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by evilotto 7y ago
https://iplayif.com/?story=https://github.com/historicalsour...
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by evilotto 8y ago
It probably would, but I don't have a system I can test it on.
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by evilotto 8y ago
That's true, it's not the only reason. Dealing with threads and buffers and pthread_atfork and the associated heartbreak is a biggie also. But the performance is nothing to laugh at. I just did a quick test, a 100mb process gene
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by evilotto 8y ago
Not even just the semantics, the performance is awful. Even when the fork is virtual (as any modern fork is) and there's no memory copying because it's COW, all the kernel page tables still need to be copied and for a multi-GB pr
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by evilotto 8y ago
> I think it's well-known that Windows NT took a lot of ideas from VMS. Has the old theory that "Windows NT" aka "WNT" = "VMS + 1" ever been proved or disproved?
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by evilotto 8y ago
> But ICC makes most of their revenue I didn't read through the whole report and I'll admit it's not entirely clear what all the line items are, but (1) the "program/member services" cost more than the reven
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by evilotto 8y ago
It sounds like UpCodes is making the argument that access to the building codes shouldn't be restricted so that they can build a business selling access to it. Yes, they will have a free version, but their idea is that people will pay
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by evilotto 8y ago
"Female voices do however appear to have an advantage in that they can portray a greater range of urgencies because of their usually higher pitch and pitch range. An experiment is reported showing that knowledge about the sex of a spea
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by evilotto 8y ago
Their own lawyers, but also the ones that are itching for a big juicy target to sue.
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by evilotto 8y ago
My point (poorly made) is that there is a difference between blame and responsibility . "Blame" is answering the question "who screwed up"; "responsibility" is answering the question "who is going to
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by evilotto 8y ago
McDonald's is a real estate company. That doesn't mean they don't sell burgers.
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by evilotto 8y ago
It's funny how all the "disruptive" startups have the same basic business model of taking money away from someone who was getting it before (generally local governments, but that cascades to many other people like medallion h
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by evilotto 8y ago
> You're assuming that the software engineers had sufficient information to identify the system as flawed. No, I'm assuming that the software engineers had sufficient information to know what the gaps in their knowledge might b
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by evilotto 8y ago
Accepting responsibility, is not being a doormat. No matter what systemic faults were in play, the software was a part of it, and if the software engineers had made different choices - such as refusing to allow a flawed system to go forwar
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by evilotto 8y ago
It's not a software problem. It's a software engineering problem. It's the attitude of "it met the specifications, so I did my job and it's not my fault" that separates this kind of software "engineer&
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by evilotto 11y ago
I was under the impression that XMPP was alive and well, it's federation that's dead. Because as it turns out, the big players aren't really interested in interoperability, they want their own walled gardens because that&#x2
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by evilotto 11y ago
When I'm faced with a problem, I think about using recursion. Then I have two problems. Then I think about using recursion. Then I have three problems. Then I ...
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by evilotto 11y ago
An ordinary regex obviously can't parse html, because html is not regular (given nested elements and the pumping lemma). But what you can easily do with a regex is to tokenize html - extract anything that looks like a start tag, for e
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by evilotto 11y ago
When all you have is a HammerFactoryImpl, every problem looks like an INailIter
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by evilotto 11y ago
Two answers: 1. Pick the one that will let you meet more people, whether as coworkers, customers, tradeshow attendees, etc. People will be far more valuable to your career than what frameworks you know. 2. "When in doubt, flip a coi
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by evilotto 11y ago
To play, perfectly, waiting for your opponent to make a mistake. ( https://xkcd.com/832/ )
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by evilotto 11y ago
And Commodore would have to get an honorable mention
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by evilotto 12y ago
"The paper gave Urschel an Erdős number of 4."
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by evilotto 12y ago
So does fossil, the canonical repository for sqlite: https://www.sqlite.org/src/artifact/3e57a24e2794a94d?ln=52,6...
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by evilotto 12y ago
Tcl suffers in this respect from the same problem that FORTH does - the language is so malleable that everyone does it their own way. For example, before tcl got it's own native OO system, there were LOTS of competing OO systems, some
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by evilotto 12y ago
And lest you think that AOLserver is dead based on the lack of new activity on that github repo (which is just a mirror, BTW), Naviserver - https://bitbucket.org/naviserver/naviserver - which was forked from AOLserver
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by evilotto 12y ago
Well, kinda. The novice says "everything is a string." The adept says "tcl values are implemented as dual-ported objects, meaning that the internal representation of every value is automatically and transparently converted to