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by gecko 12y ago
You're simply defining weaknesses of Subversion, not centralized versus distributed in either direction. E.g., we made blame for Git repos in Kiln ridiculously fast by caching memoized states for each file. You could also do that loc
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Unorthodocs: Abandon Your DVCS and Return to Sanity(bitquabit.com)
58 points by gecko 12y ago|31 comments
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by gecko 12y ago
I have a lot of friends who work at Bloomberg on Fortran code. I believe you that your #2 is JS, but either I have the weirdest luck of finding people who work at Bloomberg, or Fortran has to be pretty high up there.
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by gecko 12y ago
C++, sure, but their other main language is actually FORTRAN...
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by gecko 12y ago
Firstly, I think that some problems just do not map well to the concatenative space. E.g., complex mathematical expressions are a total bitch to try to do entirely with stack shuffling and whatnot. Thankfully, the Factor team agrees, so F
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by gecko 12y ago
FUEL, the Factor mode for Emacs, allows you to do almost exactly this: it shows you the stack effect of any given word when you're hovering over it, and you can ask what the cumulative stack effect is at any given point. The only thin
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by gecko 12y ago
You know what phone did that? Windows Phone. And it was amazing. And no one could figure out where the menus had gone to, because everyone was so used to iPhone and Android. So then all the developers, including even Microsoft, got enam
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by gecko 12y ago
While you're correct, part of the fix for that is not to publish a 500-page paper in isolation. You instead publish the underlying concepts piecemeal in "easy"-to-understand chunks (for this insane level of "easy",
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by gecko 12y ago
He did the entire 500-page paper in isolation and refuses to lecture on it in any capacity anywhere other than his own university. He may be right, and he may not be, but his failure to get an answer from the community is his fault, not th
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by gecko 12y ago
I've been doing a whole blog series on doing this also: http://bitquabit.com/post/having-fun-python-and-elasticsearc... . It's intereting to see a different take on it.
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by gecko 12y ago
This is actually really common in C++ libraries. I even worked in one (which I know was on Windows, but I don't think was MFC; maybe OWL?) where the pointers to the String object were actually pointing directly to the null-terminated
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by gecko 12y ago
Wrong NaCl, which would have been obvious if you'd read even literally the first sentence
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by gecko 12y ago
Sieve is the native filtering engine used by FastMail, so I'd say it integrates quite well with JMAP, from my experience. :)
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Eureka! Why you shouldn't use ZooKeeper for service discovery(knewton.com)
15 points by gecko 12y ago|1 comments
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by gecko 12y ago
That's how S3 actually works. It's not that crazy.
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by gecko 12y ago
I just asked that on Twitter, because I also am not getting it. It seems to me that ZFS and Jails provide identical functionality, but without Docker's networking headache. That said, even if my simplistic synopsis is correct, brining
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C++ Programming and Brain RAM(bitquabit.com)
13 points by gecko 12y ago|1 comments
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Random Lunch(knewton.com)
7 points by gecko 12y ago|0 comments
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by gecko 12y ago
Trello is based on Node and Mongo on Ubuntu; there's no Windows in it. Kiln and FogBugz are based on C# and SQL Server on Windows and Java and Python Debian. Stack is based on C# and SQL Server on Windows and Redis and infrastructure o
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by gecko 12y ago
Is "string s = 5" still legal in Dart, or did they fix that? Last I heard, that worked by design.
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by gecko 12y ago
That's also wrong. The expression uses an archaic transitive "prove," which means "to test." Thus, "the exception tests the rule," which makes more sense.
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by gecko 12y ago
The big thing was just that the Saturn was supposed to be a badass 2D platform, with insanely powerful hardware sprite management. When Sega belatedly realized that 3D was the next big thing, they stapled on an extra CPU to give it enough p
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by gecko 12y ago
I doubt he meant that third-party developers' hands were tied . I think he means that Microsoft spent incredible resources on backwards compatibility at the expense of innovation . To take the most extreme example I can think of: g
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by gecko 12y ago
I just like to think of it at the universe's loading screen.
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by gecko 12y ago
Is there any way you can substantiate any of this? I wouldn't be shocked, but it seems borderline implausible that we'd be getting all this interest in various ways to hack into iPhones physically if you could just dial a number-
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by gecko 12y ago
I am no longer a Fog Creek employee (I left to join an education startup a bit ago), so this is not an official opinion, but anyway: Joel wants Trello to grow a lot faster than Fog Creek could bootstrap it. In my personal opinion, a big re
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by gecko 12y ago
Eh. I own a lot of stock in one of the companies I used to work for. I can't legally sell it. That doesn't mean I don't own it, but I mentally adjust its on-paper value appropriately, basically multiplying its on-paper value
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by gecko 12y ago
Well, yes and no. My understanding from talking to the Trello Android team is that Fire OS has a lot of subtle differences in its APIs from the official Google ones, especially around things like mapping and push notifications that otherwi
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by gecko 12y ago
Does anyone know what actual mail and calendaring system this thing even uses? What about maps? All the other stuff aside, texting, mail, calendar, and maps cover about 80% of most people's phone use; if those pieces stink, it's
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by gecko 12y ago
I think it'll do better than the Facebook HTC One, but I otherwise expect that it's going to seriously struggle. Even an uneducated consumer will rapidly realize that they don't have access to Google's apps, or Apple&#x

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