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by geophile 12y ago
When I was a kid, in the 60s, I loved cars. I'd visit the showrooms every September to see the new models. And some of the Pontiacs from the mid to late 60s were just stunningly beautiful. Buicks too. Then the 80s hit, and GM was surpa
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by geophile 12y ago
The business geniuses who foisted this idiocy on us (software professionals) are now saying what we said 10+ years ago: it's an obviously dumb idea that doesn't actually save money.
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by geophile 12y ago
Why is this a bug? There are no guarantees (beyond not going backward). You can't count on dense ids anyway. What if you have concurrent transactions that get ids and some of them abort? It's your application that's buggy if
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by geophile 12y ago
The TV series Silicon Valley has proven eerily prescient. First Weissman scores turn out to be real, and now Nip Alert comes to life.
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by geophile 12y ago
Far more irritating version of this old game: http://www.gamedesign.jp/flash/chatnoir/chatnoir.html
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by geophile 12y ago
ZERO Jews? I'm surprised. (Disclaimer: I'm an atheist, born Jewish, and currently Jew-ish.)
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New NSA Whistleblower Reveals Legal Basis for NSA Spying on Citizens(theatlantic.com)
9 points by geophile 12y ago|1 comments
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by geophile 12y ago
So what is the relationship between the 1984 film described in this interview and the one that was released (with the same stars)? Is it the identical film?
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by geophile 12y ago
So, Microsoft is the new RIM? Sounds about right.
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by geophile 12y ago
Now working in an Ubuntu VM, since I know the tools better than I do XCode. I reduced TRIALS to 20, to reduce testing time. I also replaced summation with xor. My current code is here: http://pastebin.com/QcNu2A69 Here is
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by geophile 12y ago
I'm not convinced of this. I modified the code to do something with the sums. #2 is now slightly slower than #1, but the absolute times and the ratios are otherwise about the same. http://pastebin.com/vbUSdKGc
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by geophile 12y ago
By the way, I typically see #2 slightly and consistently faster than #1, which doesn't make sense to me. But I wouldn't expect a 3x difference in favor of #1.
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by geophile 12y ago
http://pastebin.com/DtsYEsYL
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by geophile 12y ago
I thought that the main point of the article was about memory locality. If that is so, then the kind of pointer (auto vs. shared) is a distraction, isn't it? (My experiment was intended to be about locality only.)
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by geophile 12y ago
Sorry I wasn't clear, I just measured the scan time, after loading and sorting the arrays.
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by geophile 12y ago
I was wondering about this very issue the other day, and wrote a little C program to try something similar. I tried three things: 1. Create an array of random ints, (sort them, not that it matters), and then time how long it takes to comput
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by geophile 13y ago
Exactly. I wanted to play with the java code to try some possible optimizations but this is difficult without a test driver.
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by geophile 13y ago
Read the last sentence: The bounty would be paid by major tech companies, who, after all, benefit greatly from this software, and are getting screwed by the holes. Google, Yahoo, Amazon, for example.
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What if there were a $1M bounty per new security bug?
2 points by geophile 13y ago|3 comments
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by geophile 13y ago
Use the bug for what purpose? The NSA constantly lies, and also just spies on non-terrorist organizations because terrorism: http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/08/snowden-council-of-europe-t... . They are so beyon
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by geophile 13y ago
Yes, but. I am fortunate enough to be in this position. In my 50s, in good health, and I don't have to work if I don't want to. I've always dreamed of being in this situation and now I am. So what am I doing with my time? - S
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by geophile 13y ago
I find your points unconvincing. If a VC is uncomfortable with betting on a startup, maybe he should find another line of work. About your second point: I'm not sure what argument you are making. Yes, of course the VC would like a guar
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by geophile 13y ago
Imagine a VC that buys 50% of a company for $50 million, for a $100 million post-money valuation. If that company then sells for $75 million, the VC gets more than 50% of the $75 million. The VC gets his or her $50 million out
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by geophile 13y ago
I wrote an early Java ORM (1996-2000) and I've come to the conclusion that ORMs are a bad idea. ORMs make the easy even easier, and the difficult impossible. The basic problem is that writing good, high-performing SQL is hard enough as
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by geophile 13y ago
I have been programming for over 40 years, have a PhD in computer science, and I'm comfortable in many languages and in picking up new ones. And yet I can relate to what he wrote. In the 90s, I decided to try and become productive with
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by geophile 13y ago
I have some kool-aid I'd like to sell you. Desktop versions are close irrelevant to this discussion. Office web apps are completely irrelevant, I think. I've never met anyone who has ever used them. 100% of people I know who use
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by geophile 13y ago
It doesn't matter that Office360 does blah blah blah -- the next generation of office workers aren't using it now, and that's a problem for Microsoft. I agree that google doc products are inferior to MS Office. (I find that L
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by geophile 13y ago
Also: The success of BYOD suggests that things aren't quite so fixed. And seriously, if you're concerned about viruses, you're going to REQUIRE Microsoft products?
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by geophile 13y ago
The decline of Microsoft will be a generational thing. At some point, those offices are going to be inhabited by kids who grew up with google docs, dropbox, a variety of IM options, and who have never seen a native email client. When these
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by geophile 13y ago
This? This is the wisdom has has to convey after 36 years of experience? It is just the most obvious thing. I've been asking this question for as long as I've been interviewing, (adjusted as necessary, for kids just out of college

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