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by ianb 16y ago
RAM seems relatively constrained to me -- at least, running a multiprocess server without a few GB or RAM is hard to do (and memory seems to be the most expensive part of servers). And when it goes wrong (you reach whatever your limit is
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by ianb 16y ago
Interpreter-level fork() is very much what I mean ("green processes" would be another phrasing I guess?) Of course the Python interpreter always acts as an intermediary for any access to resources, so I feel like you can kind of punt on th
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by ianb 16y ago
For a while I had it in my mind that maybe you could save some memory while having safety just by using os.fork() after pre-importing a bunch of stuff; but then reference counting was pointed out to me and I realized it would be pointless -
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by ianb 16y ago
That's not what you should use (though it's what is currently used in production at Mozilla). There's a reimplementation in Python; the README: http://hg.mozilla.org/services/server-full/file/db2d0dbc0a79... (The Python implementation wi
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by ianb 16y ago
Not that I'm a libertarian, but if I was I would be inclined to argue the right to an attorney is specifically in place when the government initiates legal action against you. Outside of specific government action you have no right to an
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by ianb 16y ago
OTOH, there are a lot of for-profit educational ventures, and they all seem really skeevy to me -- places like Kaplan or Phoenix University, for instance, or frankly a lot of educational software. Perhaps a pro-market explanation is that th
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by ianb 16y ago
There are plans to move Firefox to a release model much closer to Chrome after Firefox 4.
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by ianb 16y ago
I don't really know the answer, but are golden parachutes really the norm for many executives? We hear about certain extremely-well-connected CEOs of very big companies, but that's hardly a representative sample of executives.
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by ianb 16y ago
Huh, makes me wonder if the alternate platforms they are supporting (MeeGo, two Symbians) are just distractions to help satisfy the political situation (legal or otherwise).
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by ianb 16y ago
Interestingly in the article the author notes that she was positively influenced by a professor that regularly said "let's hear from some of the girls" -- something that sounds condescending and like it's unfairly singling out the girls/wom
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by ianb 16y ago
The implication of comparing PISA scores unfavorably is that the US should then imitate other countries in order to improve. Another option is that we synthesize our own ways to improve education. That's what this article is really addressi
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by ianb 16y ago
They probably didn't recycle those cars because they were full of asbestos. There was some controversy then about sinking them, though of course fish don't get mesothelioma. (I suppose toxins are the same reason electronic recycling is ha
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by ianb 16y ago
It's not science , it's engineering .
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by ianb 16y ago
It's also a shame the GAE team didn't pay any attention to any established frameworks that could have worked perfectly fine within GAE's constraints, like Pylons. Shortly after App Engine came out I put significant effort into making Pylon
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by ianb 16y ago
In my experiments ( http://blog.ianbicking.org/2008/03/30/python-html-parser-per... ) lxml performed better than cElementTree for memory -- notably cElementTree creates Python objects for all nodes, while lxml does so only on demand (though
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by ianb 16y ago
I really feel like apprenticeship could be useful in these cases. It's not like investment in employees, where if they jump ship you lost your investment - there's always the expectation that an apprentice leaves, it's a system built for in
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by ianb 16y ago
None of the hard-to-fill positions could be filled by someone with "training" - those are positions that require experience and talent. Both of those can be cultivated (I'm not so pessimistic to believe they can only be imported, or are for
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by ianb 16y ago
Wait... are you proposing that you get a kickback for your positive review? I'm not sure that will work so well...
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by ianb 16y ago
He misses another benefit of writing reviews: rewarding good businesses. And even, in the case of a thoughtful review, enabling a diversity of services -- simple star reviews can't express the give and take of different kinds of service, a
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by ianb 16y ago
The browser provides very high level constructs (e.g., the DOM), handling numbers quickly is uninteresting and would be a poor direction for optimization. While I think an appropriate VM could be something interesting, I doubt an appropria
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by ianb 16y ago
The performance characteristics of the JVM didn't match the web IMHO. Javascript wasn't fast in a raw sense, but it didn't trade startup time for running time, didn't trade memory for performance, etc. The basis of Javascript is one that
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by ianb 16y ago
It's not just that it can be overcome, but it must be overcome. We each must look at these expressions as they are made, and infer what is intended by them -- it may be more awkward for a blind person, but understanding "greater than"
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by ianb 16y ago
Semantics are almost always without authority, from what I can tell. E.g., by your definition if I write "When you go to the store can you pick up milk, butter, and toilet paper" I am being semantically incorrect, as I am using this "," th
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by ianb 16y ago
Is Dalvik essentially such a fork? Obviously with its own legal dangers as well.
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by ianb 16y ago
Huh... I haven't heard anyone in the Mozilla world even talk about backporting to 3.6 (even to say it's a bad idea). Everyone is very focused on 4.
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by ianb 16y ago
I believe (through entirely indirect sources) that Buzz is successful inside Google in a way Wave was not. Unlike Wave they have at least managed to create something that is successful even when it's not successful -- I can happily read Tw
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by ianb 16y ago
Funny story -- if you remove Firebug, Firefox stops being so slow and leaking memory.
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by ianb 16y ago
Maybe try http://cloudsilverlining.org ( http://cloudsilverlining.org/django-quickstart.html ) Anyway, Apache/mod_wsgi is perfectly fine and I wouldn't bother tweaking out that part unless you have an issue with it. I'd strongly recommend
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by ianb 16y ago
I remain consistently unclear what is the take-away is with discussions of Male Privilege. Are men supposed to feel guilty, and by carrying around that guilt they will act better? It's often said that it "should be acknowledged" but what
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by ianb 16y ago
Everything that is cool about Reddit at this point is what Redditors are doing with Reddit, not what Reddit is doing with its site. And isn't that how social media is supposed to work? Not just some notion that users are tools, that you

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