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by gouranga 14y ago
I'm going to give it an honest unbiased try over the weekend on a desktop touch screen Sony I have lying around. Im hoping that it's better than the consumer preview. This is the moment i choose my future platform.
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by gouranga 14y ago
The solution is actually worse than the initial problem. Unit conversion is a more complicated issue. The solution introduces all sorts of horrid conversions and rounding issues. Consider a third of an inch. It can't be represented accurate
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by gouranga 14y ago
a) Large, sorry HUGE. Current CPUs cannot address it. 128 bit is probably enough to encode most of the universe and not insurmountable bit width. PAXOS consensus algorithm + hybrid virtual memory system for management. Literally a GLOBAL P2
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by gouranga 14y ago
> shells that pipe objects Powershell rocks! No wait, sorry it doesn't. I agree!
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by gouranga 14y ago
Very true. I find actually find that iOS quite laggy after using WinPhone for a bit. It's obvious a fair amount of crap is hidden behind pretty graphics in iOS. Conversely, if WinPhone is doing something, it makes you aware of it up front b
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by gouranga 14y ago
thanks for the pointer. I now to you IBM (but not the COBOL bit)
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by gouranga 14y ago
This is what happens when the US government does something blatantly immoral and illegal to the wrong guy. Most of us bend and take it or get the fuck bombed out of us or end up in a bag. Regardless of what Kim has supposedly done, it's nic
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by gouranga 14y ago
That's exactly the sort of thing I'm thinking.
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by gouranga 14y ago
That's the clients I'm talking about, sorry customers.
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by gouranga 14y ago
In other news: "Profitable trendy app vendor shows off about how they can afford to piss a month up the wall while their clients are paying for it"
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by gouranga 14y ago
Sorry but for that price, no way.
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by gouranga 14y ago
That's fairly easy to deal with - TPM module in PCs does this already.
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by gouranga 14y ago
Slight modification... HDs haven't replaced tapes yet. And probably won't for slow read but massive storage. They handle the functionality of general use with 20GB tapes but that's some ways off current multi-terabyte tapes. And those might
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by gouranga 14y ago
Yes I admit that but for the scope of discussion, it's rather hard to separate the two. My idea is that communication should be transparent.
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by gouranga 14y ago
No userspace can be wrapped quite nicely: In fact we don't really need processes, just suitable environments set up for execution of code. For example, stop a lisp definition calling eval: (defun no-eval-wrapper (form) (let ((ev
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by gouranga 14y ago
a) global address space. b) no it's not. Distributed computing is normally message based. c) you use an index in (a) and pull it into your local scope.
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by gouranga 14y ago
I do which makes me want for more :)
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by gouranga 14y ago
You don't set your standards very high do you? I've worked on kit that is never upgraded or rebooted. It's active 24/7 for 365 days a year and is expected to work for 30 years. I epxect the same thing from a normal computer, epecially consi
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by gouranga 14y ago
It doesn't. Watch this, or read the description if you can't get it where you are: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mirror_%28TV_series%29#3....
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by gouranga 14y ago
There will be and I'm going to jolly well be the person writing it :) (I'm going to try - 10 years of embedded followed by 10 years of business facing is a good foundation and I've spent the last 15 years on the problem in my mind waiting f
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by gouranga 14y ago
I agree about it being a way off but I think more 5 years than 20. Look at the adoption rate of SSDs
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by gouranga 14y ago
I'm talking about storage, not distribution. They are two different things.
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by gouranga 14y ago
That's ok until you need to read hundreds of multiple streams from a stream device. You end up with random access then at which point the stream paradigm breaks down and you have to use memory.
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by gouranga 14y ago
Hmm like this? http://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=4044891 Rather than: http://news.ycombinator.com/2012/05/30/non-volatile-memory/g... Ooh it even wrapped.
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by gouranga 14y ago
As someone who's had an sbcl process running for just over a year on one box, I disagree. xmonad is probably just a turd.
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by gouranga 14y ago
+1 for black mirror and well anything by Charlie brooker. Definitely worth watching!
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by gouranga 14y ago
I don't and never will have. The marketing is pointing to deep integration like this.
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by gouranga 14y ago
the stream metaphore isn't appropriate for all types of data. memory allows a storage paradigm to be picked for the task at hand. Consider redis which is a great example of this. How do you store redis' data efficiently? Well it turns that
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by gouranga 14y ago
Tagging works on a heap. Heirarchies are terribly inefficient for categorising information. The metadata is more important than the file location. Look at the way music is stored on smartphones. Ever heard of STM?
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by gouranga 14y ago
Simply intent. The intent shipped with google glass is social by default. share. Identify. Record. There is no other reason to use it. The intent with a camera is to take a photo then decide the intent. The former is a dangerous paradigm sh

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