gogetter

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by gogetter 14y ago
Either my comment was mistunderstood (e.g. we are each referring to different caches) or I am suffering from a fundamental misunderstanding. Let's say you have a diskless RAM-based system. Swapless. Now you launch a large program, say fire
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by gogetter 14y ago
In a more general sense, I see benefit outside of just demoscene. If code density makes programs small enough to fit in cache it makes diskless, RAM-based systems potentially faster.
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by gogetter 14y ago
I did not even get past the first 100 lines before I want to give this blog post a score off the charts. We need more people programming, lots more, with the honesty and humility of the author. Thank you for saying what you said. yosefk.c
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by gogetter 14y ago
Hate? I'm not the one who called users "Dumb fucks." If what you say is true (and I believe it is), then the solution is not FB but better skills, i.e. education. True value would be teaching people the skills they need so they do not have
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by gogetter 14y ago
Another top comment that makes no sense. Alas, karma does not necessarily correlate with intelligence. The point of the blog post is clear. There are other methods to do what people, such as middle-aged ones, now use Facebook for: sharing
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by gogetter 14y ago
Hey, just wanted to say thanks for this. It's very helpful to my projects. I had collected a number of historical papers on spell checking and I thought I had most all of Kernighan's Bell Lab papers, but I missed this one. And it is inde
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by gogetter 14y ago
How would Steve Jobs have fared on these empathy tests? What if they asked questions about workers in Chinese factories? D'oh!
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by gogetter 14y ago
The pain of typing these letters, this alphabet soup, it's unbearable. It gives me nightmares. Cooper, the Thought Leaders, to the rescue!
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by gogetter 14y ago
Didn't Chris Farley have something to say about living in a van, down by the river?
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by gogetter 14y ago
"Getting our work done was an alphabet soup nightmare." Exactly. This is why I'm in favor of a worldwide shift to hieroglyphics and touchscreens for business. Writing business correspondence is old hat. Letters, words, sentences, parapgr
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by gogetter 14y ago
Twitter, Paypal don't really need to be that fast. Nor does Facebook. But do you think major banks on Wall Street tracking billions of trades a day in near real-time would be satifisfied with these numbers? It all depends on what your user