eliben

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   by eliben 12y ago

   That guy sure has an awesome job!
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   by eliben 12y ago

   Could someone explain what the thing with East Texas is? A district where juries and judges are more favorable than usual towards patents? This sound kind-of ridiculous, no? Can't the defending companies find similar anti-patent areas
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   by eliben 12y ago

   I can second this. It's actually quite easy to test on yourself. Try two kinds of breakfast for a few days each, and compare how much snacking you want to do before lunch: 1. Bagels + scone 2. Eggs + bacon For me, the second kind unden
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   by eliben 12y ago

   Interesting. This actually seems to be in line with the low carb approach which claims that fats starts getting burned only after all the carbs are gone. It's less extreme though, in the sense that true "keto" approaches say
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   by eliben 12y ago

   Similar tool in pure Python: https://github.com/eliben/pss
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   by eliben 12y ago

   I'm not sure you're answering my question, though. You made a claim that state machines are easy to debug and coroutines are not. What makes you think they are not? I'm really just curious. FWIW I've done significanly mo
7. 427.▲
   by eliben 12y ago

   Can you clarify why state machines are easier to debug?
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   by eliben 12y ago

   Given that population growth in the developed world is decelerating, and in many countries has already reversed, this is likely to take very long....
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   by eliben 13y ago

   Cool, thanks for the details.
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    by eliben 13y ago

    Loved your articles back in the day :-) The new animated diagrams are really cool. Can you describe in a few words how you create them?
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    by eliben 13y ago

    I think many folks are reading too much into this. "Extended lifetime" is bug-fixes. The final planned release is 2.7.9 in 2015 - beyond that there will be source-only releases for major security problems. No new features, no non-
12. 432.▲
    by eliben 13y ago

    I used to love Paint.NET back in my (dark) Windows days. Could anyone suggest a good web-based alternative that would be OS agnostic today?
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    by eliben 13y ago

    Competition is amazing. Cheers to free markets :)
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    by eliben 13y ago

    Your comment looks really silly in light of the two directly above it.
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    by eliben 13y ago

    Interesting to see this, having just finished one of Gary Taubes' books and reading another. Especially "Good Calories, Bad Calories" is an extremely well-researched work talking exactly about the issues discussed in this art
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    by eliben 13y ago

    +1. I also find Google Drive very convenient for this. The great search within my drive just lets me litter a large amount of new documents and not worry about it. I usually either view the most recently edited or search.
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    by eliben 13y ago

    Why would Amazon give away laptops for free? You can verify the claim in the link by just going to Amazon and looking at the best sellers in the laptop category.
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    by eliben 13y ago

    That would save the indirection, but I hope the article shows that by far the biggest cost comes from the lack of inlining. The latter would not be solved by your function pointer.
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    by eliben 13y ago

    And I have seen projects whose performance was crippled by layers upon layers of endless virtual calls. YMMV ;-)
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    by eliben 13y ago

    > don't collect all this data So you don't want GMail to actually collect your email? > stop cooperating with the NSA Ah, you mean they should start breaking the US law?
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    by eliben 13y ago

    > This means that a significant proportition of humans can't simply remain competitve This will only be true when we're nearing singularity, and that IMHO won't happen for centuries yet. So there's still time to go.
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    by eliben 13y ago

    How is NSA's large-scale spying on the world, that's been going on in full scale since the 1950s, Google's problem?
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    by eliben 13y ago

    Terrying in the same way as replacing millions of farm workers with automation has been in the past century? Or the automation of the wool industry in the 19th century? That's some very unimaginative thinking there. Large scale industr
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    by eliben 13y ago

    I was studying this difference between the two compilers for a different issue, actually. According to the standard, I don't see anything that prevents an increment of a volatile to be performed in a single instruction if the target pe
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    by eliben 13y ago

    Just to be clear, I tried it with 64- byte alignment
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    by eliben 13y ago

    Isn't $2.3m negligible for the size of companies involved and even compared to the legal expenses for this case?
27. 447.▲
    by eliben 13y ago

    Is it only me, but such things make Bitcoin seem somwhat... less private... than real money?
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    by eliben 13y ago

    I liked the box that pops immediately saying how the problem was promptly resolved by Google's representatives.
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    by eliben 13y ago

    Indeed. Especially given that Dropbox uses Amazon for the actual storage and the massive scale, I wonder what % of that revenue ends up in Amazon's pockets.
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    by eliben 13y ago

    My (admittedly, considerably more humble) attempt is http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2012/08/13/how-statically-linke... It takes on an even simpler program, namely: int main() { return 42; } But d