400-pirate-fi...
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by edge17 15y ago
does alot/all of the in-game models have to be redone?
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Ask HN: Graphics/Game programmers, How do you port 3d games across platforms?
3 points by edge17 15y ago|4 comments
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by edge17 15y ago
how's it any different than taking questions via twitter, doing a community roundtable at linkedin, or meeting with employees et al. at facebook?

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