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by fzzzy 14y ago
Indeed, this is true. Thanks for this. The realization that it is also in the best interest of an airline to reduce emissions, especially as the price of oil increases, really helps make me feel better. Not flying doesn't really reduce emis
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by fzzzy 14y ago
Nice story. Must have been amazing to grow up there.
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by fzzzy 14y ago
This is one thing that bugs me about complaints about the carbon emissions of cars. Planes cause far more carbon emissions, and they do it way up in the atmosphere where it seems plausible that it actually does more damage. It's a giant e
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by fzzzy 14y ago
"Download prevention" is impossible. The analog hole cannot be closed. If it can be delivered to our senses, then it can be copied.
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by fzzzy 14y ago
WebWorkers have also been recently enhanced so that it is possible to pass a message with no copy (by moving it out of the current WebWorker; it loses it's reference to the data). I suspect taking advantage of this would greatly help in a g
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by fzzzy 14y ago
The yield from has to be explicitly bubbled all the way up the call chain to the main loop.
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by fzzzy 14y ago
Well... There actually are a completely parallel set of IO libraries, it just happens that the interface can be identical to the existing blocking interfaces because of the greenlet stack slicing magic... So it only appears like there are n
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by fzzzy 14y ago
From a certain perspective it is a rational decision. Because the CPython API relies so heavily on the C stack, either some platform-specific assembly is required to slice up the C stack to implement green threads, or the entire CPython API
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by fzzzy 14y ago
But it's just the tiniest bit of monkey patching! A wafer thin monkey patch!
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by fzzzy 14y ago
Guido has been resisting the stackless stack slicing assembly technique since I first learned about Python and Stackless Python in 1999. That's obviously never going to change.
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by fzzzy 14y ago
You da man, rdw.
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by fzzzy 14y ago
I'm really looking forward to that future. See for example task.js: http://taskjs.org/ Also, if you want to see generators in v8 (spidermonkey has had them for years now) watch the issue: https://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detai
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by fzzzy 14y ago
The rust ARC stands for Atomic Reference Counting, not Automatic Reference Counting. An unfortunate namespace collision.
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by fzzzy 14y ago
Yes. Smalltalk has the ifTrue: and ifFalse: methods on the Boolean object. x > y ifTrue: [ Transcript show: 'Truthy' ] So it is using polymorphism as the main mechanism. The True object implements ifTrue: by evaluating the block
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by fzzzy 14y ago
b = a moves a to b, so it would be an error to use a after that point.
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by fzzzy 14y ago
Bad things happening? Just make it illegal for anyone to find out about the bad things! Problem solved. /s
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by fzzzy 14y ago
Why is it gross?
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by fzzzy 14y ago
Wow, sounds like you lucked out.
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by fzzzy 14y ago
The roadways are already clogged. Imagine what it would be like if they actually built enough housing.
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by fzzzy 14y ago
The $3000 figure is probably referring to San Francisco. $2000 a month for a one bedroom in Mountain View is a fantasy. Sure, you can go south to sunnyvale or further, but that adds quite a significant commute if one is working in Palo Alto
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by fzzzy 14y ago
Very interesting comparison to Detroit. Those factory jobs used to pay extremely well compared to the cost of living.
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by fzzzy 14y ago
The quality of the available housing in the Palo Alto/Mountain View area (crappy 50s/60s construction) plus the obscene prices make me sick. I just moved from Mountain View to escape this twisted market. I'm extremely lucky I work for a com
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by fzzzy 14y ago
The fact that only Apple is allowed to use the JIT on iOS is a huge, huge limitation in my opinion.
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by fzzzy 14y ago
You don't think the JIT is an important part of a browser?
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by fzzzy 14y ago
Hahaha. Are you serious?
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by fzzzy 14y ago
Doctors also used to recommend that people smoke cigarettes.
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by fzzzy 14y ago
By the way, it is absolutely possible to implement a message passing style on top of generators instead of some random ad hoc resumption policy. Check it out: https://github.com/fzzzy/pavel.js The only caveat is that you do have to write
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by fzzzy 14y ago
Why don't you like generators?
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by fzzzy 14y ago
Unfortunately task.js requires javascript generators which are only implemented in Firefox right now.
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by fzzzy 14y ago
Erlang makes it easier because it enforces no shared state between actors, and each actor has it's own independent thread of control.

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