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by ivoras 12y ago
Wow, is Python3 still that much slower than Python2?
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FreeBSD's init (rc.d) system. See also: rcorder(8)(freebsd.org)
17 points by ivoras 12y ago|3 comments
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by ivoras 12y ago
Unfortunately, no one will agree exactly on which aspects of C to change and which to keep - that's why we now have hundreds of languages used by less than 10 people each. E.g. while I applaud the idea, I found many aspects of your e
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by ivoras 12y ago
Unfortunately, little if any of the development is ported in the direction Dragonfly -> FreeBSD. The last time somebody tried porting HAMMERFS it was discovered that the systems are already divergent enough that it would be a huge job be
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On (artificial) intelligence(ivoras.net)
2 points by ivoras 12y ago|0 comments
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We should replace asm.js with Rust(ivoras.net)
4 points by ivoras 12y ago|3 comments
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by ivoras 12y ago
... and both malloc() and free() need to maintain (update) their own data structures, which in many implementations (don't know about the current glibc one) are stored interspersed with the data. Walking a hash table and calling free()
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by ivoras 12y ago
Nothing except efficiency is preventing us from using names as parts of network/subnet hierarchy instead of numbers, e.g. : steve.home.town.country instead of 192.168.5.6 (or the same thing on IPv6), and even efficiency could be improv
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by ivoras 12y ago
Not only that, but look at the niche Python is occupying. It's a well established and respected niche to which, by definition, the language is suited very well. By adding static types, the focus of the language would move to a differen
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by ivoras 12y ago
An interesting indicator from the "mentions" graph: how compatible or co-used two technologies are in practice. For example: C++ programmers apparently don't mention SQL at all, while it's very popular with PHP (which do
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by ivoras 12y ago
I'm not sure if most of the commentators here are joking or just being too subtly sarcastic, but truly the best predictor of a person's success is the success of his parents during his formative years. It's not a hard-coded
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Can an O(n!) algorithm be faster than an O(1) algorithm? Yes, of course it can.(ivoras.net)
3 points by ivoras 12y ago|2 comments
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by ivoras 12y ago
I don't code much in C++ but recently I started a project just for fun and found it much easier to make a FastCGI app than I anticipated. Yes, there are still some exceedingly low-level stuff to write by yourself, but overall, it'
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How about a Smart Digital Price Tag for cryptocurrencies?(ivoras.net)
1 points by ivoras 12y ago|0 comments
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Can Universal Basic Income be tested with Cryptocurrencies?(ivoras.net)
3 points by ivoras 12y ago|0 comments
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by ivoras 12y ago
> Not really useful until there's an integrated way for paying for a piece of content. Bitcoins could be the solution here.
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A brief history of computing in error messages(ivoras.net)
1 points by ivoras 12y ago|0 comments
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by ivoras 12y ago
Anyone interested in details of LibreSSL development can watch the BSDCan talk at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM6S7FEUfkU - there really are a LOT of instances of braindamaged code in OpenSSL and a radical repair is pre
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Dear Google, make me a Phone(ivoras.net)
2 points by ivoras 12y ago|1 comments
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by ivoras 13y ago
I'd guesstimate that the READ load is served practically entirely from RAM (file cache) and the WRITE load is non-critical enough that it's done "eventually consistent" (e.g. synchronous_commit=off in PostgreSQL, or fsyn
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by ivoras 13y ago
For those in the EU, there is currently an official (run by the European Comission) on-line petition in which EU citizens can vote for encouraging the application of the Basic Income idea at https://ec.europa.eu/citizens-ini
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by ivoras 13y ago
For a JVM language it appears to be remarkably slow ( http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/clojure.php ), especially compared to Scala ( http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/scala.php ).
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by ivoras 13y ago
OS containers can be very cool. Want to see 1000 instances started on a small machine? http://ivoras.sharanet.org/blog/tree/2009-10-20.the-night-of...