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Google shows China the white flag of surrender(blogs.telegraph.co.uk)
1 points by gregholmberg 14y ago|0 comments
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by gregholmberg 14y ago
"John Galt is a fictional character in Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged (1957)." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Galt http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand
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by gregholmberg 14y ago
There are clearly lots of people who are done with a working device the moment it gets slight cosmetic damage, or when the newer flavor of the device appears on the market. It seems strange to me, but it looks like 'personal mobile computer
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by gregholmberg 14y ago
Apple is actively trying to fix this problem. If you know any talented compiler gurus who want to work at Apple, you could refer them. [0][1] . [0] "LLVM Backend Compiler Engineer" http://jobs.apple.com/index.ajs?BID=1&method=mExternal
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by gregholmberg 14y ago
Individual availability zones can be identified using the API. ec2-describe-reserved-instances-offerings --region will tell you what the zone's identifier is. After you list the permanent identifiers, you can match them up to find o
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by gregholmberg 14y ago
I can testify that the Amazon support people that I have intereacted with are professional, empowered and interested in solving your problems. I thought the bronze support service was a good value. I'm not an AWS employee, or friend/spouse/
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by gregholmberg 14y ago
Sorry, the fault is mine alone. I used an ambiguous description above, now edited. The only point I wanted to make was that a collective effort might help cut down on ambiguity in expression that the compiler does not identify. I think we c
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by gregholmberg 14y ago
If you are building your project with Clang, and find that your code causes undefined behavior not caught by any existing in-compiler test, and you can reproduce it, you might want to ... - sign up for the developers' list at http://lists.
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by gregholmberg 14y ago
ZOMGPOP would be close.
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by gregholmberg 14y ago
Google, Bing and HN Search all think that "Hacker Noise" is a neologism.
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by gregholmberg 14y ago
The terminator is only that fast near the equator. Further north, " ... it is possible to walk faster than the terminator at the poles, near to the equinoxes. The visual effect is that of seeing the Sun rise in the west." http://en.wikiped
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by gregholmberg 14y ago
It's a recurring problem, too. These examples are twenty-two years apart. "Aircraft software can be serious business" http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/f22-squadron-shot-down-b... "The [F22 Raptor IDL] post-incident report" http://it
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by gregholmberg 14y ago
" ... wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein." [0] "... when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you." [1] Nietzsche was a quotable fellow. [2] - [0] "Wikiquote - Nietzsche - Beyond
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by gregholmberg 14y ago
The Lua [0] functions are an interesting read. CamelCase is mingled with upper and lower case VERBOSE_DEFINITIONS separated_by_underscores. This lack of a clear coding style may be visually annoying, but can be added during a final obfuscat
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by gregholmberg 14y ago
Objective Caml is not the only interesting thing to come out of there. For a real eye opener, look through the current list of research topics at INRIA. I have (mis)spent hours reading the published papers and source code from some of their
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by gregholmberg 14y ago
I think you found the punch line. Something like "if you want to write small, solid and safe control logic for an embedded system, you should generally use C. But if you want to prove it mathematically correct, you'll need to test it with s
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by gregholmberg 14y ago
" ... a subset of the C programming language".
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by gregholmberg 14y ago
Task: write a static analyzer to check primary control software for a new family of passenger airliners. [1] Employer: Airbus. Which language did the team choose for the analyzer? OCaml. It is possible to write OCaml programs that are prova
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by gregholmberg 14y ago
Interesting. After evaluating carefully for a few months, we didn't feel that MongoDB would work well for our project. Later, we reluctantly gave up on CouchDB. Riak 1.1.x seems to meet all of our design goals so far.
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by gregholmberg 15y ago
There are some idioms in Lua that you might recognize from Python or Ruby. I have seen this one in Perl and the Bourne shell, as well. ffi = ffi or require("ffi") If the ffi expression evaluates to something that is not nil, we kee
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by gregholmberg 15y ago
Declaring the German labor market to be a success while counting only German unemployment is misleading, something like saying US fiscal and labor policy is a blowout success because of yet another year of record low unemployment in North D
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by gregholmberg 15y ago
I am cautiously optimistic that something will appear to engage the bodies and minds of those thrown out of work by any future waves of automation. The solution will probably be something that I think is silly today. An example. I was a fai
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by gregholmberg 15y ago
... instead of receiving housing vouchers and money to buy food/clothing, they could receive dormitory rooms (no TV or XBox), healthy dormitory meals and government issued grey jumpsuits. I am surprised, and a little disappointed, that th
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by gregholmberg 15y ago
... having no job is better than a low-paying job, in your analysis? Perhaps yes. A price is a signal. As with any restriction on free speech, outlawing certain prices (low wages) should show a clear and easily demonstrated social benefi
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by gregholmberg 15y ago
Minimum wage laws destroy jobs and reduce overall welfare; they should be repealed rather than extended to novel business arrangements. This is in fact their purpose. Minimum wage laws destroy low-paying jobs by making them illegal, preve
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by gregholmberg 15y ago
That sounds both interesting and non-intuitive. Can you go into more detail about how you have been using ElasticSearch as a k/v store? EDIT: Color me surprised. I didn't see it mentioned at all in the ElasticSearch docs or in their Github
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by gregholmberg 15y ago
Is he (Robert Virding) looking for a lightweight, Turing-complete data description language extension? I started using Lua because I needed to gather logs from many different systems and build timelines around the events to identify pattern
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by gregholmberg 15y ago
It makes me hold my nose too, but I think in twenty years this "rewrapping" method will be a staple in J-school textbooks.
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Path's Loudest Investor (Arrington) says "Delete The User Data"(businessinsider.com)
1 points by gregholmberg 15y ago|0 comments
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by gregholmberg 15y ago
What do you store the results in? MySQL? Redis? ping.txt?

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