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by ezy 17y ago
I think you nailed it in your first sentence. I ran Ubuntu for about 9 months before I switched to a Windows 7 RC release. Why? Well, the software I wanted to run isn't available for linux, or requires a virtual environment to run it (an
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by ezy 17y ago
I'm still a little wary of the reliability of these drives. I think it's prudent to wait at least another half-year. It isn't the long-term lifetime of the memory itself, which is fine. It's the tendency of the drives to be dead within a
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by ezy 17y ago
The initial description deceived me (e.g. the layman :-)). It used the word "piece" in a very technical way. Piece means contiguous chunk in layman's terms, it typically does not mean a set of fragments of the object (that would be many p
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by ezy 17y ago
The key part being "the same actions". This is missing subtlety and judgment. Is "stealing" the action, or is "stealing a book from the library with the intent to return it" the action? Would you agree that stealing the same book out of s
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by ezy 17y ago
Since when do you make music with Rock Band? Their PR may say otherwise, but I think they kind of lost the plot on the way to finger-DDR.
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by ezy 17y ago
Admittedly I was peeved when I read it, but you have to consider the reality, rather than the ideal. You can already deduct medical expenses and charitable donations in the US, and "donating" to family members is ripe for tax fraud. It's j
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by ezy 17y ago
Did you? Read it again. It's missing the point and excessively patronizing. He is sticking it to his customers, you just aren't reading critically. To his credit, he's been consistent -- I found articles about the WF health plan from w
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by ezy 17y ago
I don't understand, aren't there supposed to be entrepreneurs on here? Let's be honest with ourselves: What do you plan to run your software geek nirvana on, anyway? If noone buys the platform, what happens 3 years from now? As a meta-que
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by ezy 17y ago
This isn't necessarily any better, it just has more syntax support. However, it isn't equivalent to a function ptr, it's more equivalent to a structure with a fptr and associated data. A C++ function object or a C fptr pointing to a tramp
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by ezy 17y ago
This is a wierd perspective. You need users other than developers on a platform to make money selling the platform and the devices. If the company doesn't make money, it can't continue to upgrade the platform and make new devices. Do y
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by ezy 17y ago
This was an excellent sarcastic commentary on Crawford's book. I thought the reviewer took it apart quite nicely, and filed it in the correct category with so many other similar books with the same essential pattern. It's an over the top,
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by ezy 17y ago
Whatever precepts for living a certain kind of life are, I'm sure they don't come exactly in tens and, in turn, take longer than 3 sentences to explain. Damn you, David Letterman. :-) Sometimes I find these lists interesting (and this one
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by ezy 17y ago
Well, I don't think you'd be able to get along without names , but you could see it being less word-centric. I'm still waiting on a programming environment thats well-suited to a tablet. I think it'll necessarily be flat and have names (b
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by ezy 17y ago
What else do you think people do on comment threads? Or do you think every shared opinion must be positive? :-) BTW, read the comment again -- I'm not that interested in Ruby, why would I bother? It was just a suggestion after all...
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by ezy 17y ago
Can we just conclude that the Ruby/Rails/Whatever community is just a big loose and move on? I mean, really guys... I have no direct connection to Ruby (thank god). But the lead/prominent people seem super immature and mostly unskilled, a
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by ezy 17y ago
This is what people mean when they say pointers may be able to look like arrays, but arrays are not necessarily pointers. Consider, "float a[X][Y][Z]" and "a[i][j][k]".
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by ezy 17y ago
I disagree, I found it cliche'. It's a good blog-post, but not really world changing. Not to put you down -- I get caught up in these kinds of things too -- but what real evidence does he actually have to support his hypothesis? Sure,
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by ezy 18y ago
Ok, I'll be the nudge and say I don't understand the point. I never "got" this type of example from the lispers using destructuring and recursion on simple examples either. This (and others) has a fairly obvious and equally readable counte
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by ezy 18y ago
I hear this often, and I'd love for this to be true, but python needs it's GIL to be removed for this to be the case. In particular, doing this with reasonable performance in a multi-threaded app (which is most of them these days), is basi
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by ezy 18y ago
I think this has been reliably chalked up to the fact that windows firefox is built using PGO, linux currently is not. If setting up wine becomes a hassle, you might want to just try grabbing the source and building with PGO on (or grabbin