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by gngeal 13y ago
You probably don't need LLVM to work with LLVM-IR. In fact, I imagine that there could be a market for a "low-level" IR with more compact implementation, sort of similar to Oberon "slim binaries" or something like t
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by gngeal 13y ago
Deterministic builds are hard...really hard. I'd have thought that deterministic builds are really simple unless your toolkit ecosystem is FUBAR. After all, a compiler is a simple function from input to output (unless the FUBAR ecosy
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by gngeal 13y ago
"ARM does not reduce its inventions to practice." "Reduce inventions to practice?" First, I don't think that my country has any such legalese in our patent law. Second, what does that make NVIDIA? Or ATI? They don
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by gngeal 13y ago
How exactly are ARM Holdings "an NPE"? They're definitely practicing - they're using their patents in their designs. They also attempt to shoot down any independent implementation of the ISA, for that matter.
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by gngeal 13y ago
What about SSHing into each machine not manually, but automatically with OKing all the changes before reloading the configuration? SSH is great at least in the sense that it's configuration-format-agnostic, mostly-OS-agnostic, client-s
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by gngeal 13y ago
I don't think it's the fault of the VM. There have been other languages that worked with intermediate code, and they weren't inefficient. It's just that fixing old stuff after you get millions of users leaves you with a
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by gngeal 13y ago
In many ways, the containers and generic algorithms of C++ may not be necessarily that efficient: http://datadraw.sourceforge.net
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by gngeal 13y ago
You really think so? I think that implies that it remains unsuccessful, which (given its current trajectory) seems unlikely. Oops. I meant "seen technically", not "seen socially". I think it's more likely that in
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by gngeal 13y ago
I bet that in 10 years time, once the hype has died down, Go will be seen as a middle-of-the-road language for middle-of-the road applications. A low-risk, conservative, sensible, and ultimately boring choice. In ten years, Go will be see
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by gngeal 13y ago
I don't need concurrency Except that you do. You've just said it yourself! What the for command does in Python is essentially running two communicating coroutines, passing control between them. Yield-using generators actually ma
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by gngeal 13y ago
They can't afford you for free. It would cost them so much more to vet you than using one of their usual "pre-approved" government contractors Why don't they vet the results instead of vetting the people? Isn't th
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by gngeal 13y ago
for- and with-statements over user-defined data types Any reason why doing this with channels and goroutines doesn't fulfill your requirements?
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by gngeal 13y ago
No more bloodshed, the winner is determined by the amount of technological progress they manage to achieve and put into use. Both sides will simply send an adequate amount of people into disintegration booths. No blood necessary.
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by gngeal 13y ago
$1000/m? Bah, you must be spoiled. I'd put that at $500/m or so. (Or perhaps it's just me being a reclusive hermit... :-))
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by gngeal 13y ago
Fat is not the enemy. My once-inflamed pancreas says otherwise. :-) I guess there's no one-size-fits-all solution to that.
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by gngeal 13y ago
We're still in the beginning. Removing the "witnessing the carnage" part could still be accomplished one day. As I mentioned, using our brains just to simulate humans on-site controlling stuff at the battlefield may not be th
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by gngeal 13y ago
The sea change will come when someone makes an FPGA that's an order of magnitude easier to program. I think it's not as much a matter of making an FPGA that would be easier to program as it is a matter of coming up with an order
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by gngeal 13y ago
"Only good reason I can think of is where multiple shots are required to weaken / overcome some kind of hardened defense." If there's a simple window, you can kill everyone along the wall by a simple application of a hig
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by gngeal 13y ago
On the plus side, doesn't it also lower the psychological harm that happens to many a soldier in sustained war?
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by gngeal 13y ago
Or, N robots could integrate and act upon commands from M operators, where M >> N. Decoupling the control logic from the pointy end could allow you to use the (fast, automatic, and expensive) pointy end at a proper speed without a red
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by gngeal 13y ago
What I had in mind was that it would remove the ambiguity. I actually clicked at the link expecting some nifty power management stuff and came away not disappointed only because I enjoyed it.
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by gngeal 13y ago
I think this was supposed to be "interactive résumé", as it doesn't seem to have anything to do with power management. But it's definitely cool. :-)
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by gngeal 13y ago
This is what Venti (of the Plan 9 fame) is for!
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by gngeal 13y ago
Dynamic translation of x86 sequences could give you some boost, as could use of asm.js.
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by gngeal 13y ago
Huh...so the ACM Turing Award does not qualify? And a Nobel prize wouldn't either, I suppose? So what does ?
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by gngeal 13y ago
Oh, they are very much politically correct, they just happen to have different politics.
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by gngeal 13y ago
True, but they won't let him enter the US now that he has too many passport stamps.
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by gngeal 13y ago
as we have seen with Lavabit, End to End encryption is no good if one end can be forced to surrender their keys. Lavabit was the middleman in the communication, not the end; or was it?
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by gngeal 13y ago
There are at least two major C and C++ interpreters today.
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by gngeal 13y ago
I hope this will spur research and development in the area of telepresence.

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