ionfish

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by ionfish 18y ago
I'd forgotten that text doesn't show up with a link submission. Here's what I posted originally: Not new, obviously, but an interesting story for those of us who don't know it, and some generally applicable lessons. "In 2003 it looks like P
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by ionfish 18y ago
Plan 9 seems to my untrained eyes like a more than modest improvement, but I suspect even immodest improvements will generally not be sufficient to oust an embedded solution that is, as Raymond says, "just good enough."
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Plan 9: why no compelling successor to Unix has got off the ground(faqs.org)
51 points by ionfish 18y ago|38 comments
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by ionfish 18y ago
Given how dangerous being the President apparently is [1], this seems like a sensible precaution. [1] http://crookedtimber.org/2008/12/23/the-future-is-a-shoe-bei...
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by ionfish 18y ago
People who need an IRC server but don't have the time or expertise to set one up.
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by ionfish 18y ago
Generally speaking I agree with you, but in the real world (with real users!) this is not always possible.
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by ionfish 18y ago
My general attitude to passwords is "Never choose something you'd be ashamed to recite to your mother over the phone", since you never know when you'll be in a position where you may have to do exactly that.
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by ionfish 18y ago
> "[W]ith sufficient caching you can write popular apps in arbitrarily slow languages." Somehow I doubt this pronouncement will stem the tide of statements along the lines of "x is written in a slow language and therefore won't scale",
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by ionfish 18y ago
It's the Mail. Intellectual honesty is not their stock in trade.
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by ionfish 18y ago
And if you'd prefer to read the original papers, rather than presentation slides... http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/papers/gpugen.pdf http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~joels/writing/dccpaper_obsidian....
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by ionfish 18y ago
There's a project called GpuGen intended to allow the compilation of Haskell code to CUDA. http://www.galois.com/blog/2008/08/29/gpugen-bringing-the-po... There's also something similar called Obsidian: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/nod
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Are sockpuppeteers computer criminals?(crookedtimber.org)
1 points by ionfish 18y ago|0 comments
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by ionfish 18y ago
The design that inspired the new favicon is a lot better than the one they went with in the end.
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by ionfish 18y ago
A view which Gödel, an ardent Platonist, would have no doubt agreed with.
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by ionfish 18y ago
I've read the book the article ostensibly reviews, and to be honest it's not much cop. It's full of, frankly, a load of rubbish about post-modern thought and the extent to which Gödel's work might vindicate it. There are certainly interesti
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by ionfish 18y ago
A more likely scenario is that Microsoft will bow to pressure not to break people's crap old intranet software, and its version numbers will asymptotically approach 10 without ever reaching it...
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by ionfish 18y ago
Rolling one's own is always a nice little project, but whether that's the right option for you will depend on whether you're prepared to take the time to do it, or if you have other priorities. Installing WordPress takes a couple of minutes
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by ionfish 18y ago
Scaling is hard!
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IWF backs down on Wikipedia censorship(news.bbc.co.uk)
2 points by ionfish 18y ago|0 comments
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by ionfish 18y ago
Actually, there are some interpretations of quantum mechanics under which the wavefunction is an "actual thing", for example De Broglie's pilot-wave theory and Bohm's developments of it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohm_interpretation
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by ionfish 18y ago
Maybe because it's not a product? Not everything is for sale, you know.
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by ionfish 18y ago
> What causes these issues? Much respect for the folks who code them, I understand you do not owe anybody anything, but any honest assessment points to platform chauvanism. An awful lot of developers are just writing a library or applic
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by ionfish 18y ago
Presumably this doesn't include mathematicians, since there would doubtless be any number of counterexamples if it did (Grigori Perelman springs to mind). Clearly maths and science are group enterprises, and always have been. Regardless of
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by ionfish 18y ago
I suspect that people were being led to believe in 2006 that it was "coming soon" because Allan Odgaard really did believe at that point that it was coming soon.
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by ionfish 18y ago
When they stopped the SMS service in the UK I cared for all of the five minutes until I got my iPhone. Obviously in the short term this is a major loss of functionality for a lot of people, but give it a couple of years and, if we're all st
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by ionfish 18y ago
It seems a lot more likely to me that it's stabilising as a language whose users are absurdly stereotyped in the manner you've just done.
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by ionfish 18y ago
I'm not totally clear on one of your arguments. Why would it become more complex simply because it's open source?
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by ionfish 18y ago
I remarked earlier to my flatmate how much it said about our society that this wasn't the top item on all the major news sites. At least it's the first thing on Hacker News.
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by ionfish 18y ago
The more stuff one composts or puts in a food bin (provided by the council in some places, such as Richmond), the less smelly stuff one has to endure in the bin proper.
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by ionfish 18y ago
I, for one, appreciate you referring to it as a theorem and not a paradox.

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